Duck Market and Summer Pruning Practices
The text outlines spring duck markets with high early prices and lower fall values, including methods of dressing from dry picking to steaming, feather value, and costs. It then discusses disbudding and pinching in fruit trees to control growth, stressing careful summer practices and advising Farmers' Bulletin No. 181 for full guidance.
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Pacific Coast
Division of Publications
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin
Reduce Poultry Feed Costs with Home Crops
The coat of feed can be consider ably cut down by raising corn, and by growing roots and green crops. A patch of clover or alfalfa plus beds of beets, turnips, cabbage, potatoes, and onions will supplement poultry feed. These crops suit poultry and can be managed in leisure time for breeding gains.
Boiled Meat Gravy from Meat Liquor
A simple method to make gravy from boiled meat liquor. Melt butter, add hour, brown, then mix in the meat liquor and simmer a few minutes to taste.
Poor Place for Alfalfa Seed Advice
Do not sow alfalfa seed on very recently plowed land. The guidance warns that freshly tilled soil is not suitable for establishing alfalfa, suggesting awaiting soil settling or choosing a different method.
Soil Adapted to Alfalfa for Proper Drainage
In humid and irrigated regions alfalfa needs well drained soil to prevent alkali. Heavy rainfall requires complete drainage, and where underdrains lag, back furrowing with dead furrows every rod aids rapid runoff after heavy rain.
A Vegetable Worth Growing Swiss chard gains popularity
Swiss chard becomes a popular vegetable among readers who enjoy proena and seek nutritious greens for home gardens. The piece highlights its hardiness and suitability for varied climates, encouraging amateur gardeners to try this leafy crop.
Stop Eating Meat If Kidney Trouble Arises Ad
An advertisement warns that regular meat consumption may cause kidney trouble and backache. It promotes Jad Salts as a daily morning drink to flush kidneys, neutralize urine acids, and prevent bladder disorders, claiming safety and widespread use by both sexes.
Strange signs on ships signal cargo and sale
Seaport lore notes that a basket from the main mast head alerts cargo loaded or discharged and ship ready to sail after board of trade formalities. A besom on the mast signifies a vessel for sale while a blue fore and aft stripe marks a recent bereavement in blue mourning.
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Board of Trade
Love and marriage conversation in a domestic scene
A brief dramatic exchange about love and loyalty. She asks if love is only for a wife to feel toward a husband, and he responds that it depends on whose husband he is.
Wise Hostess Converts Guests With Postum Beverage
A woman recounts persuading three coffee drinkers to switch to Postum by serving a fully brewed pot without disclosure. After they praised the drink, she reveals it is Postum. She credits Postum with improving her health and urges others to quit coffee for Postum. The ad lists Postum forms, pricing, and selling points.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Postum
Leftover Potatoes Turn Into Cozy Dishes Range of Bakes
Cold boiled potatoes transform into Lyonnaise slices potato cakes and varied gratins. Recipes include potato and cabbage cakes potato and rice cakes egg au gratin and cheese flavored balls with parsley and pepper. Aromatic steps use butter onions pepper salt and breadcrumbs for crisp browned finishes.
Jellied Meat From Leftover Beef Scraps
A simple recipe uses one cupful of cooked beef, a half cupful of breadcrumbs, salt pepper and sage. Mix ingredients then stir in two thirds cupful boiling water with half an envelope of gelatin dissolved in It Pack in a cocoa can and chill.
Cread Pudding With Onions
Mix half a pound of breadcrumbs with a teaspoonful of sage two ounces of onions pepper and salt with three quarters of a pint of milk Add two eggs well beaten and bake in a quick oven.
Steamed Chocolate Pudding and Foaming Sauce
A recipe describes steaming a pudding from sugar butter milk chocolate flour cream tartar egg soda with three hours of steaming. The foaming sauce combines cream yolk and sugar heated then folded with beaten egg white and extra sugar for serving.
Gingerbread Recipe Mixed with Spelling Errors
A fragment lists ingredients and steps for gingerbread including sour milk sugar butter eggs ginger and cinnamon with baking soda and a slow bake, though several words are misspelled or garbled. The instruction ends abruptly.
To Make Brooms Last Longer
A brief note states soaking broom fibers in water before use strengthens bristles and improves life span, offering a simple method to extend broom effectiveness. The tip emphasizes practical care for longer lasting cleaning tools.
The Theater as War Tonic in National Strain
The London Chronicle argues extended warfare harms nerves and theaters offer mind relief. A weekly theater visit is a protective tonic, sharpening senses and restoring optimism, citing Gladstone and Lincoln as examples of public figure retreat for relief.
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The
London Chronicle
Gladstone
Abraham Lincoln
Important to Mothers Examine Castoria Bottles Carefully
Mothers urged to inspect each Castoria bottle for infants and children to ensure safety and proper remedy use. The notice emphasizes careful checking of labels and contents before administering any medicine to kids.
Wireless Amateurs Relay Message To Scouts On Washington Birthday
Amateur wireless operators nationwide sent a birthday message that began in Davenport Iowa and spread to Harvard Wireless club then to Lexington town hall where a scout read it aloud. The note urged that a democracy requires a people who govern and educate themselves be armed and disciplined to protect themselves.
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Washington
Davenport
Harvard Wireless Club
Lexington
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