Food supply and breeding plan to maximize fall hog litters
United States Department guidance urges early sow breeding by May or June to ensure fall litters. Emphasizes flushing sows, proper feeding to gain weight before breeding, weaning before breeding, and using purebred boars of the same breed. Guidance notes that early breeding can improve meat supply and shorten time to market, with careful management of pregnant sows on pasture and small grain rations.
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United States
Missouri Experiment Station
A Farmer Patriotism Mobilizes Home Food Production
The article urges practical wartime patriotism through home farming. It calls for larger gardens to can enough food for this year and part of next, expanded potato and corn crops, intercropping with feterita, cowpeas for feed and soil health, preserving manure, and boosting poultry such as chickens swine and turkeys while guarding against orchard and field pests.
Heel Flies Pester Cattle In Summer
The article explains heel flies, about half an inch long, as parasites that infest cattle in summer. Females deposit eggs on hair around heels. larvae enter the stomach, migrate through the body, and mature by spring or early summer to exit through a breathing opening.
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George H. Glover
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Colo
How Flies Develop and Methods to Destroy Them on Cattle
The text explains the life cycle of the fly from egg to larva to pupa and adult, noting eggs may hatch on hair and larvae may burrow through skin. Grubs reduce beef and milk value by harming hides, so farmers should press out grubs with a knife or enlarge the opening. A quicker method is to apply kerosene through the opening, and to deter flies use pine tar or coal tar dips.
Wrong feeding methods on Sunday for work horses
Sunday feeding with idle horses causes Monday morning sickness and cold. Dr. C. W. McCampbell of Kansas State Agricultural College advises reducing grain by half on Sundays for hard-working horses, providing steamed bran mash with salt, and letting the horse browse pasture if available and shaded.
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C. W. McCampbell
Kansas State Agricultural College
McCampbell
Shoats for Early Market Feed and Pen Setup
Shoats for early market should have millfeed slop twice a day with abundant green feed. Keep a box of wood ashes and charcoal under cover in the feeding pen where Lacy can eat what they need, salt may be mixed in the ashes.
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Lacy
British Capture Messines Ridge in Major Belgian Front Victory
Allied forces broke German defenses on the Messines Wytschaete ridge in Belgium at dawn. British artillery bombardment and mines created a decisive breakthrough with light casualties for the attackers while German troops retreated or were captured. Air support and counter battery fire aided the operation amid gas shells and heavy explosions.
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London
Messines-Wytschnete
Belgium
Wytschnete
Messines Ridge
Ypres
Vimy Ridge
No Man's Land
Securcely
The
Somme
Windmill
Ines
Plaumer
Russia
British Premier Hears Guns At Open Of Battle
London report says Prime Minister David Lloyd George, staying at Walton House, heard the heavy detonations at the start of the attack on Wytechate Bend. Preparations had been long matured and orders were given for a three oclock call as the strike opened. Local staff also heard the explosions, initially misidentifying them as heavy gunfire.
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London
Wytachaete Bend
David Lloyd George
Walton Hearth
Lloyd George
Dishes From Old Time Kitchen Compiled Recipes and Tips
A collection of breakfast and supper ideas including doughnuts with sour cream and milk, Swiss salad dressing with honey and olive oil, halibut casserole with potatoes and carrots, chicken a la king Waldorf style, and a beef steak with onion and tomato topping. Also includes ham with onions and a mushroom scallop, whole wheat bread, and soft pone.
SICK WOMAN OVERCOMES CRYING SPELLS WITH PINKHAM'S
Enchant Pennsylvania woman recalls severe crying spells and weakness. After doctors failed, she used Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and regained strength to work. Advertisement urges other women to seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Aoe
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Atka Mackerel Renamed as Alkafish for Markets
The Bureau of Fisheries notes the Atka mackerel is not a true mackerel yet remains an excellent saltable food fish. Alaska canneries are urged to salt this fish, to be marketed next winter under the name Alkafish.
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Alaska
Atka
Bureau of Fisheries
Skin Care Ad Claims Cuticura Routine Benefits
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment for facial care to be applied on rising and retiring, washed off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water, and continued for ten days to notice skin improvement. A free sample by mail is offered with a booklet, sending a postcard to Cuticura Dept. L Boston. sold everywhere.
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Dept. L
Boston
His Suspicions Aroused
Mrs Gwendolyn Van Style And Griffin discuss etiquette and social norms in a fragmentary scene. A servant warns not to keep a gentleman waiting in the drawing room while one questions a man’s honesty and pretensions.
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Gwendolyn van Style
Gritfin
China
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Missouri
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Parcel Post
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. C
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