United States forest receipts and future contracts rise
Report notes forests yielded nearly 2.5 million dollars in the fiscal year while forest service spending reached about 5.8 million. Timber sale contracts totaling around 4 million extend over years, with 35 percent of gross receipts, over 800 thousand, allocated to state schools and roads.
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National Forests
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Sell To Satisfy To Hold Customers In Store Policy
The Dry Goods Reporter quotes a writer arguing that true selling means satisfying customers. It warns against steering buyers to purchases that do not suit them after the sale and urges retailers to attract and retain well dressed clientele regardless of price. It notes mail order competition and the tactic of bait pricing seen in five and ten cent stores.
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Saya
Dry Goods Reporter
Turn Them Into Cornfield and They Will Shuck Ears
Advice from Kansas Agricultural College on feeding hogs by turning them into cornfields. Guidelines include timing hogs in August, delaying to September or later, fencing off sections for fattening, and moving swine as ears are eaten. Early fall plowing and disking improve seed beds and weed control. Liquid manure aids garden vigor in dry spells.
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Kansas Agricultural College
W. C. Palmer
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Poultry trough with removable roof aids feed cleanliness
Photograph from Maine Agricultural Experiment Station describes slatted side troughs ten feet long with two inch gaps and sixteen inch height, roof secured to shed rain during wind. Roof removal by sliding off eases filling and reattaching, reducing feed waste and keeping feed dry and clean.
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Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Matie Bulletin
Adopting Practical Measures in a Tender Dilemma
An aunt counsels Cecilia on securing security through marriage as a path to status and income, contrasting toil and confinement with a sociable dinner plot to regain Leonard Taylor. Cecilia frets over a broken engagement while Mrs. Griffin urges a calculated scheme involving rival suitors and a flower box ploy.
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Leonard Taylor
Estelle Minor
Taylor
Estelle
Len Taylor
Phil
Farm topics in season urge cover crops and liming fields
A dated rustic advisory piece suggests sowing winter cover crops like crimson clover in cornfields, mowing wild carrots before seeding, and testing lime on fields to improve soil. It notes farmers hesitate about liming despite years of consideration and proposes marking a plot to test lime effects rather than delaying action.
Grass and fence row sod growth guidance
Instructional note explains letting grass grow along fence rows to form sod, provided other growth is cut back two or three times in summer. It notes grass won’t grow under dense shade or brush or among weeds.
Double Row System for Celery Growth Popular with Farmers
Farm and Pipeside reports that commercial celery growers in South Lime and other celery regions use a double row planting method. Two rows six inches apart, plants six inches apart, rows three feet apart, with two and a half feet between outer rows. Boards and one horse cultivator enable cultivation. a thousand feet of boards can blanch 3000 to 4000 stalks per season, yielding near to a certain gross return, with rates often above one dollar per plant.
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Pipeside
South Limi
South Lime
Beans for a hearty, warm soil friendly bed
A compact guide notes beans require rich warm soil with a loamy texture. It emphasizes consistent moisture, full sun, and proper compost to support sturdy growth.
The Patient God and Israel’s Exodus Lessons
A compact Sunday School review surveys God’s readiness to forgive and the enduring covenant with Abraham, tracing Moses’ training, plagues, and liberation of the Israelites. It emphasizes divine wisdom, righteous judgment, and the Decalogue as central to spiritual formation through wilderness education.
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Jacob
Egypt
Moses
God
Sloss
Pharaoh
Tefnae
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