Save the soils by growing cover crops
An article by agronomist W F Pate discusses protecting soil from flood damage along Pine River. It argues cover crops like rye wheat oats barley and clover stabilize banks reduce erosion and improve yields by preserving soil and adding organic matter. It notes inoculating legumes enhances nitrogen and urges farmers to plant cover crops in fall and winter to sustain production, signed B B Doggett.
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W. F. Pate
Il ‘Ty
Agro- N. C. Experiment Station
Pine River
Iran
Sumer
Pastor Dr Zeno Wall Receives Warm Homecoming
Goldsboro News reports Dr Zeno Wall his wife and children return from a three week vacation in Rutherford County North Carolina. The First Baptist church organized a late afternoon reception at Walls home with a committee of ladies preparing supper and a birthday cake iced with forty candles to celebrate his fortieth birthday. Gifts were left on the porch as members filed in to chat and view the cake and share in the joyful greeting.
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Goldsboro
Zeno Wall
Wall
Miss Mooty Green Tops Cotton Pick Day Record
Shelby Star reports Miss Mooty Green of Double Springs picked 500 pounds of cotton in a single day last week, showcasing diligence in Cleveland County.
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Cleveland County
Shelby Star
Mooty Green
Double Springs
Yonkers Cuckoos Out Cuckooing The Town
A Yonkers resident extols the town by praising its cuckoos as civic pride. He contrasts Yonkers cuckoos with Swiss and imported eight day varieties, noting the local birds stay awake from dawn until night, vocalizing at residents and even strangers, with a daily lunch break from 9:35 to 10:05.
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Yonkers
Peekskill
Bird On Streetcar Roof Demonstrates Flightless Travel
A Washington Star item describes a large black bodied bird with a blue head perched on a streetcar roof on Pennsylvania Avenue. The bird rode from Georgetown to Eleventh Street then moved to a post office area, later boarding another car toward Mount Vernon, riding along on the public transportation.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Georgetown
Eleventh Street
Post Office Department
Mount Vernon
Washington Star
World's Greatest Dam plan on Colorado river
Plans to build a dam on the Colorado river would hold back two years of the river’s flow, stand about 700 feet high, create a reservoir of 200 square miles at 850 feet deep, becoming the largest artificial lake. A western railroad system foresees steamers for Grand canyon tours, likening the project to the Panama canal in scale and ambition.
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Colorado River
Woolworth Buil
Rendock City
Item Servoir
One Western Railroad
Grand Canyon
America
Panama Canal
Masonic Mutual Life Insurance Agent Seeks Clients
J. Q. A. Collins, district agent in Forest City, North Carolina, urges readers to insure with the Mason ic Mutual Life Association and offers to explain the workings of the institution.
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Masonic Mutual Life Association
J. Q. A. Collins
Forest City
N. C
J. A. Wilkie Insurance of All Kinds Real Estate
Forest City, N. C
Robin Gets the Worm in Lafayette Square
In Lafayette square robins fatten on worms as the author observes. A robin spots a worm, pulls, lifts its head with prey, then braves the earth to finish the meal. The scene is described as natural and orderly under mature laws.
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Robin
Lafayette Square
Washington
Mission to study exhausted soils across Europe
Dr Curtis F Marbut of the U S Department of Agriculture sails on a three month trip to Europe to discover why soils worked since the Christian era have not exhausted. He will collect soil samples from various countries for analysis. In Italy and Greece soils tilled for centuries show no fertilization or livestock raising while remaining productive.
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Curtis F. Marbut
United States Department of Agriculture
Europe
Italy
Greece
Look Before You Leap at the Dartmouth Ski Jump
A novice skater braves the Dart mouth jump, stumbles at takeoff, and crashes nose first into the snow. An observer shouts You jumped too late, but the fallen jumper retorts You jumped too soon as he lies smothered in the snow, learning the game.
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Dartmouth
Everybody's Magazine
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