Fur Farming and Trapping Profits Across Regions
Guide notes how to set up a fur side line and price outlook for muskrats skunks weasels minks raccoons foxes and moles. It covers timing trapping regions best pelts prices and handling methods including cased skins and storage for buyers, with reference to farm demonstrations and the US Department of Agriculture fur resources.
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Union
Oregon
Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
America
Washington
Europe
Farmers
Ceram
Green feed guidelines for winter poultry care
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines green feeds to sustain fowls in winter when fresh crops are scarce. Cabbages, mangel wurzels, clover, alfalfa, and sprouted oats provide bulk and succulence, aiding fattened chickens and keeping birds in good condition. Sprouted oats require soaking, draining, warm sprouting space, and 6 to 10 days to mature before feeding.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Community rummage sales aid the poor with practical wares
In cities and towns women organize rummage and contribution sales to aid poorer residents. They sell clothing, beds, furniture, bric a brac and canning goods at low prices, with profits supporting initiatives. Old silver and jewelry are converted to bullion for charitable causes, encouraging donations of valuable items no longer used.
Ornament Trends in Fashion Decor From Leather Trimmings
Fashion notes reveal new ornamentation using hand painted leather novelties. Firms in Paris produce leather roses and a harvest of leather fruits like grapes cherries and small apples to trim turbans and evening frocks.
Skirts Expand At Sides Yet Resist Full Flair
Fashion notes say newer day dresses widen at the sides but show strong reluctance to surrender overall shape. Designers push for broader silhouettes while retaining traditional lines.
Road Through Granite Aims to Link Estes Park to Glen Lake
In Colorado's Rocky Mountains a federal aided project will construct eight miles of road from Estes Park to Glen Lake cut from solid granite. It will connect with the Lincoln highway forming part of the transcontinental route. The cost is estimated at over $25,000 per mile.
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Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Estes Park
Rockies
Glen Lake
Switzerland
America
Alabama Highway Plan Seeks $25 Million Bond Approval
The Alabama Highway Improvement Association proposes issuing 25 million dollars in bonds to match a federal road aid program in Alabama. The plan includes a three mill county maintenance levy and a constitutional amendment to authorize the project will be asked of the next legislature.
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Alabama
Alabama Highway Improvement Association
Urgent need for permanent year round roads
The article argues the country's most urgent need is built dependable roads usable all year. It stresses the importance of sturdy, permanent infrastructure to improve national transportation and development.
Bond Issues Voted For New Highways Nationwide
Bond issues aggregating many millions of dollars for highway construction have been approved by more than a score of states this year.
Prepare for Next Year
Guidance urges readers to begin early planning for the upcoming year. Emphasis on preparation, budgeting, and scheduling tasks to ensure a smoother transition and readiness for anticipated activities and goals.
Garden to Good Asset Yet A Garden Asset
A compact note praises home gardens as a valuable asset this year and urges more people to grow vegetables and small fruits. It mentions corn ear worm causing damage to garden and field crops and suggests using carrots and similar crops to dry and store for winter.
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Wittin
Alfalfa Weevil Infestations Prompt Early Cutting
Control Weevil Peet advises farmers in infested districts to cut alfalfa early to curb weevil damage. He notes many farmers err by cutting too late, risking higher pest impact and reduced yields.
Honey as a Profitable Crop for Women Beekeepers
Beekeeping proves lucrative for women through home clubs linked to the state department of agriculture and land grant colleges. In Morgan County, Kentucky, the "Bee Woman" managed 150 hives last summer and harvested 500 pounds of honey from 75 hives in six months, showing how training by home demonstration agents boosts profits.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural Colleges
Morgan County
Kentucky
Farm Tips From a Crop Adviser
Soy beans are rich in protein. A farmer must be a business man before he can prosper. Clean fence rows add 25 per cent to the appearance of a farm. Time and tide wast no man, but time and care applied to farm tasks pay any man. Dodder is a very difficult plant to destroy. Segree Well-grown celery is wholesome and delicious. exercise care in storing the crop. Put a little sand over root vegetables when storing for winter to prevent drying out.
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Bright
Dodda’s
Dodd's Medicine Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Mites Remain in Feathers Pose Poultry Carrier Risk
An entomologist from the United States Department of Agriculture reports that chicken mites may stay in fowls’ feathers through daylight and into new locations, challenging the belief that birds are mite-free at dawn. The study aims to underpin control strategies.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Use Coal Tar Disinfectant In Poultry Houses
University extension poultrymen advise liberal use of a two to three percent coal tar disinfectant solution after cleaning to keep the hen house sanitary and comfortable. It helps control mites and, sprayed into roost cracks, loosens pests with a mix of coal tar disinfectant and kerosene.
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University Extension
None but Japs Admitted Sign Echoes Racial Policy
A London restaurant entry displays a sign reading For Japanese Only as racial segregation appears in public dining statements. The wording underscores exclusion of all but Japanese patrons amid a broader context of nationalities welcomed elsewhere.
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London
Cascarets Promise Gentle Nightly Relief
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle laxative cathartic that cleanses the system of toxins, acids, and wastes. It claims relief from headaches, indigestion, sleeplessness, and other symptoms, working while you sleep with no griping or sickness. A box supposedly costs little.
What is your profession a man of letters reply
A dialogue snippet shows inquiry into a speaker's trade with a retort that he is a man of letters. The exchange highlights pride in literary work and a clash over status.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine touted as cure for Deafness
The notice claims catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local treatments and asserts a constitutional cure via Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It explains inflammation of the Eustachian tube causing deafness, promises $100 for uncured cases, and offers circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Quick Change Artist in Dallas News
An independent man is described as able to quickly pin up a baby's outfit and change a tire on his motorcar, illustrating skill and self sufficiency.
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Dallas News
Can I Be Cured and Acoma’s Oldest Town Mention
A medical ad urges kidney health with Haarlem Oil Capsules claiming quick relief from kidney and bladder troubles and warns to buy only Gold Medal Haarlem Oil with the branded name. The piece also notes Acoma, New Mexico as an ancient Indian village older than St. Augustine and referenced in 1539 chronicles.
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Nature
Haarlem
Borree Siz
Adv
New Mexico
Acoma
N. M
St. Augustine
America
Acoma Ia
Bayer Aspirin Package Claims for Headache Relief
The ad touts Bayer as genuine aspirin with directions for headache colds pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It states Bayer tablets are prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and notes a handy tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents.
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Bayer
Ady
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