Have Their Own Troubles
A collage of wartime vignettes recounts mishaps at sea with stokers stoking coal and a wheeled contraption on a ship causing chaos. Other items describe a wounded soldier in London receiving primroses, malaria outbreaks among Macedonian forces, child labor before and during the war, royal exchanges with Japan, saving ice in New York hotels, and light humorous exchanges about a bonnet and a chimera question.
Praying to God A Lesson From Luke 11
A compact study outlines Jesus teaching on prayer from Luke 11, focusing on the right relationship with God, the proper attitude, persistence, and trust in God’s provision. It cites scriptural references and paths to a faithful prayer life, emphasizing humility, reverence, and reliance on the Father.
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Deere Bodlever
Hichak
Heninms
Tieie
Christ
Greayer
United States
Withers
Secrecy Rules Guard U S Department Crop Reports
An account of strict secrecy in the U S department crop reporting process. Guards seal rooms telephones are cut, board members draft independent crop estimates, and final figures are adopted after discussion. Data are guarded to prevent premature release. Public and market impact is noted as reports guide production aims and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crop Reporting Board
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Department of Agriculture
Accuracy of Crop Reports In Department Data
The department of agriculture reports that crop figures are generally accurate where checked. Wheat will be added to crops undergoing extra verification under new rules requiring all threshermen to report to the bureau of markets the amount of wheat thrashed and the acreage that produced it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crop Reporting Board
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets of
Department
No Open House for Rats and Ventilation Dangers
An eastern city department store learned a costly lesson on rat control. Rats caused nearly $1,000 in monthly damage until persistent trapping exterminated them, then a rat proofing was attempted. A summer drift allowed entry when the night watchman left a basement door ajar for ventilation. The recommendation is to seal the doorway with a three foot high sheet and smooth metal sides to prevent footholds. Rats cannot climb smooth barriers.
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Bureau of Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Packing Fruit for Market
A grower notes that clean packages and attractive packing greatly influence fruit sales. Pacific coast fruit, packed by professional packers, commands ready demand and higher prices, while Western fruit outsells Central and Eastern stock due to eye catching sorting and packing. The author says Western fruit often adds about 25 percent to selling value.
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Pacific Coast
Central
Cultivating a Garden and Harvest Efficiency
A fragmentary guide emphasizes timely harvests for early fruits and vegetables, urging swift cutting as produce browns. It highlights clover hay curing, thorough onion field cultivation and weeding, silage yield from corn, and careful strawberry picking to sustain prices.
Don’t have an empty tool box in hay farming
Clover and alfalfa hay quality depend on curing and storage. Rain injures alfalfa, so haste secures the crop. Larrows hoeing is saved with tobacco aid, pests kept in check by paris green or arsenate of lead. Overlong cutting reduces leaf yield and next crop.
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Paris
Mr Jones Had Right Idea as Soldiers Agree
From Atlanta George Washington Jones on his first Troptward run a supply wagon was halted by a bold American battery firing toward Fritz. The incident ends with a terse exchange, while other notes joke about crime and Cuticura remedies mix with rustic wisdom and a line about domestic felicity.
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George Washington Jones
Atlanta
Fritz
George
Sal George
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