Rural Boys and Girls Clubs Aim to Improve Farm Life
The movement, aided by the department and state colleges of agriculture, seeks to train youths as efficient farmers and home builders. It promotes industry, thrift, cooperative spirit, and makes agr iculture a skilled, rewarding vocation while linking school life with rural life and guiding teachers. Leaders should sustain ongoing projects and report results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Colleges of Agriculture
Ecrs of Commerce
the Grange
Women's Clubs
Clean Creamery Surroundings Preserve Butter Quality
The article argues for spotless creamery surroundings to prevent souring bacteria from spoiling milk and cream. It compares starters in butter making to yeast in bread and warns that foul drains or filth invite bad flavors, stressing clean utensils and proper delivery of sweet cream to the factory.
Middletown VA Poultry Club Ships 1500 Egg Settings
The Middletown county high school poultry club ships 1500 pure bred Barred Plymouth Rock egg settings. The club aims to improve stock and market eggs and chickens while teaching agricultural subjects and promoting community breeding through a single nucleus flock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County High School Club
Middletown
Plymouth Rock
United States Department of Agriculture
Poultry Club
Disease control for Apple blotch in Missouri orchards
Apple blotch infects twigs foliage and fruit with early infections possible three weeks after bloom. A three spray Bordeaux mixture schedule is advised by F W Gaurot University of Missouri, applying at four weeks after bloom five to six weeks after blossoms fall and nine to ten weeks after bloom, with arsenate paste added for codling moth.
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F. W. Gaurot
University of Missouri
Missouri
Unbankable Profits in Farm Life and Attitude
The piece contrasts farm work and city life, arguing profits are not purely financial. It emphasizes that a clear vision, healthy body, and content home life offset labor, with responsibility for happiness resting on attitude rather than surroundings. The same sun shines on all, and effort can be drudgery or pleasure.
Detecting Bad Eggs and Gapes in Poultry
The text explains egg candling to judge egg quality with grades Extras Firsts Seconds Checks and common signs of Fresh Stale Developed Germ Dead Germ Rotten and Cracked eggs. It also outlines gape worm infection in chicks from soil and methods to prevent it by rotating yard space or housing chicks on boards until the danger period passes.
Barefoot Baron of Kentucky Dies
Rankin Clemmons dies at D B Canby residence near South Elkhorn in Kentucky. He owned 8,000 to 9,000 acres across Mercer Jessamine Woodford and Fayette counties and was the region’s largest landholder worth about 2.5 million dollars. He amassed wealth from soil products, lived barefoot in summer, never raised tobacco, avoided newspapers and transport, and lived a frugal life despite vast lands and tenants.
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Lexington
Rankin Clemmons
D. B. Canby
South Elkhorn
Blue Grass
Kentucky
Clemmons
Mercer
Jessamine
Woodford
Fayette
Protect Wounds Prom Files
Wounds of animals should be protected to allow healing. Open surfaces attract horseflies, with eggs or infection possible. Screw worm deposits eggs in wounds and other flies may do the same. Larvae infect and burrow, causing serious damage to the animal.
Poultry Feeding Tips From A Vintage Paragraph
Stale bread soaked in skimmed milk is recommended for poultry both young and old. More light in the bread coops benefits chicks and the mother hen. Broken charcoal fed to fowls is also beneficial for chicks and adults.
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis Star
Poe
Washington Township
Mullinix
Reelsville
Floyd Township
Edgar J. Wilson
Marion Township
Greencastle Township
Harry Talbott
Sayers Book Store
C. F. Overstreet
Bence Building
South Vine Street
Greencastle, Ind
Alifornia
Tut
Mied
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway
W. M. McGaughey
Evans
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Boothington and
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