Forage Poison Article Prompts Farm Disease Alert
Published on Saturdays the Indiana County Agent Publishing Co promotes subscriptions and carries an article by Dr LaRue Davis on forage poison. It notes horses dying near Plainfield and farms around Mooresville Brownsburg with Morris Peacock reporting cases and asks readers to submit letters by Monday to win a dollar bill for best answer.
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Indiana County Agent Publishing Co
Plainfield, ‘Indiana
Indiana County
Indiana
Indiana’ ‘County
Plainfield
Ind
Bésuze
LaRue Davis
Charles
County Agent Salary Highlighted in Dekalb County
The Dekalb County agent in Alabama earns four thousand dollars annually, a rate higher than most county agents. The figure is noted as possible specifically in Dekalb County and is presented as an exception to the norm.
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Dekalb County
County Agent Salaries and Farm Service Value Decline
The article argues county agents are highly skilled and worth about 4000 dollars yearly, with over 1000 agents nationally and growing. It notes Hendricks county farmers balk at funding, leading to the agent’s office dying a natural death on December 31.
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Hendricks County
Hendricks
Women County Agents Aid Rural Families Across South States
Nearly 400 women county agents work in fifteen southern states aiding farm families. Home demonstration funds total 542000, boys club work 237000, movable schools 218000, and extension work 148000 by specialists. Programs in home economics poultry and dairy educate women and benefit rural households.
Hazelwood Farmers Institute Opens In New School Building
The first Farmers Institute at Hazelwood will be held February 7 in the new school building. A local corn show and other farm products will be displayed. School children, with parental help, will provide dinner to raise funds for a newly purchased piano. The program includes state speakers and musical entertainment.
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Farmers’ Institute
Hazelwood
Greater Than Gold in a Supreme Court Associate Justice Will
The late Associate Justice Lamar leaves a legacy of friendship rather than wealth. He bequeaths to his family his friendships, hoping they will be cherished and continued. The piece meditates on the enduring value of friendships, noting they require time to grow and endure beyond a fortune or card games.
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Lamar
United States Supreme Court
Lamar's Will Recalled as Proof of Friendship's Beauty
Fragmentary quotation recalls Lamar's Will and its reflection on friendship. The passage argues that poets and dramatists once honored friendship as a noble subject and laments modern forgetting of reverence for this ideal.
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Lamar
Question on best pasture crop for cows and hogs
Caleb Carter asks what to sow in a field for pasture for cows and hogs. The paper invites readers to answer Mr Carter with practical, locally suitable crop suggestions and considerations.
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Caleb Carter
Mr. Carter
Practical Gates For Farm
A California inventor describes a farm gate with keeper post and two diagonally offset posts. The gate mounts between the posts with brackets and a central stirrup roller to support movement. An upper and lower hanger bar each carry rollers that ride the gate rail, keeping the gate from downward movement.
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California
Agricultural Tips From a Faded Farm Note
Readable phrases discuss farming practices including picking apples on cool days, hogs needing charcoal, keeping hens under four square feet per bird, ventilating stored corn, calves gnawing bark, and moving hogs to market when fit. Likely a historic agricultural bulletin with scattered, dated advice.
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