Improve Soil to Increase Crops
A Midwest drive for soil fertility and crop rotations shows success per 1924 census data. Michigan leads legume gains at 7.37 per 100 acres, followed by Missouri and Wisconsin, with Illinois Indiana Iowa Ohio and Michigan improving legume acreage. Educational campaigns and soil treatments boost alfalfa clovers soybeans and other high yielding crops for livestock dairy and truck farming needs.
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Middle West
A. J. Sucratt
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Miinois
Missouri
Iowa
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ilnois
Question of Altitude Lawyer in Stray Stories
A legal exchange reveals a witness denying high words and noting the dispute involved low words. The quip about Blank being two-faced hints at a sly character, with a remark that they are both handsome reportedly circulating.
Women Need a Mild Laxative
An appeal to women against harsh purges promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle, non griping laxative that establishes natural bowel regularity. The ad claims it is harmless, pleasant, and suitable even for delicate women and sick children, urging readers to buy the 60 cent bottle at pharmacies.
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Dr. Caldwell
Soy Beans Supplant Emergency Hay Crop For Dairymen
Dairymen short on good hay can rely on soy beans as an emergency forage. Experts note soybeans can be planted alone or with sudan grass or sorghum, should be inoculated if new to the field, and perform well even on non limed land. They cure in the field, offer feeding value comparable to alfalfa, and leave ground fit for subsequent crops such as wheat.
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New Jersey State College of Agriculture
Well Prepared Seed Bed Favored for Many Crops
The piece argues that a thoroughly prepared seed bed gives crops the best start. It advises delaying planting briefly if weeds can be encouraged to sprout, then using harrow to uproot them. Warm, mellow, clean soil helps seeds begin growth and beat weed competition.
Get Barley Seeded Early For Best Crop
Advisory notes seed barley before oats for best results. Keep seed in cold soil briefly until warmth returns. If planted too early, seed may rot before growth begins.
Potatoes Seed Orders Spread Mislabeling Risk
The United States Department of Agriculture warns potato buyers face frequent variety substitutions when ordering seed potatoes. Seed dealers often replace ordered varieties with other types, especially for fancy or new names. USDA potato specialist William Stuart notes 25 percent of 95 received varieties differed from orders, with cases of identical packages labeled differently.
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United States Department of Agriculture
William Stuart
Stuart
Tomatoes Easy to Raise If Carefully Cared For
Tomatoes are easy to raise with careful care. They can be planted in seed plots and transplanted in the garden after frost danger passes. Early varieties bring good prices, and frames are needed to support branches under weight. Light lumber frames are set four per plant with stakes. Dry weather calls for small earth mounds at each stalk base to brace the plant and deepen roots.
Formalin Used For Potato Scab Control In Seed Treatment
Formalin is effective against common potato scab when used at 1 pint formalin per 30 gallons of water. Seed should soak from 0.5 to 144 hours then dry before returning to containers. Use new containers or sterilize old ones. Corrosive sublimate also controls scab and black scurf with 4 ounces per 30 gallons. soak duration varies with infection. Tubers must be whole and dormant for either method.
Trees Useful On Unproductive Land Near Colorado Springs
The U S forest service planted 23 acres of western yellow pine and Douglas fir near Colorado Springs in 1910 11. By 1926 the acreage yielded 2500 from thinnings while leaving 560 trees per acre for a future crop. The extension forester Chester A Lee urges farmers to plant unproductive lands to trees for cash returns.
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United States Forest Service
Colorado Springs
Forest Service
Chester A. Lee
Extension Forester
Colorado Agricultural College
Alfalfa, grain, and sires boost dairy success on farm pages
Jarm Pintz promotes home grown feed and purebred sires as keys to dairy gains. Early spring screens show how lime improves acid soils for legumes and clover. Farmers face poor first grasses and rising milk flow with more mix and less butterfat, while copper carbonate helps prevent millet and sorghum smut. The junior clubber notes tomorrow’s farmers care for calves and pigs.
Cuticura Talcum Powder Ad Promotes Toilet Trio
An advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic and fragrant economical powder for face skin baby and dusting use. It claims the powder renders other perfumes superfluous and notes it is part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum.
Mistletoe Misses Dora and Violet on Kissing Rules
Dora and Violet, both seventeen, discuss life and flirting. Dora argues parents are often unreasonable, while Violet recalls her mother's lecture on flirting. They note society frowns on a girl accepting a kiss under the mistletoe when she is just old enough for it to be interesting.
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Dora
Violet
Freezone Corn Treatment Promises Instant Pain Relief
Gingerly applied Freezone claims to instantly stop corn pain and loosen the corn for removal. A tiny bottle, sold by druggists for a few cents, supposedly removes hard or soft corn between toes without soreness or irritation.
Say It With Flowers Florist Wishes Birthday Greeting
L S O Keefe Boston florist known for Say It With Flowers shares a playful exchange with a customer buying roses on his birthday The customer says congratulate me and O Keefe responds with a wry blessing that this birthday be the best you see yet the worst you ever see
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L. S. O'Keefe
Boston
O'Keefe
Mr. O'Keefe
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North Davis St
Ottumwa
Tawa
Foster-Milburn Co. Mig. Chem
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Buffalo Specialty
Bailale
N.Y
Parker
Drapetens
Hiscox Chem
Patel Et Hindercorns
Renoves
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogan
Florida Gold Refining Co
Adams
Jacksonville
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