Winning battle on disease of potato
Specialistes of the Department of Agriculture announce that infected fields or gardens can be thoroughly disinfected using steam and formaldehyde. After quarantines and tests in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, immune potato varieties and aid to gardeners are being provided to reduce losses from potato wart.
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Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Europe
Pennsylvania
Department
West Virginia
Mechanism Is Tractor Aid by L M Yager Bowman N D
The Scientific American describes a tractor drive mechanism by L M Yager of Bowman North Dakota. The invention uses a mirror mounted at the front to drive the rear axle through a belted system and ratchet components enabling engagement from the tractor motor.
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Scientific American
L. M. Yager
Bowman
N. 1
Livestock Benefits From Carrot Feed Value
Carrots are praised as a superior feed for horses when cereals like corn and oats are fed. The text highlights the succulence and juice of carrots as a dietary value not to be ignored in livestock feeding practices.
Scratch Feed for Poultry Mixture Described
A scratch feed for chickens fed in deep litter includes farm grains such as cracked corn wheat oats speltz or Sharley. The mixture provides variety so each hen can eat the grain she prefers.
Unscrambled Poultry Manure Technique in Ancient Text
A fragment discusses turning chicken manure into a dryable, reusable soil amendment for next year’s crops. It mentions sealing plaster and road dust with coal ash and a preservative to hold the mix, purportedly to support a moulin for tongue of growth.
Raising and feeding Keats young quineas
Keats or young quineas are easier to rear than turkey poults. They are nimble and escape harm more often than not. With a clean dry situation and proper food they grow rapidly.
Dutch Fight Long War With Acheenese In Sumatra
Article describes Dutch military effort in the Aceh region of Sumatra to subdue the Acheenese, who wage brutal resistance since 1872. Fort Kota Radja garrisoned by about eight thousand troops, a network of forts, trenches, and hedges of bayonets man the line. The jungle, malaria, and ferocious warfare mark a prolonged colonial conflict.
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Holland
New York
San Francisco
Sumatra
Acheon
Straits of Malacca
Kota Radja
Hach
Gold Mountain
Madrid Blue Law Fines Visitor For Street Kiss
A traveling visitor in Madrid was reprimanded for violating the citys public kissing prohibition near Puerta del Sol. After a police remonstrance and warning, the captain advised that ignorance is no excuse and let the man off with a caution.
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Madrid
Spain
Puerta del Sol
Child with no sense of right and wrong case at Odiham
A twelve year old girl in W Hampshire cannot distinguish right from wrong. Her father gained an order to send her to an industrial school. Attendance shows six months of absence and several nights away. She walked 15 miles to Basingstoke and was found on a station platform at midnight. A doctor calls her morally defective though mentally normal, with the faulty element limiting discernment of right and wrong.
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Wampshire
England
Board of Education
Odiham
Basingstoke
Buried Forest Found Along New York Atlantic City Route
A prehistoric forest buried in meadow marsh near Chestnut Neck along the New York to Atlantic City route shows intact trunks of cedar and oak while some timber was charcoal. Linemen building a transatlantic wireless plant used 80 foot poles to span a bottomless Mullica river meadow. A rural quip about a girl Leta and a potato bug adds a light aside.
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Chestnut Neck
New York-Atlantic City
Ise
Transatlantic
Wackerton
Mullica River
Junior club boy wins trip to International Stock Show
William Stuart of Weiser Idaho, fourteen, earned a free trip to the International Live Stock Show after winning first in Idaho state fair open class and securing the champion pig prize. The achievement highlights 4 club years, peer breeding, and growing support from agricultural extension and banks nationwide. Stuart is among thirty boys from across the country visiting the International this year.
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William Stuart
Weiser
Idaho
Dan H. Stuart
Poland
China
Boise
China Sons
Wilhim Stuart
William
Control of Garden Insects and Pest Sprays
Spraying with arsenate of lead treats potato bugs and beetles. Mix one pound lead arsenate to ten gallons water with laundry soap for leaf sticking. Dust cucumber melon and squash beetles with air stacked lime and lead arsenate. Black Leaf 40 is used on many plants. Purchase from drug stores with usage directions. Prompt action and yearly spraying protect all garden plants.
Protect Woods From Fire Message Card
Protect woods from fire reminder urging care with matches tobacco and campfires. Warns a single spark can destroy a million trees and stresses quick reporting and help seeking. Encourages practices of fire prevention and forest protection.
Oats Demand More Attention Says USDA Experts
USDA specialists warn oats receive less focus than corn and wheat in U S crop acreage and value. Yields have often been unsatisfactory and the crop can be unprofitable despite oats ranking near other grains.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Returns to Native Soil After 19 Years in Virginia
John Landis of Eden returns to Lancaster county farming on a 16 acre tract purchased from A. R. Kreider. At 54 he plans to spend his remaining years on what he calls the garden spot of the world. He previously farmed a 550 acre Virginia tract with 125 acres tillable, yielding Irish Cobbler potatoes up to 70 barrels per acre and yams up to 500 bushels per acre. He notes wheat and corn yields and local shipping routes to Richmond and Baltimore.
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Lancaster County
John Landis
Eden
Virginia
A. R. Kreider
Mr. Landis
King William County
John
Acre
Richmond
Baltimore
Mgr. Landis
West Point
Curtis
George Washington
Ger. Washington
Robert E. Lee
Landis
Homie
NEW LAW MAY FREE ROADS IN LANCASTER COUNTY
County Commissioners told a Lancaster County citizens committee they will free 16 toll roads if legislation requires townships to maintain freed roads. Mass meeting members plan to push a bill in the Legislature placing road upkeep on townships rather than the county, explaining maintenance costs drive the tolls.
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Lancaster
Take Stock Of Your Health How Fortify Your System
Health advisory promotes Gude's Pepto Mangan as a blood-boosting remedy. It claims tiredness signals low resistance and that the product in liquid or tablet form strengthens the blood to restore energy and well being. The advertisement urges asking for the full name on the package.
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Gude
Give incubators best care after the hatching season
Poultry specialists of the United States department of agriculture advise thorough post season cleaning. Disinfect incubators annually or when disease is present and store parts properly to prevent oil from rising into the hood on restart.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Incubator Disinfection Methods for Poultry Hatching
The article explains sanitizing incubators after hatching with a 5 percent coal-tar disinfectant or carbolic acid to wash machines and trays. If burlap is dirty renew it. For a three cubic foot incubator pour half an ounce each of formalin and permanganate of potash to generate a penetrating gas, seal twelve hours, then air thoroughly before reuse.
Supply of Grain for Hens
The feeder should judge grain amounts by pen and season. Spring requires more feed as birds lay heavily. A fall general estimate for 15 hens is one quart of scratch and about one and a half quarts of mash daily. Leghorns eat about 55 pounds yearly plus greens. general-purpose fowls about 75 pounds.
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Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Wyandottes
Poultry Dusting Helps Eliminate Lice and Mites
Regular attention and proper treatment of quarters rid flocks of mites and body lice. Provide a dusting area for hens to keep lice in check.
Lousy Flock Unprofitable Investment
A description of tree bird lice from the order Mallophaga explains they do not feed on host blood but on skin exudations scales feathers and hair. Their presence irritates hosts via crawling and gnawing behavior making a “lousy” flock a poor investment.
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East Indian
Leta
Southern Farm
Spruce Villa Farm Dairy
J. Clayton Brubaker
GRUBE
East Main Street
Lititz,pa
Wingert Et Haas Hat
John A. Haas
North Queen Street
Long & CO
Lititz, PA
SLATE
Columbian
Royal
HOOD
Wm. M. Amer
S. Broad Street
Lititz
Lawrence K.grosh
Life Insurance
P.O
Frank E. Schnerer
Spruce SL
Ind
Bell
Hunt
Curtis Hensel
Cedar & Main Sts
Penna
Zartman Bros
Michael Zbear
Bear
Broad Street
Crudol Company, Inc
Broadway
New_York
Weesenes
W. H. Muth & CO
U.D. Co
United Drug Company
Symptons
L. N. Moyer
Rexall Store
Lititz Penna
J. F. Essig
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