Clean Feed Should Be One Thing in 31 Says Hen Expert
James G Halpin of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture urges clean wholesome feed for laying hens to produce first class eggs. He warns against relying on hens fed rough ranges and scrounged food, noting that protein deficiency yields watery shells and poor chick vitality. With proper wheat bran clover oyster shell and sound grain, eggs have firm shells high protein and good flavor. He also defends cold storage of eggs as honest and useful, noting 14 million cases yearly go into storage and costs about 3.5 cents per dozen.
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James G. Halpin
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Halpin
Electrical Outfit and Repair Services Offer Estimate
Working in a circle we complete the round of Electrical Outfits and Repairs. We offer estimates for lighting heating annunciators and bell work. Electrical appliances prove cheaper in the end due to convenience and comfort. We handle all kinds of electrical repair work.
Who Grows Pure-Bred Seed
Wisconsin reporters invited to the twelfth annual Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment association convention in Madison. January 9-10 will host pure bred seed grain exhibitors with $1000 in prizes for best sheaf seed grain and forage plants. Any farmer may enter samples, with the agronomy building at the College of Agriculture as the show site. Winning grain advances to the National Corn show in Dallas, Texas, February 10-24.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association
College of Agriculture
Dallas
Texas
McKERROW TO QUIT JOE Farmers Institute Conductor
George McKerrow announces he will resign as superintendent of the Wisconsin farmers institutes at season's end after twenty five years in the post He helped expand institute work county by county and founded the American association of farmers institute workers serving as its first executive He will remain superintendent through the current season.
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Madison
Wis
George McKerrow
Farmers’ Institutes of
Wisconsin
American Association of Farmers’ Institute Workers
McKerrow
Governor McGovern Urges Christmas Seals Support in 1914
Milwaukee dispatch reports Governor McGovern designated December 7 as Tuberculosis Day and wrote to the Wisconsin Anti Tuberculosis Association praising its work. He urges wide public funding through Red Cross Christmas Seals to keep Wisconsin a leader against the White Plague, stressing education, remediation and prevention. He signs as Francis BR. McGovern.
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Milwaukee
McGovern
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Wisconsin
Madison
M Ney
Francis
BR. McGovern
Coming Back to Wisconsin from a Western Sojourn
A Rhinelander letter from 1914 recounts a settler's harsh trial in Washington. He explains how he left Wisconsin, faced high land prices near Tacoma, rough soil and winter rains, and found little appeal in clearing land. He plans return to Wisconsin by March.
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Rhinelander News
Deoner, Neb
Mr. Crosby
Rhinelander
Wis
Wisconsin
Washington
Tacoma
Heart Remedy Helps Young Girl Recover
A Canon City Missouri father cites his thirteen year old daughter's near fatal heart trouble. After using Dr Miles Heart Remedy her condition improved, with her once pale rosy again and her breathing easier. The ad urges others with heart symptoms to start treatment and notes the remedy is guaranteed by druggists.
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Miles
Dr. Miles
Canon, Worth, Mo
Canon Fins
Wisconsin farmers plan extensive education schedule
Cooperating with school superintendents and local business leaders, the College of Agriculture will conduct nine four day farmers schools sixteen one week courses and twelve one day bankers seed meetings across the state in the coming three months. Events list midwest towns with dates from December through February and include multiple sessions in St Croix Falls Mosinee Marshfield Reedsburg and Madison among others.
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College of Agriculture
St. Croix Falls
Pee
Mosinee
Marshfield
Reedsberg
Travahoo
Columbus
Union Grove
Roberts
Barrom
May Claire
Mymonth
Ripon
Grand Rapids
Menominee
Augusta
Madison
Bankers
Clinton
Marion
Witlenbary
Waupun
Cumberland and Kilbourn
Shell Lake
Downing
Dee
Ele Mound
Racine
Marinette
Back from the Plains Ladysmith Farmer Returns to Wisconin
A Ladysmith man who moved to western South Dakota after selling his farm for 3500 dollars returns to Wisconsin to reestablish near his original farm two miles away. He failed to grow crops for two years due to unrealistic plans and says he will try again, wary of being misled.
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Ladysmith
South Dakota
Wisgongin
Is Wisconsin Now In The Corn Belt This Year
Wisconsin corn yields reach 41 bushels per acre, rivaling leading corn belt states. The article notes Wisconsin’s extraordinary county yields surpass the belt’s average, suggesting Wisconsin could move out of the traditional corn belt if this pace continues, a shift discussed in light of historical forecasts.
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Wisconsin
Ohio
Henry
Heard
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