Seed Treatment to Prevent Smut in Wheat
This notice explains a dry seed treatment using copper carbonate to protect wheat seed from smut and other fungi without harming viability. It covers purity, particle size, application rate two ounces per bushel, handling precautions, and storage effects, with input from Waldo Kidder, Extension Agronomist at Colorado Agricultural College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo Kidder
Extension Agronomist
Colorado Agricultural College
Fall Plowing Will Help to Destroy Many Pests
The article explains fall plowing speeds spring work and improves germination and root development for early grain. It notes fall plowing erases noxious weeds and pests like cutworms and gophers, and describes the dressing plow technique to deepen soil moisture storage for heavy crops and potential profits when grain is scarce.
Chicken Mite Control For Poultry Houses
The article warns that chicken mites surge in hot seasons and shows prevention by weekly spraying. It lists effective contact sprays such as sheep dips crude oil and coal tar products and explains stock solution strengths for mixtures from 8 to 10 percent to keep mites down.
Self-Feeder Promises Cost Savings for Hog Rearing
An advertisement extols a self-feeder that provides hogs with constant access to food and water. It claims satisfied pigs eat, rest, and grow, producing money for the farmer by keeping hogs content and thriving.
Best Feed for Hogs and Pasture Types Compared
The article discusses hog feeding, noting pigs thrive on soybeans when pods are full, yielding sufficient protein without supplements. It ranks permanent pasture below rape rye or soybeans but above no pasture, praises lespedera as a fine clover, and argues pasture can be year round for economical pork production.
Seed Corn Pointers for Improving Crop
A Minnesota experiment station bulletin urges selecting seed corn by vigor over strict ear type. Hayes reports that green plants near maturity ensure ear normality, while overemphasis on ear type reduces yield. Vigor should guide seed selection rather than score-card criteria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota Experiment Station
University Farm
St. Paul
Division of Agronomy and
Hayes
Sudan Grass as Excellent Stock Pasture Crop
The article highlights Sudan grass as a top summer pasture crop for dry and irrigated lands, noting it saves labor, builds soil, and provides abundant high quality feed. Seed rates vary by land type, with 4–10 pounds per acre on dry land and 15–20 pounds on irrigated. Begin when five to six inches tall. carryings range from 0.75 to 1 head per acre on dry land and 1.5 to 2 heads under irrigation.
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Sudan
Waldo Kidder
Extension Service
Colorado Agricultural College
Male and Female Rouen Ducks Compared in Color and Form
The Rouen duck shows distinct gender differences with males and females differing in color. The drake features a green head and bill, white neck band, brown breast, blue underbody, green back, white tail, and wing bars. females are brown and red with penciled feathers and red bills.
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Rouen
Feeding Yeast in Mash Affects Hens Egg Fertility and Hatch
Experiments show feeding yeast in fermented yeast mash to breeding hens raises egg fertility and hatchability. Offspring from yeast-fed stock exhibit higher viability with more live chicks at three weeks.
Farm advice on crops and livestock for better yields
Farmers are advised to value production costs over market prices. Sweet clover plowed under can add 15 to 25 bushels of corn per acre next year. Alfalfa stands without nurse crops sowed in June after thorough cultivation perform best. Turkeys aid in insect control and provide forage. Exercise and green feed benefit young pigs, and regular pasture changes help sheep against stomach worms. Sweet clover’s soil building tops alfalfa for hay quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Care and Feed for Calf
Keep feeding utensils scrupulously clean and wash the calf bucket daily to prevent souring and scours. Continue grain feeding after weaning with three or four pounds of a good mixture to keep the calf in fine condition until one year old, then increase slightly in the second year.
Cost of Screening Barn Improves Cow Production
The barn screening cost is offset by higher production as cows stay free from fires and use energy for production. If screening cannot be done, apply inexpensive fly repellent before milking, but avoid spraying milk to prevent odor and taste.
Five-Room Bungalow Provides Home With Individuality
A detailed guide describes a five room bungalow emphasizing individuality and comfort. The plan features a large sunlit living room with a wide windowed front, a central dining area, a sun porch, and a pergola style porch extending along the side. Built of stucco with built in cabinets, two bedrooms share a central bath. a basement houses heating, coal, and laundry, with a pantry near the kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inen
Stairs Shape the Hallway Impression in Home Design
The stairway’s prominent position in entry halls makes its appearance crucial to a home’s reputation. It should be sturdy and finished well, with a color scheme blending upper and lower floors. Ivory enamel and ebony accents update colonial and mission styles, while mahogany details enhance traditional charm.
Window Box Craft Wins Hearts of Small Homes
A simple guide advises homeowners to build window boxes that enhance cottage charm. Proper sizing fits window frames, with depth nine to ten inches and width by choice, using a false bottom and rear drainage holes for plant health.
Wood Tiling Adds Value and Charm to Homes
The article praises wood tile flooring as a key feature that enhances a building’s intrinsic value and improves the room’s appearance. It argues flooring sets a tone of richness and cheer, influencing overall perception of the home.
Built in Devices Save Space in Small Home
The article extols compact modern living with built in furniture in bedrooms and reception halls. It mentions wardrobes with hanging closets, shoe racks, mirrors, hidden chairs, stairs, telephone desks, radiators, and benches as up to date features. It highlights sun powered design and artistically furnished dining alcoves with harmonized drapes and tile floors.
Marble vs. Popular Taste Sparks Artistic Debate
In a public discussion on art and value the claim emerges that people with artistic inclination favor less costly materials yet favor quality over price, suggesting taste can outshine expense in selecting sculpture or design.
Cork Insulation Proves Its Heat Value in the Tropics
The article praises cork as an effective heat insulator. It notes cork-lined helmets used in tropical regions and suggests cork’s usefulness for homes in temperate climates as well.
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Tropics
Disarmament Sitings Highlight Paris Power Shifts
F R Buckley notes in Adventure Magazine that history shows disarmament is hard to achieve. He cites 1882 Paris measures under Charles VI and Charles VII, where arms bans failed to quell power struggles. The text traces how a duke of Burgundy used a controlled militia and exemptions for butchers to influence city control while disarmed citizens protested without success.
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France
Charles VI
Paris
Charles VII
Burgundy
Count de St. Pol
F. R,. Buckley
Adventure Magazine
Florida appeals with a pirate ship find and quake tale
Old pirate ship Unearthed twelve feet underground in Sarasota Florida stirs youth and boosts appeal for Florida tourism. The Columbus Dispatch notes the ship tale and a California earthquake adds to the buzz. If more ships are found the fever may spread.
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Florida
California
Grove Patterson
Columbus Dispatch
Sarasota
Fla
Had an Alibi Who Won’t Join the Legion
A husky youth recalls an Army recruiting visit where a doctor asked him to undress and then checked his chest. He struck the doctor in self defense, was hospitalized, and says he never left the hospital before the war ended. The anecdote appears in the American Legion Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
New York Evening World
American Legion Weekly
Filamentless Electric Light Claims Cuts in Municipal Bills
Newark inventor Conrad Schickerling proposes a filamentless electric lamp that he says could halve city lighting costs. He cites a 500 watt lamp burning longer and using less than half the current, plus smaller lamps for aligns and autos, and a vacuum tube filament for AC rectification in B-battery eliminators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conrad Schickerling
Newark
N. J
Popular Science Monthly
Nature embossed initials found on beech tree near Morrisville
A beech tree about sixty seven years old near Morrisville Pa yielded embossed initials A J D and J H D with 1839 when split for firewood. Nature Magazine notes the wood’s embossed letters formed as the tree grew over the marked section. Henry Moon of Morrisville owns the sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrisville
Nature Magazine
Henry Moon
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear Complexion
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for complexion and scalp care with Cuticura Ointment for dry skin, plus Cuticura Talcum for fragrance, claiming the trio leaves skin smooth and hands white.
Japanese Emigration to Brazil Surges in New Report
Immigration authorities say 1800 Japanese nationals will depart for South America soon and forecast about 3000 total emigrants bound for Brazil by year end, signaling a rising flow of settlers amid ongoing relocation trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Immigration Company
South America
Wool Growth Fluid Promises Faster Sheep Wool
Professor Barker of Leeds University at the Chester conference described a Japanese fluid claimed to boost wool growth in sheep. Injected every two days, the two month treatment allegedly yields a year’s worth of growth, allowing two or three shearings yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barker
Leeds University
Chester
Salvador Railway A Branch Line Approved for Guatemala Frontier
A new contract has been signed and approved by the President and the national assembly of Salvador for a 16 kilometer branch railway from Ahuachapan to the Guatemala frontier, north of El Naranjo. Construction must finish before April 24, 1930, with an intended future link to Guatemala City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Assembly of
Salvador
Ahuachapan
Department
Guatemala Frontier
EL Naranjo
Santa Ana
Guatemala City
Whistling Marmots Tamed in Glacier National Park
In Glacier National Park guides train the whistling marmots to sit up like dogs and perform for food. The Rocky Mountain colony is vast, with an estimated one million marmots inhabiting its recesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glacier National Park
Rocky Mountain Country
French court painter Freminet Known as French Michelangelo
Michelangelo of France Martin Freminet, court painter during the reign of Henry IV, known as the French Michelangelo, decorated the royal chapel at Fontainebleau and died in 1619.
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Michelangelo
France
Martin Freminet
Teury TV
Freminet
Paluce of
Fontaineblesu
Molasses in Baskets Arrives for Philadelphia Alcohol Plans
A cargo from Java to Philadelphia consisted of hard molasses packed in baskets intended for use in alcohol construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Java
Alchohol
May Need Them Both Horace We Can Be Married
Dialogue fragment shows Phyllis and Horace discussing marriage with references to a minister father and a lawyer father. The exchange suggests a cautious plan to marry with parental roles cited.
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Horace
Phyllis
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