Global Briefs Highlight Early 20th Century Affairs
Senate finance subcommittee sets livestock and grain equalization. Wilson rebukes Sisson over Japan speech. Keefe resigns as immigration chief. coal field probe moves forward. Orange of federal posts approved. California alien land bill signed. Fire in Pressburg and Flagler obituary noted.
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Johnson
Senate
Score
George W. L. Guthrie
Japan
John P. Mitchell
Port of New York
G. M. Saltzgaber
Pensions
Albert Lee Thurman
Department of Commerce
Education and Labor Committee
Kern
West Virginia
House
Pennsylvania
Senate Judiciary Committee
California
Wilson
Bryan
Growing Annual Flowers Not Difficult
A guide to cultivating annuals for small city plots or country gardens. It covers starting seeds in hotbeds or boxes, transplanting after frost danger, and using well rotten manure with ashes. Highlights include asters, California poppy, candytuft, marigolds, mignonette, zinnia, sweet william, Phlox Drummond, pansies, and climbing annuals with care tips for timing and spacing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Gfinstead
William
Phlox Drummond
Preventing Egg Eating in Hens Keeps Flock Healthy
A Farm Progress writer argues prevention is cheaper than cure for egg eating hens. Keep nests elevated and small, provide litter and scattered grain for activity, and separate or cull only when few birds show the habit.
Breakfast for Laying Hens
Discusses hen feed options for winter nutrition. Suggests a mix of baked or mashed potatoes corn meal and skim milk to make a stiff mush plus boiled potatoes onions cabbage squash carrots or other vegetables. Emphasizes vegetables supply essential nourishment for health and vitality when natural forage is scarce.
Sleek Horse Advice: Oil Meal in Feed Occasionally
Reader suggested feed tip for a sleek horse: add oil meal occasionally. The note implies oil meal can improve the animal's appearance and condition.
Sow Feeding Guide After Farrowing
Instructions note feeding sows after farrowing using foods calculated to yield a large flow of rich milk.
Rural organization service eyed to aid marketing and reduce costs
Washington reports a new Rural Organization Service under Secretary Houston with T. N. Carver of Harvard slated to lead possible Bureau of Markets. The division would help farmers form marketing associations, ship in carload lots, and expand market access while probing civil service reforms and patronage issues impacting government staffing.
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George Clinton
Washington
Agricultural Department
Rural Organization Service
T. N. Carver
Harvard University
Secretary of Agriculture
Houston
Professor Carver
Bureau of Markets
Wilson
George K. Holmes
Holmes
Congress
Civil Service Commission
Committee of Congress
United States
Senate
House
Act of Representatives
Melancthon Smith
Bethune
Jabez Simpson
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Senate Finance Subcommittee
Representative Sisson
Mississippi
White House
Sisson
Daniel J. Keefe
Immigration
Department of Labor
Boaz W. Long
Las Vegas, N. M
Division of
Department
Stanley Sevier Warren
San Angelo
Texas
Warren
Blackfoot
Idaho
Henry M. Flagler
Palm Beach
Fla
Canandaigua
N. Y
The
Texas Press Association
San Antonio
Wichita Falls
Ohio
Commission of Army Engineers
Pressburg
Hungary
Texas State Insurance Board
United States Treasury
Supreme Court
Lunatic
Austin
Victoria
State Firemen's Association of Texas
Charles P. Neill
United States Commissioner of Labor
Anthracite Conciliation Board of
Walter Johnson
Washington American League
Waller County
Hempstead
Campbell Friday
Foreign News
Mexico City
Essand Pasha
Scutari
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Trieste
Vienna
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Hen Hassen Ibn Pasha
Essad
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Turkey
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Geneva
Italy
Hawaii
Mexico
Naco
Tucson
Nogales
Reuben Hopkins
Panama
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Miraflores
Poincare
France
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London
Constantinople
Ano
P.C. Nallasey
Houston Eee
Austin Eee
Waco Ee
C. M. Shultz
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