Storing Potato Crop For Winter Use
Missouri expert offers storage tips for potatoes after a record year. Begin preparation before maturity and inspect fields for diseased tubers. Store in cold or pitted arrangements with proper drying, stacking limits, shade, ventilation, and final earth covering to extend keeping quality until midwinter or later.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Crop Estimates
W. H. Lawrence
University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Lawrence
SEND COCKERELS TO MARKET
The cockerels go to market when they bring the best price. Timing depends on market demand. Leg horn cockerels profit most as broilers. Rock Red or Wyandotte may be held longer as small roosters. A farmer with an egg or milk route can sell broilers or roosters to meet customer demand.
Five Classes of Food for Poultry Essentials
The article outlines five essential categories of poultry feed: grain food, vegetable food, meat food, minerals in grit and shell, and plenty of clean water. It stresses that all five are crucial for best results, with the first and fifth deemed most important.
Sizes of Market Broilers
Broilers are young chickens dressed from three quarters of a pound to two pounds. Market demand favors three sizes: squad broilers from three quarters to one pound, small broilers from one to one and one quarter pounds, and large broilers from one and a half to two pounds. At six months weight gain is slight and quality poor. As cockerels age beyond twelve weeks quality falls significantly.
Marketing Culls in Flock
Advice to cull marketable fowls quickly and ship to a city commission merchant. Sort birds by size and appearance for each coop. Emphasizes that good appearance yields higher prices and recommends extra care and feeding for a week or ten days before sale.
Chickens Delight in Sand Bedding for Clean Feeding
Chickens enjoy a sand heap for feeding as a clean alternative to boards and troughs. A 12 inch board sandbox filled with sand absorbs droppings and can be scraped clean. Sand aids digestion and commercial grit cannot fully replace gravel for chickens.
Cleaning Grain Bins Cuts Stored Insect Losses in Ohio
Annual bin cleaning before new crops is advised to prevent stored grain insects. Thorough use of 100 percent kerosene emulsion after sweeping destroys eggs and pests, with bins ready within a week. Ohio produced about 284 million bushels of grain in 1916. entomologists estimate one half of one percent damage, roughly a million dollars statewide. Several beetles weevils and moths infest cereals and stored products, often with accompanying mites.
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Ohio
United States Department of Agriculture
Useful Feed Pen for Pigs and Chickens Detailed
A Southern Agriculturist writer explains a pig pen design to separate pigs from chickens. It suggests placing four posts, boxing the pen with planks, covering, and cutting a 6 by 8 inch hole on one side. A swing door with leather hinges allows pigs to push the door in or out.
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Southern Agriculturist
Storing Late Vegetables in a Cool Cellar
A cool well ventilated cellar provides ideal storage for late vegetables. Use movable crates and shelves to keep containers off the ground for air flow. Maintain temperature via windows and partitioned areas if heating makes the cellar warm. Send for Farmers Bulletins 847 and 879 from USDA for full storage guidance.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Device for Repairing Wire Fences Invented to Ease Breaks
A two piece hardwood contrivance four feet long, bolted at A, with clamps at BB to grip the wire. When ends are captured they are drawn together at CO and held until spliced. The device speeds repairs and prevents clothing tears and hand injuries.
Renew Thin Pasture Spots With Spring Seeding
Pasture fields show weak spots that respond to reseeding. Scatter a small amount of seed each spring and harrow in at a 40 degree slant to boost thin areas. A top dressing of fine stable manure stimulates slow grasses. Pasture land requires renewal to remain productive.
Apply Manure to Pastures for Better Milk Yield
The article urges spreading substantial amounts of manure on pastures to boost grazing quality and milk production. It notes pastures benefit from manure as crops do and recommends liberal applications even on small pastures to reduce grain needs for steady milk flow.
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Quick Relief From Liver Ailments
A jittery ad railroads Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable liver remedy for sluggish liver and constipated bowels. It claims to purify sour bile and prevent salivation unlike calomel and guarantees a full family benefit. Also mentions hair dye product La Creole and assorted humorous clippings with no clear single event.
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Dodson
Winning Compliment Echoes From Graduating Class
A exchange quoted in the Louisville Courier Journal shows one girl asking if others match her looks and another replying that none could assemble enough features to be as pretty. The back and forth captures schoolyard pride and humor among the graduating class.
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Louisville
Louisville Courer Journal
R. Schiffmann
R. Schiffmann Co
St. Paul, Minn
Pie in the dictionary joke from Yonkers Statesman
Wise Tommie asks for a dictionary searching for pie. His aunt quips the dictionary is the only place in her house where pie could be found, forming a short humorous exchange from Yonkers Statesman.
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Tommie
A HINT TO WISE WOMEN Ady Femenina Notice
An advertisement styled notice promotes Femenina with a flirtatious tone. It hints women avoid torture by using the product and cites prices of five cents and one dollar. The fragmentary text mocks traditional advice and includes names such as Belle June and Bob in a brief promo.
Freezone claims painless corn removal and relief
An advertisement from Cincinnati touts freezone as a painless remedy to lift corns and calluses. A tiny bottle allegedly clears soreness and loosens the corn so it can be removed root and all with little cost and reportedly minimal skin irritation. The piece includes stray narrative lines about wounded riders and a bantering nurse.
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Cincinnati
Plantation Chill and Fever Tonic Ad Appeals to Mothers
An advertisement touts Plantation Chill and Fever Tonic as a safe remedy for babies and growing children to tone the system and regulate the liver. It claims mothers see wonderful success and notes the product contains no calomel. Price 50c.
No Gold No Eggs on European Trade Signals
A New Haven Register notice recalls a Dutch hold on a shipment of several million eggs at the German frontier. German negotiators offered gold or “equal” paper, but the eggs remained unreleased after authorities checked the money’s color and backing.
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Europe
New Haven Register
Spoke From Experience on Women Doing Men’s Work
A fragment notes a speaker, Bill-I, asserting some women can perform men’s work but won’t receive men’s wages. The line includes a dialogue with Joe and a remark about wages and persistence.
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Bill
Joe
Watchermean
Capudine Relief Advert Aids Nerve Strain
An early 20th century advertisement touts Capudine as fast relief for headaches and nervous strain. It promotes Capudine as a pleasant liquid medicine for quick comfort.
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Capudine
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