Feeding stimulants to increase weight in Hereford heifers
Washington experiment station reports a feeding trial with four groups of Hereford heifers. Nux vomica at 300 grams per 1 000 pounds of grain yielded the highest average weight gain over 14 weeks and the lowest cost per pound of weight gain, suggesting better feed efficiency with this stimulant. Fowler's solution and thiouracil showed lower gains and higher feed costs than the nux vomica group, with controls performing the poorest.
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Washington
Nux Vomica
Know Your Breed British Percheron
The British Percheron, derived from La Perche in France, entered use in WWI and spurred the 1918 formation of the British Percheron Horse society to promote breeding for agriculture. Color is gray or black with little white. Stallions stand at least 16 hands 3 inches. mares are slightly shorter.
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la Perche
Normandy
France
Doan
United Nations Public Opinion Holds Power Over Fate
Washington notes from a reporter’s notebook on the UN session. Trygve Lie warns that world leaders fear deep disagreements among founders. Eleanor Roosevelt cites too-ambitious hopes, yet NATIONS prefer the UN to nothing as editors stress unity. Radio coverage from two headquarters reaches 16 countries with Spanish and Chinese programs. Public information work aims to strengthen opinion influence amid budget cuts and debates on telecommunications.
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Washington
United Nations
Trygve Lie
ABC
Lie
San Francisco
Pauline Frederick
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Mrs. Roosevelt
Radio Division
U. N
Latin America
Assembly
Food Conservation Push and UN Power Battle
The article reports on a U S campaign urging food conservation to save grain for Europe, outlining five directives to reduce meat, bread, and overall consumption. It also covers U N council struggles over Poland’s security council seat, Soviet Ukraine questions, and U S recognition of Bulgaria, plus coal shortages and economic buying power gaps in 1947.
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Charles Luckman
Truman
Citizens Food Committee
Europe
Poland
Security Council
Russia
Ukraine
Soviet Union
U. N
U. S
United Nations
U.S.S.R
Communist
Yalta
Stalin
Roosevelt
F.D.R
United States
Bulgaria
Robert A. Lovett
Lovett
Nikola Petkov
Gay Cross Stitch Beautifies Kitchen Pattern Ad
Embroidery tips and designs for towel cross stitch appeal to crafters. The notice promotes simple patterns with visual charts and photos, highlighting growing demand and directions for placing orders.
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Kamael Emouantes
Keep Them Healthy to Protect Sheep and Poultry
To reduce lamb and sheep losses from dogs and wolves use truck flares in holders atop steel posts. Sheep learn to gather at night as flames and odor deter predators. If fly problems persist DDT failures indicate nearby manure piles or old straw stacks. Turkeys suffer blackhead from a cecal worm carrier. phenothiazine in mash every three to four weeks helps prevent outbreaks.
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Turkeys
Kon-Tiki voyage boosts theory of Polynesian origins
Dr Thor Heyerdahl and six companions drifted 4300 miles from Callao Peru to Baroia reef in the Tuamotus aboard the raft Kon-Tiki without motors using currents and wind. After 101 days ashore in the Tuamotus Heyerdahl said the feat proves Polynesians could have reached the Pacific around 500 A D. The voyage cost about 40000 dollars financed by Heyerdahl and loans.
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Thor Heyerdahl
Pacific
South America
Callao
Peru
Dr. Heyerdahl
San Francisco
Norway
Heyerdahl
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San Francisco Spirit
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