Farm and Fireside Practical Agriculture Tidbits
A series of farm guidance notes covers testing cement quality with a boiled water method, fumigation of stored grain with carbon disulfide, training a colt to drive, grain processing for better livestock feed, dust fungicides for stored grain and seed treatment, cowpea cleaning for livestock feed, slippery concrete floors for livestock, poultry profitability through better business methods, cider making from winter apples with pasteurization and kieselguhr filtration, and plowing strategies to control corn borers including disking and burning strips around fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Animal Industry
U. S. Department of Agriculture
U. S. Department of Cculture
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C
Bureau of Plant Industry
Bureau
Domestic tips for canning and kitchen care
Practical household advice covers jelly making with fabric strainers, sterilizing glassware, and avoiding fermentation. Guidance on curtains for bright rooms, bread storage to prevent mold, and using egg whites or yolks as economical substitutes in cakes.
FARM CALENDAR Timely sowing and soil notes for a brave harvest
Farm calendar notes sow Timothy as late as mid September with good odds of winter survival and a solid hay crop next year. Emphasizes leadership and fellowship to strengthen rural life. House pullets ready to lay and grade by maturity. If feed runs short, dispose of low producers. Sweet clover boosts soil humus and nitrogen. Protect tools from rust. spray potatoes while vines stay green to prevent blight. King George and Queen Mary celebrate 37th anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn State Farm Crops Specialists
State College
Vaccination Method Aims to Fight Chicken Pox in Nevada
Washoe county farmers adopt a new vaccination technique for poultry against smallpox. The process uses leg or wing feather follicles, applying concentrated vaccine to follicles for rapid actions, with advantages over injections. Vaccine supplied by University of Nevada veterinary control service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Washoe County
Edward C. Reed
Veterinary Control Service
University of Nevada
Holland
United States
California
Oregon
Feeding Hens Timing and Routines in Poultry Care
The article argues for shifting from morning grain to an evening amount that leaves some for morning. It recommends a full mash hopper for hens to finish, cleaning leftovers and eating mash by ten o’clock, then a light grain portion about one third of the daily total. After ten o’clock the hens rest, then resume mash until the evening grain feeding.
Poultry Notes On Poultry Yard Practices And Pests
Poultry notes advise using oats as forage for chicks and planting corn to shade poultry yards. For pest control, tying crosswise strings to deter crows and hawks, and painting perches to kill mites via carbelineum or mustard are recommended. Separate pullets and cockerels, feed pullets early, and notes on a northwestern turkey marketing plan.
Historic Hall Prison Site at Independence Hall
A fragment discusses Independence Hall in Philadelphia used as a British prison during the Revolutionary era, where captured American officers were detained. It also touches on quotes about evil and accountability, and briefly mentions Rotary engines, congressional prayers, and a nine story tower in Nanking with porcelain facing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Nanking
China
Tapioca Dishes From The Kitchen Cup 1930
Cooking tips for tapioca use in various dishes from the Kitchen Cup column. Recipes cover quick cooling tapioca with bacon and cranberry relish, lemon sauce, and a cheese souffle. Includes steps, ingredients, and cooking methods using a double boiler and baking references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Public sale notices across Wind Gap and surrounding townships
Auction listings show will offer at public sale items including six milch cows, fine heifers, a stock bull, three pigs and a sow on a dirt road to Wind Gap near Jacobsburg School House. Also real estate including a 40x180 foot building lot with two dwellings, woodland acres, and a Bank of Wind Gap share. Terms will be shown at sale. Names include MIKE BONE, Wm Mabus, and Eugene F. executors. all notices dated with localWind Gap locations and roads Ackerman's Crossing and Talitte.
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Rence BA
Faeobsburg
Wind Gap
Jacobsburg School House
Chester Siegel Karim
Fridas
Mike Bone
William Mabus
Beal Pruson
Broadway
M. Sharp
Aino
Woodland Acres
Alafelit
Ackerman
Tainte Sons
Farm Auction Near Moorestown Affects Livestock and Tools
The sale on the road from Penn‑Dixie Cement to Moorestown includes one bay horse, Holstein cattle, calves, twelve shoats, a sow and litter, sheep, farm wagons, machinery, and farming gear. Behavioral TB tested cattle certificates issued. additional items and terms announced at sale. Also estate sale of David Michiel’s land near Moorestown with a two‑story frame dwelling, barn, hog stable, fruit trees, and nine‑tenths miles from Skinner Slate Quarry. 10 percent cash down, balance on deed transfer. details at sale site.
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Sherry Hill
Nisky
Indivay
Ato
Vet Brussel
Thomas F. Kohler
T. M Kunkel
Walter Kunkel
Penn-Dixie Cement Corp
Moorestown
Mabee
New Ohio
Norman Silfies
Utlersig
Khoown Brown
Bacubsvite
Baston
Philaedelphi
PF O
Oliver
Ohio
Orphans’ Court
Northampton County
Alan
David Michiel
Moore
Northampton
Pennsylvania
Hito
Skinlel
Charles Aeliner
Bath
Sition Laub
Chapman Slate Company
Stephen Deshler
Paul Shramek
Milton Lambert
Figeres
Movdforesaid
Shramelk
Obert
Tanda Ate
Chaplan Slate Company
Anklin Seholl
Cothersa
Fehnel
Eek
Fiat
P. Prehnel
Rm Kunkel
Auetioneer
Public sale of farm and personal property in Plainfield Township
Executor advertises sale under W M Machtles will on plainfield road from Plainfield Church to Pen Argyl. sale includes 24 acres 13 perches with a two story brick dwelling, outbuildings, barn, wagon shed and personal items. Also multiple estate notices for Slover Tatamy and Bennett Nazareth and Nazareth executors. Sale date September 20, 190? at 2:30 PM. Executors listed with attorney Easton and Nazareth bank involved.
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W. M. Machtles
Plainfield
County of
Northampton
State of
Pennsylvania
Plainfield Church
Pen Argyl
POM
Cps
Linds
Jacob Dreisbach
Juha Houck
Frank Gunn
Lewis A. Teel
Nazareth Nation Bank and Trust
Nasareth, Tal
Herbert F Taub
Easton
Mach Tues
M . William T. Mabus
Estate Notices for Maus and Fehnel Administrations
Letters of administration are granted to the undersigned for the estates of Clayton H Maus formerly of Nazareth County and Charles A Fehnel late of Moore Pennsylvania. Creditors must present claims promptly or be barred. attorneys are Messinger Building and Patrick Patt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George KB. Ackerman
Wind Gap
Semana
Jo E. F. Mohn
Belfast
James W. Gernet
Nazareth
County of
Northampton
Pennsylvania
Elamanda Gernet
Executrix
South Whithield St. Nazareth
David Michael
Moore
Northampton County
Howard PM Koch
Main St
NOTIC
Agustus Slover
Tatany
Delat
William Slover
Tatamy
Onley J. Fehr
Selucer Eids
Margaret M. Bennett
Mary Emma Bennett
Nazareth, Pa
Clayton H. Maus
al Nazareth
Charles A. Fehnel
P of Moore
Pennini
Abe
Anna ED Fehnel
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Jatl
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Sayitt
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Wyandotte St
Bethlehem
al Eng
Kern's Crossing
Bethlehem Pa Town
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Belvidere Street
East Awn
ANK Ernst
East Lawn
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Pine St
Mt ! South Main Street
Aes Areth
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Dales Farm
Bethlchem
Ren Kent
Main Street
Miscelladaneou Rs
Alvin Plorey
Hh. FD
Sted
Sianeap Sterl, Johnson
Wm. T. Mabus
Ludwig Himler
L. P. Kostenbader Natary Public Badp'’S
H. L. Roth
South Whitefield
Walter Garland Green
Robinson Ave
Paul Heckman
Chas. Scholl
Patent Medicine
Breyer
Penn
Frank P. Rohn
Ambatmer
Ten
DR. W. Cal
Foy VerUche
Borouigh
Perndt
Harvard
Boroug Reth
Mis of
Burgess
Lee
Giady
Gamine Wilfe
Clarence F. Fai
Bac Mintet
Rtanley
Biptlie & Patt
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Harton
Howard E. Weisley
Lé Lady
Chas. C
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Monroe and
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Stockertown
George Bensing
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