Value of crops in 1917 shows corn leading farm income
The 1917 farm crop values place corn first at $4,054,000,000 for 3,149,000,000 bushels. Cotton ranks second with $1,845,000,000 including seed. Oats, potatoes, tobacco, barley, and apples follow, with total farm-crop value reaching $13,610,000,000, up 97 percent from 1915.
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United States
Jamestown
Plymouth
Great Plains
United States Department of Agriculture
Hare
Prevent Food Losses By Keeping Perishables Safe
Important amounts of perishable foods spoil in homes from heat moisture germs and pests. Keep milk cool clean and covered. use fresh vegetables in soups or salads. stew and store fruits and nuts. avoid hot damp bins. protect with proper containers to guard against insects and rodents.
Inventors Cover Rapid Telegraphy and Automotive Advances
The article notes a French system of rapid telegraphy transmitting 40 000 words per hour over long distances. It mentions Canivier’s motorcycle saddle reducing movement to a perpendicular axis to absorb shocks. England tests a new automobile fuel from sugar refinery refuse claimed to exceed gasoline power. Automobile oil is sold in cone shaped centers with a pocket knife used to access the fuel port.
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England
Slabman Jack Coombs Plans Retirement This Season
Slabman Jack Coombs, veteran pitcher for the Robins, says 1905 alumnus of Colbge Col lege to Major League, plans to retire after this season. Known as a hard pitcher when his arm is right, he has long been a hoodoo to the Giants and is entering eleventh year in the big leagues. He announced the retirement during training at Hot Springs, having earned substantial money.
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Slabman
Jack Coombs
Colbge College
Mackmen
Giants
Robins
Coombs
Hot Springs
Deer Do Not Interfere With Eradication of Cattle Tick
The USDA reports deer do not hinder eradication of cattle fever ticks. California findings show deer on tick-free ranches are not infested after eradication, supporting the idea that deer are not the fever tick’s natural host.
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United States Department of Agriculture
California
C. Fornia
Mother's Faith Fuels Soldier's Sacrifice
Poem excerpt expresses a mother's prayer and unwavering resolve to support her son in war. She risks personal grief and shields him with faith, trusting the cause will justify the sacrifice when the moment comes. The speaker invokes a mother's look and calm trust as inspiration for a soldier's resolve.
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Amelia Josephine Burr
The
Vigilantes
Brown Sugar Rediscovered For Old Time Cooking Uses
Prof. Mary Rausch of the University of Washington notes housekeepers should revive traditional methods and use brown sugar or syrup in place of granulated sugar. Bakers favor its flavor in breads and desserts, with ginger breads and spice cakes long made with it. A frosting glaze is prepared by boiling brown sugar into syrup and beating with stiff egg whites.
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Mary Rausch
Department of Home Economics
University of Washington
Seattle
Poultry Pointers for Hens and Farm Yards
Keep hens confined to your land and avoid keeping a male bird. Hens lay without a rooster and well matured pullets are advised. Do not overcrowd and provide a dry ventilated house, roosts, nests, and clean yard with green crops. Feed scraps and grain daily, maintain lice and mite control, and preserve surplus eggs for fall and winter. Kill and eat hens as they cease laying in fall.
Potatoes Outperform Other Fresh Vegetables In Fuel Value
Lucy Cordiner of the University of Minnesota says potatoes hold more fuel value than any other fresh vegetable and provide all body needs including protein minerals starch fat and roughage. Peeling and soaking reduce nutrients. blanching then peeling preserves value. Bake or steam for digestible dry mealy potatoes. avoid soggy ones that cause gas.
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Lucy Cordiner
University of Minnesota
Versatile salad ideas from the Mother's Cook Book
The text suggests cucumber dishes and various fruit and vegetable combinations for salads and desserts. It describes peeling and ribboning cucumbers, lettuce-based salads with onions and French dressing, and multiple fruit and vegetable pairings such as pineapple with pecan meats, tomato cubes, asparagus tips, and mayonnaise dressings. It also notes lemon jelly used with cheese or vegetables, and lettuce plates topped with diverse vegetable portions.
No Hope in Fried Whale With High Cost of Food
The Philadelphia Telegraph notes how fried whale, once praised by Boston gourmets, faces rising costs as restaurateurs reduce portions and raise prices. Substitutes like corn and oats were trialed, but critics fear sea meat will be sliced thinly for profit, undermining conservation gains.
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Boston
Wise and Otherwise. A quip-filled reflection on memory and honesty
A set of pithy maxims on recollecting past engagements and living up to neighbors' expectations. It notes the difficulty some men have in speaking truth and includes a line about a man paying $1.50 to repair a 90 cent watch.
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Wise
Ngney
A Dainty Salad With Nuts And Watercress
A detailed salad method uses two cupfuls cold riced potatoes and a cupful pecan meats. mix with French dressing, arrange watercress, and garnish with pecan halves. Adds almonds cucumber cubes onion and a good boiled dressing to finish.
Prices in Constantinople Reach Extreme Levels
Berne reports Constantinople faces economic ruin with German backed requisitioning of food and rampant speculation. A loaf costs five pounds valued at five dollars. meat four dollars per pound. flour five dollars. potatoes two dollars. butter sixteen dollars. sugar ten dollars. eggs fifty cents. chickens nine dollars. shoes range ten to two hundred dollars. a man’s salt from one hundred to four thousand dollars.
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Berne
Constantinople
Moonlight's negligible role in plant growth say scientists
C F Marvin of the weather bureau states the moon does not affect temperature rainfall or plant growth. He notes plant growth relies on heat light humidity and soil nutrients and that moonlight is far too weak to influence photosynthesis or growth.
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Moon
C. F. Marvin
United States Weather Bureau
New Yorker
Six Smiles All Alike and Pearl Necklace Tale
A fragmented text recalls savages invading lands for beads and a humorous anecdote about a man in evening clothes who went broke trying to pay for a two pearl necklace. Miss Cayenne’s remark links the gag to high society humor.
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Miss Cayenne
I Have It Incredible Hardship at Breakfast
A humorous dialogue about a brother who has joined the army and the rough meals he endures. The exchange notes the wartime hardship and the absence of familiar comforts like pie for breakfast.
Shooting Stars Date Back Into the Prehistoric Times
The article traces humanity's view of shooting stars from prehistoric eras to the present, noting a 1875 hypothesis that meteorites are volcanic fragments from small planetary masses. It explains that broken pieces form swarms crossing Earth’s orbit, likely originating in our solar system. Arizona, among others, has yielded meteorite finds.
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Popular Science Monthly
Earth
Arizona
Farming on Paper As A Contrast To Real Farms
A writer notes the fantasy of planning and drawing farms on paper with neat rows and perfect profits. He contrasts imagined yields and perfect weather with the harsh realities of agriculture on a New Hampshire mountainside.
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Robert M. Gary
New Hampshire
How Dust Causes Fires
Spontaneous combustion arises from floating particles of dust or other inflammable material rubbing together until friction raises temperature to ignition. Even with ventilation, air can promote oxidation and fuel a dust fire. keep dust damp and quiet to prevent fire.
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Popular Science Monthly
Wealthy Quapaw Couple in Ot tawa County Live Modestly
In Ottawa County Oklahoma two of the richest people are Joe Car war yee tee and his wife both Quapaw Indians who reside in a rough log cabin on about 250 dollars yearly. They hold vast gold from local mineral discoveries but rarely spend it, visiting town twice yearly to buy bright calico for the wife and a few pairs of overalls for the husband, a gesture seen as extravagance by the community.
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Ottawa County
Oklahoma
Joe Carwar-yee-tee
Market Term Defined
A dialogue contrasts risk and insurance as a man explains that a good insurance risk would be a bad personal risk. The exchange includes a dark joke about manipulation for a rise tied to a morning bedclothes joke.
Don’t Take Me to the Pictures Tonight
A small boy at a garden gate wails that his parents will not take him to the pictures. An old lady asks what’s wrong and the boy answers sometimes they take him but sometimes they don’t. A passerby calls for calm while another woman accuses the child of stealing sugar tickets.
Glucose Detection in Preserves and Marmalade
Glucose is detected by dissolving a teaspoon in alcohol and, for jams and marmalades, filtering the mixture. After cooling, add extra strong alcohol. a dense white precipitate indicates glucose. No precipitate appears if glucose is absent, though trace protein sediment may resemble the glucose sediment.
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Popular Science Monthly
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