Vegetables and Greens Boost Duck Fattening For Market
The article outlines feeding ducks with green feed and vegetable seeds to improve fattening for market. Pekin eggs aid hatchability. runners need year round laying rations. A two week fattening mash combines corn meal, flour or middlings, bran, beef scrap, grit, and green feed. fish may substitute beef scrap but risks fishy flavor. Boiled fish limited to two weeks before slaughter. fish from nearby waters lowers feed costs. The Babcock test for butter fat should be run twice monthly.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Triumvirate Side Lines and Balanced Ration Notes
A brief excerpt lists three components of a balanced ration charcoal coal grit and oyster shell and adds a constant supply of pure water for hot dry days of summer.
Make Colony Houses Useful for Seasonal Stock and Storage
The article advises repurposing colony houses to rear young stock in spring and gammer, then using them in fall and winter to house winter layere. It emphasizes multi season utility and practical housing use.
Goats Clear Brush Land in Ozarks Project
Local landowners in the Ozarks use goats to clear brush on their properties. Some workers are paid about 80 to 76 cents per head for the grazing effort.
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Ozarks
Portable elevator speeds unload for stocker operations
The portable elevator reduces unload time into the bin by about 18 percent. Recent demand from the stocker and feeder trade favors lighter weight units.
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Uee
Fish meal as supplemental feed gains acceptance and value
The U S Department of Agriculture through the Bureau of Chemistry promotes fish meal as a high protein livestock feed. It derives from cannery by products and fish scraps and replaces tankage in hog, poultry, and dairy rations without tainting animal products. It adds feeding value and preserves fertilizer value for dual profits.
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Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Hogs and Cattle Slump in Early 1920 on Farms
The Bureau of Crop Estimates reports hog numbers fell about five percent in the first four months of this year versus 1919, with cattle down roughly six percent compared with the same period last year.
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United States
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Succulent Feed Insurance Plan Aimed at Drought Resilience
The article discusses a beet feed insurance concept offering reliable succulent feed during favorable sea son and drought. It explains carrying over green feed into the next year to mitigate shortages of feed and pasture in dry periods.
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Mighty
Freezone corn remedy promises instant relief and easy removal
A drugstore advertises Freezone as a painless treatment for all corn types and calluses. It claims the small bottle costs a few cents and lets users lift the corn or callus away with no soreness or irritation.
Desert Outpost Claim Causes Bizarre Standoff
In a Louisville Cour ier-Journal excerpt a man stakes a claim to live in a desert area despite warnings it is uninhabitable. He argues the dryness is no worse than other places, insisting he will reside there regardless.
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Great American Desert
Louisville Courier-Journal
Otr Gould
Puts Will In You Easy to Get Strong
In hot weather many lose appetite and feel listless. An entonic tablet taken before meals and after helps remove acids and gases and restore pep. Eatonic cools the mouth and stomach, boosts appetite, and supports energy for a few days at a small cost. Ady,
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Eatonic
Ady
A Clean Sweep Vacationist You Say the City Takes Everything
A humorous exchange between a vacationist and a farmer about city rules taking everything they raise including the help. The farmer affirms the joke that even aid or labor is taxed away by officials.
Oats Best Crop On Cheap Western Canada Land
An illustrated comparison from Minnesota farmer Albert Inmer shows oats costing $18.13 per acre versus $31.49 for corn, a $13.36 difference. Western Canada offers oats yields of 50 to 60 bushels per acre on land around $20 an acre, with some years reaching 100 bushels. Canadian oats win prizes at international exhibitions and often weigh over 42 pounds per bushel.
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Minnesota
Albert Inmer
Cottonwood County
Minn
Cottonwood Citizen
Inmer
Canada
Western
Dominion Grain Inspector
Canadian Government Information Bureau
United States
Earthquakes Linked to Tectonic and Volcanic Causes
The origin of earthquakes is traced to two main causes: tectonic movements in the earth's crust and volcanic activity. Tectonic activity involves faults, possibly driven by the interior cooling and shrinking of the planet.
Untitled vegetable remedy ad reads in scrambled text
A garbled notice from Omaha Nebraska promotes Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trustworthy remedy. The fragment mentions a 20 year reliance and a requested publication of the author’s statement.
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Omaha
Mare
Pinkhams
P D Q Bed Bug Killer Ad Claims Wide Efficacy
An old ad promotes P. D. Q. Bed Bug treatment from Owl Chemical Works Terre Haute claiming rapid action against bedbugs roaches fleas and eggs. It touts a patent free spout in every package and urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
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P. Pb
Owl Chemical Works
Terre Ayte
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