Women and children to assist in increasing the food supply
On Long Island women and children join in farming efforts to boost crop yields as non farming labor is tapped. Mrs Ruth Litt leads Jackwill farm near East Patchogue with 125 acres cultivating vegetables and training suffrage workers in practical agriculture.
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New—York
Iitself
Germany
Department of Agriculture
Long
Ruth Litt
Mires Iit Hs
Litt
George Baxter, Jr
Long Island
Grace Homan
W. Granville Smith
Charles Gould
Jersey
England
Mrs. Litt
Land Offer Near New York Aids Soldiers Quota
Earl Carroll offers a two hundred acre tract near New York City for farming. The land will be divided into 25 by 100 foot plots to involve boys and girls in raising food for soldiers during the crisis. Carroll is noted as America's young versatile composer and playwright with substantial weekly royalties.
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Earl Carroll
America
New York City
City Hall
Garrell
Hoe-Behing tee 2 A minis i pimmber of hills is-to-be raised
The league urges forming clubs of boys and girls and men and women to raise potatoes. A pamphlet outlines each member raises a hill and hopes this starts a national program. Clubs to be formed in every state with prizes for best crops.
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Albert Johnson
Astor Hotel
Alice Carpenter
No6
National Service ‘School
Women's ‘Section
Navy
State Agricultural School
Farmingdale
L. L
Johnson
Othey
Hills
Hair grows long for girl’s wig in Sacramento tale
Henry Hamilton of Idaho grew a luxuriant head of hair while working near Sacramento to cut and weave into a wig for his young daughter who burned her scalp years ago. Police questioned him briefly before releasing him as the story spread of his winter job and planned return home.
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Sacramento
Cal
Henry Hamilton
Jdsho
Hamilton
Max I. Fisher
Tamilton Saw
California
Idaho
Scourge of Bees Grips Britain Wipeout Doubled
Report describes a deadly bee disease in Great Britain cutting hives by half since 1910. Beekeepers report rapid hive losses and the board of beiculture pleads for power to destroy infected hives promptly to halt spread.
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Great Britain
Isle of Wight
Neticulture
German Officer's Son Enlists in U S Army
Albert Werner, a private in the United States Army, is the son of a German high officer. Born in Germany and brought to America by his mother, he faced personal conflict before choosing to fight for the United States. He works in Chicago at an order house earning 45 dollars a week.
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Chicago
Albert Werner
United States Army
Tars—Mothier
Tua
Werner
Enhance the Beauty of Home Garden Perennials
By Bennington explains sowing hardy perennials to improve a garden bed. Support tall plants like delphiniums and foxglove with unobtrusive stakes. Regularly prune fading blooms to sustain continuous late summer and tropical displays. Use bonemeal frost protection for caladium borders.
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B.—M. Bennington
The Way to Raise Dahlias by E Van Benthuysen
E Van Benthuysen outlines a method to grow dahlias, recommending starting in small pots for summer and replanting in spring. He argues against root division and warns that using old roots leads to degenerate plants, claiming Americans often buy poor stock. He notes autumn frosts and planting methods as key factors in bloom quality.
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E. van Benthuysen
A-pont-iahlino
England
France
Germany
United States
NOTES ON GARDEN WORK AND MARKET PRACTICES
Garden tips emphasize crop rotation to prevent soil depletion. A tight-wire fence reduces neighbor disputes over chickens and promotes harmony. The author urges selling directly to retailers to fetch full prices and notes early vegetables command higher prices, warning against overreliance on hotbeds.
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Dod
Cosmos cultivation tips from a garden column
A garden note advises sowing cosmos early and growing in pots to transplant. Move plants into a border after reaching nine inches, keep shoots pinched from eight inches high through July to stay compact, and frost can yield flowers for winter.
Hay as Dairy Ration Given Cost and Quality Notes
Professor Hayden of the Ohio Experiment Station says large hay crops reduce feed costs for dairy cows. He warns against exclusive roughage feeding to avoid digestive problems and notes grain is still needed. He cites alfalfa at about $20 a ton as cheaper than bran and favors leguminous roughages over timothy for milking cows.
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GC. C. Hayden
Ohio Experiment Station
Profit in Dairying
To make dollars in dairying keep cows that are money makers. Feed silage or other succulent forage, plenty of good roughage and grain in proper proportion. Supply plenty of fresh water and ventilate well. Turnout quality products.
Dairymen urged to prove cattle pedigrees for higher returns
The piece explains that dairy producers face sharp competition and feed costs, urging breeders to prove sire and dam records to justify higher prices for registered stock. It notes testing overseen by state agriculture colleges and invites breeders to contact their college dairy departments for details.
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Colleges of Agriculture
College of Agriculture
Cork brick barn flooring gains favor for farms
A cork brick flooring system for barns gains attention in Popular Science Monthly. Finely granulated cork and refined asphalt are heated mixed and pressed into bricks nine by four by two inches. Bricks are laid in cement mortar over a concrete and crushed stone sub-base.
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Popular Sciencea Monthly
Milking Cows Thoroughly Boosts Farm Profits
The note urges taking sufficient time to milk cows thoroughly. Extra time to work the udder after the usual milk is obtained can pay dividends and prevent losses elsewhere on the farm.
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Accaugh
United Kingdom
U. S. Army
Hom
L. W. Spine
Sevarthe Millsouri College of
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