A Voice From the Country on Small Business Challenge
Louis Bromfield argues that the modern complex economy pressures the old general farm and small retailers. He links high food costs to farming inefficiency and costly distribution, favoring mass producers and large stores while warning subsidies punish consumers.
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Louis Bromfield
WNU
United States
New York
Madison Avenue
National Poultrymen's Association
Congress
Ex-GI Recovers Shirt Identified by Serial in Store
Hastings Nebraska veteran Charles E. Jenkins bought work clothes at an army surplus shop when a khaki shirt he wore in the Solomon Islands campaign caught his eye. The shirt bore his initials and serial number. after he submitted his dogtag, manager George Engelbrecht returned the fatigues to him as proof of ownership.
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Hastings, Neb
Charles E. Jenkins
Solomon Islands
Jenkins
George Engelbrecht
Free Licenses Allow Seminoles to Dress Up Cars in Florida
Florida's Seminole Indians win a long standing license plate agreement granting free plates. Gov. David Sholtz initiated the policy about 17 years ago, inviting state officials to meet with the tribe on the Tamiami Trail. The Seminoles asked only for free licenses to beautify their cars.
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Tallahasseer
Fla
Florida
David
Sholtz
Tamiami Trail
End of the road for Army Notre Dame football series
A retrospective on the historic Army Notre Dame rivalry begins with the 1913 meeting won by Notre Dame 35 13 and notes its peak after Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais shaped the series. The piece reflects on coaching legends Frank Leahy Jock Sutherland and Paul Brown and argues pro football now rivals college interest.
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Notre Dame
West Point
Gus Dorais
Knute Rockne
Army
Dorais
Rockne
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
California
Navy
Biff Jones
Frank Leahy
South Bend
Gipp
The
Four Horsemen
Subway
Pittsburgh
Jock Sutherland
Sutherland
Pittsburgh Steelers
Jock
Leahy
Johnny Lujack
Paul Brown
Cleveland
New York
Chicago
Washington
Distiller's Grains Prove Valuable Feed Source
Agricultural colleges report that distiller's dried grains yield high protein and vitamins with every bushel milled. For each bushel processed 17 to 18 pounds of feed are recovered, boosting poultry and livestock growth and cutting costs. Farmers are advised to substitute distiller's grain for part of their ration to raise production.
Reinforcing Soil Health Through Manure and Practices
The article explains manure from 1000 bushels of corn fed to livestock loses 60 percent of organic matter 25 percent of nitrogen 20 percent of phosphorus and 10 percent of potash when converted to milk or beef. It stresses that manure often loses half its fertility unless properly handled and recommends liming deep rooted legumes and commercial fertilizer to maintain and improve soil.
Trials Show Efficient Feeding of Molasses
Three series of trials with 122 pigs at the University of Hawaii tested cane molasses in weanling pig rations. Comparisons included 10 20 30 and 40 percent molasses against a no molasses check. Results show 20 percent molasses yields the best balance of weight gain and feed efficiency. higher levels reduce both.
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University of Hawaii
Cost of Keeping Rats Costs Farms Big Losses
Rats and mice attack crops including root crops tubers bulbs cereals and trees. They spread typhus and bubonic plague. Keeping a rat costs about two cents a day or $730 yearly. One rat wastes 85 to 100 pounds of feed yearly, comparable to a laying hen. A cow uses 225 rata of feed?
Answers to Wimmo Question Quiz from 1900s
The quiz reveals giraffes have seven neck bones while sparrows have sixteen. Chess dates to 3rd century India. Illegal stills are tracked by airplane. White House grounds host ninety tree species. The India rubber worm name stems from length. Ultrasonic laundering uses high pitched vibrations to shake out dirt. Alaska has about one person per ten square miles. A grebe is a paddle footed, nearly tailless diving bird related to the loon.
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White House
India
Alaska
Ventilating System Planned for Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel project in New York Harbor will feature the world’s largest ventilating system delivering 4,200,000 cubic feet of fresh air per minute. It exceeds the Holland tunnel system by 12 percent and the Mersey tunnel by 68 percent.
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Brooklyn Battery
New York Harbor
Collier's
Holland Tunnel
Manhattan
Jersey City
Mersey Tunnel
Liverpool
Birkenhead
England
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Edstor
America
Horse and Bug&y
Sumer
Bromfield
G.I
Elmer Layden
MET
Metropolitan Opera House
Church
Manila
Church World Service
Siena
Italy
George Truman
Clifford Evans
U. S
Elmendorf Field
Anchorage
F. Leahy
Walker Poultry Farm
Peoria
LOS R
Wimmo
New
Brooklyn Tunnel
Dr. LeGear
Reiterz
T Lake
Salt Lake City
Utah
U.S
Aaa
Scott's
Scotts
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