FIRST AID TO THE AILING HOUSE ADVICE
Washing painted walls without removing glass requires careful cleaning with commercial package solutions following label directions. A mild trisodium phosphate solution from paint or grocery stores can be used. glossy paints may lose their gloss after multiple washings.
Confined Flocks Boost Egg Yield for Poultrymen
Agricultural advice shows confined flocks produce about 28 more eggs per hen than those allowed run of the farm. For best results, keep fall pullets housed, provide 3 to 4 square feet per bird, and use built up litter with dry materials such as straw, wood shavings, sawdust, or peanut hulls.
Sullivan man wins 1949 pocket area wheat title
Champ Wheat Grower Harold Pirtle of Sullivan Indiana won the 1949 pocket area wheat growing championship in a Purdue University and Southwestern Indiana Wheat Improvement association contest. He averaged 57 bushels per acre on an 11 acre field with prize wheat Vigoo the new stiff strawed heavy yielding red winter variety developed at Purdue.
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Harold Pirtle
Sullivan
Ind
Purdue University
Southwestern Indiana Wheat Improvement Association
Purdue
Certified Seed Said Need for Good Crops
Dr. R P Moore NC crop improvement association director in charge urges farmers to use certified seed to ensure quality. He notes seed appearance cannot reveal breeding, and seed history determines crop type. For hybrid corn the breeder forecasts performance before production, then tests are conducted after production.
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R P. Moore
North Carolina Crop Improvement Association
Moore
Diseased Livestock Costs Farmer Millions Yearly
A new report finds millions are lost yearly due to diseased livestock in cattle calves hogs and sheep. Pneumonia and pleurisy top the list with pyemia third. Immaturity alone accounted for over a quarter of more than seven million calves slaughtered annually.
Tondirits Hen by Homer Croy
Homer Croy recalls boyhood in northwest Missouri while on a country road. He remembers Ames and the Kennedys and Neet, Ida and Lucy, Harlan, Ida’s fiancé Lester Forkade and his parents from St Joe. Old family memories mix with farm scenes, barbed wire, and a posed photo moment.
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Homer Croy
Missouri
Happy Ames
T He Kennedys
Neet
Mrs. Kennedy
Ida
Lucy
Harlan
Lester Forkade
St. Joe
Forkades
Newt
Lester
Grandpa Kennedy
Delinsky
Anton
Platte River
Kennedy Farm
Old Country
A Kennedy Family Summer of Newt and Anton Delinsky
Newt Kennedy guides Anton Delinsky through adaptation in America while clashing over cultural beads and beard. Delinsky resists bearding, Newt plans a photo, and a porch watermelon party sums up community life as the summer continues.
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Delinsky
Newt
Anton
Anton Delinsky
Esquire
America
Harlan
Kennedy
Mr. Knabb
Lucy
Rhine
Homer
Cloth coffee maker filters stay fresh with soda water rinse
Cleaning tips advise rinsing cloth filters used in vacuum coffee makers with soda water to remove residue and odors, then storing them in a fresh soda water solution to preserve sweetness and freshness.
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Mo Biand
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Vicks VapoRub
VapoRus
Foley
Milla
BNET
Saturn
Scotts
Lield
Glendale
Somerset
Mass
Champ Wheat Grower
Chapter
Press Bentley
Grandpa
Mr. Delinsky
Russia
Koabb
Ork
Fleischmann
The
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