Local shoppers lure with Xmas goods and plain talk
Alma and Cen tralia visitors stop by as Altoms promotes regular and brush shells. Decatur locals Don Eagan, Leon Chandler, and Al Jasper Armstrong with relatives browse seasonal items. Martins and Altoms feature cheap towels, towels, nuts, batteries, lemons, chocolate candy, and Queens Taste coffee.
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H. P. Smith
Alma
Centralia
Altoms
Don Eagan
Leon Chandler
Decatur
Jasper Armstrong
Everett Hines
Blue grass praised as pasture quality booster
Pennsylvania State College researchers highlight Kentucky blue grass as high in nutritive value and soil fertility benefits. Four million acres in Pennsylvania are pasture, much on poorer land where improving pasture boosts dairy production and land use efficiency.
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Kentucky
J. W. White
Pennsylvania State College Experiment Station
White
Pennsylvania
Preventing Calf Dysentery in Newborns on the Farm
Calf dysentery known as white scours or calf cholera affects newborns. Prevention includes sanitary calving and calf pens, iodine treated navels dusted with starch or lime, cleansing the cow’s udder, early vaccination with polyvalent calf dysenteric serum, and using milk from fresh cows when the disease is common.
U S Agriculture Issues Bulletins On Milk Odor Causes
The dairy bureau reports feeding trials show certain feeds under specific conditions affect milk flavor and odor. Bulletin Nos. 1097 1190 1208 and 1297 detail effects of silage alfalfa green corn turnips cabbage and potatoes on flavor and odor. Copies available from the U S Department of Agriculture Washington DC.
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United States Dairy Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Dec
Dairy Notes on Bull Selection and Feeding Practices
Calves should be fed alfalfa to reduce scouring risk. A scrub bull can be more destructive than a placid one. Good bulls and care drive dairy profitability. many farmers sell top cows for beef as cow testing expands. Ground oats aid bulls. cottonseed meal may reduce fertility. For profits, maintain comfortable barns, silos, hay, and ample forage. feed cows by production when increasing rations fails to raise output.
Christmas sale items at Altoms and Martins
Advertising list shows rockers 49¢ at Martins, coffee 3 pounds for $1, glassware 20¢ at Altoms, large painted salad dishes 25¢, fancy box Christmas stationery 10¢, nuts and fruits, radios via A L Murfin, and a broad array of vases bowls and pocket books with discount wording typical of a department store circular.
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Martins
Altoms
Martin
Crosley
A. L. Murfin
Mens Heavy Wool Sox
Mar
A. Murfin
Pamasekm
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Vernon
Ill
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Mid-West
Clarance
Queens
Fords
Sam Wogin
Centralia, Ill
W. H. Adams
McFarland-Vaughn Dry Goods Co
East Broadway
Davis-Reichenbach Shoe Store
United States
Christms Club
Christmas Club
First State Bank
Patoka, Ill
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