Best Type of Tractor for Farm Efficiency
University of Illinois College of Agriculture guidance urges choosing a balanced tractor design that covers heavy plowing and row crop cultivation, reduces horse herds, and lowers costs. It notes power take off for binder and mower use and cites ongoing industry work on versatile, steerable units. It warns buyers to compare models for ease of steering, row following, and quick attach cultivator setups. The circular also covers poultry diseases including tuberculosis fowl typhoid and botulism with signs and outbreak causes, offering free copies from Urbana.
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R. I. Hawl
Farm Mechanics Department
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Corn
New Circulars Aid Fight on Five Chicken Diseases
The University of Illinois College of Agriculture releases five circulars, each detailing a single disease fowl cholera botulism in fowls tuberculosis fowl typhoid and coccidiosis. Authors emphasize sanitation and wholesome rations over medicines to curb outbreaks and outline cause symptoms losses and control methods. In fowl cholera outbreaks occur monthly across 28 counties and 46 flocks, stressing quarantine and sanitation.
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Illinois
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Robert Graham
I. B. Boughton
BE. A. Tunnicliff
Hels
Straw Fertility Edge: Straw Surpasses Manure in Field Benefits
Agricultural experts note straw carries more fertility per ton than common stable manure though optimal use varies by soil. On alkali soils, plowing straw before grain crops may yield benefits, while straw helps conserve soil nitrates when managed with late fall or winter applications.
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Illinois
O. H. Sears
Agronomy
College of Agriculture
University of
Pears
Indians Use Drum Signals After Camera Fear
The Shuara Indians of the upper Amazon region tolerate outsiders and celebrate new wives as workers in harmony. A photographer’s hair-snatching attempt sparks a witchcraft superstition, prompting a drum signal to relay news among tribes.
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Quito
Ecuador
S. A
Amazon River
South America
Lester Siddle
New York Tribune
Where do nickels come from in the nickel age
Washington readers are presented with the nickel puzzle. The 1922 U S mints coined about 71 million in minor coins, rail fares in nickels fed millions of passengers, and automat coin counts show the nickel’s daily flow. Attendants note most nickels are in small sums, not a treasure, as a change girl cryptically admits she does not know their origin.
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Washington
United States
Unger
Daily Rite Ag
Helium Process Cuts Cost of Shenandoah
The bureau of mines expands helium work with a Fort Worth extraction plant and Lakehurst repurification facility to reduce Shenandoah filling costs. Helium sources span Texas Oklahoma Kansas Utah Montana with a 98 percent purity goal and 20 000 dollar repurification cost per cycle.
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Shenandoah
Washington
United States
America
Congress
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Fort Worth
Texas
Navy
Lakehurst
N. J
Alreay
Oklahoma
Kansas
Utah
Montana
S. Lind
Doctor Lind
Earth
Stone Age Tools Used by Russian Peasants
Prof. Leon Tann ethnologist reports ongoing stone tool usage among Russian peasants in Jaroslav and Orlov districts. Stone hatchets and axes are well made and durable due to lack of iron, while communities endure with minimal clothing and survive on potatoes dried fish and dried watermelon rind.
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Riga
Russia
Leon Tann
Tann
Wilds
Jaroslav
Orlov
German Specialist Promotes Barefoot Field Walking Cure
Baden Baden reports a German nervous disorders expert prescribes walking barefoot over stony fields to treat nervous illnesses. He claims bruised and swollen feet shift focus from mental brooding and speed recovery after years of practice.
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Casadei
Baden-Baden
Woman reports relief from dizziness after Pinkham remedy
Bridgeport Connecticut housewife Mrs Henry C Smith says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Blood Medicine and Liver Pills improved her dizzy faintness headaches and other symptoms. She recommends the products and notes a nationwide survey showing 98 percent of respondents benefited.
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Connecticut
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Henry C. Smith
R.F.D
Box 6
Bridgeport
Conn
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