Ducklings Need Good Attention and Proper Brooding Methods
USDA guidance outlines brooding ducklings with hot water pipe heat, starting at 95°F then tapering to 80–85°F within a week. Ducklings should be confined near the hover initially, kept comfortable, and gradually learn to locate heat. Different brooder setups include single or double houses, pens for 75–100 ducklings, and various shed designs depending on season and system.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Plant Nutrition Essentials for Growth in Various Soils
The text explains plant food needs, noting iron and magnesium are abundant in most soils while carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen come from air and water. It highlights five nutrients often deficient: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and, less frequently, calcium and sulfur, which can limit growth.
Foliage crops need light for partial shade tolerance
The readable fragments discuss how foliage crops like lettuce, kale, and spinach fare in partial shade, noting they do fairly well with some light. The text appears garbled but centers on sun requirements for foliage crops.
The Dying Drummer Boy Civil War Faith Testimony
A Civil War surgeon recalls a critically wounded drummer boy who refused chloroform saying he trusted in Jesus. The boy, seventeen, shared his faith and mother’s prayer, requesting a Bible and a letter to his Sunday School superintendent as he faced amputation without anesthesia.
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Reaure
Christ
Charle
Jesus
Charlie
Sands Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charlie ‘Coulson
Legion Notes Highlight Battle Over Soldier's Preference Law
State Treasurer W J Burbank faces violation charges under the Soldier's Preference Law filed in Polk County District Court by veterans from three wars. The suit names Governor Kendall State Auditor Glenn Haynes and Secretary of State W G Ramsay as defendants. Plaintiffs include Voiney Diltz Paul Hewitt Harvey T Ray J P Lorentzen Ray C Fountain Chas W Bowers H V Wallace R B McGonologue Steele Blake Dale Griswold J R McManus Phineas M Henry A H Hoffman and John B Pendergast all Des Moines lawyers and veterans. The case stems from Burbank's appointment of C C McCord to enforce the cigarette law amid a Spanish American War veteran applicant. The article also covers proposed penalties for umpires Guthrie and Holmes following altercations in Tulsa, and a plan to authorize a grievance committee to protect veterans under the Soldier's Preference Law. It notes Iowa leads in Women’s Auxiliary Legion units and cites Minnesota’s rank drop.
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Niéw
W. J. Burbank
Polk County
Kendall
Glenn ©. Haynes
W. G. Ramsay
Executive Council
Voiney Diltz
Paul Hewitt
Harvey T. Ray
J. P. Lorentzen
Ray C. Fountain
Chas. W. Bowers
H. V. Wallace
R. B. Mc Gonologue
Steele Blake
J. R. McManus
Phineas M. Henry
A. H. Hoffman
John B. Pendergast
H. H. Sawyer
F. G. Ryan
Iva Ws Anderson
Des Moines
B. I. Salinger
Burbank
C. C. McCord
Poppy as Legion Flower Denied as Menace
Des Moines secretary of agriculture C. Wallace rejects claims that poppies from France planted here would be destructive. He states the poppy remains the American Legion flower and a harmless symbol.
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C. Wallace
Des Moines
France
American Legion
Pot of Gold Swindle Leads to Prison Term
Chester Illinois Joseph Pellinski aged sixty one from St Louis began an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years at the southern Illinois penitentiary after being convicted at Alton of swindling retired farmer Weert Bauer out of 14000 under a plot to locate a 70000 buried pot of gold via spiritualistic seances led by Pellinskis wife. Also in Bellingham Washington Ida H Smith eighty charged with desertion and nonsupport seeks divorce from W T Smith eighty six.
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Chester
Joseph Pellinski
St. Louis
Southern Illinois
Alton
Weert Bauer
Bauer
Bellingham
Wash
Ida H. Smith
W. TF. Smith
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American: Legion Notes
Denind
William Guthrie
Ducky” Holmes
Tulsa
Iowa Legionaire
Tulsi
Guthrie
Holmes
Tom Haines
Haines
W. L. Eagleton, Jr
Joe Carson
Eagleton
Iowa Legion
Iowa
al. R. Tearney
K. M. Landis
Iowa American Legion Convention
Spirit Lake
Argonne Post
Des Moines Legionaires
Towa
Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion
Minnesota
M. Myrton Shelley
St. Louie Swindler
Vander Linden
James de Wit
A Smits
First St
S. Handler & Son
M. & St. L. Depot
Oskaloosa
Lonfritch
North Market
A. Wielard
Pella
Andrew Ustermarkt
Henrietta From
Reasoner
Wm. van Gorp Sr
U.s.usco Tread
U. S
United States
U.S
Usco Tread
U. S. Nobby Tread
Usco
Nobby
Star Auto Co
Pella Motor Co
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