Favorable Weather and Rich Land Bring Prospects for Western Canada Farms
The article notes rising crop prospects in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with wheat heads heavy and yields rising toward a record 1915. It reports widespread good growing weather since seeding, early harvests, and a shift toward mixed farming including corn sunflowers alfalfa and silos. A lumber campaign promotes 2000 silos as farmers invest in infrastructure.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Red River
Rocky Mountains
Peace River
Western
Prairie
Prairie Lumberman
Vancouver
West
Radium Safety Precautions Urged by French Medical Authority
Dr Belcherce of the French Academy of Medicine prescribes strict protection for radium workers. Gloves lined with lead, spectacles with lead salt, pincers for handling salts, and a lead-lined table are advised. He is developing a lead heart and lung protector and recommends wrapping in thin lead sheets.
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Belcherce
French Academy of Medicine
Jud Lunkins Quips On Nature And Fish Scales
Jud Lunkins quips that nature gives a fish enough scales to resemble a bathing suit more than some humans wear, a humorous take on modesty and the animal world.
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Jud Lunkins
Missouri Landlady Confronts Occupant Over Hair Mattress
A red headed landlady quibbles with a tenant about a supposed single hair mattress. The foil of the exchange shows the landlady insisting the mattress be examined in her room. The quarrel captures a humorous domestic dispute from Missouri.
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Missouri
Knows a Lot.
A brief interview anecdote where a parent notes their son returning from college and remarks on the lessons learned, implying the son has gained more knowledge than his parents over a lifetime. The exchange is light and humorous, highlighting family dynamics and pride.
Desirable poultry flavor and feeding effects
USDA guidance explains how flavor texture and fat distribution affect table poultry. Age exercise and caponizing alter flavor and muscle fibers, with young birds best for frying and older birds tastier for stewing but less delicate. Special feeds like mash with milk or celery and chestnuts can enhance flavor while avoid onions and wild garlic to prevent off tastes.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Milk goats yield and uses for dairy products
Milk goats can produce two quarts daily, with three quarts considered excellent if lactation lasts seven to ten months. Goats milk serves in drinking and cooking but is less good for butter. cheese production is common, especially in Europe. Infant and invalid nutrition is a key cited use.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Europe
Growers and Shippers Urged to Reduce Potato Losses
Bureau of Markets specialists warn that most potato losses come from field conditions and careless handling from harvest to shipment. Damage to the skin invites infection and forces more trimming, harming appearance and value. responsible practices could largely prevent these losses.
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Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Coal and Wood Ashes as Fertilizer Guideline
Coal ashes offer little fertilizer value and mainly loosen soil. best on heavy clay after screening and even mixing with soil. Wood ashes have fertilizing value but must be applied before leaching.
Secure Best Harvest Help
Advice urges advance planning for harvest staffing as travelers move northward seeking work. Local help is preferred to roving workers to avoid delays and higher rates, ensuring crops are harvested before spoilage.
Harness Selection for Safe Team Work
The guide stresses choosing a well made harness with heavy strong reins breeching holdback straps tugs traces belly bands and yoke straps. Strong gear is essential to control a run away team and handle heavy work.
Failure of Swine to Mate and Its Causes
A USDA viewed guide explains swine mating failures linked to disease, injury, poor vitality, or improper feed and waste elimination. It recommends diagnosis, treatment, or removing unresponsive animals, with diet and exercise adjustments to restore reproductive function and avoid inbreeding risks.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Jones Bet Over Dinner Wager Ends With Judge
A brief courtroom exchange centers on a bet between Jones and another party about who pays for a dinner for three. The judge weighs the terms and notes the likelihood that Jones will not honor a bet in the past.
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Jones
Do You Think a Practical Politician Can Love Country
Senator Sorghum argues that a practical politician must place patriotic duty above personal gain. He defines practicality as winning elections, and says voters tolerate only officials who love their country.
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Sorghum
Old Joe Carter Seeks Cure for Rheumatism
In a Mobile letter, Joe Carter hails a rumored cure and presses his sister for details. He recalls being struck by lightning last summer and doubts electricity as a remedy, recalling his skeptical reaction to the claim.
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Joe
Old Joe Carter
Mobile
Old Joe
Mary
Philadelphia Ledger
Beneath Him
A brief quotation from the Boston Transcript contrasts an indifferent man with the idea of opportunity knocking, suggesting that the man leaves duties to servants and never answers when chances arise.
Silence as reply to calumny noted by Addison
A reflective aphorism on how silence can blunt defamation when no provocation is given. The quote credits Samuel Johnson? No, it attributes the idea to Addison. It emphasizes restraint and composure as a strategic response to insults.
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Daily
Addison
Housewife smiles at basket of White Clothes
A housewife thanks Red Cross Ball Blue as she admires a basket of clear white clothes. The note mentions groceries priced at 5 cents.
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Red Cross
Village earns its second name Plum Sock it
A Kentucky representative recalls a village that long bore two names and gained the popular one from a stranded traveler who asked for Orangeburg. The barefoot local boy answered with plain wit, saying the traveler was “plum sock in it,” and the name Plum Sock stuck.
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Kentucky
Orangeburg
Bigon Teaches Maurice in Ora's First Year at School
An aunt asks Maurice to recite the alphabet but he admits he cannot. He admires his brother Ora, nicknamed Bigon, who can correctly say the letters in a distinctive way that Maurice imitates.
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Ora
Maurice
Bigon
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