Feeding Methods Improve U S Livestock Care
The United States Department of Agriculture announces a nationwide service to spread up to date feeding methods to every livestock feeder with state college and county extension support. A feeding problem sheet will guide farmers to concise information for diagnosis and timely replies from department specialists.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Department
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Alfalfa Cutting Timing Impacts Yield and Health
Nebraska station reports hay yield favors full bloom cuts with more hay but lower palatability. Early mowing reduces longevity. late fall cuts risk winter kill. Avoid row planting and cultivation for hay to save moisture and crown health.
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Nebraska
Durability of Leather Can Be Much Increased
Specialists in the bureau of chemistry United States Department of Agriculture have learned that the durability of machine belts driving belts harness and other leather articles used by the farmer can be greatly increased after a judicious selection in the first place by giving them the care that will strengthen and preserve them.
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Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
Pasture mix for sheep calves and colts uses rape base
A summer pasture blend uses rape as the base with three pounds of rape, one bushel of oats, half a bushel of one or two other small grains, and ten to twenty pounds of sorghum. Sudan grass can replace sorghum for similar results.
National Legion archives advance biographical data on World War members
The American Legion national historian’s office in Indianapolis has completed biographical data for Legion members, with Harvey G. Thomas directing a mass of information on about 8,000 members across 11,000 posts. Questionnaires are out, post histories are being gathered, and full department histories will join the biographical records for a forthcoming Legion history publication. Thomas began service in May 1917, earning a captain’s rank after serving in the Fifty eighth Infantry and the Four division, including the Aisne-Marne campaign. He was wounded at Fismes and returned home on Armistice Day, retiring in 1920.
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National Historical Archives
National Historian of the
American Legion
Legion
Indianapolis
Ehen FE Putnam
Wellesley Farms
Mass
Harvey G. Thomas
Monticello
Ind
Thomas
Aisne- Marne
Fismes
United States
Keeping Eggs for Hatching
Eggs should not be kept for hatching longer than necessary. They may be held up to two weeks at correct temperatures if turned several times during that period.
Increase value of potatoes by copper sprays in agriculture
A US Department of Agriculture bulletin reports that Bordeaux and other copper sprays raise potato yields and improve tuber composition. Field trials across seven states show an average yield increase of 32.4 percent. Copper sprays also boost starch and nitrogen in tubers, enhancing food and industrial value. Free bulletin copies available on request.
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United States Department of Agriculture
F. C. Cook
Bureau of Chemistry
Bordeaux
Virginia
Maine
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
United States
Flowers on Nurses' Graves Honor WWI Heroes in France
Eleven American nurses buried in Suresnes cemetery in France were honored in a ceremony led by Maj. Julia C. Stimson. The service, attended by American residents in France, paid tribute at the American cemetery housing about 1500 U.S. World War dead, with officials from the American Legion and U.S. government present.
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Suresnes
France
United States
Maj
Julia C. Stimson
American Pursing Service
Jane A. Delano
American Legion
Washington, D. C
Stimson
Col
Francis A. Drake
Paris
Continental Europe
Ellott Wadsworth
Treasury
T. Bentley Mott
Ruhr Riots Leave Dozens Dead and Wounded
In Bochum and surrounding areas for thirty six hours fighting between Communists and Syndicalists leaves ten dead and ninety wounded. A police convoy near Dortmund attacked with grenades. two killed and twenty wounded in Herne. Mines and metal works idled. nationwide walkouts spread from Bochum to Remscheid and beyond.
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Dusseldorf
Bochum
Fire Brigade
Dortmund
Herne
Ruhr
Remscheid
Hamm
Mulheim
Krupp
Essen
Lunen
Blue Police
From Houston to Detroit Army Plane Sets Record
Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker of Kelly field Texas piloted a De Haviland craft from Ellington field Houston to Selfridge field Michigan without a stop, covering 1400 miles in 11 hours 54 minutes, marking a daylight record.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Gulf of Mexico
Canada
Harrison G. Crocker
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
de Haviland
Ellington Field
Houston
Selfridge Field
Here
Seven Die In Triple Detroit Automobile Crash
Seven persons were killed and several injured in a three-vehicle crash eight miles north of Detroit. An interurban car from Pontiac to Detroit struck a blue touring car in Hecho City as dusk fell on Sunday evening. The dead include four young women and three young men.
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Detroit
Mich
Pontiac
Hecho City
Seaman Wins 40000 Verdict Against Emergency Fleet
Johnny Murphy an ordinary seaman won a $40,000 verdict against the Emergency Fleet corporation after proving his flat feet would prevent him from working as a seaman due to an injury aboard a Shipping Board vessel in Washington on May 28.
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Emergency Fleet
Washington
Johnny Murphy
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board
Bandits Kidnap Postmaster for $45,000 Payroll
Bandits kidnap Postmaster G. A. Roberts and a postal clerk in Staunton Illinois, drive them twenty miles, and escape with a main pouch containing the $45,000 payroll of the Mount Olive and Staunton coal mines.
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Staunton, Ill
G. A. Roberts
Mount Olive
Staunton
Fire at St. Agatha consumes consumptive resort
A blaze swept St. Agatha in the Laurentians destroying seventy residences and causing $250000 in damage. Four hundred people were left homeless but no lives were lost as Montreal reports the incident on May 28.
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Montreal
Que
St. Agatha
Laurentian Mountains
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Praised By Jamestown Woman
Mrs Alice D Davis of Jamestown New York reports nervousness backache and general weakness with improved health after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash She says she now runs a rooming house and recommends the medicine to others as a helpful remedy for such troubles.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E
Alice D. Davis
Second St
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Harvey C. Thomas
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Woman
Bellans
Lathrop
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