Cowpeas Usefulness for Livestock Feed and Soil Health
United States Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin 1953 highlights cowpeas as a versatile crop valued for livestock forage including hay silage and pasture as well as its role as green manure to boost humus and soil nitrogen. It notes seed value, storage needs, and harvesting cautions for optimal hay and seed production.
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United ‘States Department of Agriculture
Asia
Africa
Mediterranean
Europe
Farmers’ Bulletin
United States Department of Agriculture
Bulletin
Progressive Club of Washington Township Forms to Promote Farm Involvement
A Cass County Iowa pig club team won the state fair demonstration and was invited to display at the National Swine Show in Des Moines. The group formed the Progressive Club of Washington Township with officers and a farm and home oriented program. Monthly meetings include songs, yells, games, and farm topics. Members plan pig club enrollment for boys and sewing club for girls with committees to recruit members and demonstrations planned at next year’s state fair. The local rural teacher leads, under county agent supervision, with requests from nearby communities to form similar clubs to engage youth in local problems and keep them in farming.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Cass ‘County
Iowa
Des Moines
Washington, Township
Indiana News Roundup of State Education and Agriculture Developments
The report covers truant officer examinations led by L N Hines with top scorers named H J Kegerreis Mrs Charles F B Whittington Ella Warner Della R McDonald Eva Green Alyse Willow Wansborough Luther Land and Eugene Spitier. It notes a halved wheat yield in Jackson County due to frosts and heat, protests a constitutional amendment on taxation and an income tax measure, and details on farm pests chinch bugs and savings from control efforts. It also mentions auto crash blame speeding, state aid for poor schools, county tax assessments in Hancock, and thousands of Indiana men enrolling in five acre corn growing contests with Purdue.
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L. N._ Hines
Hines
H. J. Kegerreis
Blackford
Charles FB. Whittington
Ella Warner
Montgomery
Della R. McDonald
Dekalb
Eva Green
Noble County
Alyse Willow Wansborough
Porter
Luther Land
St. Joseph County
Eugene c Spitier
Wayne County
Jackson County
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
General Assembly
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Wayne
Harry
Quigg
Greencastle
Brazil
State Department of Public Instruction
Edward A. Cooper
Auditor of State
Hancock County
Purdue’ University
Southern
Indiana
Jennings
Indianapolis
Department of Labor
Kansas ‘City
of. Corp
James Bethel Gresham
Evansville
France
Locust Hill Cemetery
Camp Knox
Fort Benjamin ‘Harrison
State Board of Health
John N. Hurty
Logansport
South Bend
Lafayette
Kokomo
Richmond
Terre Haute
Vincennes
Muncie
Anderson
Columbus
Purdue University
Tippecanoe County
Board of Review
John. W. Donaker
Bartholomew Circuit
City of
Bartholomew County
State ‘Board of’ Tax ‘Commissioners
Margaret
Joseph
Vigo County
Eleven Little Brown Caterpillars Plan Growth Into Butterflies
A mother caterpillar leaves fourteen siblings on a single leaf. Each hatchling dreams of growing bigger and eating more. They discuss their future as Blue Swallowtail Butterflies and the independence awaiting them.
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Eith
Grapevine Looper Threatens Local Vineyards
United States Department of Agriculture observers report the grapevine looper, a green worm about an inch and a half long, damaging vineyards in the Chautauqua belt along Lake Erie. It feeds from June into midsummer and can be killed by spraying a solution of 1% pounds arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of liquid, mixed with Bordeaux mixture to combat fungous disease.
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Virginia
United States Department of Agriculture
Chautauqua
Lake Erie
Orchard Fruit Note Prompts Care For Small Fruits
Brief fragment urges proper placement of small fruits in every orchard for home fruit supply. The readable text implies guidance on fruit management within orchards. No clear names or dates available.
Mrs. Harry A. Wilson Reports Pinkham Remedy Help
A Clearfield Pennsylvania mother describes severe monthly pains fever and fatigue after childbirth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength enabling her to work again and advises others to try it for remedies such as backaches bearing down pains nervousness and melancholy symptoms.
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Clearfield
Lydia
Pinkham
Mrs. Harry
A. Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
Lydia E. Pinkham
P D Q Promises Easy Bed Bug Credit For Five Gallons
Advertises P D Q as a potent bed bug killer claiming a 35e box yields a quart and can kill a million pests and their eggs with liquid fire like action. Claims patent spouts in every package and a devil head mark. Special hospital size priced at $2.50 makes five gallons with three spouts available from Ow Chemical Works Terre Haute Ind.
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Ow! Chemical Works
Terre. Haute
Ind
Senora Pilar Defends Bullfight at New York Dinner
The Spanish painter Sereda defended the bullfight during a dinner in New York. An American visitor to Madrid reportedly left the event in disgust, criticizing the spectacle as a fool animal. He remarked the bull would chase a red cloak for hours in the ring.
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Senora Pilar
Sereda
New York
Madrid
America
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Pib Club
Deans Ness Pena
P. D.Q
King Pin Plug Tobacco
Bétier Baer
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