Tobacco Chewing Listed As Fire Hazard At Factory
At a safety conference researchers showed tobacco juice mixed with spilled bleach and sodium peroxide can ignite. The demonstration highlighted chewing in a factory bleaching room as a serious fire risk.
Week's Supply of Postum Free Offer
Postum Company offers a full week’s supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it Ady.
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Driving ban stops disasters caused by drunk drivers
A concise note argues that preventing intoxicated driving reduces the risk of fatal accidents, stating a drunk driver cannot cause harm if not allowed to drive. It emphasizes responsibility and potential prevention measures.
Keeping Busy Among Men Blends Work With Light Conversation
A crowd of men claim to be attending to business but mainly visit, share humor, and trade stories, delaying real work.
How Pharaoh Was Hoisted By His Own Petard
Helena Yorick explains her deceit as an honest act born of love risking John Spencer’s life. She reveals Dewdrop prompted the blood trail and an entangled plot involving Pharaoh, the warden, and a castle siege, while John contemplates the fallout and their fragile future.
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Improvement of Pasture Is Easy
Prof. D B Johnstone-Wallace of Cornell argues pasture improvement is affordable and simple. Experiments show four blades of grass and two leaves of wild white clover can replace one blade of grass and one leaf of devil's paint-brush. Effective grazing management and soil enrichment with superphosphate lime and occasional potash yield dense pastures at under two dollars per cow annually.
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Pale Butter Demand Shifts Milk Market Eastward
Eastern markets show rising demand for pale or white butter, risking shortages for Midwestern dairy farmers. Carotene colors butter yellow from green pasture. northern producers like Canada and Latvia supply pale butter. Midwestern butter commands higher value due to natural yellow color and nutritional value.
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Water content in grain hay and roughage highlighted
The Rural New Yorker reports grain and roughage often contain about 10 percent water, with lower grade corn around 20 percent. Hay straw fodder average 10 percent water, green roughage and grass about 70 percent, silage over 70 percent moisture, and roots near 80 percent.
Fertilizer Plan For New Bluegrass Pastures
For a new bluegrass pasture a fertilizer with nitrogen and phosphate is advised. Medium or higher fertility soils get 200 lb of 4-12-4 or 4-16-4 or 100 lb of sodium nitrate plus 200 lb of 20 percent superphosphate. Low fertility soils need 400 lb of superphosphate, lime is recommended on very acid soils at 1 ton agricultural limestone or 400 lb fine lime per acre. Do not establish Kentucky bluegrass on poorer soils.
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Missouri
Pasturing Sheep in Orchards and Pasture Management
Rural New Yorker argues pasture systems work with sheep in mature orchards. Graining varies by pasture type. On good mixed or blue grass, ten head per acre sustains ewes until late summer when pasture quality declines.
Heaves diet advice for clover hay and feeding
The Rural New Yorker advises that animals with heaves should have clover hay or bulky foods containing little nutrition entirely omitted. It notes the disease is rare where clover hay is not used and suggests a stall quantity of dry hay, cut and dampened, with water before feeding and not immediately after meals, and not to work a heavy horse right after eating.
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New-Yorker
King Edward Thrashed by Brakeman on Train Tale
A Royal scolding from 20 years ago is revealed about King Edward VIII as a schoolboy. At Torquay a train porter disciplined a car full of Dartmouth naval cadets with a flag stick after a pea shot triggered the incident. One cadet later became a future king.
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Edward VIII
Torquay
England
A. Cooper
Dartmouth Naval Cadete
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