Mississippi City Transforms Under Industrial Boom
In Jackson Mississippi a shift from farming to factories accelerates as natural gas wells, cottonseed oil plants, and bentonite processing bloom. The metropolis grows from 22,817 in 1920 to near 60,000 by 1937, with rail and road networks spurring new industries and products from bottles to soap.
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Salvation Army
Jackson
Los Angeles
Louisiana
Florida
Mississines
Mobile
New ‘Orleans
Memphis
Capitol
Kent
Lawrence Tibbett
Guy Lombardo
Young Birds Need Growing Quarters for Pullets
Dr. W C Thompson advises ample space for growing pullets to prevent crowding and disease. Recommend dividing into colonies of 60 pullets each, with separate shelters, water, and feed. Five units per acre on green ranges support about 300 pullets, reducing overcrowding as birds grow.
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W. C. Thompson
Butgera University
WNU
Dip for Sheep Scab Is Cure for the Disease
Wallaces' Farmer states that sheep scab can be cleared by dipping in lime and sulfur coal tar disinfectant or nicotine sulphate at the container’s recommended strength. Best results occur at 105 to 110 degrees with two minutes in the vat and a second dip 10 to 12 days later, followed by shedding cleanup and a 30 day standstill before turning the sheep to new ground for months.
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Wallaces
Grain Feed for Chicks After First Week
After eight or ten days chicks should receive grain feed two to three times daily in mash hoppers and on top of mash to reduce droppings ingestion. Provide enough hopper space for all birds to eat at once. supplement with one percent cod liver oil if confined, optional with range and sunlight.
Exercise for Cows Boosts Butterfat in Tests
C. W. Turner of the Missouri station reports that in 20 trials, 18 showed higher butterfat when cows exercised three miles daily, with two showing no change. rest periods reduced fat. Further tests noted increased feed intake during exercise while milk yield held steady and fat percentage rose versus rest.
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C.W. Turner
Missouri Station
White Plymouth Rock compared with Barred Plymouth Rock
A Wisconsin Agriculturist writer says the White Plymouth Rock ranks second in popularity among this breed. The two varieties share all traits except color with White Plymouth Rock tending to be larger and more uniform and slightly better in type than Barred Plymouth Rock.
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Wisconsin Agriculturist
Grandmother's Crazy Patch Quilt From a Bygone Farm Fair
Ruth Wyeth Spears recounts a New York farm fair where a beloved silk crazy patch quilt wins admiration yet is kept as a cash prize secret. The article includes instructions to make crazy patch quilts with dozens of stitches and offers leaflets or books for purchase via mail order from Mrs. Spears in Chicago.
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New York
Leafjet
Spears
S. Desplaines St
Chicago
Loveliness in Crochet Cloth Pattern 6084
A 58 inch crochet cloth designed for quick work using two strands and a large hook. Includes three smaller sizes with the smallest at 26 inches, full instructions, illustrations, stitch details, and photo. Send 15 cents in stamps to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. 259 W Fourteenth St New York NY to receive pattern 6084 with your name and address.
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Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Quiz With Answers on Diverse Topics
A quiz page covers topics from literature and science to history. It asks about the quick and the dead the lightest substance free verse congressional representation the first opera and radio wave speeds, plus the national secrets act and a pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by wagon car and air. It also asks how many cables run across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Oregon Trail
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Quick living and the dead and other trivia items
The list covers origins of the word quick from Anglo Saxon, hydrogen as the element, a poem about rhythm, apportionment implying about 280 674 people per congress member, Eurydice first opera in 1600, radio waves at light speed, Public No 418 limiting military site photographs, Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail journeys, and counts of transatlantic and Pacific cables per the FCC.
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Congress
Florence
Ezra Meeker
Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Ohio
Oregon Trail
Federal Communications Commission
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Pacific
Reserve a Phase of Modesty in Identification
A reflective observation notes that some dislike thumb printing and being identified. It argues quotation can bolster opinion, artistic temperament trusts its own logic, and civilized people cling to white bedsheets despite facts.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU ‘Service
Intrial
Natchez
Ante-Bellum
Delta
Axene
Ouer State
Jckson
Snce
China
Mississippi Composition Board
Orgo
London
Australia
Argentina
Mississippi
Italy
Japan
Smith County
Jackson Best
Arkansas
Chile
Missouri
Colorado
Montana
Canada
White
Plymouth Rock
By Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bane
Marevel Specialties
Box
Baltimore, Md
Los
Wendt, Gunton
Photography
Starfoto
Des Moines
Ely
C. Houston Goudise
C. Houston Goudiss
East 39Th 4
New York City
H. Deans
Phil
Webster
Aempoun
Pinkham
Sneying Harton
Piikham
Byron
Ceats
Ted Etter
Gealera
Harold Bowere Fa
Rafath Ave Somers
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