Poultry Profits through Breeding and Selection
The Leader continues its Poultry Profits series stressing breeding as the key to higher egg and meat yield. It outlines hereditary, variation, prepotency, and atavism laws, favors culling and selective mating, warns against overreliance on roosters, and explains trapnest and correlation methods for choosing top layers. It urges starting with good stock and keeping records to boost yearly returns.
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Leader
Leitch
United States Department of Agriculture
Nike
Java
Oregon Agricultural College
Married women teachers spark parish debate in 1931 letters
Ben R. Jameson voices fierce support for removing married women teachers from Lincoln Parish schools and urges boards to favor unmarried candidates, praising old fashioned male roles and denouncing working wives. The note follows a dry era arrest report of the schooner Norman off Salisbury with a large liquor cargo.
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Choudrant
Ruston Leader
Ruston
Lincoln Parish
R. B. Knott
Lincoln
Tech
Knot
Ben R. Jameson
Recommendations for Lincoln Parish cotton plan 1931
The Soils and Crops Committee outlines a cotton plan to raise lint yield to 250 pounds per acre, restrict acreage to allow food and feed crops, and adopt longer staple varieties. It advocates terracing, firm seedbeds, 30 to 40 pound seed per acre, 200 to 500 pounds of 6-10-4 fertilizer, and regular shallow cultivation.
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Lincoln Parish
Dixie Triumph
Delta Pine Land
Stoneville
Stotreville No. 2
Lincoln Parish farmer at home in Lincoln Parish
A biographical sketch of W. W. Brewster of Ruston Louisiana born in D Arbonne area, detailing his family lineage since 1846, his 57 acre farm east of Ruston, terrace farming philosophy, and his view on farm prices versus industrial output. It notes his seven children and farm operations with two years in fifty three lacking feed.
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Victor Hugo
Wash
Lincoln Parish
W. W. Brewster
William Brewster
Elizabeth Feazel
D’arbonne
Union Parish
Wiliam Brewster
Lounds County
Alabama
Farmerville
J. M. Brewster
Hico
Laura Solomon
Pine Grove
Webster Parish
W. A. Brewster
Greenville
H. C. Brewster
Ruston
J. G. Brewster
H. B. Brewster
Shreveport
H. #. Brewster
New Orleans
T. E. Raley Ruston
Brewster
Louisiana
Brewsters
W W. Brewster
Colvin Family Thanks For Kindness After Loss
MRS. C. C. COLVIN and relatives express gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy and rural offerings during illness and death of husband and father M. Colvin and family members. Also note: Lindbergh granted permission to fly over Russia and Siberia during aerial tour.
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C. C. Colvin
W. J. Colvin
Lindbergh
Russia
Siberia
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Amos W. W. Woodcock
Salisbury
Coast Guard
Norman
Nanticoke
Soils and Crops Committee
D. A. Colvin
W. F. Rodgers
R. H. Trussell
H. J. Liner
Yo. McCrory A. FL Hood J, Ee Hester J. C. Dowling
T. L. Wanelhi
R. L. Wasson
Wermest
Messrs
Post
Gatly
Wilbur Caden
Voliva
Cutty
Incoln Parish
H. L. McKnight
Carl
Ety
Er Co DE Generes Texas & Jordan
BROS
North Louisiana Dairy Products Company, Inc
Fermier's Service Institution
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