Corner QandA on marriages and manners in Utah letters
Readers seek guidance from Mina Brooks on who Valentino and Compson wed how to entertain teens and the history of Halloween. Answers cover marriages of actors, party etiquette, signatures for women, and lucky days by birth month with examples and tips.
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Campaign Boosts Purebred Sires Enrollment Passes 8000
The Better Lives Better Stock campaign, prepared by the U S Department of Agriculture, reports rapid growth in enlistments as August midpoints show enrollment surpassing eight thousand. Farmers have filed statements indicating ownership of five stock breeds and the utility of purebred sires is growing.
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United Sates Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Pure bred sire use grows in select counties across states
County agent Gordon B. Nance notes Oldham Kentucky with 1086 farms has 10 percent enrolled, showing active livestock improvement. Other counties with 10 percent or more using pure bred sires include Pulaski Virginia 52 percent, Kittitas Washington 18 percent, Greene Ohio 13 percent and Orange Virginia 10 percent. bureau notes these figures include all farms and may underestimate those where stock is the main market product.
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Pulaski County
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Greene County
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Bureau of Animal Industry
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Getting Ewes Through Winter With Adequate Feeding
The Iowa experiment station advises that breeding ewes can survive winter on corn silage and hay but to raise strong lambs and adequate milk, more than a simple ration is needed. If corn silage is high quality with heavy grain yield and clover hay is included, outcomes improve. with limited grain four to six weeks before lambing, a daily add of one half to one pound of a corn and oats mix is recommended alongside silage and hay.
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Animal Husbandry
Iowa
Big Importance of Females in Livestock Herds
Farmers increasingly recognize that good females are as essential as sires. The belief that the sire is half the herd persists, yet mating two flawed animals can amplify defects. Quality females improve any herd and better females yield greater gains.
Fragmented Note on Weaning Pigs and Feed Rules
A fragmented OCR note discusses feeding pigs with grain and attempting to wean at eight weeks. It mentions weighing, adjusting weight targets, and pipe or rule changes, but the text is garbled and lacks clear dates or entities.
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Reading fragmentary OCR text shows garbled phrases with no coherent events, names, or places to anchor a proper news item. The fragment cannot yield a reliable summary or factual headline.
Cold Weather Exchange and Mind Over Matter Idea
A fragment discusses the power of thought to affect perception and weather describes a conversation in an elevator. Two men debate cold whether it is 46 degrees, one claiming it was chilly enough to shiver if he knew a thermometer reading.
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Ingenious Instrument Tests Air Fog Depth
A device for detecting fog depth above Croydon or Abbeville uses a hair tied to a trigger and a ring. Baloon ascent starts the test. when dry air is reached the hair contracts, releases the trigger, and the ring descends, indicating clear weather.
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The Boomerang And A Family Gathering Gaffe
A narrator recalls an embarrassing moment at a large family gathering with many cousins and blended relations. The name Marie is repeatedly mentioned, prompting a witty misnaming exchange about Marie and Marguerite. A separate backyard quarrel recalls a boy threatening to sic his dog, with a sharp retort about inviting trouble.
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Maggie
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Chicago Tribune
Oldtimer quips on succotash fashion and foods of yesteryear
A reader laments that succotash and other old time dishes have fallen out of favor. He recalls historic preparations from New England and reminisces about foods like johnnycake hoecake and apple turnovers while noting regional variations in beans used.
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New York Herald
When the Chaplain Was Ump
A humorous vignette from a magazine recalls a colored troops baseball game where a chaplain umpired. A batter quips that the chaplain is judging balls with his spiritual eye, delivering a gentle, witty note on restraint and wit.
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