Agriculture Secretary Houston to Address Iowa Bankers
Secretary David F. Houston will speak to the Iowa State Bankers Association at Dubuque on June 20. The Department warns hunters not to shoot pigeons in flight as homing birds may be Army Signal Corps messengers, risking loss to farmers who release birds for short liberty periods.
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Houston
Iowa
David F. Houston
Iowa State Bankers’ Association
Dubuque
Department of Agriculture
Signal Corps
United States Army
Raises More Pork and Helps Red Cross Too
A Red Cross Pig Club in Carroll County Mississippi will ship 3,000 hogs to the St. Louis market on September to raise funds for the Red Cross. The club started last winter under county agent O P Turner to unite pork production with Red Cross work. Membership swelled from 2,500 to 3,000 in a county of 1,600 voters. Most local professionals and merchants joined. Monthly weigh ins award a $25 registered pig to the member whose pig gains the most. Five hundred negroes are members.
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Red Cross Pig Club
United States
St. Louis
Carroll County
Mississippi
Red Cross
O .P. Turner
Clearing Houses for Motor Truck Route Information Opens
The Bureau of Markets will open information offices in Buffalo New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania to help producers and truck owners establish regular motor truck routes for farm produce. The aim is to reduce idle trucks during peak crop movement by coordinating routes in producing sections.
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Bureau of Markets
Buffalo
N. Y
Philadelphia
City People Sign Pledges for Farm Work
Nine hundred experienced men were placed in regular farm work in one month this spring in Ohio, largely through farm help specialists of the US Department of Agriculture. Pledges are being secured in towns and cities from men with farm experience to devote days or weeks to harvest work this coming season if needed. In Kansas, pledges from 50,000 city residents cover two to fifteen days this summer. Similar actions are reported in Indiana, Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Kentucky, with campaigns in progress or planned in every state.
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Ohio
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Indiana
Ilinois
North Dakota
South Dakota
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Kentucky
Foreign women volunteer for summer canning demonstrations
Many women from diverse national backgrounds trained in food conservation by U S Department of Agriculture and state colleges join a canning outreach. A Massachusetts class included Finns Lithuanians Poles French Swedes Italians and Armenians who all understand English and will spend summer demonstrating and helping speakers of their languages with canning work.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural Colleges
Massachusetts
Hemp supply problems prompt US production push
U S Department of Agriculture officials urge increased hemp cultivation in the United States due to supply cutoffs from Russia difficulties in obtaining hemp from Italy and jute from India. Kentucky hemp acreage falls from 18 000 to under 8 000 while Wisconsin rises to 8 000 as seed shortages loom. A Liberty Food Club program invites youths in 33 states to pledge to food production and conservation to aid the war effort. Homing pigeons are being pressed into service by the Signal Corps as war message carriers.
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Russia
Italy
India
United States
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Kentucky River
Missouri
Liberty Food Club
State Agricultural Colleges
Signal Corps
Army pigeon carriers urge breed focus for war use
The Signal Corps pigeon section buys mature birds with good pedigree, breeds and trains youngsters to preserve homing instincts. Trained young pigeons are best for battlefield communication. War Department seeks homing pigeons through cantonment chiefs. Soldiers in trenches and submarine chasers contribute. readers urged to buy War Savings Stamps to capacity.
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Qur
Patriotism and Sacrifice in War Time Appeal
A wartime home front notice urges citizens to support the effort through purchases of necessities and War Savings Stamps. It contrasts family affection with national loyalty and reminds readers that soldiers in the Army and Navy forego luxuries, urging public support for the war economy.
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Scott
Scott & Bowiz Bloompield
N. J
Harper Furniture and
Sidney, Nebr
C. E. Harper
THE
Genco Light
Chas. Kilroy
Sidney, Nebraska
Swift & Company
U.S. A
War Department
Cicero
Paramount Toys
McDougall
W. H. Weeden
Osborn Bldg
National War Savings
National War Savings Committee
Anderson Grocery
Court House
Sidney
Nebraska
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