Valuable Agricultural News for Cheyenne County Farmers
The spring seed list from the Nebraska Crop Growers' Association is ready for distribution. It includes certified Nebraska 21 oats, a white oats variety outperforming Kherson by about eight bushels per acre in multi year tests. Also listed are other seed varieties with links to Lincoln and North Platte experiment stations showing spring wheat yields near oats and barley despite rust and dry heat.
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Nebraska Crop Growers’ Association
Nebraska
Agricultural College
Lincoln
North Platte Experiment Station
Profitable Spring Crops for Nebraska Farmers
The Bureau of Crop Estimates reports winter wheat acreage in Nebraska is 20 percent below normal, about 600000 acres, boosting interest in spring crops. Corn yields best value among springs, but labor limits acreage. barley edges oats in profit, and ground barley serves well as hog feed. Six rowed bearded barley yields best in Nebraska, with several satisfactory varieties. Early Lincoln tests show Nebraska 21 outyields older types by about ten bushels per acre. Marquis wheat suits eastern Nebraska while western areas favor Durum. Durum prices remain typical for macaroni varieties.
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Bureau of Crop Estimates
Nebraska
Agricultural College
Lincoln
North Platte Station
Mole and mouse damage in lawns and crops noted
Complaints about moles in lawns gardens and truck farms drew attention from the Biological Survey USDA over the past year. Mice often follow mole runways and eat sprouting grain vegetables and bulbs. Moles lift soil into ridges harming grasses and roots. In the west, burrowing mounds from males cover crops and hinder harvest machinery. Control methods have been shared via correspondence material and demonstrations.
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Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Oregon
California
Valuable Trees On Islands Of Borneo And Philippines
Detroit News highlights valuable tropical woods including cama gon with yellow black markings, molave resisting decay, narrah mahogany turning wine color in salt water, laun for masts, dungan the hardest wood, balete fig that strangulates and consumes host trunks, on islands like Borneo Philippines and New Guinea.
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Borneo
Philippines
New Guinea
Detroit News
Grant L Shumway Named Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Scottsbluff Star Herald reports Grant L Shumway of this city is appointed deputy secretary of the state department of agriculture by Governor Bryan. Term begins Wednesday with reductions planned in radio service and marketing statistics bureaus. Salary set at 3500 dollars yearly. Shumway formerly commissioner of public lands and buildings. J W Mayer to continue as chief clerk for now.
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Grant L. Shumway
State Department of Agriculture
Byran
Shumway
Bureau of Marketing and Agricultural Statistics
State House
State Capitol
J. W. Mayer
Leo Stuhr
Scottsbluff - Star-Herald
Wanderer from Handley Farm Survives Harsh Winter Trek
H. W. Augustine, over 70, walked from Handley farm to Dalton, five and a half miles east, after a noon start. He reached town about four, frostbitten ears and face, plus a left foot injury from the severe storm. He says he would not have tried the trip if he had known the storm’s severity.
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H. W. Augustine
Handley Farm
Dalton
Dog Rescues His Master From Savage Boar Attack
W Harrington, a resident near Ravenna, was badly bitten on the arm when a large boar charged him Friday. His dog, belonging to W Harrington, arrived just in time, bit the animal, and forced the boar away. Harrington reached his home and later sought medical care in town, likely left with a crippled arm for some time.
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W. Harrington
Ravenna
Body Found in Snowbank Near Dawson Nebraska
Oscar Graham a 55 year old farmer from near Dawson Nebraska was found dead in a snowbank Tuesday after failing to arrive home Monday night He likely died from heart failure or exhaustion while returning from a visit to Floyd James He is survived by his wife and several children, according to the State Journal.
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Oscar Graham
Dawson
Nebraska
Floyd James
State Journal
Key to Secrets The hard work of thinking and digging for facts
Henry Ford argues that life’s secrets lie in disciplined thinking. Merely possessing ideas is not thinking, and unfocused minds become playgrounds for borrowed thoughts. True thinking requires digging for facts, engaging all faculties, and yields high rewards for effort.
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Lfe
Henry Ford
Fire control on national forests grows through cooperation
The Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture says fire control in national forests improves with cooperation. Man caused fires remain a major hazard and effort focuses on instilling care with fire in users and visitors. In 1921 four thousand four hundred man caused fires occurred, yet the same risk persists as with grade crossing accidents.
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Forest Service
United States Department’ of Agriculture
Farmer Ends Own Life On Loomis Farm
Alfred Anderson, about 40, of a Loomis area farm two miles south and one mile west, shot himself through the heart Friday forenoon. He left home with a rifle earlier in the day and was found in a straw stack where a hole had been eaten out. Survived by his wife and three children, he owned three eighties and other lands and had been unsettled by ill health and worry over seasonal work.
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Alfred Anderson
Loomis
Anderson
Bertrand News
County salaries questioned by county attorney
County Attorney P. E. Romig informed county commissioners that the county attorney was paid 1100 annually when the legal limit for counties of this size is 1000. The sheriff's salary was 1500 plus fees, above the 1200 allowance. New officers filed claims for the correct amounts. excess payments over several years are under review.
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P. E. Romig
Alliance Times-Herald
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
The Long Lived Tree Monument Erected by Iowa Society
The Forticultural Society of Iowa erected a monument to an apple tree and notes the tree has borne fruit for fifty years and remains alive and productive. The piece reflects on trees lasting generations and cites ancient olive trees in North Africa reportedly planted during the Byzantine era, surviving through centuries of rule.
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Forticultural Society of
Iowa
North
Africa
Chicago Journal
Indian Names in Washington Rivers and Creeks
The Washington Star notes that many local rivers and creeks bear Indian names such as Potomac Shenandoah and Rappahannock while nearby creeks include Seneca Occoquan and Nanjemoy. It laments that ancestors did not preserve the Indian names for several streams now known as Rock Creek and Cabin John among others.
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Rock Creek
Sligo Branch
Northwest Branch
Paint Branch
Orion Run
Beaverdam
Cabin John
Piney Branch
Hunting Creek
Four-mile Run
Broad Creek
Difficult Run
Washington Star
Cigarette Cause of Omaha Woman's Fatal Fire
Mrs. Ruby Murray, 33, of Omaha, died when a cigarette she smoked caused her bed to ignite. She fell asleep while smoking, awoke to burning clothing, and died before medical help arrived, according to a State Journal report.
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Ruby Murray
Omaha
State Journal
Nebraskans named to national Legion committees
Three Nebraskans named by Commander Alvin M. Owsl ey to national Legion committees are Parl Cline Lincoln Marcus L Poteet Lincoln and Sam Reynolds Omaha Cline serves on the American Legion Publishing Company board Reynolds to the Life membership committee Poteet has chaired a Nebraska legislative committee General Frank T Hines head of the Veterans Bureau pledges open access to the Legion and outlines plans including the Jones plan to educate veterans through local school visits and literacy efforts that target English language and American history studies Nebraska ranks sixth in Legion membership with Georgia New Mexico Idaho South Dakota and Illinois ahead
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Parl Cline
Lincoln
Nebraska City
American Legion Publishing Company
Cline
Nebraska
Marcus L. Poteet
Sam Reynolds
Omaha
Douglas County
Hfe
Frank T. Hines
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Alvin Owsley
American Legion
Legion
Hines
Owsley
Veterans’ Bureau
Oklahoma
United States
Nebraska American Legion
Georgia
New Mexico
Idaho
South Dakota
Tlinois
Cornhuskers
Legion Targets Literacy in Oklahoma as Illiterates Count 56,804
American Legion members in Oklahoma focus on literacy after a survey with state educators reveals 56,804 illiterates. Campaign aims to reduce illiteracy through coordinated efforts and public outreach across communities.
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Oklahoma
American Legion
Legion Auxiliary to Sell Memorial Day Poppies
By decision of joint committees the poppy will be sold for Memorial Day instead of the daily sale used last year. Mrs. C. E. McGlasson of Lincoln will oversee sale and distribution of the flowers in this state, with the Legion transferring the task entirely to the Auxiliary.
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American Legion and Auxiliary
C. E. McGlasson
Lincoln
The
Legion
Auxiliary
Legion Posts Seek Memorial Day Delay in Baseball
Judge K M Landis has received a request from American Legion posts in Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont asking that Memorial Day morning games be called off to allow for memorial services rather than commercialized sports.
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K. M. Landis
American Legion
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Forest fires burn millions yearly in U S losses
The Forest Service of the U S Department of Agriculture reports a six year average of 7 088 000 acres burned annually in the United States with immediate property losses around 16 424 000 dollars per year.
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United States
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
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