Model Pennsylvania dairy farm shows provide manure driven fertility
A southeastern Pennsylvania model farm of fifteen acres owned by a gospel minister uses stable manure from thirty stalls to maintain high fertility. Cows are predominantly registered jerseys fed balanced rations with silage and dry hay. milk sells at 25 cents a gallon to a state institute. The system relies on gutters, ash absorption, disinfected barns, and meticulous manure handling to sustain a profitable dairy without city manure or heavy fertilization.
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Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
Denmark
Quincy
Stewart
Big Editorial Office Shapes Agricultural Publications
The Department of Agriculture runs a large Publications Division editing four bulletins or books daily. About 463 new publications passed through editors yearly, nearly 400 from the Weather Bureau. Farmers favor the concise Year Books and Farmers Bulletins, with over 6,000,000 copies in circulation.
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Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
George William Hill
Mr. Hill
Publication Division leaders noted for agricultural works
George William Hill, Chief of the Publication Division, and Joseph A. Arnold, assistant chief and editor, are highlighted for their roles in editing, publishing, and distributing the department's agricultural publications, a task described as enormous and significant.
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George William Hill
Department of Agriculture
Joseph A. Arnold
King Alfonso’s Paris Hat Purchase Amuses Shopgirls
An anecdote recalls King Alfonso strolling Rue de la Paix during a Paris visit. Three men entered a hat shop as attendants watched the king, and he asked for three hats to be sent to his hotel. The shopkeeper and staff were enchanted by the royal encounter and the king’s modest, courteous conduct.
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Alfonso
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Demoiselles de Magasin
Wait
King Alfonso
Bread pill the most important remedy in medicine
A medical essay argues the bread pill or placebo is the most vital remedy, noting its harmless nature though often merely sugar. It cites its widespread use by physicians and a patient who believes illness prompts this treatment.
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Guy Elliott Mitchell
Tiey
Jioseph
A. Arnold
King Alfonso’s
Dept
Boston
Mass
Bezonia
Japan
Iity
Woodlawn Nursery
Gish
Henderson
New York
Peter Henderson
W. AL Crane Company
Acess
New York, N.Y
H. D. Hemenway
Hartford School of Horticulture
Doubleday, Page & Co
America
Hartford
Connecticut
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