Open Air Markets Stimulate Lincoln Youth Produce Demand
Open air markets in Lincoln Nebraska emerged to market surplus from a boys and girls garden club. The venture boosted weekly produce demand, faced initial resistance from merchants, and now supports poultry and canning efforts led by farm women. The program shows youth leadership in marketing, with girls canning tens of thousands of gallons of apples and boosting local egg and fruit markets, inspiring better methods nationwide.
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Lincoln
Neb
Trade and Chamber of Commerce
Pla
Linecolt
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Colomilo
Bors
Girth
New Jersey
Hoy
Massachusetts
Colony Club
Springfield
Mass
America
Carpet Grass Seeding and Bed Preparation Guide
A guide on establishing carpet grass in pasture land. It covers sowing rates of ten pounds per acre, timing from early spring to late summer, and methods including cutting mature seed, scattering hay, or broadcasting seed with debris. It notes burning or weed control, soil preparation, and references a Farmers' Bulletin offering more details from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Petra
United States Department of Agericulture
Washington, D.C
Cottonseed meal as horse feed guidance
An old note on using cottonseed meal for work horses and cattle warns against sparing use. It suggests a safe amount of about one pound per day for each 1,000 pounds of live weight, and cautions against too small a portion.
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Ford
Alfalfa Growth and Crop Notes for Machines Care
The note advises keeping machinery lubricated adjusted and lean. It suggests sowing a percent crop in wheat or oat stubble and reminds not to forget cowpeas.
Fiche CABINET Teaches Frugal Dishes And Seasonal Feasts
A browsable collection of home cooked recipes and menus lists foods and methods for soups, entrees, and desserts. It includes fish and macaroni dishes, salmon preparation, fried eggplant, croquettes, raspberry charlotte, and Swiss bouillon style servings with oven, radiator, and stovetop methods. Also features a short prose poem about common sense and beauty.
Food and Diet Guidance for Indigestion and Healthy Meals
A vintage dietary piece discusses safe eating, warning against overconfidence in food choices. It advises to toast bread properly, choose eggs milk and custards, avoid fried foods, enjoy fruit juices and certain desserts, and offers old fashioned salad ideas and summer dish preparations.
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Caine
Browning Aluminum to Guard Against Corrosion
A 1910s article notes L von Grotthenes explores electrolytic browning to protect aluminum and its alloys from corrosion. The method aims to coat the metal without weakening it, with tests showing the treated aluminum can be bent or shaped before immersion in a wall solution for two months without visible damage.
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Gays
Journal of Industrial and Engineering
L. von Grotthnes
Children and books and a home for readers
A short piece urges exposing children to good books from an early age, arguing that access to well written works without rigid formality helps cultivate affectionate, active minds and a lifelong love of literature. It cautions against letting poor or overly formal books crowd out quality titles.
Boys and Girls Thrive in North Carolina Poultry Clubs
Two boys Paul and Aleen in Catnwts North Carolina join poultry clubs under the US Department of Agriculture program. They manage 60 standardbred hens of three breeds, sold 785 squabs for 440.21, with feed costs 104.06 and a net profit of 250.27. The article notes poultry clubs’ growth since 1912 and nationwide gains from 1919 with tens of thousands of youth involved and substantial poultry and egg revenue.
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Catnwts Pty
North Carolina
Ir Iust
Wagher
Paul
Aleen
United States
Depo
Collees
Mymouth
Khote Island
Wagner
Punt
New York
Whorled Milkweed Warns Stockmen of Dangers
The United States Department of Agriculture reports whorled milkweed is highly poisonous to cattle horses and sheep in parts of southwestern Colorado southern Wind and northern Arizona and New Mexico. It grows near ditches and abandoned fields. even small quantities can kill sheep or a young steer. Horses rarely eat it but can be poisoned if they ingest it. Containing hay with the plant is risky. eradication is advised by cutting before seed. For more details request a department bulletin from Washington.
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Tattie Department
Tewkory
New York
Spokane
Poultry Clube
United States Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Poultry Club
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Washington, D. C
Better Stock Campaign Aims At Purebred Sires On Florida Farm
On a Florida farm the Better Sites Better Stock movement promotes purebred sire breeding. The record notes 44 sires were purebred among total livestock and highlights a shift toward higher quality animals as the campaign goal.
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Florida
Poultry Notes on Ration and Chicks Health
A readable poultry note discusses balanced rations reducing leg weakness in fast growing chicks. It mentions careful handling of maturing pullets and digestive disturbance remedies like buttermilk or sour milk. It notes white egg production favors Mediterranean egg breeds.
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Hove
Elu
Gic
Neo
Tule
Fiche
God
Epart
Watt
Ida Bott Taylor
Nerece Mag Were
Children and Books
Impor
Poultry Notes
FT eTicas
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