Questions for the Teachers December Agriculture Review
Prepared under the state school commissioner this December. The questions cover elementary agriculture topics including domesticated animals by Native Americans, Carver’s development stages, England and France contributions, nitrogen sources for fertilizers, plant wilting after transplant, crop rotation rationale and a three year plan, seed corn selection and winter care, state corn growing contest winners and prizes, third division agriculture work, and a penmanship quotation exercise.
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North America
Carver
England
France
Educational test questions from early 20th century curriculum
A long list of exam prompts covering Theory and Practice in education, geography, and grammar. It asks about Milton and Bacon on great questions, county institutes funding and enumeration of school youth, schoolhouse conditions and improvements, a recitation program for an eight grade school, views on corporal punishment, and membership in O T R C. Geography queries include formation of salt lakes, Appalachian ranges, coal states, U S forest regions, English cities, Balkan states, Turkey borders, Ohio area and Cleveland population, and Ohio county locations. Grammar tasks request parts of speech, analysis, ayntheals, shall versus will, verb tenses, and etymology of verbs.
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Graves
Milton
Francis Bacon
United States
Appalachian Mountains
Mingland
England
Balkan States
Turkey
Europe
Ohio
Cleveland
Columbus
Youngstown
Steubenville
Newark
Lima
Dayton
Springfield
Toledo
Study and Review Sheet on Language and Science Topics
A long list of questions covers copulative verbs and their uses, participles, abbreviations, synonyms and antonyms, phonetics, orthography, and sound patterns. It also asks about Congress districts, charters, school bonds, constitutional amendments, electoral votes, and the chief justice, plus geometry, rhetoric, physiology, physics, botany, and plant life.
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Congress
United States
The
Supreme Court
Beath's Herefords Prove Profit in Market Ready Cattle
Frank B. Beath of Corning Iowa breeds and grows his own Hereford calves. For five years he fed home grown stock, using silage and corn meal, to produce market ready cattle averaging over $50 per head. The system minimizes risk, uses pasture well, reduces marketing costs, and complements hogs on the farm.
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Wisconsin Agriculturist
Frank B. Beath
Corning
Iowa
Rex Beresford
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
Mr. Beath
Beath
Wisconsin
Blue Grass Pasture Breeding Herd Operations Detailed
The excerpt describes an eighty acre blue grass pasture used to maintain a breeding herd during grazing season. Calves are born April to June and, after weaning in October, are fed grain in summer while remaining with mothers on pasture. The herd yields about a 90 percent calf crop over five years and relies on coarse farm feed to produce beef and manure.
Excellent Feed for All Poultry
An article by M Bernard argues poultry needs animal food for maturity and egg laying. It compares beef scraps bone meal and milk as animal feeds, noting milk provides all essential elements in a more digestible form with fewer digestive issues. It urges farmers to feed chickens all the milk available.
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M. Bernard
Dairy Exhibit Showcases Josephine's Record at Fair
At the Missouri College of Agriculture state fair dairy department an exhibit highlights the daughter of Josephine surpassing her mother's record at the same age.
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Dairy Department
Missouri College of Agriculture
The Reason and Kidder Exchange Quip in Witty Exchange
Dialogue features Katherine and Kidder sparring over honesty and nasal speech in a light moment. A grocer advertises fresh bag buckwheat from Mrs. Austin. An advice line suggests liquor to treat a patient with a quip about water on the brain.
Defining It Slang Exchange Echoes Chicken English
A dialogue notes that the current young female slang resembles pigeon English, while another character counters that it is chicken English, highlighting language labeling and humor. This exchange centers on slang classification without broader context.
Up and Doing in Rural Insight
A New Yorker staying on a New England farm proves city folks are not ignorant of rural life. The farmer greets the early caller with a joke about hearing the haycock crow while the border replies he was tying a knot in a cord of wood.
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New England
Roosevelts Return Story Sparks Salary Debate
City editor praises Billy Pennington for a remarkableRoosevelt return piece while the managing editor considers a raise. The discussion hints at editorial pride and internal critique in a bustling newsroom.
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Roosevelt
Outlook
Billy Pennington
Pennington
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Samuel Therme
Sida
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New York
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Katherine
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Foley's Cos
M, Sabel & Bons
Louisville
Deslersin Furs
Monarch
Monarch Mills
Sprout, Waldron & Co
Muncy
Canada
Western
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Government
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Ottawa
Carter
Fee
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Cincinnati
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