Six Children Under One Roof a Clever Family Tale
A Hill household matriarch speaks proudly of her six children and deftly manages a modest home. She describes bunking the four boys in a dormitory style room with four equal cots amid pale green walls and bright red curtains, calling her homemaking an art.
Stuffed Vegetables and Home Style Living Tips
A collection of quick meals and kitchen ideas includes eggplant pepper and tomato stuffing methods with bread crumbs rice and optional meats. Also featured are tomato and acorn squash bake recipes, plus decor notes on nurseries and a modern living room makeover for a family.
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Adventurers' Club Tells Java Boar Hunt Tale
Kaboel of Java sends a jungle adventure about a week long hunt in 1929 with his father and neighbors. They stalk water holes and boars, fire old rifles, and he escapes a charging boar by swinging around a tree and sleeping aloft all night before returning to camp.
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Ello
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Java
Dutch East Indies
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Kabeel
Racheel
Shipping terms define tonnage and displacement basics
The article explains gross tonnage as cargo space in 100 cubic foot units, net tonnage after deductions for engines and crew areas, and deadweight as cargo weight. It also defines displacement as the weight of water displaced by the vessel, equal to the vessel's weight.
Anise in Parsley Family Described as Fragrant Giant Hyssop
The true anise, a parsley family member native to southern Europe, is a slender two to four foot plant with opposite serrate leaves. Its top branches yield interrupted spikes of small blue flowers and a purplish blue tubular calyx, giving the plant its noted odor.
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Europe
Dairy cows need shade and better rations for summer milk
Extension dairy specialist John A. Arey warns heat and flies reduce milk flow. Pastures run short and low in protein. use lespedeza or sudan grass or feed silage with protein 20 percent. Increase grain as grazing declines. Provide shade and clean water. eliminate fly breeding sites. keep stalls clean and haul manure to fields. use fly traps and sprays.
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John A. Arey
North Carolina State College
Sanitation Key to Preventing Turkey Blackhead Disease
Dr. E N Stout of Colorado State College says sanitation can prevent or check blackhead in turkeys and warns against bogus cures. No drug or vaccine is effective. avoid mixing turkeys with chickens and ditch water that may carry parasite contamination.
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E. N. Stout
State College
Fort Collins
Colo
Stout
Climacteric Apples Defined as Ripening Stage
The Rural New Yorker describes climacteric as the stage when fruit ceases to take nutrients from the tree and cannot repair itself. In this phase fruit consumes oxygen, emits carbon dioxide and heat, loses turgor, and cannot withstand wear. Most fruit is harvested just before climacteric onset.
Age Limits on Pullets Define Growth Stages in Fowl
A Rural New Yorker writer notes no exact size or age cutoffs for fowl categories. In common usage pullets are females under one year, becoming hens after that. For market terms pullets are immature females from 8 to 20 weeks old and weighing about three-quarters to 3½ pounds.
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Bay Leaf
New Yorker
Salted celery trials eyed for Dare County market
Dare County tests on pre salted celery show excellent growth in waste areas near Manteo despite occasional tide coverage. Growers report tide water imparts a palatable salt flavor and several farmers are planting the crop this season based on County Agent C W Overman’s findings.
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Dare County
N. C
C. W. Overman
Manteo
Avian Paralysis in Poultry Studied at Massachusetts State
In studies at Massachusetts State college avian paralysis is believed to be due to cell or filterable virus affecting the nervous system. It has been transmitted through the egg with the transmission mode not yet understood. Birds show resistance and susceptibility. many important points require further study.
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Massachusetts State College
Something Varied Rare in Crochet Pattern 1402
An article offering 10 inch filet crochet companion squares in string work. Describes combining squares to form cloth, spread, or scarf and making smaller squares with finer cotton. Pattern 1402 includes directions charts diagrams and a photograph. send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York Navy with name address and pattern number.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Navy
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