Preventing Farm Fires Saves Millions in Wealth
United States Department of Agriculture warns fires in farms are largely preventable. Advice covers matches, smoking bans in barns, avoiding open flames near fuel, proper gas leak testing, constant supervision of fires, metal containers for oily rags, metal floor coverings, safe building siting, chimney clearance, and household fire responsibility. Farmers' Bulletin on Fire Protection and Fighting on the Farm available upon request from Washington, DC.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Unledgered Income Is Big for Farmers
The farmer maintains two income streams unlike many workers, with cash earnings and an unledgered income in kind for food, fuel, and shelter. These noncash supports provide safety and stability, helping small farms endure bad years and hard times. Farm management experts say this noncash income is vital to farm families.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Thrifty Sows Key to Large Litters Through Proper Feeding
Sows must remain thrifty through good feed and management to ensure uniformly large litters each year. They will largely care for themselves, but cannot thrive on little or nothing and still raise strong litters.
Clean Bedding Helps Keep Eggs Clean in Henhouse
Clean bedding on the floor of the henhouse helps keep eggs clean in the nest. A filthy floor soils nests as hens carry dirt into the nests when laying and soil the eggs.
Reducing Losses in Spinach Shipments with Cold Storage
U.S. Department of Agriculture specialists report that lower temperatures and careful handling cut spinach decay in transit. Tests show iced shipments greatly outperform non iced ones, with crushed ice in barrels or center layers reducing soft rot. washing spinach before shipment increases spoilage.
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Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Austin
Tex
Large profit in spraying potato fields in carbon county
Farm bureau demonstrations in Carbon County Pennsylvania showed spraying costs of 15.60 dollars per acre yielding 252 bushels per acre versus 182 bushels without spraying, a 70 bushel advantage. At 1.50 dollars per bushel, net profit reached 88.25 dollars per acre per USDA figures.
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Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau
Carbon County
United States Department of Agriculture
Cattle Dehorning Dominates Market Today
Market buyers prefer dehorned cattle with heifers also dehorned and equipped for fighting. The trend dominates sales at major livestock terminals, shaping bidder discrimination against horned animals.
Suitable Soil for Alfalfa This Spring
Land that has crimson clover or cow peas grown for years and turned under while green can grow alfalfa after applying manure just before seeding.
Presidents agree on good roads as national priority
The article notes universal presidential support for improved highways as essential to economic growth. It quotes Lowden, Wood, Hoover, McAdoo, Bryan, Palmer, A C L leaders, Johnson, Harding, and Poindexter, all stressing federal road programs, civil defense, and farmed goods transport.
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Ashington
National Good Roads Movement
White House
Uncle Sam
Frank O. Lowden
Leonard Wood
Herbert Hoover
W. G. McAdoo
America
Bryan
A. Mitchell Palmer
California
Hiram Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Miles Poindexter
Overall rig to blast H L called univertising stunt
Report from Paris claims the overall craze is a publicity ploy sparked by a New York reporter. The scheme allegedly earned $10,000 for the idea and boosted the issuing firm’s stock from 48 to 600 in days. Prominent figures and even bankers are depicted wearing overalls as part of the stunt.
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Washington
Paris
Jim” Brady
Gates
Johnny Sorensen
New York
Newark
N. J
Seectady
N. Y
Buffalo
Claridge’s
America
Mr. Sorenson
Sorenson
No Sportsman Verdict in Jockey Club Racing Ban
The piece notes English Belgian and American jockey clubs barring alien enemy horses, with the French club likely to follow. It discusses the impact on German and Austro-Hungarian breeding, the remote US position, and quotes sportmanship ideals while noting Derby winners Ard Patrick and Galtee Moore as costly sires in wartime breeding.
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Merica
Jockey Clubs
Jockey Club
Jockey Club of America
United States
England
Belgium
Germany
Austro-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Ard Patrick
Galtee Moore
House approves plan to cut war insurance red tape
A House committee approved a bill to allow veterans to pay premiums at local post offices if the measure passes. It consolidates offices of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Public Health Service, and Vocational Education into 14 regional hubs, with possible suboffices, and temporary premium relief for hospital patients, vocational trainees, and those temporarily disabled.
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Congress
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Sweet
Town
Treasury Department
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
United States
Bureau of Public Health Service
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Time of Trouble festival signals spring housekeeping
The piece describes a movable spring festival linked to post Lenten customs, noting crocuses green grass and rising sun as signs. It says domestic circles erect the event, reflecting olden days traits, urges men not to grumble, and highlights home folks’ steady presence during the celebration.
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Ohio State Journal
Embryo Politician Sparks Bedtime Constitutional Quarrel
In a humorous Boston Transcript piece, a child named Ray reproaches his mother for enforcing bedtime as if lacking consent of the governed. The exchange frames a playful critique of authority through a playful political lens.
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Little Ray
Raymond
Boston
Husband and Wife Clash Over Tree Metaphor
A husband classifies his wife as a tree species after a quarrel over a fur hat. She weeps to win, then protests when called a tree. He quips a willow fits her, while the dog reacts to the hat as if it were a coon in a tree.
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Hubby
Tattooing Craze Grips London After Armistice
London tattoo artists report a surge of work after the war, with one soldier bearing battle names inked on his arm from 1914 onward. In Thames court a man showed a hairless hand covered in butterflies and stars, reflecting the new fashion.
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London
Thames Court
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