Pasture Outranks Dry Lot Feeding for Better Gains
The article argues pasture maintains higher meat per acre than dry lot feeding even on tillable land. It notes issues with poor pastures, suggests four year rotation of corn and forage crops, and outlines alfalfa grazing steps plus water and salt access to prevent bloat.
Insect Outbreak Forecast From Government Surveys
Forecasts based on county surveys and state entomologists predict insect outbreaks with favorable weather. Experts like Lee A. Strong cite eggs laid and hibernating insects to assess risk across the Midwest and Plains. The midwest may see a cane plague with central and eastern Dakota, much of Iowa, and eastern Wyoming affected. Mormon cricket eggs loom in northern Nevada, Hessian fly in parts of Kansas Indiana Ohio and eastern Pennsylvania, and squash bug increases in Minnesota and Iowa.
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Department of Agriculture
Lee A. Strong
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Dakotas
Iowa
Wyoming
Nevada
Kansas
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Dried Egg Whites From Waste Now Recovered In Process
Indiana Farmer's Guide notes a new process converts egg-white foam, once a by-product of egg drying, into dried egg white. Foam in a 500 gallon fermenting tank becomes a watery liquid for drying, then used in bakery products, confections, paper sizing, textiles, leather, and varnishes.
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Indiana
Presidents Named Inaugurations by Varying Paths
The text notes Jefferson and Adams elected by the House of Representatives. It mentions Grover Cleveland succeeding Arthur, and Zachary Taylor learning of his nomination later. It states Herbert Hoover as the first president born west of the Mississippi in West Branch, Iowa.
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Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
Grover Cleveland
Chester A. Arthur
Zachary Taylor
United States
Herbert Hoover
Mississippi River
West Branch
Iowa
Easter date rule and global names quiz
The questions cover how Easter is dated, the Western name for Confucius, the Three Estates in pre revolutionary France, who makes laws for DC, the number of lawyers in Congress, and US raw silk imports.
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K’ung Fu Tze
France
District of Columbia
United States Congress
United States
Crochet Medallions Pattern for Home Projects
Crochet medallions offered with instructions for 6% inch and 2 inch sizes to create dinner cloths bedspreads scarfs and doilies. Pattern 1651 includes joins stitches materials and a photo and costs 15 cents plus mailing to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft 82 Eighth Ave New York.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft
Eighth Ave
New York
Aggressive and Well Bred in Debate and Life
A compact reflection on temper and courtesy, arguing that forceful and righteous anger can be as cleansing as lightning. The text muses on reading, observation, and the folly of utopian thinking while questioning whether aggression can coexist with refinement.
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Bacon
First Sunday after full moon following March 21 noted
The fragment cites the first Sunday after the full moon after March 21 as a date reference. Confucius is named alongside social classes of nobles clergy and commons. It also references a 1937 import figure of raw silk totaling 57,815,573 beagh e and value of 106,594,358 dollars.
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Confucius
Fingerprint Forgery Demonstration Baffles Paris Police
In Paris police are baffled by a demonstration showing a method to fake fingerprints. The demonstrator claims a real print is needed from a handshake with the victim, then a glove coated with a plastic substance captures the impression. The print can be transferred to any desired surface.
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Paris
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