Exemption Board Finds No Ground for Demonstration
First district appeal board in Omaha says Scottsbluff county exemption claims cited no unfair basis. Citizens of Gering demonstrated by hanging in effigy three exempted men Henry W. Horn Raymond Neeley and William Bryan Sands. Local board decisions were reversed and affidavits show dependents and business needs cited for exemptions.
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First District Appeal Board
Scottsbluff County
Gering
Henry W. Horn
Raymond Neeley
A. B. Wood
The
Gering, Courier
William Bryan Sands
Horn
Neeley
Appeal Board
Sands
Nebraska teachers urged to collect food conservation cards
Omaha reports Food Administrator Wattles aims to mobilize twenty thousand teachers during October 21 to 28 to distribute and collect conservation cards. He believes teachers will cooperate and that every school child who takes a card to a family will obtain a signature.
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Omaha
Wattles
Nebraska
Lumber Yard Sold to Join Army Soldier in Dunbar
The Scarborough Lumber Co of Dunbar changes hands to A Weller. The sale prompted by Walter Scarborough, a Dunbar soldier in Company B Fifth Regiment, Deming NM, who chose service over exemption, selling his $25,000 lumber yard to serve as a private. His father had built the business for him.
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Army
Dunbar
Scarborough Lumber Co
A. Weller
Deming
XN. M
Fifth Regiment
Walter 8. Sarborough
Eating Cornstalks Kills Cattle Near Deshler
Deshler resident J Holtzen reports seven prized cows died after grazing on infected cornstalks. Two more may die. A nearby farmer also lost three cattle to the same cause.
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Deshler
J. Holtzen
Here
Many Books for Sammies Campaign Aids Soldiers
Nebraskans have donated 5 000 books shipped to Kansas City for American soldiers in training camps and in France. Kansas City serves as a redistribution station for the American war council, with books to be forwarded to other states and the campaign continuing for several weeks.
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Lincoln
Kansas City
France
American War’ Council
Future farmer as educated chemist and botanist
The future farmer will be the best educated man in America. He will be a chemist and botanist, using science to improve foods and crops, resist disease and frost, and increase yield without adding land.
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America
Plan to Kill Grasshoppers Uses Old Device
An annual pest plan describes a device first used during the 1874 to 1876 migratory grasshopper years. It uses shallow sheet iron pans with oil or tar, mounted on wheels or runners, and a rear screen to catch hoppers as it is pulled forward.
Cottonseed Meal Inferior Despite High Price
Chemists at the Ohio experiment station conclude cottonseed meal is generally inferior in quality this year. Fine grinding and adulteration with lower value seeds raise the low-grade product. Hulls mixed with meal reduce feeding value and protein guarantees failed in several samples and carloads.
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Ohio
Ohioaho Board of Agriculture
Deep stirring improves organic soils and subsoil mix
When soils hold high organic matter deep stirring remains beneficial. A portion of subsoil should reach the surface or workable layer. In sandy soils this can dilute rich surface soil with nutritionally poor sand.
Silage Ration Favored By Economy and Convenience
Economy and convenience drive more silos this season to can the corn crop. An Ohio experimental station test shows dairy cows on silage yield 17 percent more milk and 28 percent more fat than grain fed cows, with butter fat at 18 cents a pound versus 22 for grain.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Fertile soil improves alfalfa yields with proper manuring
University of Missouri findings show lime acts as a soil sweetener while barnyard manure and phosphates are true fertilizers. For thin lands three to four acres, apply up to ten to twelve tons of manure per acre and about four hundred pounds of acid phosphate, ensuring drainage, inoculation, and good seed for a lasting stand.
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University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Prevent Injury by Insects
F Washburn explains the striped cucumber beetle and squash bug differ in treatment. Suggests dusting with lime or flour, using stacked lime, hand-picking bugs and eggs, destroying vines after harvest, and covering plants with a frame to deter pests.
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F. Ln Washburn
Weede Take Moisture and Soil Conservation
Weede notes that weeds draw moisture from soil at about three hundred times their weight in water during the season. Cultivation helps conserve moisture. Drainage is advised for land infested with certain kinds of wireworms.
Plow The Land In Fall To Combat Soil Pests
Plow in late summer or early fall land infected with billbugs. Plowing destroys food for wireworms and disrupts their winter prep. Use September arsenate of lead to curb potato leaf folder. Also dish and prepare soil for corn next year to fight corn root aphis. Remove sedges rushes chufa and swamp grasses to reduce pests.
Tide of Fortune in Garden Meeting
Quote heavy exchange about tides of fortune from Shakespeare and a heiress marriage. Two men recall a tide eventide garden scene with cryptic dialogue and a brief kiss described by terse actions.
Enemy editor criticized for enthu business and vendetta tone
The village paper draws fire from Farmer Hornbeak who laments the editor's fervent anti Kaiser song editorial. The Kansas City Star is quoted. The passage shifts to a playful dialogue about engagement and a mock life line with Molly and Polly discussing romance and fishing.
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Farmer Hornbeak
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