Owl Hooty Lurks as Jerry Muskrat Builds New House
In a Green Forest tale from 1933, Hooty the Owl hunts at night near the Smiling Pool while watching Jerry Muskrat construct a new house by the Laughing Brook. Hooty plans to await the Muskrat’s distraction and avoid detection, noting the changing riverbank and muddiest waters as signals.
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Hooly
Green Forest
Mr. Sun
Hooty the Owl
Hooty
Smiling Pool
Jerry
Laughing Brook
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
Summer Meals With Melons And Frozen Desserts
A compact guide to refreshing summer treats using melons. Includes melon cocktails with lemon or ginger syrups, melon balls served with custard, junket cups topped with raspberry sauce, and a frozen plum pudding method with chocolate, vanilla junket, and mixed fruit.
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Western Newspaper Union
Catacombs and odd exam tidbits mentioned in class notes
Fragmentary text notes the respiratory system parts jokingly as skin and ducks under the arms with soles of the feet and mentions boners as humorous tidbits found in exams. The catacombs are referenced as a location.
Getting It Done by Douglas Malloch
Motivational poem urging readers to stop asking others to act and to take initiative. It contrasts the burden of doing with the even greater burden of unfulfilled plans. The speaker stresses thinking plus action, and that only decisive effort yields results.
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Hough
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Germany Fire Chief Extinguishes Oil Fire in Twenty Seconds
A German fire chief defied the belief that oil fires cannot be put out with water by igniting 250 gallons of crude oil and extinguishing it within twenty seconds after water was turned on.
Early Christians, Nero, and crochet in a jumbled note
The fragment blends varied items from poetry about early Christians under Nero to crochet fashion notes and historical allusions. It cites a French Revolution claim, air exposure effects, ice-box usage, an Englishman with a molecule, and crochet wardrobes.
Golf practice tips on putting from 1933 notes
Walter Travis used a miniature cup and felt as if driving a tack into it while putting. Players outline chalk lines or use 2 spot drills to aim. Emphasis in practice is on precise contact and a steady stroke rather than targeting the hole. The mind concentrates on stroke to develop a sound putting form.
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Walter Travis
Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
Egg quality and handling tips from Prof Botsford
Prof H Botsford of the New York State College of Agriculture explains eggs change grade after laying and with heat. He notes temperature, cooling, and frequent gathering preserve quality, recommends twice weekly shipping, sorting by size and interior quality, and packing in clean cases with flats and fillers.
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H. &. Botsford
New York State College of Agriculture
Free Choice of Grain and Mash Is Good Plan
C M Ferguson OSU poultry specialist says free choice grain and mash benefits pullets on range. On the University farm, pullets aged 12 to 14 weeks receive an all mash diet with 10 percent dried milk and 8 percent meat scrap, later reducing milk to 4 percent while keeping 8 percent meat scrap. If farmers have their own corn and wheat, a grain mix can be offered alongside mash, a method gaining use even for laying flocks amid milk price pressures.
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C. M. Ferguson
Agricultural Extension Service
Ohio State University
University Farm
Ferguson
Poultry History And Modern Practice From 1865 To Present
Notes cover early poultry shows in Worcester 1865 and Boston 1849, plus modern farming tips. Topics include grain feeding in troughs for sanitation, Ohio turkey production growth, fowl pox vaccination timing for Leghorns and heavy breeds, oat hull litter for chicks and hens, door mats using gypsum troughs, pallet temperature tolerance, feed conversion for turkeys, a Wellston Ohio duck with black eggs, and Australia egg export growth from 1 million to 16.75 million dozen in six years.
Late Crops for Chinch Bug Ravaged Illinois Land
J G Hackleman of the University of Illinois outlines that heavily damaged corn or barley areas in central and north central Illinois can best be planted to alfalfa or red clover. This recovers idle land, aligns with agricultural adjustment goals, and requires sweet soil with adequate phosphorus. Seedbeds are ready and mid-summer sowing is possible to ease crop adjustments for 1934. Buckwheat remains the only feasible cash grain, yielding 10 to 25 bushels per acre depending on soil and season.
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J. G. Hackleman
Colleage of Agriculture
University of
Sudan
Phosphates of U S Worth Billions Unearthed in Survey
The Bureau of Chemistry and Soils reports American phosphate resources total 6.2 billion long tons with an estimated value near 18 billion dollars. The survey details occurrence production and reserves across the United States and compares domestic varieties for fertilizer use.
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United States
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
America
United States Department of Agriculture
Efficient work horses fed with less grain
A Missouri experiment station study shows colts fed 4,238 pounds of grain and 5,723 pounds of hay by age three perform as good work horses as counterparts receiving 7,638 pounds of grain and 4,664 pounds of hay. Growth was slower and development lagged, but hoof and leg soundness improved while overall work capacity matched.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Millet hay an efficient forage with varied varieties
Millet for hay offers a lower protein content similar to sudan and adapts well. For best quality cut early before head fullness and maturation. Japanese varieties yield heaviest. foxtail types produce finer, leafier hay. Plant 25 to 30 pounds seed, depth half to three quarters of an inch.
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Sudan
Demand for TB testing drains cattle herd wait lists
Demand for the tuberculin test by cattle owners in 23 states exceeds capacity of veterinarians, with nearly 2,000,000 cattle on waiting lists in 1933. Iowa Minnesota Missouri New York and Vermont each exceed 100,000 awaiting tests. remaining 18 states show smaller but notable totals.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
New York
Vermont
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