Call to Improve Chicken Flock
USDA guidance describes signs of loafing hens and vigorous layers to aid culling and selection. Pale legs and beaks indicate low production while bright red, plump combs reflect welfare. Late molters and year round layers show stronger vigor and higher egg yield, with Beltsville experiments confirming improvements through selective breeding and timing.
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United States Experiment Farm
Beltsville
Maryland
Molters
Rhode Island
Wise
Systematic Cleaning of Milking Machines
United States Department of Agriculture urges systematic cleaning and sterilization of milking machines to produce high quality dairy products. The bulletin notes heat sterilization markedly lowers bacterial counts compared with other methods, based on farm trials.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Barmers
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Strychnine and Paris Green to Control Moles
Entomologist Prof A F Conradi of Clemson College outlines mole control methods using poison baits. Unparched peanuts coated with Paris green are dried and fed by moles, while raisins rolled in strychnine are dropped into burrow runways. Caution urged to avoid spills and to burn unused poison.
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A. F. Conradi
Clemson College
Spray Rings Help Cut Potatoes Spraying Costs
R C Rose of the University of Minnesota advocates forming spray rings among farmers to reduce the cost of pest control on potato vines. A cooperative sprayer can provide 150 psi coverage and allow collective purchasing of materials, helping growers with limited funds access better equipment and cheaper inputs.
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R. C. Rose
University of Minnesota
Mr. Rose
Plan to Obtain Supply of Soy Beans for Seed
Plan to obtain a seed supply explains saving soy beans by allowing them to fully ripen and threshing on a wagon sheet or in a tight wagon box with a stick. It notes seed quality, risks from cracking, and recommends storing dry in clean old fertilizer bags in a crib or granary to prevent dampness.
Timely Spraying Key to Farm Profits and Efficiency
The article stresses spraying at the precise right time to ensure effectiveness. Doing it on time reduces repeats and disease progression, boosting profits, cutting unnecessary labor, and lowering anxiety. Timeliness is described as the cornerstone of an efficient farm system.
Balanced Farming Will Bring in Steady Income
A medium diversity of farm products can keep labor busy, utilize land fertility, and provide steady income.Three or four main cash crops with several small supplements is preferable to extreme diversity or specialization.
Objection to Sweet Clover as Hog Pasture
Sweet clover has been used some as a hog pasture. Hogs will eat the leaves and tender stems pretty well. The objection is that it soon grows tall and coarse, and then the pigs do not eat much of it.
Berlin Population Declines Since 1913
Berlin's population has fallen by 4000 since 1913 as death rates outpace births. The downturn reflects higher mortality and shrinking birth rates impacting the city’s demographic profile.
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Berlin
Cuticura Talcum Powder Ad Promotes Trio Soap Ointment
An antique advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum Powder as a fragrant economical antiseptic for face skin baby and dusting use. It claims the powder renders other perfumes superfluous and notes it as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum.
All Tired Out After Graduation
A Buffalo Evening Times note reflects on college athletes who break records and struggle to rest after graduation, suggesting achievement comes with lasting weariness and no smooth transition to rest.
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Buffalo Evening Times
Red Cross Ball Blue for Housekeeping Needs Ad
Uniform Housekeeping ad notes Red Cross Ball Blue serves kitchens towels sheets and pillowcases across departments. Detailing versatility for laundry duties with emphasis on broad household use.
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Department of Housekeeping
Wanted Pay for Keeping It EB
Stokes of Trenton N J recalls a bank story where an old customer faces a note renewal refusal. The cashier says the board will not discount the note any longer but will charge storage on it after about twenty five years in the bank.
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EB. C. Stokes
Trenton
N. J
Usual Effect Frenzy Over Radio Fad
Quote from Boston Tran script notes a characterization of radio uptake as a frenzy rather than a fad. Context implies social response to new media and public reception. The line contrasts casual adoption with compulsive enthusiasm.
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Boston Transcript
Equipped. Shoes Boots Exchange Barbed Wit in Dialogue
A brief exchange features Shoes remarking to sing to kill time while Boots notes a weapon quality in the conversation. The dialogue spotlights quick wit and practical tensions between the speakers.
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