Corn Stover Value in Beef Production from Farm By-Products
Experiments show corn stover boosts beef production by reducing feed costs. Nebraska and Wisconsin trials quantify stover as half roughage, value per ton, and savings from shredding. Advocates plan to harvest now for fall fodder, stressing full corn-crop use for income gains.
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J. E. Waggoner
Tiec Service Bureau
Nebraska Experiment Station
Stover
Tlain
Nebraska Bulletin No. 100
Wisconsin Bajpinment Station
Lime For Soils Boosts Boll-Lime Use In Legume Crops
Crop growth signals soil condition and calcium need in Stevens County. Finely ground limestone is highlighted as the best lime form for correcting acidity, with application rates ranging from one to eight tons per acre depending on soil calcium deficiency and stone availability. A manure spreader or a three to four-tooth disk harrow can apply lime after seed bed preparation.
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C. Roates
Marble
Washington
Stevens County
Sofia
Benefelal
Placag
Umea
Acre
Destroying Grasshoppers
Reply to Jacob Mathiason from Walnut Grove Minn outlines early grasshopper growth and prevention. Cultivating the soil, shallow egg depth, fall plowing reduce numbers. Describes hopper dozer method with kerosene and water, and the Utile mixture poison from entomology bureau. Also notes seed selection before frost for next year.
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Jacob Mathiason
Walnut Grove
Minn
Bureau of Entomology
United States Department of Aviculture
Fietcher
Dominion of Canada
Bride and shoplift tale from a boarding-house
An uptown woman, nearly stalled on Ninth Street with parcels, explains why she carries home her purchases claiming a prospective bride in the boarding-house. Servants and tenants admit to delivering parcels to her room and her habit of ripping wrappers to inspect contents, with a shopper recounting a mix up over black silk stockings and a refund.
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Ninth Street
Philadelphia Pubic Ledger
Frugal Groom’s Stingy Wedding Gift Surprise
A Cherryvale clergyman recalls preaching at a wealthy farmer’s daughter's wedding. He arrives after a storm and is paid only two dollars by the groom, then given a one dollar bill by the bride’s father in gratitude, revealing the groom’s careful money sense.
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Cherryvale
Min- Yeter
Iman
Kansasity Star
Honesty Increasing In New York Locality
A West Side matron reports growing honesty in New York commerce. She recalls a hall change error in her favor by a satisfied man and notes the proprietor’s approval. She contrasts past beliefs that clever dishonesty ensured success with the present view that honesty aids achievement.
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Upper West
New York
Tantalum Pens Introduced For Writing In Germany
Harper's Weekly reports a new tantalum writing pen manufactured in Germany using a four step process. The material avoids steel pen oxidation and ink sticking, but is too flexible like gold. To form a suitable point, alloying with hard metals such as iridium is costly and complex. The resulting pen combines steel like tenacity with gold like flex.
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Germany
Harper’s Weekly
Nine Children Gathered Around Elderly Woman
An old lady asks if the group of nine children are siblings. A girl named Mergie answers yes, calling the others her sisters and brothers. The scene centers on a family moment and a child’s simple reply.
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Yeu
Mergie
Notice of Incorporation Election in Graver Iowa Territory
Notice by the District Court of Iowa for Koimet county regulates an incorporation election for the town of Graver. Voters will decide October 16 on a proposition to incorporate and form a township center described by section 14 in Toonanto north near POM. Polls open in the Graver hall in the forenoon and close at the listed hour. Local election officials preside.
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District Court of Iowa Fund
Koimet County Licentise
Immot Monty
New Pediat Sada Court
M.W
A. Hall
Graver
Tawa
Fawlt
Toonanto Fu
T. J. Bevertaon Oonim Laslarners
Pictures and Religion Movements in Cinematograph Services
The pope may permit religious film shows in Roman Catholic churches in America after removing the sacrament, a move unlikely to surprise. English churches largely ignore cinematographs but some clerics like Rev. Wilson Carle and Father James Adderley promote or campaign for cinema use in services, comparing it to magic-lantern shows long used in the country.
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America
Wilson Carle
St. Mary-at-Hill
Bermondsey
James Adderley
Birmingham
Muanocheater Guardian
Did you ever tell that young man late hours were bad
A Yonkers Statesman quip attributes a breakfast table exchange to Twe ta Company. The father asks if late hours harm a young man. The wise daughter replies that late hours may be bad for one but are suitable for two, implying shared risk or companionship.
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Yonkers
Wife Who Naggs and the Fault-Finding Spirit
A dated, moralistic slice on marital friction citing a nagging wife as a bad influence. It argues harsh criticism harms home harmony, urging self-improvement and affectionate attention to restore romance. It notes jealousy, agitation, and repeated outbursts as damaging to love and suggests becoming more vivacious as a remedy.
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Tadifford
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Weber
Bettendorf Steel King
Columbus
Bettendorf
Steel King
IHC
International Harvester Company of America
Mason City
LHC Service Bureau
Harvester Building
Chicago
USA
Powpie
Estherville, Iowa
Minneapolis Journal of Maseh x
P. M. Hall
Eease
August Steimann Sherburn, Minn
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