Crop rotation cuts cotton root rot at Temple Blackland
A 1931 to 1936 study at Temple's Blackland Experiment Station shows rotating cotton with non susceptible crops reduces root rot killings from 67 to 25 percent and raises lint yield from 237 to 321 pounds per acre. Net income per acre remains similar, while farmers can extend rotation to the whole farm or sections and add livestock and forage crops for greater profit.
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Blackland Experiment Station
Temple
College Station
Blackland
Methodists United Into Largest Sect Virtually Assured
The merger of the three Methodist branches to form the Methodist Church looks set to create an 8,000,000 member denomination with 25,000,000 adherents and $1 billion in property. Approval by the Louisiana Conference and most Northern and Protestant conferences pushes reunification, with a uniting conference to follow within a year and a first general conference likely in 1941 or 1942.
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Chicago
Ill
United States
Methodism
The
Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Methodist Protestant Church
Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church, South
Church South
Southern Church General Conference
Birmingham
Ala
Southern Church
Uniting Conference
United Church
Women Should Learn to Be Content With What They Have
Pittsburgh report quotes Italian actress Maria Abba in Tovarich as saying women find happiness in wanting what they lack. She notes Americans have more freedom but Italians cherish being cherished, and muses that true utopia would erase escape from reality but dull the world.
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Pittsburgh
Maria Abba
Tovarich
Tatiana Petrovna
America
Italy
Milan
Tatiana
Wives Must Work to Keep Husbands, Author Says
Boston report quotes Grace Loucks Elliott, a noted psychologist, urging young married women to work alongside their husbands. She argues marriage today hinges on shared economics and that dependence by the wife is rarely compatible with lasting union.
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Boston
Grace Loucks Elliott
The Spice of Life Quips and Quick Jokes
A collection of humorous exchanges on marriage thirsting conversations and family mishaps. Guests joke about Niagara water and ashes while hosts tease about ash trays. A college lad vows to drink the whole jug and a football coach misreads a contortionist.
Smithsonian Adds Dumbest Dinosaur Skull to Collection
Dr Charles W Gilmore of the Smithsonian described a crested hadrosaurus from Montana 100 million years old as one of the dumbest animals. The skull measures over two feet with a rooster like crest and an brain weighing about an ounce. Kansans held jack rabbits in wire corrals.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Montana
Charles W. Gilmore
Smithsonian
Texas yam crop reaches 3.64 million bushels in 1936
The 1936 Texas yam crop totaled 3 640 000 bushels and sold for one dollar per bushel, reflecting a strong market price for the commodity.
The Dime Novel Increases To Two Fifty
In a public library scene two men discuss the fate of the dime novel. One muses on where it has gone, while the other, with literary knowledge, retorts that it has risen to two dollars and fifty cents.
Wanted expert carver for first class restaurant
A manager offered a job to a man who claimed one qualification. The man said at his last place he cut meat so thin that a draught blew it off the plates when the door opened. The manager hired him on the spot.
Can You Type Using the Columbus System
A dialogue fragment describes typing with a Columbus system. It notes discovering a key and landing on it as a basic mechanism. The exchange hints at early computer input concepts in a concise, instructional style.
Prunes Instead Of Strawberries Dinners Tale
In early Kansas City days Eugene Field was urged to enjoy a feast at a hospitable house. Strawberries were offered and the poet hesitated. When pressed he admitted he loved berries but feared eating them would spoil his appetite for prunes.
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Kansas City
Eugene Field
Field
Mr. Field
Courtroom Banter Over Stairs in Irishhouse
The examining lawyer cross questioned an Irishwoman about her stairs. She quipped that when she is upstairs the stairs run down and when downstairs they run up. The lawyer warned that when you get something for nothing, someone gets nothing for something.
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H. E. Rea
Agronomist
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Whitewright Lumber Co
Carro Marie Walewsha
Napoleon
Caney
Brow
Garbo
Anna Chris Pie
Conall
Anna Kar
OS Thane
Pat
Niagara Falls
Mike
Mabel
Alamo
Historic Shrine OF
Texas
Babe
Crockett
San Aintonio
Stephens & Bryant Insurance Agency
First Nat’l Bank Bldg
L. LaRoe & Co
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