Pete Goes to Town on Beef and Farm Management
Walter Peterson of Justin Texas shared beef market observations with a Fort Worth F F A class. He and his brother fattened seven and a half calves yearly for ten years, averaging 900 pounds and about 90 dollars per head, with prices from six to fourteen cents. They emphasize consistent cattle quality, the value of feeding, and the advantage of gradual scaling over large cartloads, urging Southwestern farmers to diversify into livestock and poultry and apply efficient land and labor use.
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Walter Peterson
Justin
Texas
Pete
Fort Worth
Walter
Peterson
Petersons
Washington
State College of Agriculture
State Colleges of Agriculture
Old Frontier Home Recalled in Poignant Memoir
A memoir recalls a log house from the boyhood West with a dirt floor and tin tub. Lacking furniture and screens, the cabin housed a family bound by prayer, labor, and simple virtue. The narrator asks modern America to treasure enduring values over material heights.
One Crop Farmer Wins Bronx Park Vegetable Prize
Sammy Cohen, 14, who has never seen a cow or left New York City, earned a gold medal for cultivating the best vegetable plot in a Bronx park contest. The story highlights the value of keeping promises through action.
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New York
Sammy Cohen
New York City
Sammy
Bronx
Proper Light Speeds Study Reduces Eyestrain
Scientific tests show that increasing room illumination improves reading speed and recall while reducing eyestrain and nervous tension. Five guidelines include avoiding glare, placing the lamp to the left, using abundant diffuse lighting, and creating a dedicated well-lit study space for regular use.
Pain Seen as False Alarm by Surgeon Speaker
Dr William Bates of Philadelphia told the United States chapter of the international college of surgeons that many pains are superficial and not from major illness. He described local anaesthesia as revealing the true source of pain and said about half of pains found by palpation are surface pain, not in internal organs, noting the wrist nerves can serve as a pain gauge for the body.
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Philadelphia
United States
International College of Surgeons
William Bates
Bates
Kansas Farm Bureau Backs 1938 AAA Act
Ottawa Kansas reports the Kansas farm bureau backed the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, calling it crucial to preventing wholesale demoralization of farm prices. The article notes Death Valley being over 50 miles from the nearest railroad.
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Kansas Farm Bureau
AAA
Ottawa
Kas
Death Valley
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Austin Callan
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Theodore Roosevelt
Sherwin-Williams Paint
Whitewright Lumber Co
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The
Sun
Club
Dallas
Farm News
Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright
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