Division Adds 15000 Iowa Minnesota Recruits At Camp Dodge
Camp Dodge Iowa February report details one day influx of about 15 000 new recruits from Iowa and Minnesota. Quarantine two weeks to prevent disease spread. Many soldiers wearing too small shoes and uniforms outgrown by developing muscles. Pro rationing of recruits among units planned, with officers assigned by district arrival dates. General Plummer optimistic about front line potential and training aims including marksmanship discipline and light assault tactics.
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Camp Dodge
Iowa
Eighty-eighth National Army
Minnesota
Heights of Columbus
Liberty Theater
Eighty-eighth Division
War Department
R. P. Howell
Three Hundred
North Dakota
Illinois
Forty-ninth Infantry
Thirty-eighth Field Artillery
Three
B. H. Plummer
Western Front
France
America
National Army
Plummer
Washington
General Plummer
Knights of Columbus
Gneral Plummer
Harding
W. D. Beach
R. N. Getty
R. L. Foster
Ordnance Depot Company
Penn State College
St. Paul
Minn
George Siegel
Sen
Ft. Leavenworth
Seed procurement notice urges North Dakota farmers to locate seed supply
A North Dakota seed advisory urges farmers to act now to source High quality seed. It explains the State Seed Laboratory will analyze samples sent in halves or pounds and provide reports, with results posted on a state seed list for buyers. Farmers with surplus seed are asked to contact buyers and share details.
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State Commissioner of Agriculture
Bismarck
Commissioner of Agriculture
North Dakota
State
Isent
Office State Seed Commissioner
Agricultural College
Seed treatment to combat grain smut by formaldehyde cure
Smut damages grain crops. treating seed with one pound of 40 per cent formaldehyde in 40 gallons of water for ten minutes kills most smuts. Seed can be dipped or treated in a smut machine, or sprayed while shoveling with hot care to cover all seed. Prof Rolley notes yield gains of two bushels per acre in trials at the North Dakota Experiment Station even with no smut.
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Rolley
N. D. Exp
Agr
Dept. Ny Dak
Colfére
Sweet Clover Gains Ground as Premier Forage Crop
Agricultural note by J G Haney extols sweet clover as superior forage adaptable to many soils and climates. It yields more hay and pasture than timothy, clover, or alfalfa, with low risk of bloating. Fall sowing preferred. methods include manual broadcast or grain drill, with lime or alkaline soils best for establishment.
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J. G. Haney
Agri
Exton
Dept. T. Wy
Sweet clover seeding and hayning techniques advised
Practical guidance from an Aberdeen SD farm extends from seed sowing to harvest. It covers sowing rate ten pounds per acre with nurse crops, seed depth, and timing before frost. It explains silage methods, water use, and disease-free cutting, plus comparing white and yellow biennial varieties and their hay and silage qualities.
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Aberdeen
Sweet Clover and Bees Boost Northwest Farms
Sweet clover yields 60 to 15 pounds when properly handled and requires two or more bee stands per farm in the Northwest. Honey saves sugar, and much of this valuable nectar is wasted for lack of bees. Sweet clover boosts milk production, rivaling alfalfa, and links to the biblical land flowing with milk and honey.
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Northwest
Holy Land
Dutch Engineer Arrested for Espionage in Rotterdam
Rotterdam police arrest a Dutch ship ping engineer on charges of spying for Germany. He posed as a port authorities inspector aboard steamships arriving from the United States and copied ship logbooks for potentially useful information.
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Rotterdam
Germany
United States
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