Diversification urged for steady farm income and merchant profits
North Dakota Farm Department forum argues farmers should diversify to stabilize incomes and boost merchant sales. It cites Minnesota and New York studies showing diversified farms earn significantly more per acre and profit, while grain farms lag. A banker anecdote highlights dairy income smoothing, and calls for more farmer clubs, entertainment materials, and coordinated marketing to support carload sales.
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Inomas
North Dakota Better Farming Association
Reuil
New York
Illinois
Minnesota
Red River Valley
South Central
Farmers’ Clubs
North Dakota
Agricultural College
J. H. Farrell
Butte Co
S. D
Dakota
Rotations of Wild Crops According to Nature
In a study cited by R F Kerr from Brookings SD and Gladstone ND, nature shows a simultaneous rotation in plant species. A turf sample yielded twenty species with repeated exposure. a square yard near Gladstone counted fourteen species. A larger red square area added more species to reach at least twenty eight per square rod. The piece argues nature preserves soil fertility with diverse growth, questioning fixed legume rotation every five years.
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Darwin
Gladstone
N. D
Nature
R. F. Kerr
Brookings Co
Chicago Board Adopts Sex Hygiene in Schools
The Chicago Board of Education votes to add sex hygiene or personal purity to high school curricula with a $10,000 budget for instructors. Boys and girls will be separated and parents may object notes will excuse students. An editorial notes concerns about daughters in the smart set and the need for fatherly guidance.
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Neense
Washington
Gill
Seattle
Jack London
Milwaukee
California
Board of Education
City of
Chicago
Pictorial Review
Two Pleas From Wild Pastures Excerpt
An excerpt from Winthrop Packard say s a crow is maligned and offers a memoir of rearing young crows. The author recalls feeding the fledglings with frogs then fish and notes the urge to treat them kindly while depopulating the township of frogs.
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Winthrop Packard
Big Pine
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