Polish Wheat F declared unsafe by U S Agriculture
The U S Department of Agriculture warns against Polish wheat now sold in Montana at high prices. The grain yields poorly and has not been grown commercially in the United States. Officials advise skepticism about claims of high yields and nutrition and urge growers not to plant or purchase this variety.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Montana
Idaho
Europe
United States
Jose
Rtment of Agriculture
Dust Prevention on Roads Cuts Dust and Cost
Dust is a nuisance for travelers and nearby residents. Some roads are oiled but costly. A road drag offers effective dust prevention with low expense, making it a practical alternative.
Catarrh Claim Promoted with Medicinal Food Tonic
A vintage notice claims that every third person has catarrh and nasal catarrh signals general weakness. It argues snuffs and vapors provide little benefit and recommends medicinal food and a nonalcoholic building tonic from Scott & Bowne of Bloomfield, New Jersey.
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Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Diagonal Roads Save Land and Travel in West
The North Dakota Experiment Station argues diagonal roads cut distance and land use versus section line roads. A four-road right of way on two sides of a section is 16 acres, while diagonal reduces to 11 1 3 acres. A person 5 miles south and east would travel 14 miles by diagonal instead of 20, saving over 40 percent and allowing three trips by diagonal to two by section lines.
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W. C. Palmer
North Dakota Experiment Station
Sparrows succumb to tuberculosis in feeder study
In a North Dakota Experiment Station test, twelve sparrows were given tuberculosis chicken liver. All birds died from oralized tuberculosis at intervals: two by 73 and 75 days, then at 100, 104, 105, 118, 128, 131, 186 and 202 days.
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North Dakota Experiment Station
Price list boosts sale of leather robes at Oda and Sowiltch
Be sure and get our price list before you sell your leather robes. We make up the very best robes in any kind of leather with work guaranteed by Oda and Sowiltch Props.
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Robes
Farmers Should Sell By Parcel Post
A Springfeld Ohio article from Farm and Fireside urges farmers to use parcel post for selling goods. It notes farmers rarely sell via mail, despite rising buying by mail, and contrasts quick action by mail-order houses with farmers’ lack of organization.
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Parcel Post
Post Office Department
Farm and Fireside
National Farm Paper
Springfeld
Ohio
April American Magazine highlights and fiction lineup
The April issue features essays by Dr. Cabot and Dr. Conwell on wealth and willpower, interviews with Mann and Underwood on tariff prospects, and pieces by Upham Adams and Carnegie on autos and sales. Fiction includes Prouty and Lait tales, with regular departments and praise for overall quality.
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Richard C. Cabot
Massachusetts General Hospital
Russell H. Conwell
Philadelphia
James R. Mann
House of Representatives
Oscar W. Underwood
Frederick Upham Adams
Merle Crowell
Harry G. Petermann
Edwin F. Bowers
Dale Carnegey
Olive Higgins Prouty
Jack Lait
Ellis Parker Butler
Olive Marble Gale
Walter Prichard Eaton
North Dakota corn contest announced with prize
The fifth acre yield corn contest is announced by North Dakota Agricultural College Extension Department. A $370 prize is offered. Open to North Dakota boys. Full details available from the County Superintendent of Schools, County Agricultural Agent, or Extension Department at the Agricultural College in North Dakota.
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North Dakota
North Dakota Agricultural College
Agricultural College
N. D
Good Kitchen Garden Pays Well
Garden specialists advise that a 25 by 70 foot plot can yield enough fresh vegetables for a small family using two to three crops annually. Proper soil prep, drainage, site near the house, and careful fertilizer use with manure and phosphates can produce substantial returns in a season.
Goose Poultry Culture on Farms and Breeding Notes
Goose culture offers low capital and simple housing for profit on marginal land. Breeding emphasizes age and health, with Toulouse Embden African most popular. eggs per season twenty to fifty, incubation thirty days, fattening at wing feather base. Eastern party seeks to buy 10,000 acres of Williams County land, contact N. B. Ludonese in the Telephone building.
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Williams County
N. B. Ludonese
How to Kill the Town Do the city work with hobo and jail labor
A dramatic call urges voters to reject bonds and public improvements, drive out contractors, prohibit Sunday amusements, and send printing and goods out of town. The piece argues free camping in the city and forbidding profits by corporations and utilities, claiming foreign capital should be kept out.
Crops in Danger From Gophers
Farmers face heavy losses as gophers multiply rapidly threatening grain yields. The ad promotes Kill Em Quick poison, detailing mixing steps and offering a refund if ineffective. It claims the product kills all gophers on an acre and credits Leo Shapiro & Co. of Minneapolis and Williston Drue Co. Williston.
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Leo Shapiro & Co
Minneapolis
Williston Drue Co
Williston
The Old, Old Story in Brooklyn Life
In the Brooklyn Life vignette an old lady reads a letter from her son at college and frets that John has fallen for Tell-er-Belle Lettres. The scene contrasts concern over his duties with the lighthearted banter of family dialogue.
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Josiar
John
Bamanthy
Belle Lettres
Brooklyn
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