Hickory Timber Supply Shrinking for U.S. Makers
The Forest Service reports hickory stock across 200 million acres at 15.784 billion board feet, with the majority in the South Atlantic East Gulf and Mississippi regions. The material is unevenly distributed, logging costly, and demand rises especially for automobile wheel spokes and golf club handles.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Central States
Mississippi States
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Middle Atlantic
Lake States
New England States
Middle West
Pelco
King Split-Log Drag Invented by Missouri Man
Missouri man D Ward King of Matthaw explains the construction of the split log drag. He details using two halves from a log about twelve inches thick and seven to nine feet long, spaced eighty inches apart, with stakes, a driver platform, a wire hitch, center hole, and a tilting back slab secured by a fire vent. A front iron face and a worn wagon tire or flat steel piece finish the device.
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Missouri
D. Ward
Matthaw
King
Manufacturers Ready to Correct Defects in Tomato Basket Sizes
The United States Department of Agriculture says many till and short measure baskets for fruits and vegetables result from mishandling and form damage. It notes manufacturers are willing to fix issues and urges frequent inspections and submission of samples to ensure standard size containers across the industry.
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United States Partment of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Agi
Eem
Department
United States
Hard roads save gasoline in Cleveland tests
A five ton ape truck tested in Cleveland shows 11.78 mpg on concrete and 5.78 mpg on earth roads. Over seven road types the mileage ranged from 5.78 to 11.78 mpg, with concrete offering the best efficiency and fuel cost savings.
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Cleveland
Hauling on Country Roads Fueled by Major Crop Volumes
The 1915 to 1919 average shows 86.5 million tons hauled on country roads from eleven principal crops. Illinois leads with 8.86 million tons, about one tenth of the US total, followed by Iowa 6.59 million and Kansas 4.862 million. Nebraska Indiana Ohio and Texas also contribute sizable totals.
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Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department of Agriculture
Illinois
United States
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Indiana
Ohio
Texas
Soybeans as Catch Crop Proven Successful at MCC
Regular practice at Missouri Agricultural College shows soy beans as a catch crop after wheat at the experiment station. The crop has been very successful and under certain conditions can match the value of the main crop. Beans may be cut for hay in time for fall seeding or wheat.
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Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Clover Seed Production Forecast for 1922
The 1922 yield of crimson clover seed is expected to exceed last year's but not reach the high levels of 1918 and 1919, according to reports to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Sinai
United States Department of Agriculture
Road condition costs in hauling large tonnage figures
The text discusses how road quality affects hauling costs, noting that poor roads raise expenses while good roads cut them. It highlights the potential magnitude of the difference for large cargoes and emphasizes the impact on overall transportation economics.
Toll road near Camden sold ends New Jersey history
The New Jersey highway commission bought a four and one half mile toll road near Camden for seventy thousand dollars marking its final exit from state road systems. Built in 1850, the road’s sale closes a historic chapter in regional transportation.
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New Jersey
State Highway Commission
Camden
Pennsylvania highway inspectors weigh trucks in year survey
Over the last year in Pennsylvania highway inspectors weighed 4 076 motor trucks across sections of the state and found 71 156 to be over weight.
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Pennsylvania
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advertised
Testimonial from Mrs Garland of Iron Mountain and Mrs Dale of Xenia Ohio describes monthly pains and back ache improved after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Ad promotes the medicine for women’s ailments and urges readers to try a Star Want Ad.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. H. Garland
Mary Dale
Route 7
Xenia
Ohio
Garland
Mrs. Dale
Christmas Window Gentry and Toy Parable
The piece contrasts gleaming toy shop displays with middle aged faces pushing for a view of dolls boats and trains. It argues the real longing is not for gifts but for the freedom to play and spend brazenly, challenging sentimental charity in a satirical tone.
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Fatheray Nixfi
Annie
Alec
Harper’s Magazine
Washington in New Jersey Local Tracts and Camp Life
The piece recalls Washington and his troops camped near Morristown and the Ford mansion known as Washingtons Headquarters. It highlights how residents learned to know Washington through traditions handed down in families and notes his prayer in the woods of the Short Hills during a critical period of the war.
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Washington
New Jersey
Morristown
Ford Manson
Short Hills
Dogs Foretell the Weather at New York Zoo
Prairie dogs in the New York Zoological Park reportedly anticipate storms by their mound-building. Large members lift soil from the ground with forefeet and shovel earth upward while others work inside the burrow. After a dyke is built, the colony stamps the earth with their heads to reinforce the barrier against rising water.
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New York Zoological Park
Garnet Varieties and A Child’s Instalment Cry
A jeweler explains that garnet and carbuncle are varieties of the same stone and that carbuncle refers to a cabochon cut. The note includes a London Weekly Telegraph joke about a six year old Dora who rings a doorbell and shouts it is all right, man, about the instalment sun.
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Dora
Lomlos
Red Pepper Rub Claims Rapid Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Red Pepper Rub made from red peppers as fast relief for chest pain congestion cold rheumatism and muscle stiffness. It promises tingling heat that penetrates and relieves soreness quickly and urges buying at the drug store with the brand name Rowles.
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Rowles
Sunlit Alps Resorts Draw Survivors and Theories on Health
A historical note discusses sun bath establishments in the higher Alps with belief in sun rays as curative. It cites observations from Ion Wales and notes a perceived link between sunshine and lower death rates, mentioning a recent sunniest year as supporting evidence.
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Alps
Reat
Sehoa
Iona Wales
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