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September is National Chicken Month. The celebration was created by the National Chicken Council and the US Poultry and Egg Association to promote chicken as a healthy protein choice.

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September has been National Honey Month since 1989. Why is September National Honey Month? The answer is simple, this is when most honey is harvested.

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This blog discusses the War Effort photograph.

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Carriers like this one were used by farm women to transport their eggs to market and held 36 eggs for each layer.

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Aug. 19 is National Potato Day. Celebrate by eating potatoes prepared your favorite way. Potatoes are a versatile vegetable. They are eaten at all three meals of the day and as snacks.

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 In 1931, Fisher Price made and sold Pluto string puppets.

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This postcard captures a successful day of fishing.

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International feed grinders, ca. 1910-1920 were used on farms with a single-cylinder gasoline engine and a flat belt drive.

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1923 was a bad year for anthrax outbreaks across South Dakota. Newspapers from across the state were filled with reports of the disease plaguing farmers and ranchers. These photographs were taken in 1923 by Arthur W. Tompkins, Hamlin County Agent. 

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The origins of baseball can be traced to the combination of two English sports, rounders and cricket. Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Americans took these two games and molded them into America’s National Pastime, baseball.

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