Making the Little Farm Pay
A practical guide for small farm owners to boost profitability through focused planning and steady effort. It emphasizes selecting productive cows for dairies, precise feeding, timely milking, and market-minded sales. It compares yields and profits in crops to illustrate earning potential and stresses consistent, high quality production.
Potato Breeding and Selection for Regional Adaptation
The United States maize and agriculture department discusses the rise of potato growing regions across Maine Virginia Minnesota North Dakota Kansas Colorado and California. It stresses breeding and selection to improve disease resistance and tailor varieties for earliness drought and soil conditions with emphasis on seed potato quality and plot experimentation.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Aroostook County
Norfolk
Eastern Shore
Virginia
Maryland
Red River Valley
Minnesota
North Dakota
Kaw Valley
Kansas
Greeley
Carbondale
Colorado
San Joaquin
Sacramento
Ping
Notes on hog lot regularity and hog care
The article stresses regular feeding and humane, clean conditions to maximize hog profits. It urges early market trips, protecting sows, pure air water and shelter, and warns against dark housing and disease concerns while highlighting pigs’ precise feeding time and water needs.
Hairy vetch seed import prospects and farming tips
European War damages seed supplies as hairy vetch seed import volumes from Russia and Germany surge. Farmers are urged to save their own seed this year using rye or wheat rotations and a schneientrieur for separation. Yields of three to ten bushels per acre are possible with careful harvesting and threshing.
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United States
Russia
Germany
United Tes Department of Agriculture
Europe
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Lydia Eyham
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Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
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Grays Harbor County
Wise
National School of Telegraphy
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Aberdeen
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