Save More Pigs to Reduce Cost in Hog Production
A Department of Agriculture study of 1921 to 1922 farm data shows raising more pigs per sow at weaning sharply lowers costs and raises returns. Farms weaning six to eight pigs per sow cut cost per pig to about 4.94 dollars and per 100 pounds of pork to 6.61, versus 9.10 and 7.98 respectively for fewer than four pigs. Variations in efficiency across Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and other states highlight brood sow management as key to profits.
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Department of Agriculture
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Corn Belt
Cucumber beetle blamed for massive crop losses
A Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin by J. E. Dudley explains nicotine dusts as an efficient method to control the striped cucumber beetle, detailing production, application rates per acre, and neighbor cooperation. It urges readers to obtain the free bulletin to prevent future losses of millions from beetle damage.
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J. E. Dudley
Agricultural Experiment Station
Madison
Wis
Acre
Fertile Eggs Loss in Warm Weather Warned
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that keeping only infertile eggs during warm months prevents most spoilage and losses exceeding 15 million dollars yearly. Removing breeding roosters after mating seasons curbs spoilage while promoting better egg quality through summer into early fall.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Rolling Poultry Houses Beneficial to Keepers
Rolling poultry houses on wheels offer movable brooding, laying, and hospital space for farms with seasonal forage. Simple construction uses an axle and two wheels, enabling balanced movement and protection of healthy birds when fields are offset.
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United States
Velvet beans and soil care tips for farmers in a column
The passage offers agricultural guidance from a newspaper column. It notes velvet beans pair well with corn in double harness, stresses clean water for animal growth, praises dirt farming, and suggests using a wheel-row cultivator to ease garden work. It also covers tree bark peeling for fence posts, potato labor, soil conditioning by following small grains, root space, and soil firmness over roots, and mentions Otootan as a soy bean hay option on certain lands.
Saved From An Operation and A New Medicine Praise
A caregiver describes repeated doses of a medicine over two years easing pain and ailments. The speaker credits the treatment with improving health and praising its relief for women suffering various troubles and pains.
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Cote
Radio in the Jungle Burma railways adopt radio telecommunication
Radio communication replaces telegraph where jungle and rivers hinder cables. Tests succeed between Rangoon and Bassein. London engineers foresee broad use for railways and surveys in tropical regions.
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Burma
India
Rangoon
Bassein
London
Snowy Linens Pride Housewife Trust Red Cross Ball Blue
Advertisement urges housewives to keep linens snowy by using Red Cross Ball Blue in laundry. Promotes sale at grocers.
Cruelty of the Wheel As a European Capital Punishment
The wheel as a brutal torture device was used across Europe. Scotland employed it until 1604, France until 1739, and Germany until 1827. The condemned was tied to a wheel and his limbs broken by blows as the wheel turned. The term roue derives from this practice.
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Europe
Scotland
France
Germany
Wish Grandma Had Gone Home Tomorrow
Nellie tearfully wishes their grandmother would have departed the day earlier after escorting her to the train, leaving the house strangely empty while their mother resumes interrupted tasks.
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Mother
Nellie
Grandma
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