Wide Farm Variations in Pork Production Costs Across Illinois
A three year study by the University of Illinois farm management shows pork cost per hundredweight ranged from 6.62 to 16.97 across 40 farms in the same region during 1925. Differences stem from litter size, pig care, gestation feeding, sanitation, and farrowing practices, with low cost farms saving more pigs and reducing losses.
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Illinois
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
R. H. Wilcox
Department
Corn Belt
Trim Lambs Bring Top Price at All Markets
Farmers gain about a dollar more per lamb when docked and castrated before sale. Lamb buyers note ewe and wether lambs at 14 cents fetch better value than mixed lots at 13 cents. Training farm boys to dock and castrate cleanly can boost market returns and should be an annual farm practice.
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S. Matheson
Balanced feeds boost hog profits and sanitary swine methods
The notes emphasize that balanced rations do not guarantee equal profits and that using waste farm feed can be profitable for sheep. Cholera losses totaled about 1.5 million hogs in the U S. last year. Sanitary swine production, using equal parts ground corn oats wheat bran and middlings, increases pigs per sow, reduces runts, lowers costs, and shortens market weight time. Corn alone is poor for fattening hogs unless paired with protein rich concentrates or green pastures.
Avoid Loss of Soy Bean Seed Use of combined harvester-thresher cuts losses and saves time
Illinois farm researchers report that a combined harvester-thresher reduces seed losses to as low as four to ten percent and lowers harvesting costs by about one third per bushel. The device dries beans faster, yields higher quality seed, and can harvest 200 to 350 acres per season per machine with two operators.
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Farm Mechanics Department
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
I. P. Blauser
College Farm Mechanics Department
Illinois
Garwood Brothers
Stonington
Ilinois
Using Ground Limestone to Assist Clover Crop
Ground limestone helps clover thrive where it struggles and should be part of a broader rotation with clover, drainage, weed control, and thorough soil tillage. Profitable yields from manure and fertilizers depend largely on farmer attention to these factors under control.
Agricultural Notes For Farm Health And Yields
Practical guidance urges destroying all breeding places of flies and careful cultivation after showers. Emphasizes watching water supplies to prevent disease, replanting sweet corn, snap beans, and lima beans, and using sunlight as a cheap disinfectant. Stresses continuous bean and corn plantings and applying four to five years of acid phosphate to the soil.
Ten Ways a Farmer Can Go Broke
A Tennessee agricultural college list outlines ten risky farming practices. Grow only one crop, keep no livestock, ignore soils and water erosion, neglect planning, sell timber, abandon cover crops, mismanage woodlands, resist co operation, and mortgage the farm to buy unnecessary goods.
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Agricultural College
University of Tennessee
Cooperatives Make Rapid Progress in Livestock Marketing
A United States Department of Agriculture report notes co operative livestock shipping associations grew from a few in 1877 to 1770 by 1925, mainly in Iowa Minnesota Illinois Wisconsin South Dakota Indiana Michigan and Ohio. Central agencies emerged since 1889 with mixed success. by 1925 co ops handled over 280 million dollars in business.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Iowa
Minnesota
Illinois
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
North Atlantic
American Live Stock Commission Company
Chicago
Live Stock Exchange
Co-Operative Commission
Rat Killing Week Suggested by Specialist
M B Johnson of the University of Minnesota advocates rat control methods. He cites calcium cyanide dust to purge colonies near barns and straw, noting 21 rats died in a Cottonwood county farm demonstration. He warns that poisoning food with barium carbonate in a one to four ratio is also effective and dangerous.
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M. 8. Johnson
University of Minnesota
Cottonwood
Johnson
Repainting Farm Tools Extends Life and Value
The article urges keeping farming implements well painted to extend life and value. Clean rust with scraper and wire brush, wash, dry, then remove grease with gasoline. Apply metal paint to metal parts and prepared wood paint to wood, with a possible second coat after 34 hours. Wagons, racks, plows, disks benefit from this maintenance.
Russia Seeks Capital to Develop Industry and Trade
The Living Age reports Russia reversed a few years ago, with concession seekers dwindling as the government hunts for capitalists to take over new enterprises. Woolen mills shut for raw material shortages, flax mills paused, while a 10 percent price cut is ordered by the commissariat for trade. Some mills cut material width or quality. foreigners are advised to buy local produce as concessions fail and government credit terms hinder sales.
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Russia
Commissariat For Trade
Rays Detect Forged Items by Ultraviolet Light
Professor Bruning of Berlin states ultraviolet rays reveal ink with iron in altered documents and distinguish postal thieves who reseal letters. Mucilage glows under UV while some glues do not. artificial pearls and imitation diamonds show false signals. Genuine diamonds emit a purple glow under UV lamps.
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Professor Bruning
Berlin
Popular Science Monthly
Yangtzekiang and Its Tribu Taries Reach Global Circumference Half
The Yangtzekiang and its tributaries collectively boast navigable length equal to half the globe's circumference, highlighting vast waterway links and regional trade routes across multiple regions.
Giant Rochester rat terrorizes town with claimed cat killings
A 20 year old giant rat in Rochester New Hampshire was trapped and measured 15% inches from nose to tail. Residents allege the rodent killed seven cats during its life, and it supposedly terrifies locals by its daring behavior.
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Granite State
Rochester
Beauties of Other Days Declares Past Beauties Equal
An old man in the Detroit News argues that beauty has not declined, claiming fifty years ago women rival today’s in beauty and that photographs and contests mislead some into thinking otherwise.
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Detroit News
Doctor Promotes Safe Laxative For Constipated Children
Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello II advocates a harmless laxative to establish natural bowel regularity. His Syrup Pepsin is recommended for constipated children and those with feverish or bilious symptoms from a cold or indigestion.
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W. B. Caldwell
Monticello, II
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