Apple scab sprays weighed by many factors drive costs
H C Youngs and Curtis May discuss the complexity of timing apple scab sprays. Weather and land topography largely determine infection severity, making a broad spray program costly. Even with proper control, expenses rise as farms attempt to cover all conditions, with some regions wasting effort where scab pressure is lower.
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H.C. Youngs
Botanu
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Wooster
Cureus May
Ohio
Niote
H.C. Young
Curtis
Menes
Buy and Sell Meats by Color in Future
Washington March 10. The United States Department of Agriculture conducts experiments by the Animal Husbandry Division and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to standardize meat by color for beef, mutton, and pork. Dorothy Nickerson and Dr. Paul Howe adapted spinning color discs to visually match meat colors, exploring color as a proxy for quality and fat distribution.
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Ashington
Animal Husbandry Division
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriiculture
Simenta
Bureau of Standards
Ior
Towas
Uris Agricultural Experiment Station
Land Bureau of Agricultural Eco-momiics
Dorothy Nickerson
Paul TR. Howe
Animal Mushandry Division
Howe
Modified Spray Schedules for Apple Scab Control in Orchards
A study analyzes timing and methods to optimize apple scab control. It weighs detailed fungus knowledge environmental effects host resistance spray application methods and material efficiencies to reduce costs and spray injury. The aim is to adapt the complete schedule to save material and labor while maintaining effectiveness.
Understanding Apple Scab ascospores and spray timing
A historical study traces failures to control apple scab to misused timing terms like pink and pre pink. It details three long experiments from 1924 across southern central and northern orchards, tracking ascospores with weather forecasts to time sprays just before rain periods and reduce infection.
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Lana
Feab
Radio Used To Spread Agricultural Findings In Ohio
The project used field agents and orchardists to share results via telephone postal cards and two radio channels. Crosley WLW Cincinnati, Ohio State EWEAO central Ohio, and WTAM Cleveland northern Ohio broadcast to farmers. Forecasting weather aids fungous growth tracking and timing of sprays before rain periods to prevent infection.
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Crossley Radio Corporation
WLW
Gincinnati
Ohio
Ohio State University
EWEAO
Willard Battery
CWTAM
Cleveland
Ohiio
Taei
Weather Factor Guides Spraying Timing in Plant Study
Researchers explored how to time spraying by predicting ascospore release. They examined climatic factors that drive ascospore development and whether those factors can be forecast. The work outlines procedures to determine exact spraying times based on weather conditions.
Records of orchard spraying experiments in Ohio
Records show temperature, rainfall, rainfall duration, and spraying notes for Relbespare-aisehar. Experiments used up to 40 lime sulfur in all applications. After positive results in two years, a state-wide trial began in 1926 with plant pathologists deployed to southern Ohio fruit regions to observe detailed development.
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Aisehar
Ohio
Forecasting Good Weather Study by State Observers
Weather forecasting by U S Weather Bureau observers from Columbus Cincinnati Parkersburg and Cleavland reported success with 3 2 and 1 day forecasts for their regions. The Washington forecast was largely accurate with few failures to predict rain periods and several insights from a state wide experiment on infection period prediction and weather impact.
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Alexander
Columbus
Devereux
Cincinnati
Howe
Parkersburg
Avery
Cle ‘Aid
Washington
Early disking yields more oats than plowing in Ohio tests
At the Ohio Experiment Station oats drilled early on clean stubble produced a larger average yield than oats on plowed stubble. Disking offers labor savings and earlier crop establishment, with 57.0 bushels per acre on disked land versus 55.8 on plowed land, though plowing is preferred where white top weeds infest the field.
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ATS
Ohio Experiment Station
L.B. Thatcher
Fish Trained for President by Cowboy Humorist
A humorous piece recounts how Dakota, likened to a Republican, trained fish for President Coolidge in the Black Hills. Miners fed liver to tame the fish, named them after Coolidge, and taught them to circle bait, reel in strings of fish, and even steal bait from the President as he fished at Square Creek.
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Dakota
South Carolina
Black Hills
Uke Coolidge
Coolidge
Wornks
South Dakota
Jenident
Campaign to Fight Ohio Fruit Pests Starts Anew
Ohio State University extension specialists plan a spring program to combat fruit pests across the state. Three to four botany and plant pathology staff will operate from southern Ohio, expanding northward, with growers sending leaf samples for timing observations to optimize spray schedules and reduce waste.
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Ohio
Department of Botany
Ohio State University
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
State University
Unis
Timing and dilution of sprays cut fruit fungus losses
The report notes fungi development varies by location and time, requiring precise spray timing. High ground and valleys differ by as much as a week in perithecia maturity and development rates, so diluting sprays or omitting pre blossom applications can save material. In southern Ohio few perithecia mature and few ascospores form, guiding regional spray advice.
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Ohio
Home Beauty Farm Project Outlined for Athens County
T H Johnson county agent announces start date May 8 for a home beautification program in Athens County. The plan covers site layout for new buildings, yard grading, drainage away from the house, top soil preservation, lawn seeding, shade trees, shrub groups, vines, and back yard improvements with arbors and seats. Neighbors are encouraged to join and order plants from a reliable Ohio nursery. Also notes a feature on ground squirrels and a house pet program.
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Athens County
T. H. Johnson
Ohio
Hints for Planting Grass Seeds from County Agent Office
County agent T H Johnson provides planting tips. Before sowing seed, plow, disc, and drag if possible. Choose high quality seed, mix yourself. Sunny areas use Kentucky bluegrass red top white clover and Italian rye. Shady but not dense areas mix Canada bluegrass and creeping bent with rye as nurse. Dense shade suggests plant myrtle, lily of the valley or pachysandra. Sow at one pound per 900 square feet and fertilize with a 3-8-4 to 5-15-58 formula at 1-2 pounds per 294 square feet. Apply when soil is dry and before light rain. Lime only if soil is distinctly acid. Regular fertilization maintains a good lawn.
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T. H. Johnson
Pacey
Canada
Potato with artificial eyes weighs 2044 ounces in Kenosha farm
A potato grown on Charles Kohn’s farm near Kenosha Wisconsin weighs 2044 ounces and has artificial eyes. The farmer notes it is otherwise as grown.
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Charles Kohn
Kenosha
Wis
Bohn
Waste straw sold for lumber brings profit to farm
Madison, Wis March 10 Part of farmers financial problems may be solved by waste straw results of experiments by Sidney D Wells at the Forest Products Laboratory USDA adopted widely. Straw is baled shipped to St Joseph Mo to make insulating lumber for which there is a ready market. The plant outputs 100000 square feet of finished insulated board daily and will consume 20000 tons of straw yearly.
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Adison
Wis
Sidney D. Wells
Forest Products Laboratory
United States Department of Agriculture
Central West
St. Joseph
South St Joseph
Wella
CATTLE GS DECREASE IN US JANUARY CATTLE ESTIMATE
January cattle on farms in the United States are estimated at 46,000 head, down 1,172,000 from a year ago and 6,400,000 from four years ago. Wisconsin A H Wright notes flax grown with small ears and mixed with threshing grain forms cattle food but may shield a poor crop.
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United States
A. B H. Wright
Wisconsin
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