Calf Milk Powder Feeding Shows Strong Results at Penn State
Penn State experiment station reports on feeding dry skim milk powder to Holstein calves from second to fifth weeks and then dry rations to four months. In a 35-calf test, the oldest group averaged 1.36 pounds daily gain to six months, reaching 95.7 percent normal size. Benefits include labor savings and sanitation reduction. guidance favors introducing a dry ration at six weeks with 40–45 percent milk powder, tapering as calves mature.
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Pennsylvania State College
Bechdel
Dairyman Appreciates Big Value of Legumes
A dairy expert highlights legumes as key to profitability via balanced rations and reduced high protein feed use. Legumes boost dairy output and soil production, aligning with high per acre and per cow yields as the core of profitable dairying.
Milk Production Found Stored in Cow Udder says dairy study
The Missouri College of Agriculture study on slaughtered dairy cattle shows the udder can hold all or nearly all milk produced at one milking. After removing udders and milking, milk quantity and quality matched normal milking. Findings support continuous milk secretion rather than periodic release.
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Missouri College of Agriculture
Calf Feeding Tips for Early Rearing Stages
Dairy guidance stresses feeding small calves smaller amounts to prevent high test milk loss. Overfeeding is dangerous. keep the calf slightly hungry. Begin hand feeding at two to four days old with six to ten pounds daily, and at four weeks allow small grain and bay nibbling. Transition to skim milk should be gradual over a week.
Sonoma County Hop Market Moves With New Contracts
The Sonoma County hop market opened with 100000 pounds contracted at 19.1 cents per pound and 20000 pounds at 17 cents. Early contracts for this year's crop are being placed while 1927 hops are scarce. Delta onion shipments are expected to start around July 10 and Bermudas lead the upper San Joaquin Valley shipments while the Coachella Valley onion deal nears completion.
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Sonoma County
Delta
San Joaquin Valley
Coachella Valley
Apricot Harvest in San Fernando Valley Expected Light
The agricultural department of the Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce reports a crop of about 4000 tons in the San Fernando Valley, a comparatively light yield. The valley’s fruit should reach local markets soon while San Joaquin and Imperial valleys have already supplied markets.
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San Fernando Valley
Agricultural Department
Los Angeles
Spanish almond crop under drought prompts California market entry
Advices from London indicate drought curbs the Spanish almond harvest with Alicante district hit hardest. Despite 70 percent of normal yield, a new market opens for California almond growers as director G. H. Hecke announces the development, noting half the crop is maturing.
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California
G. H. Hecke
London
Alicante
Hecke
Caterpillar Army Expands Across Mount Shasta District
Masses of millions of caterpillars have moved into the Mount Shasta area feeding on vegetables. Origin unknown. The invasion spans about 200 square miles with limited crops damaged initially. The army may shift from infantry to aviation as pupation leads to butterflies.
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Mount Shasta
Eggs Rain Down as Truck Hits Telegraph Pole
In Mountain View last week a W. P. Clemenceau Egg Company truck carrying 37 800 eggs in 105 cases crashed into a telegraph pole after the driver H. C. Vansickle momentarily dozed. Town residents scrambled to account for the spill and its aftermath.
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Mountain View
H. C. Vansickle
W. P. Clemenceau Egg Company
Santa Cruz
California prune and apricot payments rise to new level
The information bureau of the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association in San Jose announces raises of one half of a cent to 2 cents per pound in advance payments for California apricots. The increase follows a special executive committee meeting and reflects higher 1927 value calculations.
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California
Information Bureau
California Prune and Apricot Growers’ Association
San Jose
California tomato acreage forecast shows dip from 1927
California will plant about 17,600 acres of Fall or canning tomatoes, down 15 percent from 1927 but up nearly 50 percent from 1926. Southern California leads with 10,000 acres across San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura, while interior valleys total 1,100 acres and central coast counties 2,100 acres, plus 3,800 acres from San Benito to Alameda.
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California
E. E. Kaufman
Federal State Crop Reporting Service
Bureau
San Diego
Orange
Los Angeles
Ventura
Coast
Salinas
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
San Benito
Alameda
California Exports Rise to 1927 Value of 309 Million
California exported merchandise worth 309 544 746 in 1927, up from 287 601 684 in 1926. Gasoline led with 56 885 997, followed by gas and fuel oil 29 983 204 and illuminating oil 17 984 919. California ranked fourth among states, behind New York Texas and Michigan in 1927 exports.
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California
Department of Commerce
Washington
Illuminating Oil
New York
Texas
Michigan
Governor lays cornerstone for California machinery building
Representatives of all machinery and implements associations in California attended the ceremony in Sacramento on June 27 as Governor Young officially laid the cornerstone of the new machinery building at the state fair grounds. The four acre structure is slated for completion in time for the fair opening September 1.
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California
Sacramento
Young
State Fair Grounds
Dried fruit exports from San Francisco surge in 1928
Exports of dried fruit from the San Francisco customs district for five months ending May 31 rose sharply, nearly doubling in value and amount from the prior year. In 1927 the district shipped 53,189,484 pounds worth 4,006,293 dollars. in 1928 the volume reached 107,793,056 pounds valued at 6,935,220 dollars. Raisins and prunes made up over 96 million pounds of the 1928 total.
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San Francisco
Department of Commerce
Irrigation of Orchards by Contour Furrows
University of California Agricultural Extension issues a bulletin by M R Hub erty and J B Brown on contour furrows for hillside orchards. It outlines contour planting types and weighs advantages and disadvantages as hillside orchard planting expands.
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University of California Agricultural Extension Service
M. R. Huberty
California Experiment Station
J. B. Brown
California water expert backs state trademark plan
Captain John D. Hubbard urges worldwide marketing of California products with a uniform state trademark to signal quality. He says opposition will push farmers to abandon regular packers and form new organizations to sell independently.
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California
John D. Hubbard
Hubbard
California Lima Bean acreage holds near last year totals
A California Lima Bean Growers Association check shows about 78,700 acres planted to Lima beans this season versus around 100,000 in the previous two seasons. Baby Limas are forecast at about 11,000 acres in the San Fernando Valley and roughly 17,000 elsewhere, mainly Lompoc and Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, with no major change in total acreage or production from last year. June 1 California warehouse stocks of regular Limas stand at about 88,000 bags, and with 177,000 bags moved last year from June 1 to September 1, officials expect current stocks to be cleared before the new crop harvest.
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California
San Fernando Valley
Lompoc
Sacramento
San Joaquin
California Peach Growers Fight Flat Price Proposal
Leaders from the California peach industry met in San Francisco to study production problems and price schedules aimed at saving 6000 growers and 50 canning concerns. They oppose a flat price of 25 dollars per ton for No 1 patches and 15 for No 2 grades, citing a record 395000 ton crop this year versus 322000 last year.
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San Francisco
Canners’ League of California
California Canning Peach Growers’ Association
Canners’ League
California
Remove Roosters From Hen Flocks
Agricultural bulletin advises poultrymen to remove all male birds after hatching season. For pedigree mating farms it is essential to keep males until daughters prove their performance. Keep birds on sunshine, green food, and yellow corn. add cod liver oil if confined. Monitor lice and mites. treat roosts with carbolineum and dust birds with sodium fluoride.
Fatten Broilers Before Sending Them to Market
Practical guidance for broiler fattening recommends a two week period, separation of cockerels, a roasting shed, and a mash of two parts cornmeal to one part wheat middlings mixed with milk. Feed in 15 to 20 minute intervals three times daily with additional cracked corn late afternoon. If milk is available keep before birds. ensure water if not fed milk.
Slow Feathering Chicks Common in Some Breeds
Prof C W Carrick of Purdue notes slow feathering or naked chicks are common in general purpose breeds and sometimes lighter ones. Such chicks lack vigor or are stunted from improper feed, chilling, or crowding. Mark pullets at five to six weeks with leg bands and market them early to avoid propagation of low vitality. Continuous culling can virtually eliminate these chicks in future offspring.
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C. W. Carrick
Purdue University
Laying Mash Recipe For Mixed Grain Farmer
A farmer who grows corn, oats and wheat can produce laying mash by mixing 500 pounds of ground grains with 100 pounds ground corn 100 pounds ground oats 200 pounds ground wheat and 100 pounds meat scrap. Include 2 percent bone meal 2 percent ground limestone and 1 percent fine salt for minerals. Add 50 pounds bran to increase bulk when using ground wheat instead of bran and middlings.
Fruit Gardening on half acre can feed a family, expert says
A. N. Wilcox of University Farm outlines a home orchard plan for a half acre in St. Paul Minnesota. He recommends nine apple trees across seven varieties including Duchess Wealthy McIntosh Fameuse Patten's Greening and Haralson. Crab apples Dolgo Whitney or Hyslop aid jelly making pickling and edibility. Plum choices include Underwood Tonka Monitor Elliott La Crescent Red Wing Waneta and plum cherry hybrids Zambra Nicollet. Four grapevines two each Beta and Hungarian. Currants Perfection or Minnesota No 24. Gooseberries six and 75 Latham raspberries. Strawberry bed with 300 plants such as Premier Chaska or Dunlap.
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University Farm
St. Paul
Minn
A. N. Wilcox
Patten
Hyslop
Whitney
Elliott
Minnesota
Control Cherry Maggot by Timely Poison Spray
The New York agricultural experiment station recommends timely sprays to control cherry maggot. Apply to Early Richmonds as cherries show swelling, then Montmorencys when red. Sour cherries use lime sulfur arsenate mix. 100 gallons total. Sweet cherries use lime sulfur. Dusts with 90-10 sulfur lead arsenate help after rains. Quick-acting contact insecticides, early harvest, and chard cultivation aid control. arsenical sprays remain primary. A circular with fuller details is available from Geneva, NY.
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New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Geneva
N. Y
Bacterial Spot Affects Peaches Across Several States
Bacterial spot is a common peach disease in Illinois New York Ohio and southern New Jersey counties. Infected fruit shows numerous pinhead to larger brown spots with central cracks. Sprays fail to control it. sodium silico fluorine shows promise in Illinois but remains experimental. Varietal susceptibility mentioned includes J T Hale Elberta Carman Champion more than Hiley Belle of Georgia Fox and Early Crawford.
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Illinois
New York
Ohio
New Jersey
Farm Journal
J. T. Hale
Elberta
Carman
Champion
Hiley
Belle
Georgia
Fox
Crawford
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Platt
New Jersey Experiment Station
Orchard Gleanings
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