Best Ways to Improve Woodlots by Thinning and Planting
A guide on elevating woodlot value through grazing exclusion, removing low quality trees, and selective thinning. It recommends targeted removal of beech and vines, allowing light to favor desirable species, and using natural regeneration when possible. It lists suitable species and advises consulting Forest Service lists and state foresters for seeds and seedlings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Forest Service
Department
Maine and potato states crop conditions and market cues
Reports from Maine and New York state detail unfavorable potato conditions with 50 to 75 percent acreage planted in parts of New York and pandemic rain. Experts anticipate an average New York crop and robust New Jersey yields. Jersey potatoes priced 63 to 68 cents per bushel fob loading point while Boston markets stay dull. Hay and corn crops show varying progress, with hay largely housed and corn improving due to favorable weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Jersey
New York
Malone
N. Y
Nabo
Oswego
Trenton
New York State
Michigan
New Jersey
Long Island
Aroostook County
Boston
Aroostook
Apple Orchard Demonstration Shows Net Profit in New Jersey
A county agent led an orchard management demonstration in New Jersey detailing pruning spraying fertilizing cultivating thinning and packing. A 5 acre apple orchard earned 935.10 last year with 255.40 expenses, including 30 depreciation on a sprayer and seed labor for cover crop. net profit 719.70 equals 143.94 per acre plus 15 per acre interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Remarkable Sale of Holsteins Across States and Farms
A historic cattle sale lists numerous Holstein females and males sold to farms in Michigan New Jersey New York Minnesota and more. Buyers include Flanders Farms Dudley Waters Orchard Lake Warren Detroit Grand Rapids and Holland among others with prices recorded such as 1700.00 1125.00 and related sums. The ledger shows a mix of named animals with lineage to Somerville Finderne Allamuchy and other locales, reflecting a wide regional distribution of cattle holdings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flanders Farms
Walled Lake
Brookdale
Teresa
Dudley E. Waters
Grand Rapids
Mich
Fairmont Alcartra
Brighton
Griswold St
Detroit
Lucile Inka Levis
Barber & Jenkins
Haslett
Heeringa Segis
John C. Ruth
Union Valley
Segis Walker
Torred Hill
Detroit, Mich Female, Dora. Woodcrest Rag Apple 2d 283498; To E. LeRoy Pelletier
Walker Lyons
F. J. McRae
Mt. Pleasant
Aroostook Farm Grows Potatoes and Breeds Oats
The Maine Agricultural Experiment Station operates Aroostook Farm for third season under funding limits this year. Visitors may tour August plots labeled with tests on fertilizer, potash levels, nitrogen forms, and application methods. Researchers from the station and USDA conduct weekly briefings, with 44 fertilizer plots and extensive disease studies including blackleg and powdery scab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aroostook
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Orono
Bangor& Aroostook
United States Department of Agriculture
Presque Isle
The Criminal Cow and the Milk Quality Debate
A New York dealer brands producers of low grade milk as criminal cows while investigations reveal daily shipments of poor milk into New York City. The USDA chemist Dr Alsburg seeks a working definition of milk and chemists study conditions, noting urban supply falls short of ideal standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
United States Department of Agriculture
Carl] Alsburg
New York
Fruit grower from Bethel Maine seizes berry boom
SIR HIRAM MAXIM of Bethel Maine, a relative of Sir Hiram Maxim the gun inventor, has built a small fruit enterprise. He farms 150 acres of raspberries plus strawberries and other small fruits and expects to harvest six thousand bushels of raspberries this year, showing what New England can achieve with proper fertilization, cultivation, and handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Fo Maxim
Bethel Me
Sir Hiram Maxim
New England
Record of corn yield by Franklin County Agricultural Society
W F Burnham president reports last year harvested 115 bushels of shelled corn from one acre. Ground plowed seven inches deep, limed and well cultivated. Seed planted 2 inches apart in rows with 28 inch row spacing. Cultivation weekly until July 15. Field fertilized with stable manure and 400 pounds of high grade fertilizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Burnham
Franklin County
Mass
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers’ Union of Maine
Holstein
Minnesota
Oakhurst
Hengerveld
Genevieve
G. G. Graham
Rochester
Minn
Canary Mercedes
J. M. Hockury
St. Paul
Hendrika Pietertje Fayne
Pietje
Pauline
Inksper Lady de Haan
J. M. Hockary
Emale
Bessie Piebe
I. Meyer
Finderne
Mig
Emaly
Fasne
A. A.cortelyou
Somer- Vilies Msod
Johanna Pietertje Fayne
Bernhard Me
N. J. Ale
Pierre Pontiae
Alcartra
Tranquility Farms
Allamuchy
Finderne Holingen Fayne Korndyke
A. G. Danks
N. J
Quoque Boon 2d
Bernhard Meyer
Quoque Boon Pride Fayone
Lernhard Meyer
Pontus Aagg
Maple Grove
Annie DeKol
Stevens Brothers Co
Liverpool
XN. Y
Hattie Walker DeKol
A. A. Hartshorn
Hamilton
KP Reina
J. A. Hughson
East Aurora
Orpha Pontiac
Robens
Poland
Belle Pontiac Lincoln
Bessie Fobes
Sunnyside Fayncott
Feislphalt Farms
Hopewell Jet
Bessie Blanche
Fishkill Farms
Fairacres Cornucopia
Maud
Melvin & Godfrey, Inc
Spring Farm
Princess Korndyke Oakdale
Lawson Holding Co
Lagrangeville
N. O
Hopewell
Ruth
Oliver Cahina, Jr
Elma Center
Anna Dean Princess Korndyke
Jennie Vale Ormsby
C. L. Amos
Syracuse
Wr OY
Abbekerk
Agnes Clothilde DeKo
Nelson
Brothers
Strometureg
Nebr
Wader
Aleartra Hengerveld
Segis DeKo
Tah
B. B. Davis
Omaha
the Great
Stevens
Kimball Bros. Co
Maine Agricultural Experiment Stations
Corn Growers
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