Cooperation the First Step in Farm Reform Conference
Frank L. McVey opens the National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits in Chicago urging three changes for farming: better agriculture, better markets, and better financing. He calls for farmer cooperation across groups to match industrial efficiency and notes finance as the key obstacle to progress. The speech frames cooperation as essential for national welfare and a new era in agricultural policy.
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Frank L. McVey
Chicago
McVey
Department of Agriculture
England
France
System and records drive poultry success in farming
The article stresses that systematic management and detailed record keeping yield better results than hit or miss methods. It notes hard work and organization as key factors, and that routine bookkeeping becomes a time saver once habit formed. It then recalls the 17 year ago sinking of the steamer Portland with 135 passengers and 62 crew.
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Portland
Boston
Bean yield report and goats inquiry for readers
A reader notes a bean yield of about 31 bushels from 150 square rods of land using a common threshing machine and invites readers to beat the record. The letter asks whether Angora goats will eat hardback weed and if a small herd can work with sheep on a good fence, seeking practical advice.
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The
Independent
China
L. W. Jones
Banish the Mites From the Poultry House
Advice to young poultrymen on eradicating mites and lice from a hen house. Recommends spring cleaning, removing nests, burning badly infested nests, dusting hens, and using carbolic acid kerosene spray, whitewashing, and fresh bedding. Also suggests culling slow growers and poor layers to improve the flock.
Butter safety and tuberculosis myths from dairy products
An eminent bacteriologist questions the risk of transmitting tuberculosis via butter and dairy products. He notes no proven cases of infection from butter and cites the low pathogen count and small consumption amount as keeping danger minimal.
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Man
Culling Old Hens Boosts Farm Profits
Farmers should sell nonproductive old hens as they cost more to feed than they return. H Kempster of Missouri notes hens rarely profit after age two. Mark young stock with leg bands so next year's age is known and use red combs and spread pin bones to identify laying hens.
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H. l L. Kempster
University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Large Farms Pay. Chester County Survey Critiques Small Farms
Farm management specialists report profits rise with farm size, citing a Chester County survey. On 3 to 40 acre plots per acre machinery costs average $15 versus less than $9 on 160 acre plus farms, and labor income averages $240 versus $1,575. The bulletin labels small farms a fixed handicap, warns against the small-farm fallacy, and notes risk from distance to markets and price volatility.
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Chester County
One Aroostook Farm Harvests 14860 Bushels of Peak Potatoes
A Presque Isle seed potato grower reports 14860 bushels produced this year with perfect harvest weather. With a single digger and two double teams the crop was housed in 14 days. Of 210 barrels sold to one customer only five barrels were racked out. Aroostook shipments begin six weeks ago to Maine markets including Waterville Lewiston Augusta Brunswick Portland Livermore Falls and Rumford. Potatoes are described as the best in years and keeping well.
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Presque Isle
Aroostook County
Maine
Waterville
Lewiston
Augusta
Brunswick
Portland
Livermore Falls
Rumford
Aroostook
Believes in Herefords George Chandler's Prize Herd
George Chandler of Baker County Oregon won 23 blue ribbons and 1695 dollars in prize money at the Panama Pacific Exposition. He shifted from Shorthorns to Herefords over ten years, buying trains of breeding stock from the east and Midwest and shipping them to Baker County. He now keeps about 500 to 600 head to raise his herd to a higher standard.
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George Chandler
Baker County
Oregon
Department clarifies handling of adulterated dry beans
The department states that interstate shipments of cull dry beans for food are prohibited under the Federal Food and Drugs Act due to contamination. It allows shipment for industrial use after grinding. Hand picking removes most moldy beans but not all decomposed ones, and seizures are not recommended for beans hand picked to good commercial practice.
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Department
Fall plowing urged to curb crop-damaging insects
Entomologists urge farmers to clear fallow land and roadside waste by burning or plowing to expose insect eggs and larvae. They warn grasses and weeds shelter pests for winter, recommending onetime disturbance of ditch banks and margins. Meanwhile Maine sees heavy Sunday auto use on a new highway between New Meadows and Brunswick.
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F. L. McVey
New Meadows
Fletcher
Castoria
Monument
Exchange ST
Aaine
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