Efficient Fertilizer Use Boosts Yields
Efficient fertilizer use boosts crop yields through better soil management. The Middle West Soil Improvement committee urges farmers to avoid using fertilizer as a crutch and to ensure roots can access nutrients by maintaining soil structure. Regular rotation with legumes and grasses builds soil and supports root growth.
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Middle West Soil Improvement Committee
Dutch Colonial Wall Cabinet Pattern No 36
Dutch Colonial wall cabinet pattern offers a simple build for displaying china and bric-a-brac. Includes full size component outlines, step by step illustrations, and notes that no special tools are needed. Pattern No 36 from East Bird Pattern Company, Pleasantville, requests 25 cents.
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Building soil with legumes and fertilizers
Organic addition creates aerated soil that drains well and retains water. Weak legume stands fail to improve structure. strong growth needs phosphate and potash from fertilizer. Harvested forage alone won’t build soil. part of the crops must be returned to the soil.
Bossy the cow under scrutiny yields quirky grazing stats
The study reports Bossy grazes seven and a half hours daily with 60 percent by day and 40 percent at night. She eats five hours at 50 to 70 bites per minute, chews cud seven hours, lies down twelve hours in nine sessions, travels two and a half miles by day and one and a half miles at night, and drinks ten times daily.
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Bossy
Erosion Threatens Vast U S Crop Lands
The department of agriculture estimates erosion has ruined or nearly ruined about 100 million acres and badly damaged another 100 million, with 100 million more eroding too fast. Of 460 million acres of good crop land, all but about 7 percent face erosion without protective measures.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
U. S
Planting Windbreaks Improves Farmstead Layout and Protection
Farmers plant windbreaks around farm buildings to improve appearance and provide wind protection for buildings and livestock. In addition to the regular north and west windbreaks, some growers are adding a garden windbreak on the garden’s west side.
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