Alabama 4-H enrollment grows with county club work
Reports from T. 4. Sims show over 20 900 Alabama youth and spouses will join 4-H club work in 1985. About 4 722 Alabama youths participate nationwide, with clubs focusing on home projects from corn to clothing. County agents offer instruction, annual demonstrations, picnics, camps, and saving plans, while diplomas mark four years of work. The county camp gathers members for three to four days of activities and learning.
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Alsbama
T. 4
Sims
Sista
United States
H Clube
Alabana
Proper jarring of tree to control pecan weevils in Alabama
F S Swingle of Auburn advises using careful tree jarring to destroy pecan weevils in Central and Northern Alabama. Adults fall to sheets, are collected, and placed in kerosene. begin mid August and jar weekly for four to five weeks.
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Alabama
F. S. Swingle
Agricultural Experiment
Auburn
Stuart
Alabama Experiment Station
Auburn Develops Home Mixed Feeds for Dogs
Dr. W. D. Salmon of the state experiment station devised the Auburn Home-Mixed Dog Ration. The formula uses yellow corn meal, wheat bran, middlings, meal scraps, fish meal, milk powder, alfalfa, bone meal, salt, and adjustments by same proportions for smaller batches. Feeding guidance and palatability tips are available at no cost from the Auburn Experiment Station.
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Auburn
W. D. Salmon
State Experiment Station
Poison Potatoes Trigger Fatal Cattle Pneumonia
Overripe spoiled potatoes, dumped for cattle, cause emphysematous pneumonia with rapid breathing, nasal discharge, and fever. Affected cattle die in days. Prevention says burn or bury spoiled potatoes. Treatment seldom works, steam with turpentine creolin or lysoin and use stomach pump to empty stomach.
Cane disease resistance urged for sugarcane varieties
Experts advise planting mosaic disease resistant cane such as FP O J to combat mosale disease. CP 907 shows promise as a heavy yield variety tested at Brewton Alabama. Observation varies. growers should trial stalks to assess value. Report by J C Lowery extension agronomist Auburn. Tornadoes in 1934 performed two freakish stunts, including wedging a dime into a tree trunk and driving a ten foot plank through an overturned car chassis.
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Alabama
Brewton
J. C. Lowery
Extension Agronomist
Auburn
Small Irish potato plot helps family larder
Each family should plant about one fourth acre of Irish potatoes during the spring. The earlier they are planted after danger of frost.
Fall potato planting and mulch guidance
A guidance note discusses sowing fall potatoes from a seed or crop, advising fertilization with 800 to 1,200 pounds of 4-8-7 per acre, avoiding barnyard manure, and planting four to six inches deep in a low sheltered place. It recommends a mulch of leaves or straw three to four inches deep after planting to double yield under average conditions.
Urge Leafy Vegetables For Summer Gardens
For spring and early summer, turnips mustard tender green and cabbage yield best. In mid summer New Zealand Spinach resists heat and dry soils, especially in the south. For fall and winter sow spring greens again plus cole crops June or July seed and Siberian Kale, a heavy producer that endures cold. Following this guide greens are available year round.
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New Zealand
Inexpensive Farm Tools Cut Losses, Boost Returns
Agricultural economist B F Alvord of Alabama Polytechnic Institute urges farmers to use simple records and accounts as cheap tools. He notes farmer records require little time and can be obtained free from county agents, with pencil and ink sufficing. The piece contrasts weather-year losses and fatalities, stressing low-cost record keeping as a safeguards measure.
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B. F. Alvord
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
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