Measures to Prevent Loss in Market Carrot Shipments
Inspectors at major market centers monitor fruits and vegetables arriving for plant diseases to protect selling value. Diseased produce is rejected to curb losses in time, labor, and transit, with steps taken to notify shippers and coordinate with pathologists and county agents to halt disease spread and stabilize supply.
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Bureau of Markets
Toowa Sre
Pere
Wier Woolf
Department, of Agriculture
Harvest Labor Shortage Hits Wheat Crops
An agricultural bulletin warns Kansas farmers face a critical harvest labor shortage. Demand for seasonal help has surged as floating labor has diminished, with farm help specialist B B Frizell noting farmers may not save the wheat crop without assistance from neighboring states.
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Slouth
B. B. Frizell
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
USDA Protects Vegetable Foods From Disease
The United States Department of Agriculture guards consumers against diseased vegetable products as it does for animal foods. It aims to protect personal welfare and ensure everyone gets enough safe food, withholding produce when contaminated by disease or spoilage.
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United States Department of Agriculture
America
Department
Curious Food Supplies From Puget Sound Seals
Curious discussion in Leslie's notes savoring seal meat from Puget Sound. Keilment of patriotic seals offered for slaughter in the Sea inland and a Roosevelt steamship shipment in January brings seal roast for scientific text. Seattle bureau of fisheries officers sample the meat, praising its color and texture as an alternative to beef, with walrus and other sea creatures mentioned as mobilized resources.
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Puget Sound
North Pacific
Puget
Farm machinery and labor use urged by agriculture official
Professor Christie, adjutant to the Secretary of Agriculture, notes how labor is wasted when machinery is unused. In several farms he cites two men with single plows, a 17 year old driving four horses, and manure spreading with forks. He urges broader use of tractors and haying tools to reduce needed labor. The county agent offers help and poultry clubs to youths.
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G. L Christle
Houston
Corn Belt
Professor Christie
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