Cost of Producing Marketable Pork in Iowa and Illinois
The United States Department of Agriculture report shows an average cost of 6.08 per 100 pounds of marketable pork from spring pigs across Iowa and Illinois, with varied costs per 100 pounds from 3.76 to 10.80 in different hog herds. It notes factors like litter size, feed efficiency, labor, and management as primary cost drivers and reports an average profit of 1.28 per 100 pounds.
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United Sates Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Iilfnois
United States Department of Agriculture
Tio
Tata Panudi
Marketing early lamb crop
Experience shows marketing the lamb crop when ready is best. Hot weather slows weight gain, so delaying is costly. Well grown lambs at sixty to seventy pounds should be gathered and shipped as soon as ready.
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Gother
Exercise for Sows in Poultry Bedding Practice
The article argues exercise is essential for sows to stay fit. It suggests limiting confinement by providing grain at a distance from sleeping quarters to compel walking, improving health and activity.
Renewed Interest in Sheep Raising Among Farmers
Farmers increasingly take up sheep rearing and feeding, diversifying interests beyond prior focus. They seek to learn many highly interesting aspects of sheep husbandry and management.
Modern Stables and Clean Floors for Dairy Cows
An agricultural engineer stresses constant cleanliness in dairy operations. He outlines floor choices from plank to concrete, proper curb and stall construction, and tips to avoid costly mistakes while implementing one-course concrete floors for durable, non slippery barn surfaces.
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Sayvs W. B. Burney
Chief requirements for storing potato
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines storage rules for potatoes. Maintain 35 to 40 degrees F, provide ventilation to remove foul air and moisture, and exclude light from storage. Ensure tubers are dry and clean, remove diseased or bruised tubers, limit pile depth to 5–6 feet, and avoid store floors wider than 12 by 12 feet unless ventilated. use ventilated walls and floors.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Thrash grain under cover
An idea growing with small tractors and threshing outfits is to store bundled grain in the barn and thresh at leisure in fall or winter. Farmers in DTlMnets report this plan reduces rush work, keeps labor steady, and recycles straw for feed or bedding.
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Craig
Storing Beet Pulp For Winter Feed
The best method for beet growers to store pulp for winter is to spread it over the beet top silo. This seals the silage mass and the heat from the silage warms the pulp, hastening curing and reducing the trouble of handling frozen pulp.
Preventing fall moult in very early hatched pullets
Connecticut Experiment Station offers six simple guidelines to reduce fall moult in very early hatched pullets. Emphasizes avoiding out of season hatching, providing full range, limiting protein, allowing normal maturation, wintering pullets before production, and avoiding sudden post start changes.
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Connecticut
Difficulties with Turkeys and Containing Flocks
The article notes common issues with turkey farming, including flocks wandering beyond farms and the method of driving them into a pen until noon. It explains turkey ranging patterns in warm and cool weather and suggests clipping wing feathers if birds escape after feeding to keep them from roving.
Better Roads Call For Eighteen Foot Wide Hard Surfaces
A bureau recommendation argues hard surface roads should be at least 18 feet wide for safety. For trucks and cars, the article notes 8 foot truck bodies and 5.14 foot automobile clearance, with 30 mph and 15 mph driving scenarios. It suggests 20 feet near dense truck traffic and city areas.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Bureau
Killing Off Best Chickens
A housewife who kills off her largest and best cockerels and pullets is described as being as much a poultrywoman as game people think. It notes that cockerels are often the most valuable and that farms fetch $2 to $8 for strong utility cockerels. It advises caution before the next killing.
Ways to Destroy Insects With Arsenate of Lead
Instructions describe mixing dry arsenate of lead with water for spraying to kill chewing insects. It notes four to six tablespoons per gallon and suggests a sprayer for application. A second method blends arsenate with air-slaked lime to dust on tender plants, targeting biting and chewing pests.
Summer Feeding for Egg Production
Summer feeding for egg production differs little from winter feeding except in grain amount. A good grain ration is corn and oats in equal measure, feeding little in the morning and all in the evening when the hens will eat.
Allow For Future Traffic In Road Planning
A U S Department of Agriculture bureau report notes traffic growth outpacing vehicle counts. In Davison county Tennessee the 1921 count shows autos, trucks rising, with motor vehicles 84 percent of traffic and horse drawn 16 percent, guiding road improvements.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Bureau
Tennessee
Davison County
Nashville
Federal Aid Road System Would Take Years to Inspect
The chief of the bureau of public roads notes the federal aid road system will cover about 80,000 miles. At 30 miles per hour for 8 hours a day on all working days, inspecting every mile once would take nearly two and a half years.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Best Hen Feeding Practice Highlighted for Laying Hens
The best practice is to always feed the hen the proper amount of feed. This is not always done on the general farm. Hens tend to shift for themselves causing reduced laying and earlier molting than normal.
Give Old Fowls Attention Keeps Hens in Separate Pens
The piece advises prioritizing care for aged hens. Keep hens to be kept over a year in a separate pen with extra care and a special ration. Those intended for sale should be fattened and marketed promptly, as culling is not cost efficient.
Fresh food for city kids and country youth gains
Fresh food reaches city children while improved highways and motor transport expand school access and social opportunities for country boys and girls.
Deflation of Prices Across Farm Products
The United States Department of Agriculture notes dairy and poultry goods were least affected by the rapid deflation of farm product prices that began in 1920 and continued through 1921.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Always Tired No Ambition in Larwill Indiana
Mrs Long of Larwill Indiana reports chronic fatigue nervousness dizziness and low ambition due to ill health. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her energy and ability to work on her farm and care for three children. She recommends the medicine to friends.
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Larwill
Indiana
Lydia E. Pinkhlum
R. R
Box 7
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Long
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