Odon Journal Notes Local Attendances and Sales
The Odon Journal reports many local residents at a sale of Ed and John O Conner and John Stafford on Monday. Mr and Mrs Oral Riggins hosted visitors Saturday night and busied themselves in Odon on Monday. Misses Martha and Audra Faith stayed with Miss Janie Bechtel Friday night. The Kline heirs sale drew several attendees Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O'Conner
John Stafford
Martha
Audra Faith
Janie Bechtel
Odon
Oral Riggins
Local Folks Attend Sale Prep Including Clay Doane
Clay Doane spent Tuesday night with his sister Maude Helestine of Elnora. Mr and Mrs Harvey Faith and daughter Lonogene visited Thomas Faith. Frank Allen of near Scotland came to town Wednesday to publicize a sale in March after selling his farm and many farming implements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay Doane
Maude Helestine
Elnora
Harvey Faith
Littie
Lnogene
Thomas Faith
Frank Allen
Scotland
Allen
Feeder Hogs From Belle Fourche Project Declared Cholera Free
The Belle Fourche reclamation project in South Dakota ships about 700 carloads of cholera free feeder hogs annually to Nebraska and central markets. These porkers require no quarantine for interstate shipment and reduce buyer costs on yardage and feed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bells Pourche Reclamation Project
South Dakota
Nebraska
Belle Fourche
Hog feeder program aims to move fifteen carloads via Belle Fourche project
The article notes a cooperative livestock shipping plan for feeder hogs from the Belle Fourche project to buyers east of the Missouri River. Fifteen-car train loads would depart Newell and Nisland within a 36 hour window, using carloads of feeder hogs sold 16 to 21 cents per pound fob, with cholera free stock and direct producer to buyer delivery. It highlights future South Dakota farmers adopting feeder hogs due to corn prices and hay abundance, and cites the Dearmin Crooke sale as part of community activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Bede Fourche
South Dakota
Belle Fourche
Shrunken wheat praised as pig feed value
J W Wilson of South Dakota State College notes shrunken wheat is worth about the same as government price support for hogs. Experiments at the college showed 44 pound wheat versus 57 pound wheat with ground shrunken wheat yielding about two pounds of average daily gain per head, while good wheat raised only 0.3 pounds more per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Wilson
South Dakota State College
Wilson
Best Gilts and Breeding for Profitable Berkshire Hogs
The piece extols Berkshire hogs for their size and vigor as prime brood sows. It advises applying crude oil to hog backs to kill lice and recommends saving the best gilts to breed, describing this as the best ante nd of building up a good producing herd.
Beef Calves Growth on Pasture and Feeding Tips
Calves on pasture should be kept thrifty and growing. If pasture runs short, feed cows to prevent stunting. use silage and good hay as supplements. Small amounts of dry feed are preferred, with soybeans or cow peas as options. If cow feeding is impractical, feed calves grain via creep in pasture, using a mix of one third corn one third oats and one third bran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Manure as Valuable Soil Fertility Aid for Crops
Farm manure is a valuable waste product when saved and applied to the soil. Richer soils are needed to produce larger crops and barnyard manure will enrich the soil and thus increase the income from the farm.
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Percy L. Crosby Copsright
The
McClarg Newspaper Syndicate
Odon Journal
Mililana
Jao. B
Kline Heirs
Ness
Kilgore
Thassald
Clancy
Geeee Ag Bale
Canada
Association of Railway Executives
Broadway
New York
Shilor
Thomas Resler
Herschel Harper
A N Long
Sam Raneys
James Chestnut
Dearmin-Crooke
Arthur Chestnut
Ol! Hinkle
R R Rosenberry
William Harper's
D W Resler Place
Chris Low
Jasonville
Walter Roach
Jesse Chestnut
Cletus
Tom Reslers
Rexall
Dakota
Valley View Farm
Newberry
Casey Bell
Casey
Jersey
Farrow
Poland
W. R. Neersemer & Son
John W. Weaver
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