Better Sires Lead To Improved Females
The U S Department of Agriculture runs short course schools at major stockyards to teach practical livestock marketing. In East St Louis and Kansas City attendees learn cattle and hog grades, shipping regulations, freight rates, and marketing co operatives. Courses include bookkeeping, carcass grading, and plant visitations to reduce haphazard shipping and raise returns.
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United States Department of Agriculture
East St. Louis
Bureau of Markets
National Federation of Live Stock Shipping Associations
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Chicago
Sioux City
Detroit
South St. Paul
Bureau
Livestock Exchange
Department of Agriculture
Control of tobacco pests promises relief to Florida growers
The U S Department of Agriculture reports promising control of the tobacco flea beetle in Florida. Dusting methods in the shade-grown region have been boosted by power machines, enabling coverage of 10 to 20 acres daily. For tobacco thrips, nicotine sulphate and soap mixed in water provide effective control when applied weekly during emergence.
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Florida
Bureau of Entomology
United States Department of Agriculture
Market for Black Walnut Logs and Carload Sales
Black walnut tops American woods in price and suitability for growing individual 28s on farms says USDA forestry specialists. Prices range 40 to 150 dollars per thousand feet at loading. logs marketed in carload lots shipped directly to veneer furniture and cabinet makers and firearm manufacturers. Cooperative sales are often profitable. a carload holds 30 to 40 logs 12 to 16 inches or 18 to 25 larger logs, scaling 3 000 to 5 000 board feet.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Live Stock Notes for Better Meat and Manure
Advice on pig care and livestock husbandry. Emphasizes spacious sleeping quarters for young pigs, castor oil for feverish sows, reducing feed and increasing exercise for pigs with thumps, maintaining sanitation by killing parasites, and using sour skim milk for hog feeding. Warns against close confinement and poor ventilation, and urges gentle handling to win affection of calves colts lambs and pigs.
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Pickett Pershing & Co
Elmer
the Home Bakery
Rexall
Plymouth Rock
Wilbert Barker
Scotland
Newberry RF
Chamberlain
Odon Drug CO
Bunch’s
Kemps Ibalsam
Kemp
Kemp’s
Godon Drug CO
Gr. W. Henderson
Odon and Plainville, Indiana
J. M. Scott
W R.neeremer
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