Flame Cultivation Shows Promise for Farm Tests
Cornell and Mississippi State trials prove flame cultivation effective on sugar cane and cotton with two opposing flames from tractors. Tall plants require hand removal. Johnson grass resists unless leaves are struck. Flaming comparable to hoeing for seed cotton and lint with advantages in free fatty acid and grade, enabling cotton without hand labor through cross-plowing and machine picking.
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Cornell University
Mississippi State College
Mississippi
Johnson
Swine Tuberculosis Spread by Chickens
Tuberculosis in swine rose ten percent last year per the American Veterinary Medical Association. One in fourteen slaughtered hogs showed lesions, leading to condemned meat and financial losses. Spread occurs mainly when sow udders are infected, with control tied to eradicating tuberculosis in cattle and poultry and keeping old poultry out of hog lots.
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American Veterinary Medical Association
Improved Machinery Corn Sheller for Harvester Line
The Improved Machinery Corn Sheller from International Harvester shells 100 to 150 bushels of husked corn per hour. It can be operated by a one-plow tractor engine or motor with 5 to 10 h.p. capacity. Designed to shell corn for sale to elevators or immediate feeding needs, with attachable elevator and cob stackers and a downward feed line featuring a one-piece cylinder.
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International Harvester
DDT Has an Important Rival in Versicol 1068
A chlorinated hydrocarbon from University of Illinois research rivals DDT in insect toxicity. Versicol 1068 is three to four times as toxic to houseflies and twice as toxic to potato beetle larvae and to pea and spirea aphids, with similar mosquito impact. Other competitors include Gammexane and TDE.
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University of Illinois
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