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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1947
Page
2
The article discusses using both tattoos and nose prints to identify horses. It notes that nose prints were explored as early as 1921 and advocates a combined tattoo and nose-print method to prevent substitution in races.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica shows wheat farming evolved from hand methods in 1830 requiring 57.7 man hours to 20 bushels per acre to under nine by 1896 with machines and to about four by 1940 using tractor power, gang plows, discs, harrows, drills, combines, and trucks, while increased machine use raised worker skill and wages, improved yield, and reduced waste. breeding aided uniform heights and stronger stalks.
A veterinary device uses a ringing sound in ear phones when metal objects are inside a cow. The mine detector aids surgery to remove nails and other objects, preventing stomach and heart inflammation and possible instant death.
A new insecticide now appears containing 50 per cent hexachloro cyclohexane in a wettable powder formulation suitable for application via water spray and for further dilution for dust application. It shows promise for control of cattle lice, many insects of cotton, including aphids, and for certain insects that heretofore have been difficult or impossible to control, including locusts and hoppers.
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