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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1948
Page
6
The article compares soil fertility to a bank account, stressing deposits of nutrients and organic matter to balance withdrawals from crops. It advises practices like deep rooted legumes, lime based on tests, phosphate and potash fertilizers, returning crop residues, and contour farming to maintain solvency and yield.
A farm bulldozer blade can be attached or removed from a tractor in three minutes. The blade originates from an old road scraper and uses salvaged components including 1.5 inch galvanized pipe pushers and bent flat U clips welded to the pipes. Braces for the frame are 1.25 inch pipe.
Hampshire sow Ringold Lady Dora 753,056 set a Hampshire registry six star record. The five year old sow raised 73 pigs in eight litters with 62 pigs in six star litters averaging 10.3. Pigs weighed 418 pounds 56 days after farrowing. Owned by William C. Goodheart Jr. Eaton Ohio. Feed included corn oats alfalfa and pelleted milk by products before farrowing. Pigs fed seven parts corn three parts oats with 8 percent milk by products.
Tests of haymaking methods show silage and field cured forage yield more tonnage than other storage methods. Analyses indicate grass silage contains a higher protein percentage than forage cured by other means in field or mow.
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