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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1948
Page
9
A Virginia farm uses electric lights to combat mold in the egg storage room improving top quality eggs sold at premium prices. Electricity aids incubation, brooding, grading, ventilation, lighting, de-beaking, watering and feather removal before freezing for later use or sale.
The Dutch elm disease is spreading across large areas. Foresters recommend pruning and burning all dead material, removing bark before storing elm wood, drying stored elm wood in a building, and burning any elm trees killed by the disease. Clues include woodpecker activity, stripped bark on limbs, shepherds crooks, and lack of spring buds. Early detection aids control efforts.
Wisconsin, America's leading dairy state, reported 2,580,000 cows and older cows kept for milk and 1,015,000 heifer calves and young heifers for future milk cows at the start of 1948. Compared with last year, milk cows fell by 51,000 and young stock for future milk cows declined by 16,000.
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