Progress in Live Stock Improvement Campaign Reaches Eighth Year
The United States Department of Agriculture reports eight years of the Better Lives Better Stock campaign led by the Bureau of Animal Industry. By October 1, 16 993 stock owners signed to use pure bred sires exclusively, and nearly half a million copies of Farmers Bulletin 1167 have been distributed. Counties with high adoption, barn signs, and certificates recognize progress. requests for progress reports are welcomed.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
Department
Snn-a-Bar
Grain Valley
Union County
Kentucky
Washington, D. C
Elimination of Worms From the Hog Herd in Illinois Farm
The Lee County Illinois farm bureau urges worm elimination in hogs. Recommend using santonin as a dependable vermifuge and intestinal antiseptic. Treat brood sows before farrowing to prevent piglet infestation. warnings against unsafe substitute worm remedies.
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Lee County
Ill
Bureau
Building worth planning and poultry feed notes
A collection of household and farm tips advises that a useful building is worth planning ahead. It states cheaper cod liver oil grades are adequate for poultry feeding and suggests fixing work harnesses during spare times. It also recommends selecting dairy rations with digestible nutrients and a seed-based mixture rich in protein for $1, providing palatability and laxative qualities.
Feeding Hogs For Profit Depends On Ration Balance
A North Carolina State College swine expert explains two feeding methods over 70 days. One emphasizes economy, yielding $4.02 profit per pig, while the other targets maximum profit, producing $6 per pig despite higher feed costs. The key is precise feed strategy.
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W. W. Shay
North Carolina State College
Shay
Badger Stockmen Favor Shipping Associations
Wisconsin stockmen largely prefer co operative shipping to market with about 45 percent of all state stock moved through associations. Economist Marvin A Schaars notes higher returns for stock sold via the cooperatives and mentions advantages such as quality based payments, reduced shrinkage, lower assembling costs, and closer market contact. Marketing costs average 45 cents per hundredweight for cattle, 55 cents for hogs, and 75 cents for calves and sheep.
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Wisconsin
Marvin A. Schaars
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Sehaars
Schaars
Live Stock Notes for Spring Farming Practices
The note advises on horse digestion and salt feeding, and urges farmers to push spring pigs amid cheap feed and high pork prices. It covers water for sheep, daily grain needs, soy bean pastures with corn and tankage or fish meal for hogs, and that well nourished pregnant ewes stay healthy while under nourished ones produce weak lambs. It warns against relying on timothy hay with overripe corn stover and recommends a protein rich roughage diet.
Soil fertility groups form to study lime use
H. L. Osler and county agents organized 18 local farmer groups with 14 represented at the first meeting. Michigan State’s soils expert Mr. Sims outlined soil acidity, lime forms, and profits from lime use, highlighting Michigan’s 8,501,903 acre crop base and the need for widespread liming.
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Osler Ias
Sims
Michigan State College
Michigan
Osler
Bridgewater
Bridgewater Station
Arthur E. Hagen
Saline Poultry Association
Saline
Wixson
Pearson
Court House
Ann Arbor
Holstein Breeders’ Association
Jim” Hayes
Washtenaw County
Spruce Crop Aims To Fortify Michigan Pulp Mills
Michigan pulp mill operators push spruce as a new state crop to avert raw material shortages. Six Michigan mills face costly remodeling to switch from spruce processing, while Port Huron Sulphite plans to plant 200000 white spruce seedlings at Michigan State College nursery for farmers to grow at cost. Seedlings mature in thirty years and should be planted on moist fertile soil.
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Michigan
Michigan State College Forestry Department
Port Huron
Wiedman Auto Company
Roundabout Higgins and Weinlander Cut Apple Lands in County Project
Higgins and Weinlander clear land bought from the Cornelius Carr estate to plant apples. They spend most of winter on the job and plan to set out new trees once land is cleared. The 1927 county drains totaled 20.82 miles, serving 11,708 acres with four open, five tile, and four mixed drains, plus repairs on 11 existing drains.
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Thomas Conlin
Blissfield
Advance
Mistletoe Mystery Delivers Long-Lost Kiss Memory
A box of mistletoe sent to Miss Martha Brent triggers a flash from the past. A gray-haired suitor recalls a 30 year old party kiss under mistletoe and asks to try again, prompting a playful reunion memory.
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Martha Brent
Cassland
Miss Brent
Martha
Mary Holland’s
Fitzgerald
Jane Roth
Western Newspaper Union
The Leopard's Spots and Swelled Head
The leopard's spots and swelled head are twin brothers and never change.
Hammond District Notes Social Calls And PTA Meeting
Local residents visited relatives in Hammond and at EK M Gilbert's. many call-ins from Gordon and Gordon family members. Dorcas Sewing Club reorganization for fifth year clothing work with Julia Gordon as leader. Hammond school PTA met January 2 with Hackley Butler and Arthur Hagen as guests. next meeting at Ernest Gilbert's.
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Mleen Girbach
Doris Finkbeiner
Otto Hanson
EK. M
Elmer Stimpson
New Michigan Theatre
Ann Arbor
Dorcas Sewing Club
Julia Gordon
Elen Girbach
Ellen Hein~inger
Nora Gordon
Dorothy Gordon
Hammond School P. T. A
Wilbur Cornish
Theevening
Hackley Butler
Arthur Hagen
Reading
Hovey Needham
Clarence Carr
Mr. Butler
Butler
Ernest Gilbert
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H. 8. Osler
Arthur E., Hagen
Spruce
Foscign
Hammond District
Podunk Limited
Hammond
P. T A
Roscoe Eberle
Wilma
Roland Pilbeam
Macon
Kenneth Gordon
Robert Greenman
Robert Clyde
Kalamazoo
Matinees
The
Karl Wiederhold
Michigan Careehstra
Harry Langdon
Floyd Hoffman
Roy Smeck
Wizard
Paul Specht
Esther Ralston
Olga Rostova
Times
Laura LA Plante
Billy Hamilton
Adam Hamilton
Michigan Orchestra
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