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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1948
Page
3
DDT controls bollworm and tarnished plant bug but is ineffective against boll weevil leaf worm and cotton aphid. It provides about 600 day control of bollworm at a 10 percent strength applied at 10 to 15 pounds per acre.
Dairy cows show 98 percent single births and beef cattle 99.8 percent. Most remaining calvings are twins. Triplets occur at about 1 in 300 for dairy cows or roughly 0.3 percent.
The article notes 172,761 farms in Pennsylvania with 22,144 operated by tenant farmers and 134,172 by full owners. It states full owners own more than 10 million of 15 million acres, while remaining farms are operated by part owners or managers.
The common Norway brown rat is described as the most destructive animal, destroying about 4 percent of the US grain crop annually and carrying bubonic plague typhus and other diseases. It notes farms are rarely free of rats and emphasizes year round control including cleanup rat proofing food removal poisoning and trapping.
A single package of lespedeza seed sent from Korea by a missionary three decades ago spurred a U S crop now valued above 200 million dollars annually. The legume thrives on poor soils and powers seed hay and pasture markets across the East Central states and low fertility lands.
Increased efficiency has entered the dairy industry with more widespread use of milking rooms and milk houses. The ideal location for a milk house is attached to the milking room or barn. Adjacent construction permits the dairyman to coordinate feeding, caring for the cows, milking them, and handling the milk into an efficient system.
To offset high meat prices, home production of rabbits and chickens can be economical, making the family partially independent of commercial sources. Rabbits and chickens mature quickly with lower feed cost per pound of gain, giving a big advantage in feed efficiency.
In Detroit Mrs. Imogene Corretta a 38 year old waitress at a local restaurant faced a bold stick up. She ignored the thief then struck his hand with a knife dull edge, causing him to flee as officers note the bandit proved more crumb than threat.
Conservative leaders weigh reducing Lords membership from hereditary peers by about 600. A Conservative committee studies capping peers at roughly 300 based on notable public service records, countering the Labor government's plan to curb the upper chamber's powers.
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