Balancing Manure With Phosphate Boosts Yields
Ohio agricultural study shows mixing manure with acid phosphate raises wheat yields from 214 to 268 bushels per acre in a three year corn wheat and clover rotation. Acid phosphate costs about 1.35 per ton of manure but adds 5.4 bushels of wheat, 9.2 bushels of corn, and 56 pounds of clover with a net gain well over six times the fertilizer cost at current prices.
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Oller
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
The Servian Swineherd and His Pig Herding
In Servian villages a single swineherd leads all pigs through the streets each morning. The pigs follow him to pasture and return at night, dispersing to their respective houses without guidance, forming orderly lines.
Remedy For the Numerous Species of Lice Infesting Fowls
The article lists seven lice species commonly found on chickens and several on other birds such as pigeons geese and ducks turkeys guinea fowl and peafowl. It describes lice shapes spines and legs adapted for moving in feathers and notes they do not suck blood but feed on debris and possibly skin.
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United States
Turkeys
Turkey
Lice Species on Fowls and Turkeys and Remedies
The article catalogs seven chicken louse species including heat, body, shaft, and wing lice, plus three smaller types, notes their habitats and injuriousness to hens and young chicks, and explains that turkeys share some lice but generally less damage occurs. It also states dusting fowls with sodium fluoride as a lice remedy.
Feeding Beef Calves And Their Best Profit Path
The key to profitable cattle is keeping calves thriving from birth to market. Select calves with strong breeding and appetite for grain, ensure they stay fat at weaning, and rely on milk early while gradually introducing roughage to grow a healthy digestive tract. A well-nursed, thrifty calf leads to the best profits.
calf age advantage in feeding judged by Oklahoma expert
W Bilazard of the Oklahoma Agricultural College Department of Animal Husbandry notes that a calf six months old has an advantage. The calf should receive grain to prevent fat loss as it grows, ensuring proper development and condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Bilazard
Department of Animal *Husbandry
Oklahoma Agricultural College
Curly Hair Physics Explained by Follicle Shape
A historical note describes curl as a constitutional, hereditary trait. It claims curls arise because hair follicles are flat and slanted, biasing hair shaft to spiral. Cutting is said to have no effect since the curl originates from follicle geometry.
Nature Won't Stand for Overdrafts Any More Than Banks
A concise editorial comparison argues that natural systems resist overdrawn resources as banks resist excessive withdrawals, stressing balance, sustainability, and prudent management in a modern economy.
Swat the Rooster campaign notes on egg fertility
The text argues tens without males improve egg production and plumage and claims roosters cause infertility in eggs. It states infertile fertile eggs resist heat poorly and high temperatures quicken germ life in fertile eggs, leading to spotted eggs.
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