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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1932
Page
3
Ohio State University extension specialist argues home grown legume hays cut feed costs. He notes legumes provide more protein and lime than non legume hays, reducing reliance on high priced high protein by products. Adjust grain mix from 17 18 percent protein to 12 14 percent when using legume hay.
Five steer groups at the Ohio experiment station tested molasses as a dietary supplement. Each group got a base ration plus specific molasses or corn feeds. Molasses-fed steers showed greater average daily gains, though at last year’s prices the practice wasn’t profitable. potential growth benefits may appear in longer feeding periods.
American Agriculturist notes two ways time of plowing green cover crops affects the next crop. If live over winter they may drain too much spring moisture. if plowed late the crop decays slowly when woody and can temporarily reduce available soil nitrogen.
The Rural New Yorker reports Iowa and Minnesota youth rust buster clubs identify barberry hosts of stem rust in grain regions. Last year they found 200 properties with barberries, aiding removal to curb spread as birds disperse seeds after eating the berries.
A systematic study examines hemorrhage septicemia known as shipping fever in live stock and control methods. Tests vaccinate stocker and feeder cattle before shipment, with schedules ranging ten to thirty days and one to two days prior to shipping.
Agricultural experts warn of declining horse and mule stocks as tractors replace animal power. The North Carolina State College article notes western shifts to mechanized farming, aging breeding stock, and a need for domestic production to sustain small Southern farms reliant on animal power.
Dakota Farmer Brown County reports a net gain of 12 710 pounds from 500 lambs, averaging 25 pounds gain per head. Lambs arrived September 12 and were marketed in four installments from December 4 to February 10. Feed averaged 4.9 pounds grain and 3.8 pounds roughage per pound gain, with barley 63 percent and corn 27 percent and wheat 10 percent in grain. Roughage was 74 percent alfalfa hay and the rest upland hay, fodder, corn, and chopped sweet clover. Deaths were 22 percent due to accidents urinary calculi and pneumonia. Lambs had constant access to artesian water and salt, housed in a straw shed and started on barley and alfalfa.
Quack grass control relies on timely spring tillage starting after small grain harvest. Thorough ground work, dragging out shoots, raking and burning. repeat spring harrowing aids corn planting and clean cultivation to nearly eliminate quack grass. For small patches, fall application of dry sodium chlorate at about two pounds per square rod provides good kill.
An agricultural roundup discusses creosoting wood posts to extend life and reduce maintenance costs, the use of broad-sweep weeders for six to eight potato rows, and keeping seed beds firm for alfalfa and sweet clover. It also notes barley drillings after rye winter kill in North Dakota.
A Baltimore convention recalls the 1885 Pennsylvan ia case where Dr. G E Holtzapple of York used improvised oxygen to treat pneumonia. On March 6, 1885, he generated oxygen from a bubbling bucket setup, reviving a dying patient on a Loganville bedroom floor. The patient later recovered and lived nearby.
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