Minerals in Food Easy to Supply for Livestock
An overview of simple mineral feeding for pigs and poultry. It favors calcium sources like bone meal and limestone over dicalcium phosphate and rock phosphate, noting limestone is practical and nearly as effective as bone meal when rations include ample nitrogenous concentrates. It warns against overreliance on rock phosphate and advises caution with self fed mineral mixes and wood ashes.
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Soutien Cataname
WNU
Suggestions to Help Farmers’ Finances in Tough Times
W. L. Cavert from the University of Minnesota urges farmers to overhaul machinery and vehicles, avoid installment buying, defer nonessential purchases, live frugally on the farm, and market directly to consumers. He stresses cooperation with neighbors for equipment, economizing, and focusing on products the market desires to gain extra income despite low prices.
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W. L. Cavert
University Farm
St.Paul
Agricultural Squibs and Poultry Rearing Guidelines
Guidance on soil amendments for potatoes using barnyard manure, proper chick rearing rations, and how a 10 by 12 poultry house can supply a six-person household with meat and eggs. Notes on temperament affecting flock productivity, silo use to curb corn overproduction, and nutritional value of corn stalks and leaves.
Shuman Sets High Mark in Pig Marketing on Illinois Farm
Cheries B. Shuman, graduate of Illinois College of Agriculture, raised and sold 84 percent of pigs farrowed on his Moultrie county farm over three years. He averaged nearly eight pigs per litter sold, with 475 of 568 pigs sold from 62 litters in 62 litters. He cooperates with the extension service to demonstrate swine sanitation and practices. Last summer he fed 52 head and sold them at six and a half months, averaging 204 pounds, with feed costing 91 pounds per 100 pounds gained. Feed mix included corn, wheat, oats, tankage and soybean oil meal.
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Cheries B. Shuman
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Moultrie County
Shuman
How to Kill Groundhogs In The Garden
Montreal Family Herald describes methods to control groundhogs damaging crops and mowing equipment. It recommends guns and traps, notes carbide gas is ineffective unless holes are sealed, and proposes using carbon monoxide from a running car with a tube to the main hole for about twenty minutes. Readers are invited to report results.
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Montreal Family Herald
Hot Weather Pests and Milk Safety
Hoard's Dairyman notes warm weather boosts fly reproduction and bacteria that sour milk. It urges clean milking, clean cows, and prompt cooling to prevent contamination, and suggests using fly traps and fly spray to reduce flies and protect dairy operations.
Silo Protects Crops Against Frost with Timely Enseling
The Dakota Farmer urges ensiling corn to save the crop. A ready silo can receive leaves ears and stalks before frost. Losses occur if corn is not ensiled when kernels reach the glazed stage and the starch remains firm enough to form meat.
Seeding Millet with Clover and Grass Discussed
Sowing millet st. with alfalfa timothy and clover is not advised as millet crowds out fertility and harms the stand. Seeding grass and clover separately early yields a stronger stand to endure winter conditions without hindering the other grasses.
The Burden and Illusion of Being Important
A dialogic meditation on importance contrasting those who are genuinely important with those who merely seem so. It weighs whether true burden or easy illusion dominates, suggesting the only historians of the future can judge what mattered now. The piece cites Mr. Cato Nitetails on perception and social status.
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Cato Nitetails
Eas
Indianapolis News
Latin phrase locus sigilli on old legal documents
The note explains that the letters L.8 or L.8 stand for locus sigilli the place for the seal in Roman law. It details how Romans marked documents with the seal location and how the abbreviation appeared on legal papers in antiquity.
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Illinois Farmer
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