Feed Value Found Among Farm Pests
USDA WNU Service reports on co operative lamb and pig fattening trials in Colorado using Russian thistle bean straw and flax seed. Findings show ground tumble weeds with corn and cottonseed cake yielded 4.27 per 100 pounds gain in lambs while hayed green thistles may negate grinding.
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United States Department of Agriculture
WNU
Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
Dry Land Agricultural Field Station
Akron
Colo
Plains
Bureau
Colorado
Balancing Pig Diets With Skim Milk and Grain
Farmers learn skim milk boosts pig nutrition and plan proper balances. A typical ratio is two to three pounds of undiluted milk per pound of grain, with three-to-one often best, while over five pounds per grain reduces returns. Self feeding grain and allowing pigs to consume all skim milk is advised. buttermilk is similar in value. Avoid sour milk to prevent scours, especially in young pigs in rain.
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Wallace
Replacing Poor Queens Builds Next Year’s Honey Crop
Beekeepers, busy with harvest, can lay foundations for next year by replacing inferior queens during the later honey flow. In areas with a partial honey flow, adding a honey super and food chamber per colony helps ensure ample supply for fall and winter.
End to Farm Waste Through New By-Product Use
A farm report argues that vast quantities of straw stalks and agricultural by-products could supply raw materials for paper fiber board acetic acid alcohols and charcoal, reducing waste. It notes bulky logistics hinder value and urges development of profitable uses while recognizing soil return when residues are left to enrich humus.
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United States
Practices That Add to Productivity of Farm
Differences in earnings of more than 3000 dollars per farm have been revealed in farm record studies in Illinois during the past five years. Practices that raise income with little cash outlay include high yielding seeds, good seedbeds, weed and disease control, higher profit crops, proper cultivation, balanced rations, and disease control in livestock. Additional items requiring time or expense but boosting income include limestone where needed, legumes in crop rotations, phosphate and potash use, good field systems and drainage, high producing livestock, and expanding business to utilize all labor and machinery.
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Illinois
Wallace’s . Farmer
Individual Hog Houses for Sows and Pigs
A Wisconsin Agriculturist excerpt notes Earl Knebel Iowa offers movable hog houses 5 by 6 feet at 11.50 each. The A shaped structures avoid farrowing rails and use crude oil stained rough lumber. Ten sows farrowed 86 pigs with no losses to smothering and each sow has a movable 6 by 10 foot pen.
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Earl Knebel
Iowa
Wisconsin Agriculturist
Agricultural Hints on British Grain and Hay Moisture
Grain crops in Great Britain are up to average but considerably below. Rain and dew on hay aid haymaking more than equal internal moisture, or Bap.
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Great Britain
Township Paid Driver for 16 Families Uncovers Abuse
In Carling township near Parry Sound British Columbia residents found they had funded a driver named Nobel Doumont to take his own children to school while the 16 district families paid the cost. Doumont’s children were the only attendees at the school.
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Carling Township
Parry Sound
British Columbia
Nobel Doumont
Doumont
Plethora How are things Joe quote
A brief dialogue fragment contrasts inquiries about conditions with a remark on unexpectedly cheap vacation trips, suggesting optimism about travel affordability and everyday chatter. The line spotlights casual exchange and consumer sentiment without further context.
Two Men Commit Suicide in a Wood Near Zagreb
In a Croatian forest near Zagreb two middle aged men, a former state railway official and a civil servant, were found hanging from one rope. They left letters to friends explaining their plan to die together at the same moment. The note implies money pressures as a motive.
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Zagreb
Jugoslavia
State Railways
Lifes Proudest Moment Baby Welfare Ad Sparks Debate
A fragmented por tion of an old advertisement extols infant health and maternal pride. It promotes Eagle Brand milk as essential for infants and claims a scientific test supports its claims, urging a report to be sent. The text blends patriotic motherhood rhetoric with product promotion.
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Fedetinlelyig Ibeca
Eagle
Bssiaras
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