Grasshoppers Most Injurious and Control Methods
A USDA prepared bulletin explains grasshoppers as the most injurious grass pests, their life cycle, and three control methods. It covers egg destruction, field trapping with hopper dozers, and poisoned bran bait, plus natural enemies and seasonal emergence details.
Sugar beet thrips harmful to plants and crops
The sugar beet thrips is a greenhouse and outdoor pest attacking sugar beets and cane. It is dark brown to black about 1.3 mm long, causing white or light brown leaf spots as cells are pierced. Spraying on dull or cloudy days controls adults and nymphs. a nicotine sulphate and fish oil soap solution proved highly effective.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Vetch Crops Suggested For Home Garden Use
A simple, inexpensive method to boost soil humus and nitrogen is sowing vetch seed in the garden. Keep vetch growing in all spaces, plant between rows if crops fill rows late, and spade under when 6 to 8 inches high. Inoculate soil with bacteria. instructions available from the state college of agriculture at Ithaca, NY.
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State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
PUTTING EAR CORN IN SILO
It is practical to ensile soft corn ears with some stalks for sugar aiding fermentation. Ames tests show large amounts can be stored without spoilage and produce rich feed. Feed as a concentrate, not roughage, with ears cut fine and thoroughly tramped. avoid spoiled ears and too large a proportion of mature corn.
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Ames
Economical Feed for Sheep From Forage Crops and Creep Feeding
The guidance emphasizes economical sheep feeding using early spring pastures of wheat or rye, oats and Canadian field peas sown together, rape, and soybeans or cowpeas for mid to late season forage. It highlights rotating pastures to control stomach worms, cutting forage for hay when needed, and using a lamb creep with corn oats and bran to sustain steady gains. Lambs 60 to 75 pounds offer the best market, while smaller or heavier cattle may fetch less favorable prices.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Good Shelter for Pigs
Pigs need shelter to endure bad weather and shade when heat is excessive, ensuring welfare and safety in harsh conditions.
TANKS TO KEEP CREAM COOL
Practical guide to cooling dairy cream with water tanks. Describes tank sizes materials placement and construction from cedar boards or oil barrels. Recommends continuous or frequent water changes galley piping sizes and securing tight joints for efficient cooling.
Arithmetic Question at Dinner Table
Mrs Torkins asks Charley to help with arithmetic to see if paying the cook all she asks leaves enough money to buy ingredients. The exchange hints at budgeting and household economics in a domestic scene.
Wisconsin Legal Texts Highlight 1877 Law Practice
The fragment notes a Wisconsin legal context from 1877, mentioning the practice of law and a reference to early field entries and a check on old authority. It suggests historical statutes or texts governing who can practice law in the state and how it was formalized in that era.
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Wisconsin Texts Litung
Give Soil More Attention to Self-Sustaining Farms
The time has come when dairy farmers must devote more attention to soil management and crop growing and less attention to balanced rations until they get their farms on a self sustaining basis. This shift will free them from dependence on feed dealers and, over a few years, create a surplus for feeding horses, beef cattle, sheep and hogs.
Time for cows to freshen
Investigator Professor McCandlish of the dairy department at Iowa Agricultural College finds cows that freshen in August yield notably less milk over the year than cows freshening in other months. Best freshening months run from November through March.
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McCandlish
Dairy Department
The
Iowa Agricultural College
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Blood Purity and Strength
Purported tonic claims purify and enrich the blood with iron and quinine to boost energy, appetite, and color. Marketed as a non patent medicine, the formula remains the same after more than thirty five years with a 60 cent per bottle price.
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GROVE
Dogs Helped Defeat German Forces in Alpine War
Alaskan and Labrador sled dogs powered supply lines in the Vosges and French Alps. In four days a kennel of 150 dogs moved over fifty tons of food and gear to a besieged post, aided by Lieut Rene Haas who guided 28 dogs on 14 light sleds through a blizzard. The dogs’ action earned a Croix de Guerre for the teams and their part in saving the stormbound outpost.
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Labrador
National Geographic Magazine
Vosges Mountains
America
France
French Alps
Rene Haas
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Malaria Remedy Ad
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic with quinine and iron as a malaria remedy and system builder. It notes the label shows quinine and iron and lists a price of six cents.
Rookie found in mess hall after water on the fire incident
A rookie housed in the mess hall for a week was well liked until the head cook ordered water on the fire. The rookie left to open a can of peas in the storage room and returned to find the fire extinguished.
Argentina Offers Mexico Wheat and Grain Supplies
Argentina proposes to sell Mexico 3,000,000 kilograms of wheat 1,000,000 kilograms of oats and 50,000 barrels of corn at low prices in a regional trade gesture.
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Mexico
Argentina
Unclear fragment cites English clergyman as aviar
Readable snippet mentions an English clergyman being described as an aviar with a joking remark about a high churchman. The incomplete text limits factual extraction of names or events.
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