Very Wet June Prospects For Crops In Georgia
The commissioner notes a unusually rainy June with over ten inches of rain, damaging corn in river bottoms and upland fields. Cotton is lagging due to a cold spring, but continued rain may yield a fair crop with timely cultivation. Farmers are urged to plow shallowly, clear weeds, and work lands from dawn to dusk, seeking best methods to reduce weed impact while stressing use of early sun and careful moisture management.
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Georgia
Sung
Fattening Rations and Nutritive Ratios for Livestock
C B Stavens discusses cost effective rations for steers and pigs, endorsing cotton seed meal with hulls, plus corn meal if available, and warns against cotton seed for pigs. He explains nutritive ratio concepts, fuel value, and effects on fat versus lean meat, noting steamed and soaked feeds can affect efficiency.
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Mississippi
Texas
Feeding Rations for Steers and Beef Fat Content
The letter discusses rations using eight pounds of cotton seed meal per 1000 pounds of weight daily or a mix to achieve a nutritive ratio of 1 to 2.5. It notes a standard ratio of 1 to 1.5 and suggests leaner cuts remain preferred in towns and cities. The author signs as M. McConpless, State Chemist.
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A.B. O
Tam
Mssachusetts Experiment Station
Mississippi
Texas
Sanborn
Missouri
Kangaa
M. McConplEss
Cotton Estimate Delayed by Southern States Meeting
The Georgia Agricultural Department reports ongoing data gathering for a reliable cotton crop estimate covering Georgia and other cotton growing states. Public release is planned after the August 28 meeting of the Association of Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern States in Raleigh North Carolina. The department recalls earlier projections and notes the August meeting as a threshold for publishing final figures.
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Georgia
Cofton
Association of the Commissioners of Agriculture of the
Southern States
Raleigh
Y. C
Neill
Kerosene Treatment for San Jose Scale Recovers Its Hopes
A California pest article notes the San Jose scale is slowly recovering after oil spray trials with Stand Oil and warns rains reduced scale growth. It details summer and fall kerosene spray guidelines, cautions on leaf burn, and compares crude petroleum to kerosene as a scale remedy for peaches and plums.
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Amagra
W. M. Scorr
Tae San
Jose Scate
San Jose
Deming Go
Balom
Ohio
Goulds
Seneca Falls
Ibis Mori
San Tork
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C. B. Stavens
Commissioner of Agriculture
United States Agricultural Departments
Georgia Agricultural Department
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