Beath's Hereford Method Builds Iowa Beef Profit
Frank H. Beath of Corning Iowa shows how a 266 acre Adair County farm converts rough feed into steady beef. By breeding 40 cows half purebred half high grade, using bluegrass pasture and corn silage since year three, he has averaged over 60 dollars per head on calves, with annual profits and little grain bought. Hogs follow cattle. the farm grows richer each year.
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Iowa
Frank H. Beath
Corning
Mr. Beath
Beathes
Beath
Adama
Cultivate Potatoes Thoroughly and Often
Instruction on potato cultivation by G R Bliss of Iowa State College stresses frequent, deep initial cultivation to control weeds and loosen soil, followed by shallow later cultivation. It argues bloom does not indicate tuber growth, promotes mulching, and discusses level versus hill methods for different soils and weather.
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Towa
Inwa
Grain Feed For Chicks From Town State College
The poultry husbandry department at Town State College outlines starter and growing rations for chicks. Initial three to four week feed uses pin head oats steel cut, fine cracked dent corn, and fine cracked wheat in equal parts. After three to four weeks oats and grains stay proportionally the same but particle size shifts to coarse cracked dent corn and whole wheat. At ten to twelve weeks the mix becomes one part oats, two parts cracked corn, three parts wheat until winter quarters. A dry mash begins in week three from open mash hoppers noon to evening, including seven pounds corn meal five pounds wheat middlings four pounds wheat bran two pounds alfalfa eight pounds beef scrap. Bran remains available in troughs. a separate box holds equal parts charcoal bone grit sized to birds.
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Poultry Husbandry Department
Town State College
Pear Slug Pest Threatens Towa Cherry Orchards
The common pear slug or cherry slug damages cherry and plum trees in Towa each year by feeding on upper leaf surfaces, causing leaves to dry and fall, sometimes stripping trees bare midsummer and reducing fruit yield. Spraying with insect powders, hellebore, lead arsenate, Paris green, kerosene emulsion, whale oil soap, or soaps is advised, with timing around mid June and late July and additional treatments before blooming if possible.
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Towa
Iowa
Tate
Professor Reach
Treatment For Apple Scab In Iowa Orchard Care
Apple scab is the most damaging disease in Iowa causing 50 to 75 percent crop loss but can be controlled by proper spraying. It stunts growth, causes misshapen fruit, and damages leaves and buds. Prof. S. A. Beach from Iowa State College provides useful spraying suggestions.
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Iowa
8. A. Beach
Horticultural Department
Iowa State College
Overhand Patching for Garment Repairs in Home Sewing
Tutorial from Neale and Knowles of the Extension Department at Town State College on mending torn garments. It describes turning ragged tears into square holes, cutting patches, folding edges, and stitching the patch with an overhand seam, then turning and pressing.
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Neale &. Knowles
Town State College
Green Rye For Hogs
Report from Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station shows green rye as a profitable supplement to corn in hog feeding. Pigs in rye plots yielded higher pork value per pound and per bushel of corn after costs, compared with pig groups fed only ear corn or ear corn with meat meal.
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Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
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Rex Beresford
Towa Beef Producers Association
G. R. Bliss
Ment
Towa State College
Tey
Maney
Weo
First National Bank
Estherville, Iowa
Gou
Bank of Estherville
F. H. Rhodes
Western Electric Telephone System
Northern Lumber Company
L. J. Bennett
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