Drug Pol oxalene Prevents Legume Bloat for Livestock
College Station reports a new drug pol oxalene shows strong bloat prevention in cattle sheep and dairy tests across Kansas Montana Iowa Illinois Mississippi and Louisiana. The dry product Bloat Guard must be fed before pasture with 20 grams daily for 1000 pound animals and 10 grams for smaller stock to allow broader use of legumes without residues or health risks.
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College Station
C. M. Patterson
Texas’ A&m University
Kansas
U.S
Montana
Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi
Louisiana
Patterson
Mobile Homes Grow More Popular in Texas
Mrs. Jane Berry of Texas A and M University Extension housing and home furnishings says mobile homes are increasingly chosen each year. She notes the rise underscores a need for better located and well designed trailer park facilities to compete with better situated housing.
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Mobil
Jane Berry
Texas A&m University Extension
Leverrier Leads Early Telegraphed Weather Forecasts
French astronomer Urbain Leverrier pioneered practical weather forecasting using telegraph networks. He demonstrated that a central office could predict storms from reports sent by telegraph from multiple locations. In 1855 Napoleon III directed him to create a national forecast system for France.
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Urbain Leverrier
Leverrier
Napoleon II
France
Texas Air Control Board Opens For Cotton Gin Pollutants
Texas new State Air Control Board held its second meeting after Gov. Connally named the panel. The 1,300 plus cotton gins are likely first in line for air rules. A year long study links burr burning smoke, arsenic, and tar to rising respiratory cases and ecological harm downwind. Factors include gin dust and trash from harvesters. The report promises staff recommendations. Farm mule usage has fallen about 95 percent in 30 years.
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Texas
State Air Control Board
Savings Bonds Reach Silver Anniversary Mark
Nearly two hundred million Americans marked the 25th birthday of the Series E Savings Bond on May 1. President Roosevelt bought the first bond on May 1, 1941, and bond sales funded wartime costs. Thrift habits persisted after the war, growing bond holdings from 30 billion at war’s end to about 50 billion. Iran adopted the name in 1935.
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John Forbis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Foreign Demand for U S Farm Exports Strong in 1966 Outlook
Texas A&M economist J E Kirby reports fiscal year 1966 export sales of U S farm products are expected at 6.2 billion dollars. Rice soybeans and grain sorghums showed rising foreign trade in late 1965 while cotton and wheat slowed. Prices generally fell but soybean and rice prices rose, grain sorghum held steady.
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College Station
U.S
Texas
J. E. Kirby
Extension
Texas A&m University
Kirby
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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