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Infectious Pneumonia Of Pigs, C R. Toop

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Infectious pneumonia is by far the most common disease of pigs in Western Australia and 1 is a source of serious loss to the pig industry. It has a wide distribution, and evidence of its existence in one form or another may be found in a large proportion of piggeries throughout the State. It is largely confined to young pigs and is most frequently observed in weaners and slips. For the most part it occurs as a chronic disease with symptoms of coughing, unthnftiness and retarded growth, but it may occasionally assume an acute form accompanied by serious mortality.

Schools For Farmers - Muresk Winter Courses Resumed

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

THE short instructional courses for farmers which were a popular feature of the Muresk Agricultural College in pre-war years will be recommenced during July next.

Two three-day courses have been arranged, one on sheep and wool extending from the evening of July 21, to the afternoon of July 24, and another dealing with pig husbandry lasting from the evening of July 28 to the afternoon of July 31. Farmers desiring to enroll in these courses should obtain an application form from the Principal of the Muresk Agricultural College, Muresk, W.A., or from the Department of Agriculture, St. George's Terrace, Perth.

Salt Movement And Forage Crop Establishment In A Saline-Alkali Soil As Influenced By Ridges And Furrows, Sprinkler Irrigation, And Soil Amendments, D. C. Purnell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

An estimated two to four million acres of irrigable saline and alkali soils of the United States return very little income to land owners (17,19). Increased needs for forage crops, and the relatively high salt and alkali tolerance of some improved forage species, once established, suggests a way of increasing revenue from some of these lands without costly reclamation.

Seasonal Reminders

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Tobacco Growing

In experiments which have been conducted for nine years at the Research Station, it has been found that, on light sandy loam soil, a lupin cover crop produces tobacco of the best quality during the following season. This applies especially to new land and the apparent reason is that lupins, when ploughed into the soil, produce a good bulk of organic matter which creates a better texture in the soil and a better moisture holding capacity. New Zealand blue lupins are recommended and it is advisable to inoculate seed before sowing, especially on new land. Application of fertiliser …

Worms In Sheep, C R. Toop

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

The parasitic worms of sheep are widely distributed throughout Australia and are a source of serious loss to the sheep and wool industry. This results from the loss of condition which occurs in infested animals as well as from the failure of young sheep to thrive and make normal growth, and there is a consequent reduction both in carcase values and in the quantity and quality of wool produced. Furthermore, heavy infestations with worms are frequently responsible for serious mortalities.

Debeaking Poultry To Control Cannibalism And Featherpicking, Boyd Bonzer, Glen Hart

SDSU Extension Circulars

Debeaking is the practice of taking off part of the upper beak of a bird. This removes the part they pinch and tear flesh with, making it extremely difficult for them to be cannibalistic. The process can be accomplished with an electric debeaker, using a hot blade that cauterizes the wound as it cuts, preventing excessive bleeding.

Your Weight, Rena Wills

SDSU Extension Circulars

There is a difference in just being alive and in being alive! Eating the right food will help you to: (1) feel better; (2) be more attractive; (3) live longer; and (4) increase the number of useful years. The food you eat becomes you—your blood, muscles, bones, and teeth; your size, strength, energy, stamina and ability to succeed; your morale, happiness, personality and attitude toward life; it becomes every part of you. And food is becoming to you if your choice is good. It gives you poise, confidence and sparkle. The food you eat is your nutrition.

Annual Report: 1953

Cherry County (Nebraska) Extension: Historical Documents

Annual Program & Accomplishments ........................ 14

Budget Estimate ........................ 17

Cherry County Extension Districts (Map) ........................ 18

Cherry County 4-H Clubs (Map) ........................ 31

Cherry County 4-H Committee ........................ 13

Cherry County Non-Stock Cooperative Labor Association ........................ 12

Clarke-McNary Forestry Cooperators (Graph) ........................ 66

Community Development & Public Affairs ........................ 82

Crop Production ........................ 33

Distribution of Windbreak Plantings (Map) ........................ 67

Farm Buildings & Mechanical Equipment ........................ 72

Farm Labor (Graph) ........................ 58

Farm Management ........................ 68

Feature Story ........................ 90

Foods & Nutrition, Health, Family Life & Safety ........................ 80

Form of Organization ........................ 19

4-H Club Work …

Agricultural Research In South Dakota: Sixty-Sixth Annual Report: June 30, 1952 - July 1, 1953, South Dakota State College

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Research In Agriculture 1951-1952: Annual Report., W G. Taggart

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

No abstract provided.

Seasonal Reminders

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Poultry Notes

The March-April period affords the poultry farmer an opportunity to prepare the A ground for sowing greenfeed crops such as oats, barley, rape and lucerne. Brooder houses and rearing quarters should be cleaned out, floors disinfected with a 2% solution of caustic soda (1 lb. caustic soda to five gallons water), and all woodwork and lappings in the house sprayed with creosote. This gives the creosote a chance to soak into the woodwork long before the chickens are received.

St. John's Wort - Beetle Parasites Imported

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Some hundreds of thousands of Chrysomelid beetles, which attack St. John's Wort, were recently forwarded to this State by air freight from the C.S.I.R.O. Division of Entomology, Canberra, and have been liberated at Greenbushes and Forestgrove.

Farm And Ranch Economic Review For South Dakota, Agricultural Extension Service, South Dakota State College

SDSU Extension Circulars

The stage is set for another year of high-level economic activity. In this type of an economy, agricultural prospects are generally good. But, some weakening is possible late in the year. A stable or gently-rising level of wholesale prices is expected during most of 1953. Prices received by farmers may tend downward and prices paid, steady to upward. Net farm income may be a little lower than in 1952.

Swine Feeding And Management Throughout The Year, Laverne Kortan, James O'Connell

SDSU Extension Circulars

This circular, published by the Agricultural Extension Service in 1952, provides instructions for swine feeding and management, including information on breeding stock, general housing and equipment, general feeding, and tips to sell hogs profitably.

Seasonal Reminders

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Now that the plant is fully grown and leaves are maturing, growers should be on the way towards commencement of harvesting and curing. These operations can seriously reduce the value of a good crop if handled carelessly. If you have an even crop and are using inexperienced labour, it is possible to go around the crop the day before harvest and say how many leaves are to be picked from each plant. There may be from two to five. In an uneven crop this is impossible.

A Simple And Effective Cow Bail, L C. Snook

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

While visiting the property of Mr. R. Burke, Cowaramup, I saw in use a type of cow-bail which made an immediate appeal because of its simplicity, effectiveness and ease of working. Mr. Burke is obviously skilled at setting up practical time-saving devices but there seems to be no reason why other dairy farmers should not make use of the principle he employed.

Internal Parasites Of Cattle, J Craig

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Worm infestation (Parasitic Gastro-Enteritis) is frequently a cause of serious economic loss both in calves and yearlings. It is unfortunate, however, that stock owners do not realise until too late the full extent of the effects of these worm parasites—for the cost can be counted not only in the actual deaths sustained, but in the resultant check in the animal's growth and development.

Grain Silos For Muresk

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

On September 7, two grain silos, each with a capacity of 2,000 bushels were formally handed over to Muresk Agricultural College by representatives of the Trustees of the Wheat Pool of Western Australia.

Tree Lucerne, L C. Snook

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Perhaps the greatest need in our agricultural areas is for a hardy legume which year after year will provide palatable green fodder during the late summer months. In the white-flowered Tree Lucerne (Cystisus prolifer) such a legume is available. Surprisingly enough, this hardy perennial shrub has never been exploited. Tree Lucerne is so hardy that self-seeded thickets can be seen growing on virgin land in the Darling Ranges and I have seen seedlings in the streets of Corrigin healthy and robust after six months without rain. The foliage is so palatable that cattle and horses will break down quite large …

Foreword, A L. Mckenzie Clark

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

The soil is a nation's heritage —a rich legacy from past generations of pioneers who laboured and endured hardships in order that the land should produce for the nourishment and clothing of mankind. We

Gascoyne Research Station First Field Day - Successful Field Day At Carnarvon

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

About 100 banana-growers and local residents were present at the Gascoyne Research Station, Carnarvon, on May 28 when the station's first field day was opened by the Deputy-Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. L. McKenzie Clark).

Variety Every Day With Frozen Foods, Mildred Daniel

SDSU Extension Circulars

The freezing method of preserving food for. future use has been used for many years. Modem frozen foods, if proper methods of handling, packaging and freezing have been used, will be of high nutritive value and show very little change in flavor, color, and texture from that of fresh food. Freezing has advantages over other methods of preservation because foods that are frozen quickly and stored at zero will be more like fresh foods than will foods that have been either canned or dried. Canning has been a very satisfactory method of preserving food, and because of this, freezing should …

Vibriosis (Vibrio Foetus Infection) Recorded In South-West Herds, J Craig

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Vibriosis of dairy cattle was recently diagnosed for the first time in several herds in the South-West part of this State. This disease is not a new one, since Vibrionic abortion has been recognised for some considerable time in Europe and America, while within recent years it has been identified as causing abortion and sterility in cattle in the Eastern States of Australia.

Departmental Leaflets And Bulletins

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Departmental publications listed here under may be obtained free of charge (except where a price is indicated) on application to the Officer in Charge of Departmental Publications, Department of Agriculture, St. George's Terrace, Perth.

Factors Determining Fruit Set And Seed Development In Artificially Pollinated Tomatoes, Charles Howard Henry

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Commercial plantings of tomato hybrids will give increases in earliness and yield because of hybrid vigor, but seed costs become a limiting factor. The necessity of hand-pollination makes the production of first generation hybrid tomato seed a costly enterprise. Failures of fruit set and seed development in artificially pollinated tomatoes are two contributing causes for the increased cost of F₁ seed.

The purpose of this investigation is to study some basic factors influencing these failures and to find ways of increasing fruit set and number of seeds per fruit.

The scope in addition to the field studies described includes …

Parents : What Are Their Responsibilities, Bertha E. Weller, Agricultural Extension Service, South Dakota State College

SDSU Extension Circulars

"A good parent prepares his child to walk alone." One can think a lot about that reply. It's really not too much different from saying, "We would never need to learn to walk if we were always carried, as infants are." It is a wise parent who teaches his child how to make decisions for himself. It gives him the true form of self-confidence since he is able to find his way through difficulties. Children, just like adults, grow in admiration for people who help them to discover what they can do.

Cobalt, L C. Snook

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Cobalt is one of the most interesting of the so-called "trace" elements. Particularly is this so to West Australians as the use of cobalt has permitted farmers to rear healthy sheep and cattle where previously this was impossible. Also, it was in this State that Filmer and Underwood carried out much of the fundamental work which led to the discovery of the vital importance of cobalt.

Grade Herd Recording: Increase In Fees

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

The Superintendent of Dairying (Mr. M. Cullity) has announced that from March 1, 1952, onward, dairy farmers whose herds are included in the Grade Herd Recording scheme will be asked to pay a fee of 5s. per cow, instead of 3s. 6d.

Stretch Your Food Dollar, Mildred Daniel

SDSU Extension Circulars

Whether the homemaker buys much or little food, she needs to know her market, the variety of foods offered arid how to make-economical choices. The increased variety of foods on the market today has made her choice more difficult. Proper choice is possible only when she understands (l) the food needs of her family, (2) how much money she ha to spend, and (3) the quality and cost of the products. She can be an important influence in bringing about better marketing conditions. Accurate information is her first need. This bulletin is intended to discuss with the homemaker her problems …

South Dakota Farm And Home Research, Agricultural Experiment Station

South Dakota Farm and Home Research: 1949 -1998

Marketing and Processing Methods Affecting Butter Quality [p] 25
Reused Wool—Will It Wear? [p] 30
South Dakota Barley—High in Protein [p] 34
Timing Prevents Decrease in Oat and Barley Yield from 2,4-D [p] 36
Oats for Growing Turkeys [p] 42
Cattle Grub Control in South Dakota [p] 46
Why Plant Shrubs in Windbreaks? [p] inside back cover