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Annual Report Of The Director Of The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1934, South Dakota State College

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Safeguards To Health, Mary A. Covert

SDSU Extension Circulars

Cooperation in a campaign to keep the family well will result in a saving of dollars and will add much to the happiness and general efficiency of the home. Many factors making for positive health might be considered if space in the circular permitted. Those selected for discussion here are: Adequate diet, correct breathing habits and other factors of personal hygiene, proper heating, lighting and ventilation, home sanitation, the avoidance of contagious diseases and accidents.

Adobe Or Sun-Dried Brick For Farm Buildings, U.S. Department Of Agriculture

Rammed Earth Collection (1923 - 1959)

In many localities the cost of farm buildings may be considerably lowered through the use of materials obtainable on or near the farm, such as logs, stone, sand, gravel, or earth, which being easily accessible would not involve heavy transportation charges and which, when used in buildings of simple form, do not require the employment of skilled labor. This bulletin describes the method of making and using adobe in the form of sun-dried bricks. The material consists of a mixture of clayey loam, straw, and water. It is of proven value as a material for walls, its use being traditional …

Better Rations, More Eggs, Greater Profits, W. C. Tully

Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars (1920-1915)

Summary
Feeding Hens for Egg Production
The chief interest of poultry raisers is to receive a reasonable return from their investment over the costs of stock, housing, feeding, and labor. Proper feeding alone will not do this, as successful poultry production depends on four major essentials, together with many minor ones. These major essentials are:
(1) birds bred for egg production, or good breeding
(2)good housing
(3)proper feeding
(4)sanitation and management
Reasons for Feeding
(1) Maintenance, repair of body tissues, storing of fat.
(2) To supply heat and energy.
(3) For reproduction, or egg production.

Games For Groups : A Manual Of Recreation For 4-H Clubs And Other Organizations, South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension

SDSU Extension Special Circulars

This publication provides information on various types of games for inexpensive entertainment, including get acquainted, active, quiet, paper and pencil, musical, line, and circle games, as well as stunt songs, tricks, puzzles, and brain teasers.

Rural Leaders' Hand Book, S. W. Jones

SDSU Extension Special Circulars

This publication provides guidance on conducting meetings for rural organizations. It includes suggestions for work programs to meet community needs, entertainment, and sources for meeting program materials.

Selecting Hens For Egg Production, O. J. Weisner, W. C. Tully

SDSU Extension Circulars

Experiments recently conducted by poultry investigators of the United States Department of Agriculture point out that neither the shape of a hen’s body nor the shape of her head bears any relation to her egg production. Apparently a hen’s ability to lay depends upon egg laying ancestry. The purpose of this experimental work was to find out whether or not a hen’s ability to lay could be estimated form her external appearance. The results of this work indicate that it is practically impossible to select breeding stock in poultry from the standpoint of high egg production by outward appearance, or …

Methods Of Feeding And Grain Rations For Fattening Lambs, J.W. Wilsom, T. Wright, F.U. Fenn

Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011)

This bulletin gives the results of an experiment extending over a period of three years on the methods of feeding and the grain rations for fattening lambs.

Baby Beef : A Manual For 4-H Club Members, I. B. Johnson

SDSU Extension Special Circulars

This publication provides guidance for 4-H members in the raising of calves, including information on selecting the animals, choosing feed, administering general care and management, fighting diseases and parasites, and preparing calves for showing.

1933 Little International Agricultural Exposition Catalog, Little International Agricultural Exposition South Dakota State University

Little International "Little I" Agricultural Exposition Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Eliminating Waste Caused By Household Pests, A. L. Ford, Mary A. Covert

SDSU Extension Circulars

Much loss and inconvenience is experienced by homemakers each year through insects which have become pests in the home. Few homes in South Dakota have not experienced some damage from clothes moths. Much food has been destroyed or rendered unfit for use by other insects. It has been definitely established that flies and other household pests play an important part in the spread of typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and other diseases which destroy health and deflate family savings.

Preparing Low Cost Foods, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Prepare representatives from these food groups for an adequate low-cost diet: milk, bread and cereals, tomatoes and fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat and meat substitutes, butter and other fats, and sugar and other sweets.The foods prepared play a large part in family well-being. The foods needed for a health maintaining diet at low cost are summarized here. More information is given in regard to choosing and preparing these foods—for example which vegetables give high health values for their cost and how they may be prepared for every day meals.

The Influence Of Feed And Sunshine On The Vitamin D Content Of Cow’S Milk, Ben L. Robinson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For the past several years there has been a growing tendency among dairymen, particularity those located near the large cities, to keep their cows in the barn much of the time. Under such a system of management the cows receive but little direct sunshine. In some localities it is also possible to find many cows which are fed the year around on dry feed receiving very little, if any, green food, either as soiling crops or as pasture. From many standpoints such practices are, of course, necessary and desirable, but from the standpoint of the nutritional value of the milk …

Annual Report Of The Director Of The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1933, South Dakota State College

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

An Economic Study Of The Food Habits Of The Ring-Necked Pheasant In South Dakota, H.C. Severin, South Dakota Department Of Game And Fish

Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications

The economic status in South Dakota of the ring-necked pheasant (Phasinus colchicus torquatus Gmelin X Phasianus colchicus colchicus L.) has turned out to be a controversial matter of no small importance with the citizenry of the State. This bird was introduced into South Dakota mainly thru the efforts and funds of the State Department of Game and Fish, and thru this department the pheasant was protected form slaughter by hunters, and permitted to multiply. When it was believed that the pheasants hasd established themselves in a county and multiplied sufficiently to warrant an open season , such an open season …

Marketing Farm Products : An Elementary Discussion Prepared Especially For Boys' And Girls' 4-H Clubs, A. M. Eberle

SDSU Extension Special Circulars

This publication explains what marketing is, marketing services and methods, cooperative marketing, and the essentials of a successful cooperative marketing organization. It includes detailed information about grading, processing, transportation, storage, finance, risk-taking, distributing, selling, shipping, direct selling sire exchange days, exhibits and fairs, and good financial management.

South Dakota Stockman's Guide, I. B. Johnson

SDSU Extension Circulars

In this circular, created by the Agriculture Extension Service at South Dakota State College, the information provided includes techniques on breeding and feeding livestock and livestock production. This information is provided through the guidance of the Animal Husbandry Department during the year 1932.

Reading In The Home : Knowing America Through Books : Third Year, Leora J. Lewis, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Most people are bound more or less in their outlook upon life, by the limitations of their own horizons. The man who has always lived in an eastern industrial town forms his opinions as to the country's needs from his knowledge of those changes which would make for better trade conditions or an improved standard of living for the industrial worker. The city resident is concerned largely with matters of urban improvement. Housing and transportation problems are vital with him, also questions of sanitation, more adequate police protection, etc. In all probability neither of these meu knows much of agricultural …

Tractor And Horse Power In The Wheat Area Of South Dakota, C. M. Hampson, P. Christophersen

Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars (1920-1915)

A study of farm operations and farm management was made on 48 farms in Potter county during 1930, through the method of accounts kept daily by farm operators, assisted at regular monthly intervals by a resident field agent. During 1931 thirty other farmers within the spring wheat area of the state kept records of their tractors; and a survey by visits to farmers in the same area was made in 1931 and 1932, in which additional information about tractor and horse uses, performances, and costs was secured. The results of the Potter county study are being published as preliminary reports, …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, July 1932, North And South Dakota Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 4, Number 7

Making the Most of Animals, Mrs. C.E. Finkle
The Arrangement of Cut Flowers in Baskets, Bowls and Vases, Purley L. Keene
North Dakota Horticultural Society News Letter, A.F. Yeager
Extracts from the Diary of a Traveling Man, W.A. Simmons
Trees and Our Prairie County, A.R. Toothaker
Rock Gardening, E.W. Norcross
The Barn Swallow, O.A. Stevens

Dairy Husbandry : A Manual For 4-H Dairy Club Members, South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension

SDSU Extension Special Circulars

This manual has been prepared to serve as a guide for 4-H dairy club members in the selection, care, feeding, and management of dairy cattle and the marketing of their products. A program and record book suggests topics for study each month.

Rye As A Fattening Feed For Cattle And Swine In South Dakota, J.W. Wilson, T. Wright

Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011)

The growing of rye as a grain crop is practiced quite generally throughout South Dakota. Statistics issued by the State Department of Agriculture at Pierre show that there were over one-eighth as many acres of rye as wheat grown in 1930. About one-fifth of the total acreage is credited to the counties in the North Central and the Northeastern districts in the East River section, while the largest county acreage is credited to Tripp county in the South Central-district in the West River country. All counties with the exception of two are credited with rye acreage. Corn and barley are …

Indebtedness On 48 Potter County Farms, 1930, C. M. Hampson, P. Christophersen

Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars (1920-1915)

A study of farm operations and farm management was made on 48 farms in Potter County, South Dakota during 1930, through the method of accounts kept by the farm operators, assisted at regular monthly intervals by a resident field man. The study was made by the Department of Agricultural Economics of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment station. The results of the study will be published first as preliminary reports, each dealing with only one or a few phases of the study. Data supporting certain statements is omitted in this report for want of space, but in most cases will be …

Preliminary Report: Feeding Flax Straw To Cattle, J. W. Wilson, T. Wright, F. Fern

Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars (1920-1915)

Introduction: This circular gives the results of feeding flax straw to cattle. Reports show that flax was introduced into New England and Virginia, in the early colonial days, and grown chiefly for its fiber. Later its cultivation as a seed crop spread westward with the settlement of new lands. South Dakota ranks third among the states in the production of flax. In the statistical report, issued by the South Dakota Department of Agriculture, for 1930, we find that every county in the state is credited with growing flax. The largest acreage is reported from Perkins County in the West River …

1932 Little International Agricultural Exposition Catalog, Little International Agricultural Exposition South Dakota State University

Little International "Little I" Agricultural Exposition Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Pork On The Farm : Dressing - Curing - Canning, F. U. Fenn, I. B. Johnson, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

The most popular meat in our South Dakota farm homes is pork. Hogs are produced in all sections of the state and for many of our farm families the hog provides the bulk of the year's meat supply. Every farm family could well afford to get its supply of meat from the livestock produced on the farm. Whenever the farmers of South Dakota market their fat hogs and then buy what pork is needed in the home, they are overlooking an opportunity of saving several dollars and of providing their table with good meat products that can readily be had …

Annual Report Of The Director Of The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1932, South Dakota State College

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

North And South Dakota Horticulture, December 1931, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 3, Number 12

Honey and the Consumer, H.B. Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist
North Dakota State Horticultural Society News Letter, December, 1931. A.F. Yeager, Secretary
Beekeeping Notes, J.A. Munro
Garden Notes, F.X. Wallner
Garden Reminiscences, Thos. W. Hobart
Extracts From the Diary of a Traveling Man, W.A. Simmons
Early Potatoes, J.J. Woods, Dom. Exp. Farm, Agassiz, B.C.
More Perennials in the Dakotas, A.L. Truax, Crosby, N.D.
The Regal Lily, Mrs. Rosalyn McCarthy, Watertown, S.D.
The Snowy Owl, O.A. Stevens, Fargo, N.D.
Pear Varieties in Minnesota

Sharing Work And Responsibility, Mary A. Covert

SDSU Extension Circulars

The efficient home is the product of cooperative family effort to secure with minimum expenditures of time, energy, and money, a home atmosphere where each member can achieve a well-balanced physical, mental, and spiritual development. Every family has had such a goal consciously recognized by its members. If it has been repressed by discouragement, misunderstanding or the autocratic dominance of some member, it should be brought into use again. The seemingly least interested member loves his home and is happiest when giving freely of his best to help make it a success. Whether the reason why he is not giving …

Destroy The Grasshopper Eggs, H.C. Severin, G.I. Gilbertson

Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011)

Grasshoppers did an immense amount of damage to farm crops in South Dakota in 1930 and 1931. If weather conditions are favorable during the coming winter and next spring, there is every reason to believe that 1932 will be another grasshopper year, but with the damaged. territory considerably enlarged over that of 1931. A survey has shown that there are large numbers of grasshopper eggs in the soil. At the present time in those areas where the grasshopper damage was severe during the past summer, while in the remainder of the State the number of eggs in the soil is, …