Show y yI L I Farm Facts I There is every evidence that farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers generally are using better business business business busi busi- ness methods in handling and marketing marketing marketing mar mar- their products This Is shown says the United States bureau bureau bu bu- bu reau of ot agricultural economics Mir hr the manner in m which farmers have rebuilt their business from the depression de tIe- of five years yar ago Apples which have been In common common common com com- mon storage since harvest time should be examined carefully in De Dc cember and tie the ones which show signs of at decay sorted sorted out The United States department oi ot agriculture is using iron ash cans at their field station at Mt MI Manitou to determine the amount of moisture that small trees require During the next few years ears tests will be he conducted i to determine how or slowly leaf litter accumulates hates lates on the forest floor L Large Larg arg i losses from the peach leaf leat curl fungus may be avoided by using ordinary bordeaux mixture any time from now until the fore part of February e The shortage of rain In Oregon this fall may reduce the honey flow considerable next spring Vigorous growing of plants tends to check the flow of nectar thereby limiting the production of hone Ira Marshall an Ohio farmer produced pro pro- bushels of ot corn on ten acres this year His average was was' bushels bushels' an acre That That-ls bushels an acre above the worlds world's record established In 1922 Kansas wheat has an average protein protein protein pro pro- tein content for the seven crop years 1918 1924 o of per cent Alfalfa from Alfalfa from see seed grown In Canada Canada Canada Cana Cana- da and northern United States will usually prove hard hardy In the Great Lakes district Seed grown In the milder climates of this country or Imported from southern Europe or South America will not always surVive survive sur sur- vive the hardy Great Lakes winters The pocket gopher the prairie dog and the brown rat the most destructive destructive destructive tive rodent p pests In Kansas cause an economic loss annually in the state estimated a at A definite program for the standardization standardization standardization stand stand- of fruit and vegetable containers to eliminate the great confusion contusion that now exists has been outlined by bv the United States de department department tIe tIe- of agriculture LIMING LD PROCESS Early Roman farmers knew the value of ot limestone soil for producing good crops and practiced wHat is known today as liming A thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough acidity test should be employed before lime Is U applied as soils solis may react differently to varying amounts of lime Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc |