Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-07 | Page 20 | Federal Farm Facts

I Federal Farm Facts I One-half One of the ih first cutting of al alfalfa al al- alfalfa falfa and nearly all of the second cutting is sometimes destroyed by the alfalfa weevil especially esp in the stock- stock growing region of the vest wesL Calcium arsenate spray is 13 believed at present to be the most dependable means of control Prices of dairy cattle are going up say government economists This Th will continue until a peak is reached reached about 31 1930 they add Producers of of dairy products in the United States st t arc are facing increased Increase competition from foreign countries and importation of great quantities of or dairy products says rs Lloyd S. S Tenny I i chief of the U. U S. S bureau of agricultural agricultural tural There Is no shortage of farm labor Jabor this year both supply and demand according to the department of agri agri- agriculture culture The supply for the country as calculated by the bureau of agri agri- cultural economics is at 1004 per cent Despite this existing condition farm wages arc are down little as com com- compared compared pared with those of last Jast year The general outlook for the wheat market this year ear promises to be as favorable as last Smaller available surpluses in other large exporting countries with Ith a continued active de demand de de- demand mand from Europe will tend to mar mar- market market market ket American wheat more readily de despite de- de despite despite spite the surplus left from last year With worth of airplanes equipped to dust sodium over acres of Louisiana sugar sugarcane sugarcane sugarcane cane land infested with the moth bor bor- borer borer borer er the department of agriculture is planning an extensive experiment that will be of great help to the cane growers It is thought that this dust- dust dustIng dustIng dusting Ing will ill pr a cheaper and more efficient way of ridding cane of this pest than the old way of soaking seed cane in water for 72 hours In the application of irrigation wa wa- water water ter to corn com care should be taken not notto notto notto to use too large a head nor to have too long a land to cover for the soil should be well filled with water at atthe atthe the tho end of the irrigation and in many soils especially the heavier types wa wa- water water wa- wa water ter does not soak in very rapidly After irrigating the soil should be ho cultivated is soon as possible leaving a coarse mulch on top While rats are In num num- numbers numbers bers in the United d States as a whole there is a a. considerable increase alone alon the eastern slope of the Rocky moun moun- mountains mountains in Colorado Little effort has been made at control in this sec sec- section tion The United States department of agriculture has just issued Farmers Farmers' Farm Farm- Farmers Farmers' Farmers Farmers' ers' ers Bulletin 1533 entitled Rat Con Con- Control Control Control which may be had free on ap application ap- ap application atlon to the department at Wash Wash- Washington ington