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Pelts
New uses for silver fox furs have re
sulted in a pelt crop this year, twenty -
right times larger than in 1923. In less
than fifteen years the annual crop has
increased from 6,000 pelts to more than
170,000. The pelting season starts in
November and runs through the winter
months. Last season's pelts brought fox.
farmers $7,1 14,500.
Cotton acreage in Argentina this sea
son is officially estimated at 909,000
acres compared with 707,000 acres in
1934-35. Planting was completed early
in December. Harvesting usually begins
late in May. The Argentine government
is encouraging aotton cultivation. The
Argentine crop last season was 295,400
hales of 478 pounds each.
The 1936 series of Colonial wool
sales opened in London with prices for
practically all descriptions registering ad
vances over the closing rates of the pre
vious series on December 6, 1935.
The hog census in Germany just
completed reveals a substantial increase
in the number of bred sows over a year
ago. This indicates heavier market sup
plies of hogs during the second half of
>936.
Drastic restrictions on imports will
limit German purchases of American
apples and pears during the 1935-36
season ( November I to May 3 1 ) . What
ever fruit is allowed to enter Germany
this year, will probably sell at very high
prices because of the scarcity of good
apples and pears.
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Soybeans
Because increases in soybean acreage
in the future will be largely for com
mercial uses, the job of developing new
varieties becomes more complex than in
the past when plant breeders worked for
varieties with high forage, says W. J.
Morse, soy bean specialist in U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. The job is
more complex because the breeder is now
concerned with oil, protein, amino acids,
lecithin, iodine, minerals, texture, carbo
hydrates, flavor, cooking quality and
vitamins of the bean ? qualities demand
ed in some or all commercial uses.
About one-half of the beans harvested
last year will be used in the manufacture
of industrial and food products such as
flour, soy sauce, diabetic and infant
foods, breakfast food, lard and butter
substitutes, candies, roasted beans with
a nutlike flavor, health drinks, paints,
varnish, glue, plastics, printing ink?, oil
cloth, linoleum, rubber substitutes, gly
cerin, insecticides and livestock feeds.
During this winter farm hands have
been getting the highest pay they have
rrcrived in four years, according to the
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IV ages
ACTION IN THE TOBACCO FIELD? This typs of machine shown horo in was
in Maryland sows, mixes fsrtilizor with soil and lists all in ons operation.
Htirtau of Agricultural Economics of
the Department of Agriculture. Day
wages without board ranged from an
average of 70 cents in South Carolina
to $2.50 in Masuchusetts and Califor
nia with an average for all states of
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Prices
? 1 Wool prices which were stimulated
by an unexpected pickup in trade late
in December are expected to continue
near the present level for the next few
months. In January, buying declined
somewhat but wool prices continued to
advance'. Wool imports have not kept
pace with the increased consumption
during the past three years with result
of a marked reduction in the heavy
stocks which had accumulated during
1929 to 1932.
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Bovine T. B.
A baffling outbreak of bovine tuber
culosis in the government's herd of
dairy cattle at Beltsville, Md.. was dis
covered in a test made late in January.
The outbreak involved 82 positive re- ?
actors and 1 1 "suspects" in the herd
of 378 animals. All the cattle involved
were cows, heifers and calves. No bulls
of the 25 in the herd were affected.
The cause of the infection has baffled
officials. For 18 years the herd has been
in an accredited status. A regular test
in October of 1935 disclosed one reac
tor. The cattle of the herd are housed
in eight different buildings. The pos
sible source of the infection is now the
subject of a special investigation.
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Hog Cholera
Crystal-violet vaccine for the preven
tion of hog cholera is announced by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture as a
promising addition to the products de
veloped for the control of destructive
animal diseases. Crystal- violet is a chem
ical dye, one of many substances the bio
chemists have used in their efforts to
destroy the infective elements and at the
Over the Hill to the Graveyard
Lives ?/ 36,000 persons
,were crushed oat in met*
mobile accidents in 1935.
Ninety fer cent of these
fatal accidents were dm
to careless drivers. The
freatest increase in ante
fatalities is m rural roads.
same time preserve the protective ele
ment. Tests have given about 99% sat
isfactory protection against hog cholera.
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Housing
A farm building is no more durable
than its roof. Up to date information
to help a fanner chooae right kinds o>
roofing materials for different buildings
appears in Farmers' Bulletin 1751-K
Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, 0.
S. Department of Agriculture. The ti
tle is "Roof Coverings for Farm Build
ings and Their Repair."
Farmers' Bulletin 1749, Modernizing
Farmhouses, U. S. Department of Ag
riculture, contains comprehensive infor
mation on costs and details ori remodel
ing to meet a variety of needs. It contains
floor plans, photographs or sketches of
13 typical farm houses which have been
remodeled by their owners with descrip
tions and costs of the work.
Free Seeds
Ten thousand times "NO" to (fcpiests
for free seeds says the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. In a special release to
the farm press the department says that
for thirteen years it has been trying to
convince 1 00,000,000 people that it has
no free seeds or plants, yet again this
spring, thousands upon tlpusands of re
quests are pouring in from farms, su
burbs and penthouses.
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