< Agricultural brevities o - 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. ? ? ? 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 ? ? ? ? ? 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 ? ? ? 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. ? ? ? 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. ? ? ? 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. ? ? ? 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. 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