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New Columbia Sheep—
Made-to-Order Breed
Developed for Dual-
Purpose Requirements
The need for a breed of sheep that
would produce both wool and meat
efficiently resulted In work being
undertaken by the USD A about 1912
to find such a breed.
The result of years of extensive
work was the introduction of the
Columbia sheep, which combined
the most desirable characteristics
of the Lincoln and Rembouillet. The
breed was more than a quarter of
a century being developed.
The breed as developed to such
a point that it has its own registry
organization, the Columbia Sheep
Breeders’ association. It is primar
ily a range sheep but is being used
to a moderate extent in farming
areas.
Columbia sheep are free from
wool-blindness and skinfolds. The
body is long, but is symmetrically
proportioned with a good balance
between width and depth. In 12
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An Idaho Colombia ram show
ing the desirable characteristics
of this newer breed.
months a typical Columbia ewe
grows a fleece weighing about 12
pounds, which contains approxi
mately 50 per cent elean wool about
8% Inches long.
New Com Ear Worm
Control Recommended
A new contact insecticide has re
cently been developed for the con
trol of corn ear
worm on sweet
corn and hybrid jdffljli
seed corn, as a sub
stituto for pyreth-
The spray is a |<M||«2£m -
liquid solution of
styrena dibromide
In a mineral oil and WmKimjfW
is applied to the
corn silks as soon
as their ends ap- teWrll?/
pear brown. It is vsVjfiV
necessary to treat
more than once as
aU ears do not show brown at the
same time. The spray is applied
with a hand applicator which meas
ures a 20 drop dosage from a half
pint container.
Feather Fabric Will
Add to Farm Income
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The washed, stretched and
dried fibers are wonnd on spools.
America’s poultry industry can
produce 35 million men’s suits an
nually. A new feather fabric that
looks like wool but is warmer, soft
er a-nd lighter, has been developed
by USDA specialists.
Feather protein is converted into
fiber by treating the feathers with
a reducing agent and a special type
of wetting agent, or detergent, in
water solution, then forcing the re
sulting spinning solution, or “dope,”
through the tiny holes of a spin
nerette into an acid-and-salt solution
that sets th« streams of dope into
fibers. The fibers are then stretched
and dried and treated to remove the
detergent se that the regenerated
protein is left in true fiber form.
It is »#t expected that feather
fabrics, due to small volume avail
able. will ever prove a serious econ
omical threat to cotton or wool,
nevertheless feathers do offer addi
tional revenue for the poultryman,
and will compete more with higher
priced fabrics.
Cultivation Increases
Bermuda Grass Yields
Oklahoma experiments have
proved that disking the grass sod
of bernanda lightly every ether year
wil eause an increase in yield of
about 26 per cent. The tests were
made on a thin or poor stand of
grass.
It was found that bermuda would
tOTIT iK, heavier disking than the
common native grass. Tillage
oeomed to prevent the grasses from
gpferg to tide center of the damps.
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THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
Sweet Potato Variety
Good Starch Source
Large Yield Makes It
A Profitable Farm Crop
By W. J. DKYDEN
The sweet potato is fast taking its
place as the main source of
starch. This is largely due to the
fact that starch can be produced or
extracted easily from sweet potatoes
and of the large volume that can be
produced per acre.
Starch and its derivatives are
used in the production of almost
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Starch potato, right, and ordi
nary yam at left. The yam weighs
n pound and a half, the starch
potato weighs more than 7
pounds, some grow as much as
18 pounds.
every item of commerce from
cream puffs to dynamite. In the
wastelands of the Florida Ever
glades, the United States Sugar cor
poration is carrying on vast opera
tions in the producing and manu
facture of sweet potato starch. They
now have requirements for 40 freight
cars of sweet potatoes daily.
The starch sweet potato is a spe
cial variety developed and tested for
years. It grows as large as a man’s
head and contain a much higher
starch content than the table varie
ties. The yields are from 500 to 700
bushel* per acre.
By-products are also important.
Pulp stock-feed production as well
us th* vines for livestock feed have
high nutritive value. The waste wa
ter is decomposed and gas used in
power plant, the solids producing a
high quality fertilizer.
Not only for Florida, but other
section* where climate aud soil pro
duction Is suitable, this industry wifi
prove of increasing interest and
value to farmers. It has proved finan
cially sound and the need for this
quality starch is ever increasing.
Telephone Wires Not
Used by New System
Power Lines to Carry
Voices in Rural Zones
A new telephonie communications
era has begun for the nation’s farm
families. Tests made in Arkansas
and Alabama by the telephone, pri
vate power companies and the REA
have proven the feasibility of “talk
ing” over the same rural power lines
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Clande Gregory, president of
Craighead REA co-operative,
Jonesboro, Ark., making one of
first calls over the carrier cur
ent telephone.
which provide farmers with elee
tric energy.
Outwardly, the new and old tele
phonic equipment looks very much
alike. In the new system, how
ever, speech is transmitted over
power wires by means of a carrier
wave of radio frequency produced
by electronic tubes, located either
in a small box adjacent to the tele
phone or attached directly to the
instrument. A device called a
“coupler,” placed on a pole outside
each telephone user’s house, allows
the carrier current to enter and
leave the lines but prevents the pow
er current from interfering with
transmitting and receiving instru
ments.
Equipment, to change the high
frequency current back to normal
voice frequency, is located at a point
on the power line where vocal mes
sages are channeled over wires to
the telephone central offiee. The
new system, experiments on which
were started by Bell laboratories
and REA in 1938, Is expected to
"telephonically link” thousands of
families who now reside along rural
power lines but are too far off the
beaten path to be reaehed by exist
ing telephone lines. Approximately
three million farms are now eleo
trifled and scores of others are be
ing added daily.
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DDT Use for Hairy
Vetch Recommended
Recent experiments at Oregon,
Maryland and Wisconsin experi
ment stations would
indicate that the |B|. mM
use of DDT, while |||m WsS
causing some in-
jury to honeybees, jiSl
may offer advan
tages that will over- j*S»|P
come these losses iM&KK.
and even prove a ii
blessing to the bee- r \ J
keeping industry.
When hairy vetch was dusted for
the hair vetch weevil, at the rate
of 3 per cent DDT dust, 25 pounds
per acre, effective control was se
cured. Bees were in most cases
absent from the dusted fields for
several days following the dusting.
As hairy vetch is of considerable
importance to the beekeepers In
many regions, and as the weevil
would soon kill out the crop, the
Importance of these tests Is of con
siderable interest and value.
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