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Halaman 2 - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents.
Halaman 292 - Cooperative Demonstration Work naturally deals with the practical problem of producing crops upon the farm, it takes to the farmer much information that is helpful in a business way, besides information as to how he may obtain the greatest yield. It has always endeavored to guide the farmer in making the maximum yield at the minimum cost. It often helps the poor farmer by practical suggestions on the business side. Helpfulness of this sort greatly stimulates the desires of those who have not gotten...
Halaman 74 - ... of tillage to crop yield and to soil and labor conditions, and the relation of cropping systems and methods of tillage to weed control. Particular attention has been given to the relation of crops to the general distribution of labor on the farm. An important phase of the work of farm management has to do with the problems of the farmer or the application of all the data secured to the individual farm. From most of these farms similar records were secured last year. These records show the cost...
Halaman 2 - Divisions, and such papers prepared by their special agents, accompanied by suitable Illustrations, as shall, In the opinion of the Secretary, be specially suited to Interest and instruct the farmers of the country, and to include a general report of the operations of the Department for their Information. There shall be printed of Part One, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture; and of Part Two, one hundred...
Halaman 26 - Within four months after it was received 86 per cent cf the fresh beef was delivered, 42.7 per cent of the fresh mutton, 96.5 per cent of the fresh pork, 85.3 per cent of the poultry, 53.4 per cent of the butter, 22.6 per cent of the eggs, and 49.5 per cent of the fish. The percentage of receipts delivered in seven months is 99 for fresh beef, 99.3 per cent for fresh mutton, 99.9 per cent for fresh pork, 96.1 per cent for poultry, 88.4 per cent for butter, 75.8 per cent for eggs, and 64.9 per cent...
Halaman 12 - WEALTH PRODUCED. For the first time in many years the total value of farm products has declined from that of the preceding year. The estimate for 1911 is based on the census items and is $8,417,000,000, or $277,000,000 under the total for 1910. The loss is chargeable to the general classes of animal products and animals sold and slaughtered. Dairy cows are the only farm animals for which increase of price is indicated. Eggs, wool, butter, and poultry have likewise suffered in farm price during the...
Halaman 292 - ... dignity, and a potential influence It has never received. This body of knowledge can not be conveyed and delivered by a written message to the people In such a way that they will accept and adopt it. This can only be done by personal appeal and ocular demonstrations. This is the mission of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, and It has justified Its claims by the results.
Halaman 12 - In consequence of the decline of prices of farm animals and their products, this group is estimated as having produced a value of $2,913,000,000 in 1911, or $321,000,000 below the amount for 1910. On the other hand, the crops are worth more than those of 1910, the estimate of farm value being $5,504,000,000, a gain of $44,000,000 over 1910. Farm prices of all crops are higher than for 1910, except for cotton, cotton seed, and...
Halaman 29 - The costs of storage for the average length of time are 7.9 per cent of the wholesale price for fresh beef; 17.1 per cent for fresh mutton; 3.2 per cent for fresh pork; 6.8 per cent for poultry; 10.8 per cent for butter, and 18 per cent for eggs. Approximately the wholesale prices of the commodities mentioned are increased by cold storage to the extent of the percentages just given. CHANGES IN CONSUMPTION CAUSED BY COLD STORAGE. Before the advent of cold storage there was a relative monthly consumption...
Halaman 305 - Three centuries later the same practice was adopted by the AngloSaxon race in the settlement of parts of the .Rocky Mountain region. The pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah found that neither wheat nor potatoes would grow until the dry soil was moistened by turning the waters of some mountain stream upon it. Other bands of pioneers who formed settlements at the base of the Rockies in northern Colorado, on the banks of the West Gallatin River in Montana, and along the Humboldt River in Nevada...