Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1941 — Agricultural News [ARTICLE]

Agricultural News

Soybean production this year is indicated to be 81,500,000 bushels, approximately 6,000,000 bushels belov the 1939 production,'•estimates the 'U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Ec enemies • • • , Tests conducted at Oregon State college show that fence posts with the butts charred do riot last as well as untreated posts, blit green posts treated with a salt combination last almost indefinitely. V it • • Present indications dre that an alltime high of 8,000,000 bales of cotton will be used in the United States alone during - the coming year, although exports will not exceed two million bales. * * * The current Canadian wheat crop, estimated at 561,000,000 bushels, probably exceeds domestic requirements by 275,000,000 bushels, report U. S. department of agriculture foreign experts. * * • A—milking cow should never get more than four tablespoons of codliver oil per day. • * * A winter cover crop returns to the grower many times his investment in seed, fertilizer, and labor by conserving soil, moisture and fertility. * • • • • English farmers are being urged to gather acorns, horse chestnuts and beechnuts to eke out the feedstuff supply of farm animals and thereby release tonnage for other needed imports.