Report, Volume 20

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Kentucky Department of Agriculture, 1914
1927/29-1933/35 includes also the biennial report of the Forest Service; 1927/29-1937/39, the Livestock Sanitary Board and the Labor Dept.
 

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Page 7 - The total value of farm property, which includes land, buildings, implements and machinery, and live stock (domestic animals, poultry, and bees), is $1,902,695,000, an increase during the decade of $703,771,000, or 58.7 percent.
Page 7 - In considering the increase of values in agriculture the general increase in the prices of commodities in the last ten years should be borne in mind. "The average value of a farm, including its equipment, is $2,986.00, an increase of $979.00, or 48.8 per cent.
Page 203 - ... shippers of California — have attempted to regulate the distribution of their products throughout the country, nor have any serious attempts been made to carry the distribution beyond the wholesale dealer, the broker, or the auction companies. The cooperative method has brought about large economies in the purchase of supplies, in the cost of preparing the fruit for shipment, and in the charges for distribution and sale.
Page 221 - Early in the spring of 1911, one year from the time of the first application, the rows of trees where nitrate of soda had been applied, either alone or in combination with the other chemicals, opened out a wealth of luxuriant, richly colored foliage and a profusion of strong, beautiful blossoms, in striking contrast to the unfertilized rows of trees, which again slowly unfolded weak, scant, yellowish foliage and but few, scattering blossoms. A second application of the same fertilizers to the same...
Page 100 - Section 1. That an annual State fair for the exhibition of agricultural, mechanical, horticultural, dairy, forestry, poultry and live stock, be, and the same is hereby, created, to be known as the Kentucky State Fair.
Page 89 - Congress for their relief, a balance of $1,665.04 was turned back into the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year, and of the $2,000 donated by the American Red Cross, $878.02 was returned to that society in March, 1916.
Page 221 - ... applied to their own steep areas which cannot be cultivated without serious waste of soil by washing, to which, in the period of cultivation, the poverty of their land is directly traceable. The results of these fertilizer tests, so far as pursued, demonstrate that, without doubt, commercial elements of fertility used in connection with a mulch of vegetable matter to conserve moisture and afford, by decomposition, the necessary humus or organic matter, will not only promptly but largely repay...
Page 72 - We recommend that the United States Department of Agriculture, the State Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas join in formulating practical and effective clean-up measures for Texas farms to the end of reducing to a minimum the danger of the introduction and spread of this and other crop pests and...
Page 221 - ... applied plant food appeared where the nitrate of scda was used, either alone or with the other chemicals. Within two weeks (a good rain having come almost immediately after the application) the grass which had been thin and weak, sprang up around the edge of the mulch about each tree with wonderful vigor, and showed a very dark green color. A little later the foliage of the trees, which had opened out small, weak and yellowish in color, began to take on a darker hue. As the season advanced the...
Page 89 - Oklahoma, which shows that for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1911, and ending June 30, 1912, the plaintiff in error had the control of the St.

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