New Releases by Howard Porter

"The successful market hog produce plans a production program which best fits his farm conditions. He maintains efficient breeding stock, Through good swine management he endeavors to keep his losses from parasites and disease at a minimum. He produces pork at low cost by following efficient and economical feeding methods. He plans for pasture as part of his farm program to lower his cost of production . Above all, he is a man who likes hogs." -- p. [179]

Iowa is a major crop- and seed-producing area. More acres of corn and oats are grown in Iowa than in any other state, and most of the seed of these crops for Iowa farmers is produced within the state. Furthermore, in 1943 over 95 percent of the corn acreage was planted with hybrid seed, and over 60 percent of the oat acreage was planted with seed of new rust-resistant varieties. Other seed crops of importance in Iowa are soybeans, bluegrass, timothy, wheat, flax, bromegrass, red clover, sweet clover, sudan grass, sweet corn, watermelon and sorghum. The yield and quality of a crop harvested each year is dependent in part on the quality of seed that is planted and the only way to know the quality factors of purity, vitality, weed seed content and sanitation is to test seed prior to planting. The purpose of this bulletin is to provide teachers and farmers with information about the need for clean seed and methods of testing seed with special emphasis on determination of pure seed, identification, of weed and crop seeds, germination tests and use of seed disinfectants for the control of molds that cause disease.

"The successful market hog produce plans a production program which best fits his farm conditions. He maintains efficient breeding stock, Through good swine management he endeavors to keep his losses from parasites and disease at a minimum. He produces pork at low cost by following efficient and economical feeding methods. He plans for pasture as part of his farm program to lower his cost of production . Above all, he is a man who likes hogs." -- p. [179]

The two Minnesota towns couldn''t be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company''s carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation''s president, is found shot dead--and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk, is accused of the crime. Olivia''s father, Christopher, a Minneapolis lawyer, comes to defend his daughter and uncovers some ugly truths that endanger the residents of both towns.