Hog Houses for South Dakota

Good housing is essential to successful hog raising. While several sows may do fairly well with their litters around an old strawstack or shack under favorable weather conditions, it will pay in the long run to figure on good housing and care, if the business is to show the best profit. The writer has attempted to put as much helpful material in as little space as possible for anyone planning to build a hoghouse. If changes are made in the plan the details and suggestions should still be of service. It is hard to make changes of any consequence in a plan, however, without running in to some difficulty later on in the proceess of building. If such changs are made it is often better not to try to follow the plan from that point on except as to details. While one object in getting out the bulletin is to save the necessity of blue prints, blue print plans of any of the houses can be supplied at a cost of 10 cents to cover the cost of printing them

New Hard Surfaced Floors for the Farm Poultry House

Experimental work on poultry house floors by the Agricultural Engineering department of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station has developed two new hard-surfaced floors that are very practical for the purpose. One is of soil-cement and the other of oil-surfaced soil mixture. Their principal advantage is their low cost. Cost of materials for these floors figures about one-third that for the conventional concrete floor. The time required to build them is about the same, and even with hired labor the total cost of building these floors should be only one-third as much as for concrete or even less

Pit and Trench Silos

Pit and trench silos are often confused, in name. The pit silo is cylindrical in form, and deep. It is the same shape as the above-ground silo and extends below the ground. There are several good reasons for making pit silos in this shape. They have the greatest capacity for the amount of side-wall required, they are easier to build, the silage settles in them better, and the wall (plastered or other) is stronger. Pit silos have been used for many years and have given excellent satisfaction: They are used for storing the most valuable silage crops and can be relied upon to preserve the silage as well, if not better, than the superstructure, when they are properly built. Feed can be stored in them from one season to the next just the same as in the above-ground silo and they have an advantage as far as the freezing of the silage in winter is concerned. These advantages are listed below

A Year\u27s Progress with South Dakota\u27s Farm Electric Test Line

America uses a great deal of electric service in her cities for lighting appliances and power, but service offered the rural districts from power lines, in the past has been limited and poorly organized. The farmer has not been a desirable customer for the power companies and frequently has accused the power companies of charging excessive rates. One reason for this is found in the high cost of distribution of electric energy. It costs too much money to run a low voltage electric line to a farm just for lighting service. If the power company built the line, the interest, depreciation and line service alone would cost them around $8.00 per month. If they gave the electricity away after the line was built, they would have to get$8.00 per month from some source or the company would lose money in addition to the loss on free electricity. If the farmer builds the line, it will cost him as much or more

The Lake Country Silo

This publication provides detailed instructions to build a Lake County, South Dakota panel silo. The estimated cost of the construction and a list of necessary materials is also provided

PENENTUAN KADAR ASAM LEMAK BEBAS PADA MINYAK JELANTAH DENGAN PENAMBAHAN ANTIOKSIDAN ALAMI KULIT PISANG RAJA (Musa sapientum)

Background: Indonesia as one of agrarian countries rich in natural resources and has a variety of plants that have great potential to be utilized as a natural antioxidant, one of which is a banana. In the utilization of bananas is limited to the meat alone while the skin is only used as waste, whereas banana peels have a high value of benefits, it is evident that the banana skin contains high oxygen activity compared to meat. Method: The method used is Completely Randomized Design (RAL) with factorial pattern consisting of 5 treatments and 3 repetitions. The results were analyzed statistically with Anova test showed sig value. 0.000 <0.05 followed by Tukey test showing very real difference in each treatment. Results: The results showed that group P (3) was the best treatment group that decreased free fatty acid content in cooking oil with the addition of natural antioxidant of banana peel (Musa sapientum). Conclusion: The addition of natural antioxidant of banana skin effect in decreasing free fatty acids fatty acid content with average free fatty acid content with 1% b / b, 2% w / b and 3% b / b banana peel powder of 0 , 2928%, 0.2733% and 0.2370%

A focused telephonic nursing intervention delivers improved adherence to A1c testing

Compliance with hemoglobin A1c (A1c) testing is suboptimal despite the clear national recommendations and guidelines established for care of patients with diabetes. Recent studies have demonstrated a relationship between participation in a diabetes disease management (DM) program and improved adherence to A1c testing. A focused intervention study was initiated to investigate the ability of a DM program to drive improvement in A1c testing. A cohort of 36,327 members experienced a statistically significant increase (29%) in A1c testing while participating in the 6-month focused intervention. This finding demonstrated that a focused DM intervention is able to deliver improvement in a clinical process metric critical for managing patients with diabetes, thereby reducing their risk of disease exacerbation