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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
5
The article argues for eliminating chance in farming and introducing scientific ideas. It calls for educated farmers skilled in farm management, aware of physical sciences and natural laws, capable of directing them, and able to increase productivity while conserving the soil. It emphasizes advancing from pioneer conditions to higher efficiency and durability.
The speaker argues farming is the nation’s basis and must be managed with parsimony and care. Farm programs including agricultural education farmers' institutes and extension propaganda should be guided by farmers’ opinions since they bear the risk and stand to gain most from success. The aim is to reduce farming to an exact discipline and minimize chance, ensuring agriculture stays ahead of other vocations.
Advice on keeping calves indoors in stalls during dry spells and feeding a green, oil, alfalfa and grain ration with oats as preferred grain. Skim milk supplies may fall. boost other feeds while avoiding overfat dairy calves. For pigs, select best built sows, provide twelve teats, avoid fatness, ensure large exercise spaces, sheltered dry sleep areas, and rich sow feeding with milk and green fodder.
A Winnipeg area farmer hoarded manure outside a stable and hauled it to a pasture mound for three days, then let it rot unused. Despite ten years of wheat and grain yields, he refused to spread it on the land, epitomizing a stubborn, wasteful farming mindset.
A historical note on feeding horses during dry seasons, stating that grass alone often fails, requiring little grain to sustain colts. It promotes rich, palatable grain like oats after grass, and suggests feeding mares with dry feed during pantury shortages to keep mare and foal in good condition.
In Torron, Mexico, rioting by striking mill workers clashed with rurales six kilometres north. No casualties reported. Fifty cavalrymen and forty rurales deployed to restore order. Strike conditions in the city show some improvement with many employers agreeing to an eight hour day, though workers refuse to return until all adopt it. The water supply threatens to fail as the electric power plant idles, potentially resuming under military protection.
London reports Lord Charles Beresford criticizes Royal Navy readiness saying ships lack coal and oil fuel and that a war office reorganization is needed. He suggests Britain should have an Admiralty war staff as other nations do. Debate follows on Morocco crisis and Germany’s role with Sir Edward Grey’s forthcoming Commons appearance.
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