Harvest of Wheat Across Saskatchewan Prompts Rail Strain
A Saturday road journey through Saskatchewan and Alberta highlights vast wheat fields and rising yields. Farmers note prices, land values, and existing homesteads as rail systems prepare to handle a bumper crop of wheat, oats, and flax across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The piece showcases settlers thriving, with Swedish and American communities cited, and predicts massive grain movement to markets via railroads.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Board of Trade
Chicago
St. Louia
Minneapolis
Duluth
Asporta
Manitoba
Alberta
Drouth
Calgary
Camrose
Sedgewick
Castor
Red Deer
Wetaskiwin
Edmonton
Lacombe
Vegreville
Fof
Fort William
Port Arthur
Starting a Sheep Flock in Iowa A Practical Guide
Iowa farms host about 750 000 sheep with wool and mutton profits, benefits include weed control soil fertility and low investment. Start slowly for newcomers, buy healthy yearlings to three-year-olds in breeding condition, head with a pure bred ram, prefer Rambouillet blood for western ewes, and push for earlier lambing to capture high early prices.
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Iowa
West
Feed corn stover and rape for livestock nutrition
Farmers short of hay can use corn stover after ears are husked as a main maintenance ration. Cutting promptly after denting preserves value. stacking under cover boosts feed value by about one third. Rape, sown after warm soil, provides cheap fattening forage for hogs and sheep but must be introduced gradually to avoid bloating.
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Timothy Day
Iowa Agricultural Station
Ames
Iowa
Rape for Fresh Pasture for Livestock in Drought Year
The article urges Iowa farmers to value rape for fresh pasture to feed hogs sheep and cattle during the dry weather. It notes corn sown with the last cultivation has grown well and will provide pasturage when the corn is harvested, guiding feed strategy amid drought conditions.
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Iowa
Jane
Iowa Bred Wheats At Fair
Iowa State College will display twelve pure bred wheat strains at the state fair in Des Moines. Exhibits follow grain to flour, with electric baking by Home Economics students. Also shown will be timothy, alfalfa map, and details on alfalfa adapted to Iowa soils.
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Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa State College
Iowa
Timothy
Ah He
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