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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
7
Ames Iowa notices seek farm and stock yard questions and answers. Address editor James Wilson for replies at Ames.
Care for young pigs includes dry beds and shelter from wet conditions. For seed potatoes dams use a corrosive sublimate solution to kill scab parasites. Manage cows before and after calving to prevent milk fever. Plow ground if not done previously to control biennial weeds. Seed with nurse crops to reduce weed competition in clover and hay fields.
The Poland China breeders gathered at Cedar Rapids where 150 were present to reincorporate. The breed is praised for improving state herds with full-blood stock and early maturity making it attractive to farmers with limited capital.
Land owners across Iowa struggle to obtain cattle for spring grazing. Cattle were sacrificed in 1894 and may remain in cold storage. Cheap corn spurs drought on remaining stock, making grazers scarce. The article urges maintaining breeding herds of mares, cows, ewes, or sows as a reliable system of animal husbandry.
The article warns that pastures suffer from overgrazing leaving blue grass and timothy. Grain-fed cattle underperform on pastures and dairy cows suffer ration defects. It urges sowing clover early to restore balance and boost growth despite heat, flies, and water scarcity.
The article argues against breeding inferior mares and non descript sires, praising strong heredity and prepotency. It notes cheaper feed and favorable foreign demand, predicts a future horse shortage raising prices, and contrasts horse trends with electric cars and bicycles.
A Iowa reader asks about cow pea seed to boost pasture yields. The reply touts the southern cow pea known as Unknown as a vigorous green feed yielding up to twenty tons per acre, best used after bloom, and notes dairying profitability depends on proper management and diverse farm enterprises.
The article urges diverse legume and grain plantings to secure forage when pastures fail. It advises sowing peas, oats, red clover, cow peas, Japan beans, fodder corn, millet, and alsike or white clover, with early seeding, deep coverage, and field preparation to ensure year round stock feed and soil recovery. It also cautions against sustaining animals on scant rations and suggests turning hay lots to pasture or using corn fodder.
The butter makers of the Nation met at Cedar Rapids where Mr. McKay from the college explained that butter flavor depends on acidity during churn and ripening at higher temperatures. He showed that properly ripened cream yields fine butter from both fresh cows and strippers, and that freezing does not harm cream if thawed gently.
GroRge Roebuck of Mason City Iowa asks if corn stalk ground not yet cleanly cut can be seeded to pasture. He seeks recommendations on seed type and seeding rates and to proceed through the department. The piece spans twenty acres and may be feedable if managed properly.
The writer advises plowing under corn stalks rather than burning to build soil humus andMoisture retention, and notes minerals spread when plowed. Alfalfa can grow in this climate on moisture-rich, low lying ground. sow early, without a nurse crop, after seedbed cultivation. Millet straw is not ideal in a corn ration unless harvested early as hay for higher flesh-forming ingredients.
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