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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1894
Page
8
Editor James Wilson summarizes Iowa farming guidance on selecting breeding sows, feeding hogs and cattle, clover and soil practices, and market dynamics. It urges proper housing, protein-rich feeds, careful stock selection, and vigilance against disease, with notes on wool, mutton, and market prices.
A reader from Tabor Iowa shares alfalfa experience in Crawford and Carroll counties. Sowing in April on wet low ground, alfalfa spreads where sloughs join higher ground and helps suppress weeds. The letter also touches turnips for dairy cattle, hog feeding strategies, and general farm economics with references to local speakers and crops.
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