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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1895
Page
8
Ames readers may send questions to the editor James Wilson at Ames Iowa asking about farming and stock yard topics. Replies will be provided by the editor.
The notice discusses industry and youth themes, a warning about rabbits near fruit trees, and a Swiss view to keep tuberculosis patients away from cows. It notes Dr. Wallace leaving Homestead to become editor of Wallace's Farm & Dairy in Ames Iowa and mentions Henry Wallace as a writer of national/international reputation.
Iowa farmers advised to plant red clover for pasture and hay, with careful seeding and rotation. Smaller shocks for corn fodder cut earlier. watch persistence in permanent pastures. Dairy markets show rapid changes due to refrigeration, with high quality dairy products commanding better prices and higher competition.
In a Iowa farm note the suggestion to use confined hogs to root out morning glories on infested patches. Movable fences can enclose an acre with fifty panels, moving the pen for pasture rotation and better manure distribution. The piece also discusses pasture shifting, winter quarters, and practical barn and feed considerations for dairy cattle.
The article describes how hogs can improve soil by trenching and subsoiling, with roots sustaining the land. It notes costs for movable hurdles and a box to haul feed and water daily, balanced against the benefits of healthier bogs and cleaner fields.
A reader in Marshalltown asks the department about sowing sorghum for hay and its suitability to the local climate. The note compares sorghum to corn, noting deep rooting in dry regions, nutritive ratios of 1:16 pre seed and 1:9 when mature, and advises that clover hay can better balance fodder needs.
James F. Camp of La Porte City analyzes gluten meal from Marshalltown Iowa. He notes gluten meal has a high protein content and a nutritive ratio around 1 to 2 1 to 24, compares it with bran 1 to 5 9, corn 1 to 10, and discusses its value with corn fodder hay for milk and growth. He says gluten meal is cheaper than corn and rivals cottonseed meal for protein.
A reader from Mason City Iowa praises dry rations of six hills of corn fodder and four quarts bran daily with clover hay and oats straw. The Bidwell stall system allows liberty with a rope restraint while mangers form part of the stall. milking adjusts by shifting a panel.
A long list of deeds and transfers shows numerous individuals and families in Story City and surroundings selling or conveying property to others, with parcel references and dollar amounts. The notices include Kerrs, Meads, Jacobsons, Larsons, McLains, and others, plus surrounding county references and street names.
The March Midland Monthly presents After noons in Italy by Mary B. Welch and Literary Atlanta with portraits of Joel Chandler Harris Frank L. Stanton and notable Georgia women. It includes A Washington Logging Camp by Ida A. Baker Women Writers of Washington profiles Grace Greenwood Kate Field and others plus the Military Telegraph story by Major George N. Smith and West Superior A Princess of Silverland an Idaho love tale. It closes with Beatrice the Prize Short Story and Poem and Home Themes discussions.
A historic advertisement extols One Minute Cough Cure as safe for children troubled with croup colds hoarseness and lung troubles. It claims prompt relief and cure and credits D D Bales for the message. The piece also references other facts about taxes and remedies.
Long, dense timetable notes schedules for Chicago and North Western lines listing trains going east and west with multiple train numbers, destinations including Denver Overland Pacific and Des Moines connections, plus arrival times and freight services. The fragment mentions Night Express and Chicago Limited with varying departure times and describes trains arriving from Des Moines.
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