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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1895
Page
7
James Wilson editor of the Farm and Stock Yard responds to reader inquiries from Ames Iowa. He welcomes questions and promises to provide answers addressed to the editor at Ames Iowa.
The article notes frost injures corn planted in April or early May reducing promise, while drought reduces farm incomes across classes. It also mentions cheap Mexican cattle draining money from meat states and European sheep testing water timing with no digestibility difference. Professor Osborne doubts chintz bug remedies and suggests furrows or plowing to curb invasions.
The piece notes Professor Faville of Nova Scotia’s horticulture school and references Iowa Agricultural College alumni. It argues for Iowa cheese export to Europe, discusses butter versus cheese economics, and links to broader trade implications with Russia and Corea.
The article argues that opening new markets benefits commerce and expands trade with growing countries. It notes Russia’s roads to commerce and the spread of civilization, then discusses a salt in milk study. Professor Robertson’s findings suggest constant access to salt preserves milk longer and reduces ferment growth, with cows moderating salt intake naturally.
The article contrasts extreme dairy milker cattle with beef breeds and warns against overfeeding to avoid fattening. It discusses hay timing, winter dairy nutrition, corn fodder versus timothy, and notes Ames college creamery producing eight hundred pounds of butter daily with student training. It then explores bacteria, legumes, clover, and soil germ theories enriching agriculture and feeding nations.
Students in the dairy turn make fires and tend the engine. In the cheese rooms they stand over vats with thermometers cutting knives hot irons. Each step is recorded on a card kept under lock. Butter ships to eastern cities and cheese remains in demand locally.
The expert states 10 to 16 percent butter above the test fat is typical. A 4 percent butter fat milk should yield about 4 to 4 1/2 pounds of butter per 100 pounds of milk, though working the butter and cream ripening affect results. Corrosive sublimate is preferred for preserving milk tests, with chromates offering mixed success.
A note requests contacts to sell a good jot or residence north of Main Street. Persons to reach include the INTELLI GENCER office or G. T. Stebbins at the college. The writer will be in Ames on Saturday.
The North Western Line offers reduced rate excursion tickets to major United States summer resorts. For tickets and full information contact Chicago and North Western Bay Agents.
The Illinois Central Rail Road offers a one and one third fare rate on the certificate plan to Storm Lake for the Iowa State Pharmaceutical Association meeting June 11 to 14 1895. Return requires a signed certificate from Storm Lake officials. A social reunion and Sixteenth Annual State Pharmaceutical Association session are planned with brief morning meetings and recreational outings emphasized.
A historic timetable lists southbound trains including Atlantic Express and Overland Limited with departure times around 6:15 PM and 10:20 PM. Northbound trains feature Des Moines and Dak Exp departures near 3:50 AM and 9:40 AM, with several freight and passenger trains noted and notes about exceptions and Sundays.
On May 21 and June 11 the North Western Line will sell excursion tickets at very low rates to many west and northwest points. For full information apply to agents of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Cooley and Jones advertise a fine line of rubber satchels club bags gladstone oxford cabinet and other styles priced so low customers cannot afford to be without one.
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