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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1896
Page
7
Ames Ames Iowa editor James Wilson invites inquiries to the Farm and Sitock Yard column and invites readers to address queries to editor James Wilson in Ames Iowa.
The article discusses ergot risk from seed heads in hay and grasses, dairy reforms, pasture and grain strategies, and advises cautious millet use for horses. It explains millet’s nutrition compared with oats, warns against feeding ripe millet seed, and suggests prudent feeding levels and timing for work horses.
The article notes 774 creameries produced 70,561,719 pounds of butter valued at $13 million during May 1894 to May 1895, with about 200,000 farmers in Iowa. It urges growing mangels and sugar beets for livestock, discusses their effects on fattening and butter flavor, and stresses improved cultivation, silage, and full use of corn stalks to boost winter stock and field fertility.
A reader from Sioux City Iowa asks whether to disc or harrow clover with oats and when to sow. The advice: plant clover seed two inches below the surface, depth favors disc, later sowings need more cover. early spring sowing favors harrow. sowing oats with clover is risky in dry seasons as oats may consume available moisture. For White Russian oats, sources are recognized seedsmen or northern regions. Iowa lacks top oats quality and better results come from northern seed origins.
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