Farmer readers invited to submit queries to Ames editor
The notice asks farm and Stockard readers to send questions to Editor James Wilson at Ames Iowa. It requests yeas from farmers and promises answers to queries submitted to the editor.
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1893
Page
4
The notice asks farm and Stockard readers to send questions to Editor James Wilson at Ames Iowa. It requests yeas from farmers and promises answers to queries submitted to the editor.
The article argues for grass feeding dairy cows and fattening stock, urges timely cultivation and balanced rations, and warns against overreliance on corn. It promotes ice storage, skim milk use in hogs, and a farm system centered on cows or sheep with hogs secondary, stressing sanitary housing and prudent debt management.
The piece argues a fifteen cent an ounce chemical method by Prof. Bailey to combat a soil parasite, praises Blaine and Ingalls, and urges summer pigs for hog farming with careful timing. It also covers the Canadian farm report on Chick care, feeding, nesting, and the importance of proper grain mixes for laying hens and heredity in egg production.
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