Farmers and cattle breeding weigh on Ames market tone
The Ames issue discusses milk cow price rises, Tuberculosis risk from imported cattle, and the need for better breeding. It notes limited demand for heifers, high value of dairy cows, and calls for improved methods like green manuring and clover. The piece reflects on farming life, quail memories, and the shift to meat-focused practices while urging practical breeding strategies.
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Bob White
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Baby
Annie Laurie
Iowa
Mississippi
Nutritive ratios for dairy cows across states
Wisconsin Professor Wool reports on Bulletin 38 findings showing state by state feed mixes for dairy cows. Ratios vary from 1:4.4 in Iowa to 1:82 in Nebraska, with silage and bran and cotton seed meal common. Minnesota and Wisconsin show diverse inputs.
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Feeding Pigs Advice From Anamosa Reader
An Anamosa reader compares pig feeds proposing wheat shorts over flour for pig growth and milk swill. They discuss feed costs per ton, nitrogen content, and nutritional ratios, urging oats and wheat products be separated from water for hogs and even advising against flour for both pigs and children.
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Anamosa Town
Specializing in milk production for heifer calves
The author endorses continuing milk flow from first calves even without immediate profit to foster future yield. Recommend hay, bran, roots, oats, and skim milk in winter. Distinguish fattener from milk producer. use oats for thin or growing heifers, avoid corn during growth, and feed corn after drying to condition.
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Iowa
Curtis
Seed quality and crop loss in corn farming
The passage laments seed quality's impact on harvest, noting concern over failing to sow good seed. It compares corn to other crops, stressing seed choice’s role in yield and highlighting losses from weak grass seeds.
Measury barley discussed for Jefferson county sowing
In Fatumento Iowa a reader asks about sowing small grain on five acres and barley as a nurse crop. Measury barley is advised as better than oats, with seed rate depending on soil and method. early sowing with select seed yields best results. The college grows Measury barley, but none is available for sale this year.
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