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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1894
Page
4
Farm and Stock notes discuss feeding dry lands with grain, ventilating ice houses, and the State agricultural society. They outline dairy feeding, egg production, and butter quality, report livestock statistics, and note legislative sessions and schooling reforms. The piece highlights game laws, stock care, and dairy practices with references to professors and farmers.
The piece argues for a dairy and mixed farm revival in Iowa, urging skilled training in butter and cheese making, factory runs, and silage use. It highlights experiments on grain feeding for hogs, notes Maine station data on milk nutrition, and stresses careful breeding, stock mixing, and transport practices to boost profits and employment. The author Wake Wilson emphasizes practical steps, the value of cow, sow, and hen on farms, and historical context of price cycles.
The article compares nutritive ratios for millet with wheat and barley, warns about feeding ripe millet due to high nitrogen, and advises cutting early for hay to maximize fodder value. It notes millet grows quickly, can yield good fodder if sown in early June, and that many farmers cut it half ripe to balance yield and seed loss.
Lake City Iowa questions which mangel beets best for stock red yellow or tankard Carrots suit horses cows drill costs and three acres of garden. Iowa station bulletin reports mangels yields 23.2 to 27.2 tons per acre with soil loam near timber and notes carrots are good for all farm animals and help color winter butter. Plant early thin to a foot apart and cultivate until ground covered providing a substitute for bran for milk cows.
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