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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1893
Page
4
The notice requests readers to address the editor James Wilson at Ames Iowa with farming and stockyard ideas worn from farmer readers. It invites queries and opinions to be erected for publication.
The column emphasizes cattle prices and demand, dairy profitability, and pasture practices. It cites figures on cattle head per thousand, notes rising cattle prices as beef markets improve, and discusses feeding strategies, fodder handling, mangel usage, calf-rearing, and the value of dairy products for workers. It also salutes farm women and homemaking in rural life.
The piece urges Iowa farmers to diversify beyond corn and oats, raise clover and forage greens, and optimize silage. It emphasizes balanced feeding, multiple corn varieties for better silage, and aiming for higher returns by treating livestock as efficient machines turning plants into valuable outputs.
An Iowa perspective argues land in Great Britain averages 240 dollars per acre while Iowa land climbs from 30 dollars in the past year. The writer links rising prices to cheap money and better farm practices, urges farmers to keep homesteads, and warns against selling acres to seek luck abroad.
Houanp Iowa March 6. Bettenga Bros advise breaking timothy pasture this spring. Plant corn on new sod around May 25 to 26, plow early, pulverize, and cultivate promptly. Expect cut worms. if worms spoil stand, replant up to June 15. Corn on new sod ripens about two weeks earlier than on long cultivated land.
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