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Newspaper

Ames Times

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1893

Page

4

Farmers urged to start good roads and dairy reforms

The article argues for starting the good roads movement within corporations at corporate expense. It extols efficient drafts teams, pasture use, and silage while warning about skim milk cheese and deceptive dairy factories. It notes global dairy competition, calls for better cow feeding, silo decisions, and cautious use of patent stock foods.

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Iowa Farmers Rebuild After Homestead Era Shifts

The piece argues that Homestead policy flooded 160 acre farms, depressing wheat prices and favoring ranching. It urges Iowa farmers to diversify into dairy cattle horses and hogs, emphasizing milk production, efficient pastures, good draft mares, and careful breeding to improve beef and sheep profitability while managing feed costs and pasture renewal.

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Iowa farm land values rise sparking eastward buying surge

In Brookly n Iowa readers ask about potato growing and farming reform as land prices jump. Acknowledging rising land values, the article notes buyers from farther east and shifts in farming practices, urging adaptation to higher costs and better soil management for sustained profits.

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