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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1893
Page
4
The article discusses farm topics and reader ideas for the Iowa farm community. It mentions the dairy convention in New Hampshire with 300 prize dollars, legume cultivation, road improvements, freight costs, and advice to farmers and farm wives on planning and market strategies.
The article argues against oxen replacing horses for farm work, noting overstocked beef markets and plentiful 1,200 pound horses. It urges liberal seeding of timothy and clover, praises rains for restoring pastures, and predicts fodder savings as new grass grows and stock responds.
An Iowa style guide discusses growing potatoes amid drought, urging early planting and frequent cultivation. It notes manure from barnyards keeps soil porous, reduces crusting, and aids root spread while shading soil, with the aim of securing early summer growth and better yields.
The piece argues for breeding size and flesh forming traits into Jerseys and developing milking ability in Shorthorns. It highlights the Chicago test favoring larger Jerseys and promotes weighing colts, structured feeding, and using skim milk and roots in winter rations. It stresses practical experience, observation, and reading to improve farming.
The article argues that selecting high yielding cows with proper feeding boosts profits, detailing weight classes from 150 to 500 pounds and noting their relative profitability. It cites Ames creamery's strong butter scores and discusses English beef feeding challenges, Iowa's beef and hog prospects, and Kansas station experiments on balanced rations, corn and molasses, and confinement effects on gains.
In crossing Merino ewes with mutton breeds consider pasture, flock size and goals. Cotswold suits near cities for early lambs, Downs or Shropshire Hampshire or Oxford if heavy soils aim to obliterate Merinos, Southdown or Dorset for hilly pasture, Marsh or black faced types on scant ground. Preserve Merino wool when well bred and avoid wasteful rumen feeding. milk skimmed feed to cows if pigs scarce.
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