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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1892
Page
5
Farmers address the Ames Iowa editor asking for help with an insect problem affecting early potato crops. The note mentions Stockard and Stockard and Stockard and asks readers for solutions to pest damage on potato plants.
An agricultural note urges careful fall lines and proper tile placement to prevent water stagnation. It advises close spacing of tiles, cementing ends to keep out silt, and laying tiles deep where fall allows. Emphasizes tile cost savings and the need for reliable work.
Dr. Wallace compiles notes from an Iowa view on Clover farming. The article argues clover declined for a century but can rebound with renewed cultivation and strategic growth, noting some regions struggle to grow it while others do so only sparingly.
The text argues for practical home and farm skills as essential in industrial education. It stresses teaching boys and girls tasks like sewing, cooking, keeping books, gardening, poultry farming, and home management to meet demand for capable workers. It envisions women playing a pivotal role in this work-a-day world.
The piece urges turning youths to fields and educated agriculture including horticulture, dairying, and stock feeding. It stresses scientific soil knowledge, farming methods, and market readiness to secure comfortable living through better husbandry and organized family life. It highlights educated farming as a path for the farmer’s daughter.
The text advises threshing early to avoid straw loss and building a straw stack that resists rain. Use corn fodder where slough grass is unavailable, cover the stack to shed rain and wind, and build narrow piles so straw stays dry. Straw brings bedding and absorbent value, aiding livestock care and manure management.
A farmer argues for year round labor on the farm by using a winter dairy program. He notes heifers can sell for two cents per pound or be kept for winter milk, urging better use of hired help year round to boost dairy and grain markets and reduce idle periods. He compares steer growth to dairy cow output, cautioning against overemphasizing beef profits versus dairy profits.
Widespread drainage boosts corn yields in Washington with drained fields outperforming undrained while good farm lands fetch around 30 dollars per acre. The text notes uneven conditions and profitability concerns for landowners.
Cattle prices in Chicago for cows and heifers run from 1.75 to 2.25 dollars with spayed Dakota heifers at 3.75 dollars. The writer argues farmers should spay well bred heifers, fatten them like steers, and market them for higher returns, noting the practice is common elsewhere and would boost farm profits.
The piece argues that educating Western girls on equal terms with boys molds the next generation. It credits educated women as societal leaders who influence children and men, noting Western colleges welcome both sexes while Eastern schools begin to admit women. It foresees the typical American as educated Western children, grounded in faith and neighborly love, shaping a prosperous West.
A Harpers Ferry reader outlines calf losses after June, blaming inadequate fattening with skim milk and oil meal. The note urges continued oil meal with skim milk, offers alternative rations, and mentions a forthcoming Bulletin No. 19 detailing a second feeding experiment.
The article argues counties should finance steel roadbeds to improve rural roads where gravel or stone are insufficient. It emphasizes local tax funding, possible sub-district divisions, and parallels with railroad support, urging farmers to participate despite campaigning against extra taxes.
The piece argues Iowa farmers waste corn fodder and miss a key cost saving. It cites farm practices from dairies to packing houses, noting corn fodder, hay, and clover rotation as essential. It warns neglect of fodder wastes profits and urges sharper waste reduction.
The piece argues for profitable on farm beef production by feeding steers raised on the same farm with good housing and regular feeding. It recommends mixing corn with palatable supplements, using clover hay roots oats bran oil meal and flax meal, avoiding poor quarters, and ensuring steady gains and ample water. Continuous gains beat half fed losses and proper tying and grooming aid efficiency.
The second annual Grain Palace exposition in Plankinton South Dakota runs September 28 through October 9. Plankinton claims to host the original Grain Palace and vows this year's event will surpass last year’s success with daily special features including a political tournament featuring leading orators. A single round trip fare offers an economical way to visit this harvest festival of rejoicing.
Harvest Excursions of the Iowa Central Ry will offer half rate tickets on two dates August 30 and September 27 to many western and southern states including Minnesota North and South Dakota Montana Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah New Mexico Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Louisiana and Texas as well as Kansas City and St Joseph Missouri. For rates and details contact Town Central Ry agents or Thos P Barry G P A Marshalltown Ia.
Dantas Center Iowa August 17. A B McClure provides guidance on preparing commercial cucumber pickles. Gather at peak size, salt brine of half a bushel salt to five bushels cucumbers, brine until winter, then sort and place in vinegar with seasoning. Lengths range from one and a half to four and a half inches. After salting, steam before vinegar.
A reader from Victor Iowa asks if common galvanized fence wire can serve as a lightning rod for a 66 by 48 foot building. The reply says six to eight strands twisted into a cable should work, with points of harder material than iron to avoid melting, and to install rods deep in moist earth to stand erect above the roof.
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