Feeding Pigs and Clover Seed Sowing Guidance
An experienced farmer discusses practical pig feeding to avoid over fattening and the benefits of milk and bran along with limited corn meal. The article also covers sow milk advantages, weaning risks, and cautious feeding of young pigs. It additionally advises sowing clover seed with Timothy in fall and February, stressing seed amounts, timing, and pasture rotation for a good winter stand.
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Ohio
Franklin County
Manure management and soil revival tips from Palmer
Practical farming notes urge building inexpensive manure sheds to protect nutrients during storage and using plaster in stables to trap ammonia. A ditch around barns collects yard waste, then filled with straw and lime to create rich manure stock for spring use. Also recommends reducing weed seeds, increasing horsepower, and feeding harvested crops on site.
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Praire Palmer
Dried potatoes produced at Carsten’s in Lübeck described
A German journal outlines how Carsten’s Lübeck works makes dried potatoes. Potatoes are peeled by hand, cut into disks, boiled lightly, then dried hard in a dry oven on wire frames. They are treated with acid in cold water to keep color, washed, dried, and regain color and texture when boiled with salt.
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der Landerwith
Carsten
Lubeck
Seed Corn Tests and Poultry Nest Cleaning Methods
The author describes a seed corn germination test using thirty six kernels from twelve ears, reporting thirty five sprouts after forty eight hours. Advice is given on movable hens nests with fire purging to remove vermin and purify nests, noting charcoal as a deodorizer and antiseptic. Farm economics are discussed, urging heavy crops for profits, followed by a brief, fragmentary note on a Kentucky man found dead with fourteen bullet holes and a coroner’s verdict of death from unknown cause.
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