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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1916
Page
2
Experimental planting compares middles, stem ends, and blossom ends as seed. Middles produced fewer tubers but larger, with better quality, suggesting planting middles only can pay off in yield and size. Authors note no clear time differences in emergence.
A guide to fertilizer analysis and real cost. It explains that guaranteed percentages show plant food content and that pricing should reflect actual nutrients in cheapest forms. Includes cautions on ashes for potash and soil acidity, with practical buying tips.
A notice warns poultry keepers against feeding salt to fowls. Even small amounts can cause hens to moult or die. some use salt to force early moulting, but this is dangerous unless carefully understood. The article notes chicks should have no salt until older.
Investigation found a coop barrel once used for salt, now cleaned but still bearing enough salt to potentially kill the entire brood. The note by J.T.T. points to a cautionary, possibly accidental risk.
Opinion differs on floor types for poultry houses. The author argues dirt floors, with proper care, better please hens than board or concrete. A fully enclosed brick or concrete wall plus soil fill can make the house rat and damp proof, while board and concrete floors require elevation and frequent cleaning to stay sanitary.
The article argues farming involves risk akin to gambling, showing 1915 16 potato crops and apple orchard sales illustrate losses from holding crops. It urges selling at fair prices, notes costs of carrying notes, and cites farmer and merchant perspectives on cash transactions and risk.
The text argues that storing 1000 bushels from fall to February and selling at 60c yields 480 after shrinkage, compared with 400 at 40c in fall. Factoring interest, insurance, frost-proofing, and heat costs, holding offers no advantage. It frames farming as a gamble against weather and pests, not markets.
Practical dairy guidance covers cow form for production, proper cream separator adjustments, manure management, calf feeding, and housing. Emphasizes clean surroundings for bulls, gradual feed changes, humane heifer rearing, and sanitary milk handling. Recommends dedicated cream cans, byproduct use, and timely equipment replacement to prevent contamination and losses.
The article advises selecting eggs only from hens that lay in winter to hatch strong early layers. It argues purebred poultry cost the same as mixed flocks but yield better laying and meat, with uniform egg sizes and higher hatch viability. It stresses a warm ventilated coop, limited cuddling, dry air exercise, and a rat resistant cement floor.
A testimonial from Mountain Orchard Farm superintendent A Love touts LARRO-FEED as among the best feeds. He notes abandoning a 60 head dairy ration after poor results and endorses the product for strong dairy cows.
Advice on humane chicken care and feeding methods plus notes on new analysis methods for insecticides. It explains proper hen housing, diet with bran and greens, water needs, shell handling, and winter adjustments, then shifts to recent lab tests of insecticides and their active ingredients and how they are used as dusts sprays or fumigants.
The Insecticide and Fungicide Board reports higher quality products under the act, noting vast improvements in compliance for Bordeaux mixture, lime-sulphur, lead arsenate, and Paris green. In 1915 the board collected 1,117 samples with 118 sent to the Attorney General for possible violations, while chemists study lead arsenates and leaf injury from di lead arsenate.
The angular leaf-spot of cucumbers is prevalent in the Eastern and Middle Western States and has appeared in Michigan Indiana Wisconsin New York Ontario and Quebec plus Maryland and other Southern States. The bacterial germ has been isolated entering through small leaf openings. heavy infestations reduce the crop by destroying leaf area.
The piece outlines Beecher’s rural creed urging generous soil feeding deep plowing subsoil use and prosperous farming. It emphasizes ownership by capable farmers, industrious spirit, and strong fences barns and livestock. It also stresses clean homes kitchens dairies and consciences as core farm virtues.
Dean R. L. Watts of Pennsylvania State College argues eastern agriculture requires better farming. He cites poorly managed farms in New England, calls for more livestock, special products like fruits and vegetables, and greater soil improvement to raise profits.
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