President Coolidge highlights progress and budget reforms
President Coolidge delivers the Sixty-ninth Congress message pledging progress and prosperity, endorsing the house Ways and Means revenue bill, urging budget discipline, and outlining foreign policy, defense, agriculture, prohibition, and national infrastructure priorities for 1927 and beyond. He emphasizes state rights, economy in government, and balanced taxation with debt retirement.
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Illinois court judge dies in Spring Valley at 75
Judge Robert E. Simpson aged seventy five died at his home in Spring Valley. He and Mrs. Simpson celebrated their golden wedding anniversary five years ago. The report notes his long service and family.
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Feeding Pullets to Secure Eggs
Feeding pullets requires careful attention to develop into profitable winter layers. Use skim milk or buttermilk if available. otherwise include meat scraps or tankage in the mash. A scratch feed of cracked corn wheat and heavy oats suits most of the ration until four fifths grown. To induce laying, increase animal protein up to 15 20 percent. Separate pullets from other birds. sell or separate all male birds to free space for hens and pullets.
Purposes of Plowing to Improve Soil Condition
An excerpt discusses why plowing is done including turning under matter and weeds, pulverizing soil for seed beds, aiding rain absorption and reducing runoff, and deep plowing to loosen roots. It argues plants do not require plowed soil, noting wild plants thrive without memory of plowing.
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Pantaminy
Fruits and Vegetables Best Food for All Ages
Fruits and vegetables provide more than half the daily nutrition and are the best vitamin sources for all ages. Apples and other fruits rank first for health. The only way to keep them good is to grow them. Every farmer should have a home orchard as part of the farm. It yields profitable returns and improves broader farming skills.
Grease Up for Plows and Shovels Before Freeze
The article stresses greasing plows and cultivator shovels after use and before setbacks from freezing thawing. It notes rust risks from exposed bolts and wood decay and urges covering tools and repairing or replacing worn parts before winter.
Rust-Proof Wheat Axminster Gains From Larcombe Breeding
Samuel Larcombe of Birtle Manitoba claims a rust resistant wheat after years of selection and hybridizing. The new variety named Axminster reportedly yields 30 percent more than Marquis and matches Red Fife and Marquis in milling value, though not claimed to be absolutely rust free.
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Individual drinking cups prove profitable in dairies
Progressive dairymen report that installing individual automatic drinking cups cuts labor and feed costs. E A Gauntt notes a 10 percent milk flow increase. a 25 cow herd could add 40 quarts daily. Cups provide warm water, reduce heat loss, and avoid cold weather feeding inefficiencies.
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New Jersey
Feeding Timothy Hay to Dairy Calves and Cows
A Jersey and Guernsey dairy expert from the New Jersey College of Agriculture notes hay choices depend on milk type and protein. Timothy hay is often overestimated and unpalatable if cut late due to low protein, requiring expensive concentrates unless high protein hays are used to balance the ration.
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New Jersey College of Agriculture
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Barley as Hog Feed Compared to Corn
Barley holds a higher protein share than corn making it potentially more economical when priced equally. Hulls reduce digestible value, lowering crude fiber and stomach handling efficiency for hogs. Overall barley runs about 95 percent of No 2 corn’s food value with high protein supplements, per a five year North Dakota station study.
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Control Chinch Bugs Use Fall Burns to Cut Infestations
Fall control of chinch bugs proves most effective as 88 percent hibernate in clamp forming grasses. Cooperative tests with farmers across regions show that burning bug infested meadows pastures ravines waste places and roadsides eliminates the problem for the next year.
Harvest timing and farm advice from old notes
A collection of agricultural maxims and opinions urging harvests before winter, free tuition in New York state agricultural colleges for residents, humane hog management, and cautions about misrepresentation in markets. The remarks also touch on personal reputation, reliability, and financial ease without safe deposit boxes.
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