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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
2
The article explains how sandy clay soils suit sweet potatoes and urges ridges to aid drainage and heat. It covers planting distance, timing for setting, ridge cultivation, weed control, and careful handling of vines. It also details curing, storage, and bed preparation with seed potatoes five weeks before use.
The article argues rye should be grown more widely on diverse lands for feed and soil health. It notes rye’s early harvest aids following crops, but warns about shelling and winter survival. Rye is good for swine, especially with legumes, during fattening, and pairs well with corn or barley when available.
Farmers should raise cows and laying hens together with skimmilk as a protein source. Buy good cows and a strong bull, feed hens with curd or skimmilk, avoid excess corn, and cultivate soil around young fruit trees every two weeks unless bearing cherry or pear trees.
Agricultural notes advise sowing rape now to grow a full crop or planting small packages after early potato harvest. It discusses farm machinery wear, using old mower wheels on trucks, and the hopeful recovery after wind hail and flood damage. It also urges water for dogs and stresses applying business methods to succeed.
Guidance on shading poultry yards in hot months recommends using building shade or natural shade from bushes, trees, or corn planted outside pens. Training vines over fences or planting rows of corn provides temporary sun relief. Adequate shade plus fresh water and short exercise before roosting helps most breeds cope with confinement.
An early discussion extols farming profitability citing corn yields as examples of high returns and endless demand for food plants. The piece then shifts to explain inbreeding, defining it as breeding within a fixed lineage and noting its use to intensify traits, with cautions about who should undertake such work.
The text urges starting grass cutting in good season to finish with well conditioned turf. It notes advantages of an early start to avoid hard, woody residue and low nutrient content in the final cut. The day’s quality hinges on cutting stage and curing method.
Notes discuss preventing feather eating in fowls with a preventive wide range and two remedies using lard or vaseline with aloes and removing feathers to cook fowls. Other advice covers keeping dryness, feeding times, plaster in coops, ventilation, proper weather use for sulfur, show bird scoring, dusting behavior in incubating hens, and vermin hiding places near yards.
The article argues that dairy cows yield higher profits than keeping a calf for a year. Milk sells for about $30 per cow at the creamery, with a good dairy cow producing at least $50 yearly cash income. State farm data show per cow income rising from $95 to over $100, achieved without expensive feeds or fancy facilities.
Practical advice on raising chickens and guineas including feeding bones, weekly vessel cleaning, turning eggs daily, using clean earth as an absorbent, whitewashing nests to deter vermin, and dusting hens with pyrethrum powder to prevent pests. Ground bone and powdered charcoal aid digestion and egg quality, with emphasis on variety and proper care.
Farmers conclude hoeing quack grass in advanced corn is ineffective and harms the crop. They note cutting stray weeds in corn helps only when time allows, but quack grass requires different methods. The advised solution remains feeding the weed to pigs.
A concise warning stresses keeping fences in order to avoid a potential civil damage suit. The message implies neighbor property disputes and legal risk from faulty boundary fences and related claims.
The article contrasts two farming mindsets the soil as a mine and the soil as a bank. It calculates fertility removed per crop per acre across corn wheat and oats and tallies long term losses over 30 years, totaling tens of thousands of dollars, urging return of nutrients to prevent soil wear.
J H Skinner of Purdue University explains two main protein sources for dairy rations roughage and concentrates. Roughage includes alfalfa clover cowpeas soybeans and field peas while concentrates feature oil meal cottonseed meal dried brewers grain and bran. He argues growers should "grow more protein" to cut costs and notes profitability depends on cow quality and feed prices.
A Philadelphia resident testifies that Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent cured his eczema after years of suffering. He describes failed treatments from surgeons and doctors before using the Cuticura trio, baths, and persistent care, noting rapid relief from itching and eventual recovery. He emphasizes the remedies as a blessing and urges others with skin itching to try them.
Mayme frets as Katherine prepares for an arriving beau at 8 15. The pair plot to pretend Katherine is not at home and keep the door closed, hoping Jack arrives late or not at all to spare feelings. The suspense builds with the bell signaling the expected visitor.
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