The Significance of Pure or Impure Milk
This piece argues dairy success hinges on skilled production and clean practices. It outlines factors affecting milk quality including animal and stable condition water quality and handling. It cautions about disease transmission via milk and urges producers and handlers to avoid contamination.
The Object of Tile Drainage in Farmland Management
A detailed examination of tile drainage explains how proper drainage improves drought resilience by moving air with water, reducing evaporation, and stabilizing soil moisture. It emphasizes planning outlets, selecting tile sizes, and ensuring a reliable system to prevent costly failures.
Plant food required by a fruit tree study in New Jersey
Records from a ten year test at a New Jersey station examine how apples pears cherries plums peaches quinces and asparagus use plant food. Data include yields weights of leaves prunings fruit wood and roots and methods to distribute yearly nutrient removal across the decade. The study notes varying nutrient needs with tree age crop years and root growth.
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PAYS TO RAISE WHITE BEANS
White beans make a good crop for small farms when grown with proper methods. Plant quality seed after frost danger, fertilize modestly, and aerate soil around roots to aid nodules that fix nitrogen. For firewood, cut and split logs square, bark-side up when exposed to weather.
How to Move a Farm Building An Old Prairie Farmer Tip
Two long poles are prepared two feet longer than the building width. The house is blocked up and poles run beneath at each end. Wheels are jacked, holes bored in the poles, irons bolted through, and a chain crossed at the front to prevent spreading. Teams then pull and the building moves.
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Prairie Farmer
Hog Feeding Advisories On Cold Nights
Are you fattening hogs and letting them roam outside in cold nights. The text warns that outdoor feeding loses at least 25 percent of feed, and up to 50 percent in very cold weather.
Pay Up and Respect Promised Debts in Rural Note
A short moral note urges honoring debts between farmers and brothers. It warns that failing to pay after receiving help destroys goodwill and the spirit of mutual aid among neighbors.
Fruit Raising Popular in an Era of Growing Demand
Horticulture gains favor as population grows and land is pressed to yield more profitable products. The piece notes rising interest in fruit farming as a method to boost production and income.
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