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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
3
Purdue Extension advises clean milking, rapid cooling to 54 degrees, and thorough utensil sanitation to prevent infection. Keep barns clean, store milk in a dedicated milk house, and use troughs or half barrels with cold water for rapid cooling. stir regularly to maintain uniform cream and prevent off flavors.
Purdue university graduated forty men from the school of agriculture at the close of the school year June 14 1911. Of this number twenty five return to the farm five seek farm manager posts and ten aim for college or experiment station work.
Indiana Wool Growers met at Purdue on May 20 to discuss farm rotation systems and profitability. Notes cover tubercle bacilli in market butter, spraying for orchards, dairy herd management, manure top dressing, use of commercial fertilizer, loose smut control in wheat, and improving mushroom cultivation with fortified compost and commercial fertilizers.
An illustrated Popular Mechanics guide shows a fast way to build a gate using old horse shoes nailed to posts. The design allows easy temporary installation and removal when the gate is no longer needed.
A Kansas Industrialist piece notes two miles of rock road through a rural school district changed outcomes. Six children on the rock road attended city schools and pursued agricultural careers, while those on the earth road, hindered by poor access, largely remained in rural schooling with limited advancement.
The little cultivating tool is designed for kitchen gardens. Pushed along between the rows, it is claimed to be as effective as large field cultivators for lettuce or radish beds.
Suggests installing screens over windows and wire netting over chicken pens to deter intruders and crows. Emphasizes blocking thieves at night and protecting poultry and home from trespass.
The guide advises pinching off the vines just below the third blossom set and removing side shoots where leaves emerge. This concentrates energy from the roots into the fruit, producing larger tomatoes.
R G Weatherstone advises careful onion cultivation for a steady season long supply. Sow seed in spring drills or plant onion sets for early greens, grow in rich friable soil, keep shallow cultivation to preserve moisture, space bulbs five to six inches, bend tops to hasten fall maturity, and dry thoroughly before winter storage. Choose varieties suited to local conditions.
Instructions by Thomas M. Cisel describe forming a concrete roller from heavy tin, bending and locking it like stove pipe, tamping in concrete, and adding iron axle stubs at each end. The frame uses three pole irons bolted to a wooden pole and head bar, with a square sunken axle section to prevent loosening, a practical, low cost garden tool if kept compact.
The text argues that poor roads hurt rural areas while city residents fear country mud. It touts France as the best agricultural country due to having the best roads.
Practical farming tips cover soil stirring weed control and fertilization. It warns against coal ashes as fertilizer and urges timely cultivation, hoeing in sun, and tight fences. Notes on honey bees, potatoes, tomatoes, clover, cow peas, mower care, soil prep, and family labor.
A column by Captain A H Waddell argues that successful businesspeople in Britain blend city work with country farming and breeding. He notes health gains and enhanced business capacity from raising pedigreed stock, urging American merchants to adopt practical farming for recreation and profit.
The piece argues that New England land is not wasteland as forests reclaim abandonments. It notes 1899 census shows 71 percent of New Hampshire is forested. Dairying and general farming are less profitable due to small farm sizes. suggests combining fruit growing with poultry, especially winter eggs, as a viable path for smallholders. Successful farmers maximize land and equipment use to boost profits.
Sophie the 19th Jersey cow of Hood Farm is named champion producer for milk and butter fat among cows nine of her breed aged four to five. In the year ending December 31, 1910, under a test facilitated by Massachusetts Agricultural College and approved by the American Jersey Cattle Club, Sophie yielded 14,387 pounds 3 ounces of milk and 1,005 pounds 8 ounces of butterfat.
Farm for Poultry describes poultry farming as ideal for meat and eggs. It argues country air and sun yield hardy stock, and that farmers who raise better poultry are on a path to a profitable business.
A Swiss invention attaches four parallel rows of hoes to a drum on a light motor truck. As the drum turns the hoes dig and push the machine forward, reducing human effort. The method deeply furrows and leaves fields better prepared for harrowing and sowing than traditional plowing.
Starting Strawberries explains selecting ripening varieties to extend harvest. Nurseries publish lists of early, medium, and late season types. Planters should use perfect flowering or enough plants to fertilize pistillate varieties, often planting two pistillate rows to one staminate row.
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