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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1910
Page
3
A farmers bulletin on southern farm demonstration work notes the corn club movement as a prominent outgrowth. The U S Department of Agriculture states its organization and field force enable precise, supervised instruction guiding each enrolled boy to work a defined project and gain exact knowledge through systematic practice.
A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin extols cooperative rural education and corn clubs. It cites Holmes County Mississippi in 1909 where boys averaged 76 bushels per acre versus 16 by neighbors, notes statewide enrollment growth to 416,225 by 1910, and describes county challenges and proceeds benefiting students and schools.
The article urges destroying San Jose scale to prevent small fruit underweight and suggests spring hints. It notes using gasoline drops to kill dandelions, warns against replanting poor land after heavy corn crops, and recommends planting crocuses for borders. It also advises soil enrichment if tree shoots lag and to remove dead trees. and to label fruit crates with grower name and address for quality control.
Farmers state little use for experiment stations yet value those ever seeking practical information to improve farms and stock. A well informed grower who stays posted and pursues better methods earns top prices for his goods.
A young farmer near Dover Tennessee built a 32 foot pole with a steel trap on top to lure and catch hawks. The new perch draws hawks to the trap, offering a novel method for controlling the birds.
A Virginia Farm Trogress correspondent describes building a permanent asparagus bed with rich, well drained soil and three year old crowns just below the surface. Plant seed or roots, space rows for cultivation, and consider expanding beds along fences. Apply barnyard manure in fall or winter, and obtain bulletins from state stations or Washington for more guidance.
A brief Ohio University bulletin urges winding the science watch to set the correct time, pushing the hands forward to update the clock.
An Ohio Kansas Farmer correspondent reports a redesigned spring tooth harrow with altered teeth improves alfalfa cultivation. The modified teeth better destroy surface rooted grasses like blue and crab grass, keep fields clean across cuttings, and cause minimal root injury, though performance drops on hard ground.
Farm equipment is often neglected when idle, left out in fields or barnyards exposing binders cultivators grain drills and plows to sun rain and snow. Depreciation from exposure exceeds wear from use, a warning to farmers.
A column warns to remove strings from ensilage to prevent cattle losses from ingested debris and notes a worker could save cows by timely cutting. It outlines horse feeding order to aid digestion, advising water first, then hay, then grain, and cautions against overwatering. A Kansas grower reports alfalfa yields easier to preserve as fall feed than red clover under similar rainfall.
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