Farm and Garden Results of Iowa Agricultural Station Trials
Iowa Agricultural Station reports experiments on corn for hogs by the town experiment station bulletin 16. Six forms of corn were tested with 312 hogs in 32 lots. Dry ear corn and dry ground cornmeal gave best gains and economy, while soaked corn ate more slowly. Dry corn fed before feeding yielded the most pork per bushel. notes on fertilization and diversified farming urge better rotation to sustain fertility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Agricultural Station
Towa
Corp
Swincherd
Eevator
Spraying Methods From the Kentucky Agricultural Station
Directions outline three spraying purposes gnawing insects puncturing insects and pests like grape rot and apple scab. It discusses suitable preparations such as arsenite, coal oil emulsion, and Bordeaux mix, plus equipment from bucket pumps to barrel and power sprayers for small plots to extensive orchards.
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Kentucky Agricultural Station
Paris
Spray Equipment Notes for Bordeaux Mixture Use
Instructions discuss corrosion resistance and nozzle design for spraying Bordeaux mixture. Mentions copper sulphate, arsenate of lead, parts green, fine sulphur preparations, and using a brass nozzle that can be quickly cleared of solid particles.
Poultry Manure as Fertilizer Praised by Farmers
A letters page from the Orange Judd Farmer presents farmer opinions on poultry manure. Henry R Ingalls of Greene County New York highly values it as a top dressing for grass and strawberries and for corn and garden crops, noting its nitrogen content and ammonia release. Fred Grundy of Greene County New York reports yielding eighty three bushels of corn per acre when manure is mixed with stable manure and applied to badly worn land. Ri Leek of Suffolk County New York says he sprinkles poultry house droppings with coal ashes and spreads the manure in the garden as his preferred fertilizer.
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Orange Judd
Llenry R. Ingalls
Greene County
N.Y
Fred Grundy
Leek
Suffolk County
Farmer Advice and Farming Ethos From An Ancient Screen
The text extols robust root growth from early plant care and stresses water storage for orchard profit. It warns against risky rope and pulley methods for barnyard access and suggests safe ladder use. It offers tool maintenance tips, urges high food standards, and asserts alfalfa as a bustling, profit-driven crop. It notes North America produces about one third of world wheat totaling roughly 2.75 billion bushels.
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North America
Cow Sucking Problem Solved With Simple Barrier
A Birmingham subscriber explains a practical method to prevent a cow from sucking herself. He suggests placing a safe angle around the cow’s body and threading a pole from the lower part to the halter, long enough not to impede eating, which compels the animal to behave.
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Teo
Lowa Blumestead
Birmingham
Washington’s Capitol Hindered by Scarce Accessible Roads
Washington, the nation’s capital, lies largely unreachable from any direction due to miles of exhausted and abandoned soil, trapping travelers in a desolate approach to the seat of government.
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Washington
Don’t Burn Your Cornstalks Say Kansas Farmer
The Kansas Farmer criticizes field burning of cornstalks as wasteful. He argues stalks hold value for humus and turmous production, and that plowing under stalks costs no more labor while preserving soil fertility. Ashes from stalks do not make good manure.
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Kansas
Why Cabbage Delays in Storage
Government study identifies soft rot and blight as immediate cabbage decay causes. Decay-causing organisms enter through bruises and injuries from careless banding and through areas infected with dull rot.
Gratuities Never Refused on G N Line
A traveler aboard the Great Northern Railway learns a porter’s witty reply after reporting his luggage. The porter, noting the cap letter G N, hints at gratuities with a smile, suggesting a sly acceptance of service rendered, in a London Mail style anecdote.
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Paihway
Carrigze
London Mail
First to grow potatoes in the open in Scotland
An Glasgow correspondent claims Thomas Prentice grew potatoes in the open in the West Barony of Glasgow near Chapel Green in a year marked WS. He reportedly advanced the practice about four years later, entering the market with Chem and way cers, earning 300 with double interest, and dying at Toaimbary in 1762.
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Scotland
Thomas Prentice
Glasgow
Chapel Green
Toaimbary
Glasgow Herald
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Denton Journal
Durcc-Iluset Barrow
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin of
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Kentucky State University Agricultural Experiment Station
Frank L. Roberts
Washington & Dover Sts
Easton, MD
P.us
Uuttons
Dar
Soho
C.W Birch
Main Street
J. H. Nichols & Son's
Chas. W. Birch. Thet
Yen Aie
Miles
D. No. 1
Salem
Kiles Medical CO
Elxhart
Ind
Murderhill River
Philadelphia
Frederica
Nathan H. Makeom
Trederica, Webb's and
Bowers
Mendy
Pier Chestnut
WEDD
BOWER
Whreees
Consumers Tee Co
Chester
Phila
Keystone Main
Donnharf
Philadelpha
Faret Roun
Fred
Philadelphia Navigation Co
Frmderica. del
Mattings
E.T. Orme
Andersontown, Md
Caroline County
Orphans’ Court
Maryland
Willeam DL Phillips
SQLO
Pamin FL Miller
Henry Kk
Lewis, Aduirs
Win
Phillips
West Nottingham Academy
Colora P.O
Cecil County
Hnorace Gillespie
Alt
Jolins Hopkins University
Catalog UK
T. S. Holt
Nion
West Denton
George T. Blann
Diamond Telephone
J. W. Wright & CO
Hobbs
J. Frank Bootil
Del
Va. Ry
Railwayivision
Fas
Baltimore
Denton
Iisstora
1. D. Anderson
Ssunday
T. Murdocie
Jones
Willard Tilomson
Maud Johnson
Fifth Avenue
Journal
Denton National Bank
Harry L. Cooper
Charles W. Hobbs
T. G. West
Jas. A. Trazzane
Essi
William J. Norris
Tellar
Charles L. Hobbs
F. Baynard
Thos
B. Sparklin
Hillsboro
Harvey L. Cooper
WH. H. Deen
Powllog Creek
M. Bates Stephens
Harry §. Dailey
Marydel
J. Dukes Dowkes
W. Jones
Ridgely
A. R. Wright
Chas. W. Hobbs
T. C. West
John L. Everngam
James H. Nichols
Benton
Savings Department
United States
National Treasury
H. M. Thompson
Hillsboro, Md
Western Maryland College
Westminster
T. H. Lewis
D. D
Jersey
Berkshire
L. C. Reid
Shad Preston
Frantz Bros
Reading
Pfiladelphia
C. Leslie Walls
J. M. Haymaker
Ridgely, Maryland
CosmoroLinax Magazine
H/C. Campbell
Cosmopolis Magazine
Broadway
Newark City
WM. A. Smith
Dunton, Maryland
James Te
Caroline County Bank
Greensboro
D. J. Zacharias, Sr
N. Horsey of
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T. C. Horsey
the Savings Department OF
the Peoples , National Bank of
Denton, Maryland
Aungrt G. Towrns
Hillary T. Nourtee
Trios F. Jouxsos
Tennessee
G. M. Bentley
Tennessee Wholesale Nurseries (Incorporated
Winchester
P&ach Nursery
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A.K. Robins & Co
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