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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
6
Agricultural Engineer G W G Ratner explains a simple concrete watering trough construction. The trough sits on drained, leveled ground to prevent mud holes, with a wood outside form and a prepared inside form. Reinforcement uses bent round rods, placed early, to ensure a strong bond and water tightness with a 1 28 cement mix for a durable, leak resistant trough.
Instructions detail making a concrete trough using pebbles or crushed rock and cement wash for water tightness. It covers mixing water to a creamy consistency, spading to settle larger rocks, and removing forms after initial hardening. A cement wash is applied inside, with a slope outward for freeze risk. Materials include Portland cement, pebbles, and steel rods, with quantities per trough length.
A garbled wartime era notice describes mildew removal on leather gear. It mentions effort to wipe and disinfect, with unclear details about location or entities. The readable fragment hints at maintenance steps and a corrective action plan.
A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin outlines profitable beekeeping in the Clover Region extending through the northeastern United States to Minnesota and south to the Ohio River. It emphasizes improved methods, Italian bees to combat European foulbrood, and notes Canada also contains strong areas with limited regions outside the core zone.
Farmers balance barnyard manure with rock or acid phosphate in small trials to learn land needs. Applying about forty to fifty pounds of acid phosphate per ton of manure (400 to 500 pounds per acre) on a test patch shows if fertilization pays off for the whole field. Spread evenly on top of each manure load so every ton carries the phosphate.
Report from the University of Trinoly dairy farm notes successful summer alfalfa seeding. The operation rotates corn for silage and alfalfa for hay, with fall wheat sown after corn harvest. Next year wheat stubble is plowed early to prepare a seed bed for the new alfalfa crop.
The article explains the universal rule to plant cover crops in time to secure good growth before freezing. It notes clover, vetch and other legumes enrich soil, store nitrogen, and prevent erosion, with rye used as a fall crop added for organic matter. Local conditions and timing dictate the best cover crop choices.
Across the coast and inland regions, planting cover crops from August to October, including crimson clover and vetch, improves soil humus. Broadcasting by rows, between cotton and corn, is common, with harrowing or light tillage in orchards. Spring plowing releases nutrients, and data from the United States supports benefits for small gardeners and truckers seeking soil quality.
A discussion on how to organize farm departments to ensure profit. It notes that improvements to buildings require management changes, altering land use, and adjustments in labor and seasonality to balance hay, pasture, corn, and stock needs.
Open retail markets are simplest and least costly forms of public markets. curb markets may be merely a street section or may be shed covered and enclosed in bad weather. USDA Bulletin No 1002 explains these markets as supplementary, not replacements, for farm product distribution.
The honey bee is the best pollen carrier and can be a profitable sideline for orchardists, especially on falfa plots after fruit bloom. Recommend about one hive per acre of bearing orchard, scattered through the orchard during bloom, as wind and other insects are unreliable for pollen transfer.
Nebraska farm trials over two years show corn with suckers left intact yields more than removing them. Suckers on earless stalks were once blamed for hindering growth, but leaves appear to absorb nutrients for the main ear.
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