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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
6
Grace Marian Smitty argues for soil rebuilding through alfalfa, legumes, and manure. Alfalfa pays by improving fertility while feeding stock, with A P Grout noting its constant work and profitability. Proper soil conditions and replanting when needed ensure steady alfalfa and clover growth.
Dean F B Mumford argues soils stay fertile when livestock is integrated with farming. He cites New England to Dakota reform, Holland and Denmark as models where dairying and stock farming restore soil fertility. Farm manure remains the key resource, with profitable livestock systems yielding higher acre values and farm income.
Horse exports and American breeders of continental horses face probable postwar demand from France and Belgium. The prospects are bright, with strong possibilities in this field for future trade and national breeders.
Guidance notes that a horse with little work may have rations reduced to four to eight pounds of ground oats and corn daily, fed in two meals on chopped hay.
Montana station Bulletin 94 reports three winters of experiments comparing clover silage with clover hay. Two groups of five cows showed similar milk output per 100 pounds of feed. Hay required 85.65 pounds grain per 100 pounds milk, silage plus hay 133.28 pounds silage and 32.2 pounds hay, implying hay equals 2.8 pounds silage.
From years of records at Haha Rodel Experiment Station the article finds a cow must produce at least 200 pounds of butterfat or about 6 000 pounds of milk yearly to break even. With labor valued at 15 cents an hour the annual maintenance cost runs near 60 dollars. To profit a farmer must exceed 200 pounds fat by using more time on cows.
An early-plowed acre leads the field in preparations aimed at higher yields next season. Farmers report boosted soil readiness, with teams planning seed selection and fertilizer timing to maximize output.
A Baltimore American outlined drill planting and cultivation for corn used as green feed or for winter fodder. It advises 400 pounds of bone phosphate per acre, one bushel of seed per acre, wide drills for sulky cultivation, rolling and harrowing before germination, and four weed-cleaning passes. Harvest fodder at dough stage, bundle and shock firmly, and note drilled corn fodder yields four to five tons per acre.
Manure piles are favorite breeding spots for flies. Treat manure piles and stables with a borex solution to kill larvae, reducing numbers around the place. Mix three-fourths pound borex in two or three gallons of water and spray about twice a week. This guards livestock health and welfare by limiting pest harassment and blood loss to animals.
Racine county Wisconsin inventor John 8. Smith introduces a patent cultivator with extra blades that travel ahead to cut sod roots weeds and crust. A single lever controls both knives and cultivators while four beams allow independent adjustment to suit soil and vegetation conditions.
Farmers overlook how rain drains soluble plant foods from stable manure piles. Manure in the stable is over 50 percent water, and rains wash away soluble nutrients, carrying them into surface streams or sinking them where they are wasted for practical purposes.
Those who hatch eggs from selected matings should test fertility to avoid sending poorly fertilized eggs to customers. Replace the male bird or adjust the feeding ration if fertility is poor to prevent delays in raising chicks for showrooms.
Instructions emphasize nightly clean bedding and removal of filth each morning. Milk spoils with foul odors if bucket contains tainted milk. Stalls must be kept scrupulously clean with walls whitewashed and dust brushed off to maintain hygiene.
Farmers should build a cellar storehouse and refrigerator to save surplus perishables. Poor storage at farms gives speculators an advantage and harms producers, who need proper facilities to preserve food for later consumption.
A fragmented page blends casual musings on country life missing urban ties with odd ads and moral lines. It includes a weather joke, a Cuticura advertisement, warnings to “kill the files now,” and a Brooklyn ad offering remedies and sample requests, all echoing a noisy mixed-era classified feel.
Mrs J Barlow of Columbus Ohio reports six years of illness with female and nervous troubles, weight loss, and stomach pain. After ten days on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her appetite returns and she gains weight from 178 to 218 pounds, now 127 pounds. Her husband says the medicine saved her life and she urges others to use the product.
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