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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1905
Page
3
A wide-ranging digest covers corn and seed risks, dairy milk prospects, road culverts and new earth-road methods, sheep and mutton shift in American eating, thrift and old age, poultry and egg topics, fox trouble, and public road taxes. It urges practical farming, reform, and prudent budgeting for farms and towns.
The piece argues that large tracts of land along rail lines remain waste and costly to maintain. It cites examples where roads lease rights of way to adjacent farmers, who plow, seed to grasses, and maintain the strip. The author urges Wag on roads to adopt this practice, turning waste into productive land and improving appearance, predicting national progress through such utilization.
The article lists current primary market prices for farm products including hogs five cents per pound beef five to six cents butter twenty three cents eggs fifteen cents corn forty five cents per bushel oats thirty cents hay six dollars per ton. It notes typical farm costs such as land value seventy dollars, monthly rent twenty five, gear prices and interest rates, and questions if prices balance the farming business, while criticizing those demanding one dollar corn and low-cost labor.
The article argues farms lack formal cost accounting for crops and livestock and urges treating farming as a business. It notes rising concerns over feeding hogs swill offal, with some states proposing vegetarian diets for pigs to curb carnivorous feeding practices.
The article argues that dairy cows determine farm success when properly managed. It notes care, ration, feeding, milking, and silo quality boost butter output, contrasting poorly cared for dairies with modest yields to well managed operations where butter per cow per year can be doubled.
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