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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
3
From a 19th century style reflection on preparing for heavy snows, the piece urges northern farmers to rig a simple V shaped plank drag using two inch planks to create a road for teams and footpaths. It promises easier labor, a neater farm appearance, and practical benefit for animals and people during melt periods.
Thomas C. Wallace argues peas enrich soil humus through decomposed vine matter and roots, yielding nitrogen rich humus three times as valuable as grain straw. Pea hay adds more potash via pods, while grain straw supplies potash and phosphoric acid from outside resources, unlike peas.
A practical ice loading platform should be built eight to ten feet square to hold two loads of ice and allow space for loading. It must be sturdy with a gentle incline to the pond, a 27 inch wide chute formed by 2x3 boards six inches apart, raised sides, and an anchoring line to the water. Two men with push and pull poles will move ice from pond to platform, using a grapple and rope if heavy loads require a hoist.
The article warns buyers to consider purpose when selecting a horse. It explains shoulder slope affects pulling ability, with Fig 1 showing near perpendicular shoulders for heavy work, Fig 2 for ordinary work and driving, and Fig 3 for saddle use only. Very sloping shoulders require special collars for heavy drafting.
A South African debate compares spraying cattle with kerosene and arsenic to dipping, arguing spraying saves time but dipping more effectively destroys ticks. Large ranches favor dipping for efficiency, while spraying costs less per head on small farms.
The article urges stopping feed to sick hogs until they show appetite, stresses profit through wool or mutton by uniform wool grade, and highlights diligent flock management to grow large fleeces and vigorous lambs. It also cautions against dusty hay for horses and suggests moderation with dusty forage.
Market grade known as stags refers to hogs once boars after castration. They sell with a dockage of 80 pounds. Good quality and condition with modest staggy appearance go with various packing hog grades. Coarse staggy form places them with boars. intermediary grades fetch prices between these levels.
Professor Howard R. Smith notes findings from Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Missouri stations. Balanced rations using corn, hay and supplements reduced feed needed for gains in steers, sheep, swine and dairy cows. In trials, corn with alfalfa or clover outperformed corn with prairie hay, and adding oil meal improved efficiency.
Instructions on home butchering and aging sheep advise avoiding wether feeding 24 hours before slaughter to prevent off flavors. Kill in November after fly time, hang carcasses in a cellar with proper air exposure, keep until April, and wait about six weeks before cutting.
A Prairie Farmer correspondent describes a method using a strong half inch rope placed around the horse’s back where the saddle would sit. The rope ends are guided between the forward legs up through the halter ring and laid as a halter. The horse stopped pulling on its head and pulled on its back instead.
Blue grass and clover good hog pasturage. Lampasas is horse mouth disease. feeding ear corn helps. A slight tongue cut usually heals. a bad cut may need stitches. A dairy carload corn valued at 250 dollars versus butter at 6000 dollars. convert corn to butter to save freight on 19 cars. Dairyman leaves children a better farm than grain farmer.
If you do not own a good saddle horse, get one. The landscape looks fairer and the outlook is cheerier from the back of a horse after a half hour ride. It is not necessary to keep a horse exclusively for riding. He may be used for other purposes, only look out for bal
A discussion on the fertility of pine lands in Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan notes variation by species and soil. Scrubby Jack pine signals sandy subsoil while lands with large Jack or Norway pines and white pine intermingled with other pines show higher fertility but are not inherently rich. Hardwood presence and subsoil composition notably affect tiling ease and productivity.
A detailed description of a hand operated feed cutter with an 12 inch by 11 by 42 inch box built on 3% foot high legs. Includes inclined front board for mouth support cross bracing and a 3 foot handle pivoted between uprights. Blade measures 15 by 3 inches and bevelled to fit the box mouth for easy cutting of ear corn and fodder.
A writer in the Agricultural Epimist suggests weed control methods: rotate crops to disrupt weed-following patterns, vary cultivation depth and tools, cultivate often with light surface tools, sow clean seed, prevent weed seeding on manure or bare ground, and use hogs and sheep to clean weeded land. It is claimed sheep cropping may prevent weed germination.
Clean the buggy by washing off mud then dry it nearly but not completely. Wring a soft cloth in clean water and wipe the body to remove grit and stains. Repeat as needed to restore finish.
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