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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
4
The article outlines methods for transporting cattle by express and freight. It details crate designs for calves, stanchions for larger cattle, and car stalls or tied ends with attendants. It notes feeding, water supply, hay, and water arrangements, plus railway practices and costs.
The article discusses the evolving role of the American sheep, noting a shift from wool profitability to meat value. It argues that quality stock fed well from birth yields better city-market meat prices, and that higher wool prices now support producers. It emphasizes pasture quality and careful feeding for profitability.
Stock notes advise using older boars or sows when needed and replacing worn home staples to avoid losses during busy periods. It urges care for cows to ensure comfort and proper handling. It highlights oats as a valuable feed for stock and root crops, noting ground oats as especially useful compared with wheat bran.
The article describes a near successful potato cutting machine used in Colorado's Greeley district. A wooden bench with front openings, sacks on hooks, and upright knives enables workers to shush potatoes into compartments then cut them for planting, with operators seated for efficiency.
A rapid cutter splits seed potatoes into halves quarters or eighths with a knife in quick succession and drops the pieces into a sack. The Orange Judd Farmer notes two cutters can supply daily needs for one planter by this indirect method. In the Greeley district farmers vary in size of seed potatoes planting small ones whole or halved and mid sized ones into four or eight pieces.
Fowl Meadow Grass also known as False Redtop is common in the United States and best suited to wet meadows and stream banks. It is a perennial originating in Germany and has been grown in Hugland for at least 160 years.
Vague notes on hay grasses thriving in northern states and meadow use plus farm notes on machinery and soil. Includes a storm door how to and King Alfonso story excerpts with a brief lynching-news snippet and Alaska anecdotes from the City Journal.
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