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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
3
The Ohio Farmer notes many farms keep few cows and focus on butter, milk, and calf sales. Calves serve as milking aids and revenue, enabling households to balance milking, churning, and butter production while boosting profits.
The Brus brothers plan a one acre demonstration at La Bruyere Blue Ridge farm starting September. They may plant spinach turnips and radishes to test continuous yields from Sep 10 to next year end. Daily records will track expenses sales labor time and profits.
Advice on removing fruiting canes and thinning new growth to prepare for next year. Mentions boosting vigor, fighting weeds, and ceasing cultivation by August to allow wood to mature. No pinching of tips after that date.
Prof Sears argues thinning fruit is practical and inexpensive, boosting No. 1 fruit, reducing tree energy drain, and lowering disease risk. He cites Beach 1896 trials showing 10 to 22 percent more top-grade fruit on thinned trees and recounts a Burbank plum row thinning costing under 20 cents per tree.
A brief note argues that cheap easily grown pasture crops should supply much of the pies food. It suggests allowing him to handle harvest and feeding to ensure supply. The fragment hints at practical farming steps and simple labor.
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