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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
4
An agricultural note stresses red raspberries as a top selling small fruit next to strawberries. It advises field cleanup, sod removal, selective suckers control, avoidance of excessive manure, and recommends a specific mineral fertilizer mix. The piece highlights Cuthbert London and Eaton varieties and urges care for next season's canes.
Guidance on pruning fruit trees notes that starting small yields better shape and supports heavy crops. Apples benefit from light pruning in youth, pears and cherries largely self regulate, plums vary by variety, and bearing trees tend to use a flat, stable form over time. Prune when dormant and correct windward growth.
The article explains that sandy soil can support fruit trees if subsoil conditions are favorable, noting sandy loam is often good for peaches. It warns against waterlogged feet, advises moderate orchard size, and emphasizes regular attention rather than neglect, urging practical farming over unrealizable hopes.
The Sunflower Plant article explains that sunflowers in Europe and America have been grown mainly for ornament and poultry feed, while Russia uses seeds for oil. It notes three U.S. seed varieties Mammoth Russians Black Giant and Common, describes head sizes and seed types, and highlights edible oil and nitrogen rich seed cake. It also covers livestock feed benefits, possible leaf use in tobacco adulteration, and myths about medicinal cures and malaria protection.
Directions for preparing asparagus beds describe deep plowing with stable manure, bed layouts of three rows or one long row, trench planting of two-year plants 18 inches apart, with three inches of soil coverage. No harvest first year, minimal second year, then by June cut with barnyard manure, summer cultivation, fall cutting and burning to kill insects, and cautions about fall manure delaying frost.
The Terrazas ranch in Chihuahua spans about 8 million acres with 1,000,000 cattle 700,000 sheep and 100,000 horses. Don Luis Terrazas presides over 2,000 workers at 100 stations with a private slaughtering plant and a grand house valued near 1.6 million dollars. He is a former governor and father of 12 who expanded stock from Scotland and Europe and built vast reservoirs and wells while battling annual prairie fires with his sons and staff.
Alsike clover gains attention as a dependable plant on sour and wet soils, often outperforming medium red clover under adverse conditions. It yields well when sown with timothy or red clover, dominates poorly drained land, and serves as a solid seed producer when red clover fails.
The text advises rapid drying of parts to prevent rust and bacteria. It warns against using cloth due to lint and bacteria buildup. Boiling water is recommended to dry parts quickly and evenly, killing many bacteria.
Large potatoes tend to burst their skins when baked rapidly in a very hot oven. Make one paring around each potato and they will not blister and will bake more rapidly.
A stately portrait from a department of agriculture statistician traces buckwheat's decline from a glorious 1866 peak to present. It notes acreage, production, and farm value shifts, with Pennsylvania and New York as leading states and widespread yield drops. price per bushel also fell by about ten cents.
Snails feed mostly at night and can be hand-picked by lantern light. They succumb to salt, soot, ash or lime, though in cold frames this may not be practical. Attractants like large leaves, boards, or pieces of turnip and cabbage draw them to exposed spots. bran mash can lure them for night collection and destruction.
The article discusses broiler quality focusing on fat streaks and plumpness, notes incubator hatched chicks need good care, explains winter hatch viability, and contrasts with hens. It covers duck rearing, cleanliness, feeding, and worm control, with practical house, floor, and nest maintenance for profitable poultry farming.
Seedsmen claim amber translucent kernels taste sweeter than white opaque ones and fine wrinkled kernels sweeter than coarse wrinkled. Maryland station tests show similar sugar content across colors, but wrinkle correlates with sugar percentage, with fine wrinkled often below and coarse wrinkled ears sometimes above average sugar.
An Indiana Farmer article urges using sheaf oats and corn fodder as cheaper stock feed, noting young stock prefer bundled grain while livestock in Wisconsin benefit from oat hay and bright fodder. It argues to store grain as feed rather than thresh or grind, with hay and fodder fed twice daily to cows horses and hogs.
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