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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
3
A detailed guide explains a North South double sash frame built on a manure base to improve light and ventilation. It uses two sliding sashes with a space for air, allowing warm tempered air to circulate between inner and outer panes for better plant growth in March conditions.
A fragment discusses small acts shaping character and responsibility. It references a farmer, the danger of casual bets, and the idea that minor actions reveal true traits. The passage urges boys to remember the consequences of small choices and restraint.
Orange Judd Farmer describes using an early molted or hatched pullet as an incubator. Create a cheap single brood brooder from a cracker box with a tank warm water under a frame. Hatchlings are kept warm and fed, allowing the hen to reset for a second brood, maximizing utility in cold weather.
A description of improved nest boxes designed by William Proctor of Essex County Massachusetts. The plan uses three 1 inch by 12 inch boards forming a frame with 2 inch strips across top and bottom and wire or strip supports. Boxes measure 11 3/ inch wide by 12 inches long and 5 inches deep with a six inch protruding bottom step and fourteen inch wire spacing.
A quack physician, an ignoramus lawyer, a worthless cobbler shoemaker, a patched tailor, and a farmer buying Christmas provisions illustrate a lack of competent professionals. The passage argues every firm must supply ample food and sustainers, or it lacks capable management.
An Indiana Rural New Yorker piece explains growing extra early tomato plants for sale. It covers glass hotbeds, sowing eight weeks before set, multiple transplanting, watering, shading, and canvas cover in warm weather. It outlines packing in shallow boxes, three plant sizes, and prices from 13 to 30 cents per dozen.
A Farm and Fireside writer recalls removing field stones yearly harms soil fertility and heating. He argues disintegration continues and proposes breaking stones in place with a stone hammer to reduce labor and keep fertility.
The seed division of the Dominion department of agriculture launches an active campaign against adulterated and impure seeds. Bulletins are distributed, farmers institute speakers speak in provinces, seed fairs are planned with prizes for best seed varieties, and successful exhibitors will be asked to sell surplus seed.
Agricultural note notes watercress can be profitable and grows in clear running brooks. American Gardening calls a year of testing a surprise. Plymouth Rocks featured at the Madison Square poultry show and white fowls are trending. Cheese loses moisture during curing and may leak fat at high temperatures.
F. Bungie argues incubators outpace setting hens by saving weeks of work and reducing losses. Incubators cut daily chores to minutes, avoid lice and dusting, and allow easier management with brooders as mothers. Early hatchers fetch higher prices while winter pullets prosper at fairs.
The guide states winter market lambs should weigh at least 45 pounds alive and be fat, as carcass value matters more than live weight. It explains care steps including a muslin wrap, placing on a stretcher, burlap packing, and careful securing of legs, with specifics on stretcher dimensions and twine attachments.
The text describes Biddy as steadfast, refusing complaint when uncomfortable. If she loses a toe or feather, she proceeds to "restore the waste places" and regains digestion only after sores heal and she feels comfortable enough to again produce eggs.
Lloyds Weekly Newspaper hails the Deptford Foreign Cattle Market as a premier world institution occupying part of the old Admiralty Dockyard. Opened 1871 and expanded to 31 acres, it can hold 5 500 cattle and 20 000 sheep with on arrival veterinary checks and 100 day slaughter rule.
A discourse on feeding as the foundation of national strength. The author argues Canadians are best fed, linking good diet to strong people and livestock. Emphasizes growing forage crops as essential to sustain cattle, horses, and poultry, noting feed improves blood, prosperity, and eventual national progress.
A farm guidance piece urges avoiding burning vegetation as rotting plant matter builds humus and soil fertility. It warns that fire wastes farmer money and damages crops, and that decaying matter provides nutrients for the next harvest. Preserve and plow in all rot able material to improve soil yield.
The honeybee still holds the patent royal on comb making. Man only furnishes a starter by running thin sheets of plain wax through embossed rollers. The starter forms the base on which the bees build the combs. Exchange.
The Vermont Legislature includes 135 farmers who formed a permanent organization to advocate for farming interests in legislation. The group has standard officers and a county committee of three members from each county.
Practical guide by S. T. Mayniard Massachusetts outlines pruning rules to avoid excess cuts. Emphasizes cutting little, removing dead wood promptly, avoiding rubbing branches, thinning tops over lowers, and protecting fresh wounds with oil, tar, or grafting wax. Applies to apple pear and plum with seasonal timing for late winter pruning.
A column argues every county has a corn grower who thrives despite cholera drought and pests. It credits intelligent effort and adaptability, noting such farmers may run multiple farms and even become fruit raisers or truck growers. The piece treats Mr Know How as a practical example of ingenuity in farming.
Wyoming station experiments show straw carbohydrates digest better than froza analysis suggests. Horses fed 21.25 lb alfalfa and 2.4 lb straw daily stayed healthy and stood up to moderate work. The nitrogenous ration proved cheap and satisfactory even without weight gain.
Hens scratch through chaff hay and straw seeking seeds. They keep scratching despite little reward as litter wears to dust, unable to grasp that litter is seediesa.
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