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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
11
Frank H. Sweet of Waynesboro Virginia outlines a detailed guide for raising broilers. He covers incubation timing stock selection equipment feeding regimes housing cleanliness and timing for growth to market readiness. Emphasizes January February hatch. Recommends White Wyandotte and standard incubators and careful handling from hatching through processing.
The Department of Agriculture endorses a reliable incubator with a lamp that should run perfectly. It should hold at least 100 eggs to avoid hatch failure and home fire risk. The pictured lamp is recommended as one of the best options for safe operation.
Gardeners can grow perennials from seed to save money on nursery plants. The guide lists flowers like carnations, pinks, foxgloves, hydrangea, phlox and others available as seed starts for starter gardens.
An excerpt from Century Magazine warns that human races will be cursed as forests die. It foresees destruction upon the earth with drought, famine, and ash, as streams dry up and rivers vanish, leaving a desolate, silent landscape.
The article advises starting cultivation when potato sprouts appear, using a light harrow or weeder to cover ground, break crusts, destroy small weeds, and level ridges. It recommends frequent tillage to conserve moisture, continue cultivation after blossoms, and prefer a narrow, toothy cultivator for a fine, level soil.
The guidance suggests reducing sow feed one to two days before weaning and isolating her from piglets. Limit feed outside pasture for four or five days to stop milk flow and protect future breeding. Then provide bran and a thick slop with one or two ears of corn for a few weeks, plus ample water charcoal and salt.
Practical lambing advice covering timing from service, tick control, separation of ewes and lambs, pen and stall setup, and care during and after birth. It stresses preventing tick exposure, proper handling during twins, feeding and milk management, and allowing rest for eggs before heat if applicable.
The article offers practical advice on egg hatching and shipping. It warns buyers to temper expectations about hatch rates, urges careful handling of eggs, and provides handling tips for winter shipping including basket padding and proper labeling. It emphasizes honesty, fair pricing, and duplicating poor hatches at half price.
Advice from A J Legg of Albion West Virginia on sowing clover with nurse crops buckwheat oats or timothy. Emphasizes soil mineral nutrition moisture and proper seed bed to ensure a successful stand and avoid seed loss.
The year saw record barley in Japan and a strong California potato crop. Turkish shortages boost American flour exports. over 2,000 attend the National Wool Growers’ meeting in Helena. Chicago opens a $1,000,000 milk factory in Enosburg Falls. Illinois Milk Dealers face conspiracy indictments. Michigan Grange urges a constitutional liquor ban. Roosevelt creates a 1,000,000 acre forest in Arkansas. Iowa corn yields drop due to wet weather. Ohio farmer John Gordon dies after burning his saved $10,000. A doctor in Newfoundland diets on raw peanuts and defeats a challenge at a public event. Austria-Hungary warns against emigration agents. A 40-acre Delta orchard earns $18,000. Miller nets $13,000 profit. Iowa college’s prize Aberdeen-Angus herd aids student judging. Kansas creameries disputed over milk value. Cornell bacteriologist cites tuberculosis in New York cows. state inspection lags behind. The tobacco industry expands with district board deals. Description of an efficient farm pig house and winter care for February and March litters. Practical feeding and exercise tips for early spring pigs by A. D. Burhans end with breeder Julia Gordon.
A farm article notes early spring litters are easiest to raise if managed, but require extra care. It describes a hoghouse built to protect young pigs and lists tools and materials like tall plant poles, chicken wire, tobacco stems, kerosene emulsion, insecticides, flower pots, seed pans, shallow boxes, a sieve and a rubber bulb sprayer for window garden use.
The piece laments husbands leaving home for long urban days while wives are left alone with little recreation. It argues men would become irritable if confined at home and urges self scrutiny to curb selfish enmities and unlovely quirks.
A hotbed is built like a cold frame but in a three foot deep excavation filled with fresh stable manure that ferments for days. It is trodden, covered with six inches of rich soil when soil reaches 90 degrees, then banked on the outside. Sun warms air to 70 to 80 degrees while other times 55 to 60. It extends the season for tender annuals by enabling early May transplanting.
Seed orders should be placed early while seed and plant choices are wide. Plan a map and schedule to avoid spring delays. Include a bulb bed, hardy perennials, annuals, vines, a rose bed, wildflowers, a window garden, novelty plants, and space for cut flowers. Essential tools include a wheel-hoe, 4 fork and rake, a push hoe, children's tools, grass shears, and spraying equipment.
Advice warns against overworking hay crops and overcutting grass. It urges leaving extra stalk, maintaining irrigation, and inspecting springs. It also argues for practical household knowledge to reduce servant strain and treats domestic workers as human beings.
A farmer guide describes a small clean colored worm on fruit trees that drops on a thread when touched. It outlines timing for eggs in June and provides spray formulations using acetates of lead and arsenate or Paris green with lime for apples, noting cherry plum and apricot harm.
The article explains that razorback hogs are not worth killing, yet hog raising is expanding in Virginia North Carolina Alabama and Tennessee. Forage crops allow hogs to be cheaply fattened for market even with limited corn, signaling a growing southern pig industry.
An agricultural note urges shelter for cows at night and in wet weather, plus a spring regimen of minerals and tonics. It explains salt and mineral mixes, iron, sulphate of copper, pepper drenches for parasites, and the importance of vaccinating all calves to prevent blackleg, with contact to the Bureau of Animal Industry for forms.
Practical advice on hog housing ventilation site and weather protection. Guidance on feeding limits to prevent waste and disease, breeding sow isolation, proper bedding, and the value of branding with print for better prices. Emphasizes dry hillside sites and avoiding overstocking.
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