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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1906
Page
12
Instructive guide from T. G. Thompson Kansas on keeping cattle in good flesh to improve breeding. Advises easy feeding, variety of feeds rich in nutrients, careful calf rearing, and staged weaning. Emphasizes pasture use, restrained stall housing, and winter shelter to prevent disease and ensure steady growth.
The article discusses potato row spacing across regions from four feet in Colorado to twenty-seven to thirty inches in the eastern United States and Belgium. It notes government and station recommendations, soil and climate effects on depth, and contrasts yields from different spacing, varieties, and irrigation practices. It also covers New York state experiments showing higher gains for chickens and ducks fed animal protein versus vegetable diets, with faster growth and earlier laying.
A reader laments seed catalog deception with varieties labeled improved by seedsmen names such as Catchem and Skinem. Experts warn against fixed plans and urge selecting a single reliable standard variety like Reid’s or Silver Mine that matures in the local latitude to avoid total crop loss.
A historical poultry feeding schedule listing daily meals for hens across a week. Includes morning grain mixes such as wheat barley corn and barley with mash components like gluten meal shorts cut clover bone meal and ground charcoal. Afternoon grain varies among barley corn and buckwheat with similar mash elements.
Professor Fraser reports 22 cows kept in a 30 by 68 foot shed with side mangers and corner bull pens showed higher vigor and cleaner milking conditions. Cows get more fresh air, exercise, and better appetites, while labor and manure handling are simplified.
The article urges clean, methodical work on dairy farms to maximize returns. It stresses skim milk handling, separator use, constant water for cows, adequate feed, and humane treatment. Prof. T. L. Haecker of the Minnesota Experiment Station is cited as saying well kept cows pay back greatly and kindly treated cows produce excellent returns.
An odd note describes the Mesican Maguey tree yielding a ready needle and thread. Each leaf tip houses a slender thorn that unwinds a long fiber as it is drawn from its sheath. A whimsical line posits cows could tell us about the ideal man, noting the ideal cow is not always owned by the ideal man.
A farm guide describes sausage preparation with salt and pepper, grinding, and hanging over heat to render grease. It notes boiling sausage yields tenderness and claims boiled sausage is more palatable than fried. The piece laments odor issues and urges removing the odor source rather than masking it.
The article warns fruit growers that apple orchards fail when protection against rabbits and vermin is neglected and when weather and pests are not controlled. It stresses careful planting, fencing, spraying, fertilizing, weed control, and ongoing attention to keep orchards productive. Georgia and Alabama are cited as regions with strong historic fruitfulness.
Focuses on beekeeping after winter quarters with emphasis on feeding, reducing entrance, and protecting weak colonies. Advises limiting early nectar use, stocking two weeks of honey, and cautioning against risky stimulative feeding while noting sugar is a cheap, effective feed option.
The article notes Alabama is gaining fame for peaches while warning that without vigilant orchard care the industry could suffer. It recalls New Jersey and Delaware once led peach production but pests like San Jose scale borers curculio curl and yellows damaged orchards. California Oregon and Washington impose strict quarantines and invest heavily to protect fruit farms.
Practical household advice on cleaning prep and stove blocking using old brushes, safe handling of oily rags to prevent fires, feather transfer tricks, repairing china with plaster, a quick pudding sauce, and resting tips. Also notes on kitchen layout, beekeeping feeding practices, and alternative pollen substitutes using dry corn or rye meal for bees.
A farmer describes a home cold storage method to keep cream in prime condition without ice. He built a three by three foot platform in a cellar corner, hung burlap sacks, placed a half barrel with a water feed, and ran water over the cream cans through small holes to simulate ice cooling. He claims the cream rivaled the best Cooley can creamers and notes significant ice cost savings.
A historical note describes using a leather nose cover strapped across a colt’s muzzle with tacks to prevent nursing. The method involved two colts kept apart four weeks, then restrained with a shoe top fashioned halter and a tack-filled strap to stop seeks to nurse, attributed to Miller.
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