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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1907
Page
12
W R Gilbert advises farmers on sowing clover with grain. Broadcast sowing just after drilling is common but risks late frost and harvest interference. drilling or broadcast with rolling can work, with horse hoeing as a preferred method in late frosts. Weeds and uneven seedbeds add challenges.
Advice for lambing season covers feeding ewes after lamb drop with light bran mash, using cow milk for twins if milk is insufficient, and feeding the ewe the most nutritious milk-giving foods. If a lamb doesn’t thrive, separate it or place with a stronger ewe, or feed with cow milk if needed. Also notes a cement manure pit built outside the barn to save squid manure before field use.
The guide emphasizes cribbing two week old lambs, feeding grain and clover hay, providing fresh water and ample exercise, and feeding until market time. It warns that heavy feeding yields good lambs and stresses eyeing bowels, tick checks with thorough dipping, and avoiding waste on ill lambs to maximize price.
Dry cold does not injure farm stock as much as a rain does, and animals that have the shelter of open sheds or straw stacks withstand dry zero weather very well.
A fragment references conditions for breeding ewes and brood mares in a stock field, noting poor lamb outcomes from range grazing. It notes spring foul conditions and mentions a few bushels, though details are incomplete.
A guide on humane horse handling notes speak softly keep halters short and stable daily stable cleanliness is vital and avoid excessive daylight between legs. Market reports cite Morgan horse breeding at Vermont station and mule prices from Missouri sales including spans at 600 and 512.50 per pair or 4200 for eighteen mules.
An article from Professor Henry of the Wisconsin Experiment station outlines methods to shield sows and growing pigs from spring rains. It stresses shelter, balanced feeding with protein rich meals, and exercise, detailing pre farrowing feed and the practice of withholding food for 24 hours after farrowing.
An article notes autos boost value for horses that do not fear machines while anxious animals fetch less. Training a road team can add about $100, and a carload of draft horses recently averaged $262 each in Chicago. It urges proper bitting, avoiding overwork, and selling troublesome horses at auction.
A simple educational note explains why roots are vital to plants and how roots respond to water, soil hardness, and moisture. It describes using a box with glass to observe root growth, and how different soil textures and fertilizers affect moisture flow and plant development.
The text laments city youths starving for purpose, saying many would have made good farmers if steered away from ambitious but mistaken parental influence toward practical trades like law or medicine.
The Wall Street Journal urges a revival of family piety as essential for the nation, praising the practice of stopping to pray before breakfast and quitting field work early for prayer meetings. It argues piety once guided business and daily life, with devotion influencing both labor and faith.
The guide outlines a warm thin slop mix of middlings oats and oil meal to satisfy a new sow and her litter. It recommends gradual feed increases, clipping rough teeth of newborn pigs, introducing skim milk or thin slop, scattering soaked corn for exercise, and weaning at seven to ten weeks by removing the strongest first.
The influx of Hungarian laborers into Pennsylvania over the past decade is spurring agricultural change. Immigrants now buy small 10 to 30 acre plots at 20 to 30 dollars an acre, then quit mining or milling to cultivate and improve their land with their families. The shift is expected to boost the state's farming sector.
Sixty percent of the little brown men of Japan and many of their wives and children work in agriculture. The government has recently made large appropriations to advance farming by applying scientific principles.
The Kelep ant imported from Guatemala to manage boll weevils in Texas cotton fields failed to endure Texas winters. Although it fed well on weevils, the cold and wet season proved fatal, ending its tenure.
A famed teacher remarks to a friend at the Chicago International about grand Canadian sheep. He notes the animals stem from a 200 year old shepherds line and that prize wins come from merit, not luck.
Mr. B. F. Bear of Iowa, renowned for fifty years in hog farming, recently sold a carload of big bone Berkshires averaging 386 pounds and bringing $6.50 on the Chicago market. He lets the hogs roam bluegrass pastures in summer and move them to corn fields mid October for self feeding and watering.
The article advises starting with a small flock and avoiding spring buys. Fall purchases allow picking the best stock. A boy can learn by time with a successful shepherd. start early. Train the breeding ram with exercise and pasture, wean lambs at three months, keep rams separate from ewes, and use full-blooded collie dogs rather than mixed breeds.
A farmer in New Hampshire made workers start at 4 AM and toil long hours with little rest for meager pay. The piece argues for fair wages, mutual respect, and learning modern farming methods, noting the value of kindness, skill, and genuine love of rural life in keeping reliable help.
Colorado trials fed 150 grade Herefords and Northerns to test beet pulp alfalfa and grain mixes. Lot 1 with oats and barley earned 12.55 per head, Lot 2 with corn 15.45, Lot 3 beet pulp and alfalfa only 16. The selling price per cwt ranged around 5.15 to 5.60, with pulp alfalfa showing the highest net profit. Denver was the market, with prospects for western feeders.
The dairyman should tailor feed to local conditions using alfalfa or red clover as top forage, keep mangers clean, and base rations on price and palatability rather than strict balance. Wet grain in winter aids production, and growers should consult experimental stations for feed testing and analysis.
A state agricultural station reports shrinkage in a beet pulp experiment, stressing its accuracy and noting the material's significance for feeders able to obtain beet pulp cheaply.
The jack demands large exercise space but often needs little movement. It is a dangerous, stubborn animal that can kill larger stallions and must be handled with strict care and a heavy bit. Feed should mirror a stallion with corn oats hay and bran mash weekly. provide clean water and avoid sharing drinking vessels.
Apples in Minnesota rose from $1–$2 per pile last September to $4 and $4.50 now, yielding strong profits. Wesley Green of the State Historical Society urges more evaporating establishments canneries and storage houses to boost crop profits. A potato trust forms as dealers fix prices and rail deals block nonparticipants. Cherry trees should be trimmed to yield low spreading tops for easy harvesting from a ladder.
A speaker argues that true practical religion is workmanlike and ethical, claiming a person who runs a race with no moral remorse embodies sufficient religious practice.
The article emphasizes salt's value in dairy feeding with a daily one ounce salt per cow. It notes cows on ensilage need more salt and that a succulent, highly concentrated ration is costly and risky. It argues ensilage is inexpensive per ton and indispensable for economic milk production, highlighting its storage and feeding convenience.
A Michigan writer argues against using very young bulls for breeding. He notes risks to vigor, uniformity, and prepotency, and describes common, harmful practices of replacing older bulls with younger ones. Properly fed and exercised bulls can be kept to ten years or more with better progeny.
Practical guidance on preventing garget in dairy cows before calving, including reduced feed of milk-stimulating foods, close udder monitoring, and gentle milking techniques. Emphasizes keeping the calf near the cow, gradually adjusting milk intake, and staged weaning to maintain milk production and welfare.
Feeders of the nation may welcome new discoveries as experiment stations announce two years of promising results awaiting final tests before public release to the world.
If the corn you selected last fall yields well this season try another selection next year. If you succeed again you may as well enter selling seed corn to neighbors. It will pay better than buying seed from others.
The Hon. Arthur P. Turner of England placed the Championship ribbon on a short yearling calf. The judges awarded the three-year-old steers, long favored by veteran contestants, a hard but fair decision, and the baby beef trend is here to stay.
Metal troughs priced at $1.50 each are shown with side-rest ba sins raised at stall tops and lifting covers for cow access. Overflow pipes prevent leaks and ensure constant fill. New York experiments indicate milk output dropped eleven gallons in a day across twenty cows when watered by ordinary methods after using automatic basins.
Prof. L. H. Pammel of Iowa Agricultural College reports widespread adulteration of alfalfa seed. Affected weed seeds include knapweed, bird clover, and clover dodder, spread by sale of seed as pure grass. Estimation places weed-removal cost at 15 dollars per acre to farmers.
The prize steer at the International Fair was raised by a plain everyday farmer who emphasizes business over show. He says thousands of boys on farms could raise equally good steers if they first learn the craft from start to finish.
Judges at the International awarded the prize to the king of England for a shire horse. Many horse judges say the animal did not deserve the prize, though the gesture was a courteous compliment to the king.
An objection to the steam plow argues it lets western farmers grow more wheat than they can harvest. Manufacturers are pressed to invent a rapid-fire harvester to handle the excess after the steam plow completes its work.
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