Profit in Angora Goats
The Angora goat becomes a viable farming side issue in the Missouri and Arkansas uplands. Bucks sell for 20 to 50 dollars, does 5 to 15, with yearly mohair yields 2 to 6 pounds per head and prices 32 cents to 5 dollars per pound. With proper feeding, fencing, and annual breeding, flock growth nears 80 to 100 percent, while meat, tallow, and mohair create multiple revenue streams.
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Jie
Missouri
Arkansas
Linean
Getting the Most Out of the Farm
A column contrasts two farming styles. It argues the best farmer seeks lasting value, preserving soil fertility and community welfare. True wealth lies in character and practical stewardship, not merely yearly profits.
Spring Time in Crocus Verse
A short poem celebrates early spring with crocus blades, a robin, budding trees, and warming sun. It invites planting seeds and shrubs, noting the earth’s rotation and spring’s soft touch as violets appear in the air.
Insecticide Tips From Helen Watts McVey
A purse of home remedies advises lime to dry ground drive ants from villages and hot cayenne pepper tea to root pests. For rose pests a coal oil soap emulsion sprayed on leaves, with limes and paris green, is recommended, noting healthy plant growth as the best insecticide.
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Helen Watts McVey
Gather Eggs Daily For Best Flavor In All Seasons
Advice on egg storage says keep eggs at home year round to preserve freshness. Fresh eggs spoil in about three days, yet many overlook the value of consuming them promptly. A Caldwell milk dealer notes a horse awkwardly strapped during an operation.
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Julie Adams Powell
Caldwell, N. J
Turning Stock On Pasture Forage And Manure Practices
The article discusses pasture management for spring grazing, noting risks of digestive issues in calves and yearlings on rich grass. It advises selecting superior bullocks for rich pastures, avoiding over mowing, and using farmyard manures or indirect feeding to maintain grass quality. It also covers water quality, the value of alluvial meadows, and a three to five year crop rotation plan including fodder corn hog pasture and root crops to sustain soil fertility.
Planning Crop Rotations on a Minnesota Farm
A Minnesota farm fifty miles from city markets adopts systematic crop rotations to boost profitability. The five course rotation divides fields into A B C D and E H, yielding yearly totals of about 22 acres corn 44 acres oats 22 acres barley and 22 acres clover meadow.
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Minnesota
Yea Arle Cc
Farm News Highlights From Across the Nation
Agricultural notes report high wool demand and prices, 694 Wisconsin agriculture students, early North Dakota seeding, Texas drought relief, Iowa ranch purchase for 25 an acre, F F Bone tops hog carcass awards, April 1 wheat yield estimate, and a South Africa Texas study on dry farming. Also covers steam plows in South Dakota, bird damage to Texas corn, cattle sales, grazing restrictions, seed corn exports, land restorations in Montana, and various farming oddities.
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Wisconsin University
North Dakota
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Iowa
F. FE. Bone
Alva
the International
South Africa
Sully
South Dakota
Southern Cotton Association
Farmers’ Union
Shelby County
Wisconsin
Kansas Agricultural College
India
Russia
Australia
South America
Secretary of the Interior
Montana
Little Missouri
Chicago
United States
California
Moon Blindness in Horses and Start-Up Farming Pitfalls
Moon blindness mainly affects horses in low, wet or malarial districts and runs in families. Breeding from affected stallions causes inherited risk. wolf teeth do not influence the eye disease. A Hammonton NJ poultry breeder built a small venture into 590 birds with annual profits of 1000 to 1200 dollars, but warns beginners tend to overexpand and misjudge capacity and housing.
The Chinch Bug and Its Economic Toll
A government expert notes that chinch bugs have caused about 267 million dollars in crop losses from 1850 to 1887 and about 63 million in the last fifteen years. Outbreaks occur in varied regions, making the pest a major financial threat aside from fire. An illustrated cut shows the adult chinch bug, under one third of a quarter inch long.
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United States
Poultry Hints for the Beginner
A short piece warns beginners in poultry against premature enthusiasm and counting chickens before hatch. It notes that mistakes are part of learning, with experience as a costly teacher and fevered zeal leading to overoptimistic profit estimates.
The Case for Proper Poultry Housing and Breed Selection
The text argues that crowded, ill ventilated poultry houses harm birds and cause heart failure. It praises open daylight shed systems and stresses choosing a single breed rather than many varieties to avoid hobbyist fluctuations and improve success.
Two Good Shade Trees for Home Planting
L. R., Johnston, recommends two shade trees: the Japanese walnut, a fast growing nut tree with large tropical leaves and early-bearing nuts, and the Downing mulberry, an ever bearing rapid grower whose berries delight children and attract birds, though not fully hardy in the north.
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Orient
R.; Johnston
Fattening Water Fowls for Market Demand
The article outlines crate fattening to improve table water fowls. Select young ducks and geese, use slatted crates with ample troughs and grit, provide dairy wastes in mash, avoid crowding, and feed three times daily with a bulky mash base. Finish with nightly corn and build a market through consistent quality.
Orchard Trees and their Beauty in Rural Landscapes
The essay extols orchard trees as both beauty and utility and notes the Virginia crabapple and peach as standout for fragrance and bloom. It describes cherry, plum, pear, quince, and apple trees, with peach near the pinnacle of flowering beauty as it carpets acres in delicate blush to crimson.
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Europe
Asia
North America
New England
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P. G. Holden
Iowa State College
Ames
Crocus
Stoge
Ana
Nubbins
Farm News
Monessan
Portland
Tenn
Shumway
Effingham
Philippine Islands
Green Hill
Burlington
N. J
Bureau of Statistics
United States Department of Agriculture
Glenwood
London
Hammonton
Oregon
M. EK. Boyer
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