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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
6
Poot Plumb of Ohio Agricultural station praises Cheviots as pure white hornless sheep with good milk, twins, and high quality wool. Crosses with Border Leicester improve British mutton markets. Cheviots are hardy, beautiful, and popular though lighter in fattening than Shropshire.
C N Drake explains how to rescue aging strawberry beds from weeds like wire grass while boosting next year’s yield. After fruiting, mow, remove tops, scarify, then apply well rotted stable manure lightly to air and feed crowns, followed by shallow plowing, harrowing, and ashes to fertilize.
The article advises treating shrubs like other plants, improving soil with rich mix and manure, and using a soil heap for nourishment. It explains diagnosing plant ailments, using tonics, pruning to improve shape, and highlights blue spruce and arborvitae pyramidalis as decorative choices for small lawns and landscapes.
An Iowa grocer says he cannot sell more than 20 percent of butter he took in from the country, while 80 percent went to renovators. The column also comments on wasteful horses, advises spring spraying for fruit trees, notes late strawberry opportunities, and gives a winter potato storage method using hay and dirt layers.
W G Farnsworth urges farmers to grow fruit for family use first for freshness health and family appeal. He recommends near the house, accessible, long narrow plots, hand labor reduced, and to use young plants and both pistillate and staminate varieties for better yields.
A simple device uses two 2x4s two feet long attached to a wagon box as uprights. A 1.5 inch hole through the top post accepts a gas pipe or crow bar to guide the spool. A brake made from a three inch board prevents tangling as the wire unwinds.
H. Lees advises Michigan orchardists on table construction, sorting, and barrel packing methods. Instructions cover selecting red apples, weighing and boxing in half bushel baskets, and proper head and hoop preparation. No. 1 apples are prioritized. poor fruit goes to drying houses and cider mills. Emphasizes thorough cultivation, spraying, and honest packing to build market demand.
A guide instructs to singe and split the bird, wipe clean, rub with butter, salt, and pepper, and broil on a greased rack. Start skin side to the fire, sear, then move away to avoid scorching. A 2.5 pound chicken cooks about fifteen to twenty minutes. Transfer to platter and re rub with butter.
A speaker grants permission to punish a man who makes his wife perform chores he should do himself. The speaker notes delivering justice would be difficult regardless of the method.
Two brown geldings and eight other Shire horses belonging to King Edward and Lord Rothschild arrived in New York aboard the Minnetonka. They will be shown at fairs in the Dominion and Kansas City as an example of the stock. The group includes mares, stallions, a yearling, a brood mare, and a gelding jointly owned by the king and Rothschild. The horses, nearly as large as Percherons, traveled under Rothschild colors blue and orange, with Edmunds Beck in charge and two stablemen and a horseshoer accompanying them. The animals, heavily insured, drank purified water during the voyage and were fed bran gruel and hay.
The author describes converting waste land by removing roadside fences and stones to establish a mixed orchard. Planting includes Morancey and Early Richmond cherries, Baldwin apples, Northern Spies, Hubbardston peaches, with currants added later. By 1898 fruit sales reached $80 and subsequent years earned $150 to $190, subsidizing taxes while providing fruit for home and neighbors.
An Connecticut station rebuilt its five year herd by removing low producers and buying at 42.50 each, turning a prior annual loss of 1.28 per cow into a last year profit of 21.64 per cow. The lesson stresses intelligent culling and selective purchasing to maintain productive stock.
The article stresses careful seed corn preparation to avoid poor germination. It advises selecting ears from early planted fields with no prior seed corn, tying two ears with husks, and hanging them to dry in a well ventilated shed before freezing weather. Seed should be stored in ventilated areas to prevent moisture uptake from cold. It also notes the cost of daily trips to wells for water.
The Maine Station reports a twenty year poultry feeding experiment with twenty two birds per pen. A structured daily schedule uses one pint wheat, half pint oats, half pint cracked corn, and a hot mash of bran meal and meat scraps fed afternoons. Critics suggest morning feeding with exercise concerns, proposing half meals and scattered grain as adjustments.
In Massachusetts T Maynard urges reforms to compete with New York and Michigan. Emphasizing proper grading, avoid mixing fallen fruit, no tree shaking, and clean barrels. First grade apples must meet 2 inches minimum diameter, barrels packed by settling halves, and winter storage readiness. Bushel boxes recommended for shipping late apples.
The note highlights globe forming ball pines and dwarf pines for a green centerpiece. It discusses weeping mulberry camperdown elm kilmanoch willow as graceful space saving trees. It also mentions a catalpa bungeti with a seven foot top graft and umbrella shaped crown. For busy caretakers it favors tall flowering plants like dahlias irises and platycodons and suggests hoe weeding. It concludes lawn care with a mower to keep grass smooth for best display.
The article outlines a detailed feeding regimen for ducks from hatching to six weeks. It specifies hourly feeds for the first five days, then twice daily schedules at 6 and 10 am and 2 and 6 pm up to twenty days, followed by four meals daily until six weeks with precise mixes of bran, corn meal, oats, meat meal, oyster shells, and grit. After six weeks the plan reduces to three daily feedings with an adjusted corn meal share. No green food is provided as the ducks roam a grass plot.
Notes discuss Ben Davis and Windsor Chief as preferred apples in London and Nebraska, Mission grape as New Mexico’s commercial grape, rye as a cover crop with soil nitrogen, grape vines kept from growth to crotch and two years old before bearing, jute yarn for tying vines, and Texas plum crosses sometimes superior to Gonzales. Also mentions arsenite of lead wash for currant issues.
A Kansas farmer urges air-drying and careful sprouting techniques for potato crops. He stresses maintaining sprouts off soil and rotating crops to keep soil fertile. He notes that attention to grain feeding, cattle growth from calf to cow, and balanced feeding improves profitability. A recipe for Bordeaux spray is provided for tree protection.
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