Good Health in the Farm Home Promotes Fresh Air and Digestion
A farm home health piece urges constant fresh air and well ventilated sleeping spaces. It recommends open windows or veranda enclosures for better lung function and warns against sleeping in tightly closed rooms. It stresses gradual outdoor living, screen protection against flies, and avoidance of rapid eating to prevent digestive troubles. The article notes that women bear primary responsibility for family health and should study the laws of health.
Belgian hare as food and rabbitry guidance
The Belgian hare offers a lean flavorful meat option with rapid growth and advantages for farmers. It discusses breeding choices, cooking importance, and two main housing systems hutches or outdoor runs, plus fencing, ventilation, and expansion potential for small-scale operations.
Eagles threaten Idaho deer as fawns vanish to large eagles
The Idaho state game warden reports widespread fawn losses to large eagle species across many areas. The note suggests replacing a scrub bull with a sire to boost herd value and mentions eggs priced at 25 cents a dozen could yield 7 to 8 dollars when raised as broilers. It also questions trying a peanut crop next season after neighbors profited.
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Idaho
Seed corn selection urged for better farm yields
C P Hartley argues for earlier fall seed corn selection and drying, urging farmers across the United States to gather and preserve seed by August or September and store it for two to three years. He notes failures from late selection, cites droughts and cold risks, and highlights cases of successful germination when seed was prepared in advance. He also mentions a bobcat incident and news on dairy farming women.
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United States
New York
Hoard
Canada
Lima Beans: Pole and Bush Varieties For Home Garden
Lima beans offer versatile options with pole and bush forms, valued for flavor whether green or dry. The author favors large pole types like King of the Garden and Giant Padded, notes trellis setups with sturdy end posts, proper wire spacing, and sunward alignment. An insect issue is mitigated by crop practices including clover, oats, and soil salt treatments, claimed to deter wireworms.
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Salem
Lima
Burpee
Maule
To Help the Prospective Farmer Theme Notice
The Bureau of Plant Industry chief Dr. B T Galloway alerted the Secretary of Agriculture to the surge of land investment advertising aimed at city residents. Secretary Wilson ordered data gathering to furnish reliable facts before investment, citing widespread misleading promises of high profits. A line about a man who works far from home appears in fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Plant Industry
B. T. Galloway
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Results of Trimming to Tomatoes In Maine Study
The Maine Station reports trimming may boost tomato yields up to fifty percent with greater weight, if done early in milder climates. Leading branches trimmed six inches and lower side shoots removed, vines trained high to admit sunlight. In our experiments trimmed vines showed more rot, uneven ripening, and poorer flavor compared with untrimmed vines, especially in a dry season. S. M. Clinton.
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Maine
Prevention Of Wird Worm Attack
A terse note describes an approach to stop a pest by eradicating it. The author recalls plowing a field after clover and sowing oats to uproot the worm, but notes the worm attacked again within days.
Clover Sowing Guidelines for August Planting
Practical instructions from Ralph Taylor discuss August clover sowing on light sandy soil, weed control by early plowing and harrowing, seed rates of eight to ten quarts, and limiting seeding to September. It covers soil prep, lime and potash application, spring nitrate and potash, and the role of soil condition and mulch in winter root growth, citing fertilization as second to soil readiness.
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Ralph Taylor
N. J
The Silo Powers Dairy Profits In All Seasons
An older dairy farming piece argues silage boosts profits by 40 percent feeding value in corn, reduces waste, and provides steady, year round feed. It notes cows adapt well to silage, often increasing milk flow and recouping silo costs in the first year.
Milker’s Shortage Solved by Camera Evidence
Ohio farmer Hendershot’s Holstein milk supply mystery ends when his son, armed with a camera, films the piglet pilferer in the act. The thief, a rifle-toting raider, faces a life sentence of penal servitude following the capture.
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Hendershot
Ohio
International Exposition of Horticulture 1913 Notice
The Secretary of Agriculture reports official notice from the Russian Imperial Embassy announcing the Emperor’s patronage for an International Exposition of Horticulture to be held in Petersburg in spring 1913 and inviting participation.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Russia
Washington, D. C
Petersburg
Exposition sections and registration details for Russian horticulture show
The exposition features sections on Floriculture Decorative horticulture greenhouse and outdoor Pomology Fresh fruits and winter storage Vegetables and market garden preservation and use of fruits and vegetables Grains Apiculture and Agriculture House plants Scientific School Tools and floral art Commercial section An executive committee under A de Jaczewski and M K Borowski directs. Registration requests must reach the bureau by Feb 2 1918 for Russian exhibitors.
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A. de Jaczewski
Imperial Society of Horticulture of Russia
M. K. Borowski
Quai de la ‘Cour
Petersburg
Russia
Jas
Pasture Diet and Orchard Tips for Farms in Old Text
The article notes hogs eat grain but can thrive on clover pasture in warm weather and gain faster with meat and milk. It recommends clover and bluegrass pastures over timothy or red top, and claims alfalfa may surpass all others. It suggests planting mulberries near cherry orchards to protect fruit and warns farm separators misjudge calves.
Estimated U S Peach Industry Losses Rise Near Eight Million
The peach growing industry in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains sustained about 8 million dollars in losses last year due to brown rot and curculio. Figures indicate 113,780,000 bearing trees contributed to an aggregate crop value of 14,060,006 to 16,006,600 dollars.
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Ausa
United States
Rocky Mountains
Eh Cab
Cureulfo
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Sarah P. Detweiler
Bologna
C. P. Hartley
Samuel Edwards
Mountain Air
New Mexico
Wisconsin
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