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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
12
Professor J H Skinner argues farmers should adopt a deliberate breeding plan to produce class horses suited to specific farm work. He notes heavy draft mares can yield good farm teams when mated to first class stallions, with proper feeding and two to four years of useful service before sale.
Guidance for sowing spinach beets onions leeks and lettuce in late summer. Emphasizes moisture retention weeding watering, cold frames, transplanting celery, dwarf celery planting, proper furrow depth and manure, shading seedlings, and temporary protection with boards screens or stalks. A note ends with a hint of a strawberry bed.
Professor Herbert W. Mumford of the Illinois Experiment Station reports solving key winter feeding problems. He emphasizes dry feeding places with underdrained brick-paved yards, shelter sheds, and barns to speed handling of feed. An engraving shows a shed with a water tank fed by a 1.5 inch pipe.
The text weighs profitability against farm adaptability in horse breeding. It argues draft horses are easier to produce, in steady demand, and better suited for farm work than harness horses, while noting skilled producers can profit from high-class harness horses but few farmers are equipped to breed them. It also includes garden tips and small home notes on strawberries and catnip.
The illustration shows Ida Marigold, a prize winning Holstein champion at the Chicago World’s Fair. Her son Stoke Pogis is noted as sire to forty five tested daughters, with emphasis on her wide frame, small head, strong milk veins, and well placed bag.
Violations of the twenty eight hour livestock law cost railroads about ten thousand dollars daily in fines, with officials reportedly ignoring them to avoid costs. Exports of meats dairy products and food animals rose to two hundred sixty million dollars last year, up seventy six million in a decade. Kansas beet production reached seventy thousand tons, a 715 percent rise from 1905 due to Garden City’s large factory attracting demand and production to the area.
A practical guide by Hiram H. Shepard on starting a squab raising venture with modest investment. It covers housing, nest boxes, nappies, feeding regimes, bathing water, sunlit exercise, flying pens, incubation, and the two eggs per hen. Readers learn stock selection, early care, and market timing for four week old squabs.
The article argues winter chick production outperforms summer on disease, feed costs and feathered growth. It cites November to January hatches, notes slower growth but heavier plumage, and recommends larger breeds and broiler strategies. It features a Texas elephant note and observations from Mrs. B. F. Wilcoxon of Ft. Des Moines Iowa.
The article urges timely orders for evergreens and shrubs, early beets for greens, thinning a light apple crop, nitrate boosts for crops, and strawberry bed renewal with August Bordeaux spray. It also advises rapid plowing of old beds, summer fence and barn painting, cow milking at dawn, culling hens, and selling off older hens while preparing for fall.
W S Kennedy from the Iowa P Station surveys English bacon hog feeding. Key points: fat must be uniform, white and firm. flesh firm. pigs uniform in size for uniform curing. Economic gains favor lard hogs. bacon pigs fed on limited, careful rations. Dairy by products, barley meal, shorts with skim milk and similar mixes yield good bacon. Some feeds lower bacon quality. Bacon pigs often grown as stores then finished. six months old markets common with skim milk. Ireland notes cooked potatoes with shorts barley cornmeal and skim milk. oats in final weeks whiten fat and firm flesh. Pigs usually fed three times daily with steamed foods in cold weather. exercise restricted late life.
The president is expected to urge legislation aiding farmers to boost cooperation between federal and state agriculture departments. He notes rising farm living standards and views the farmer as a modern traveler with a telephone, mail, and newspaper. The plan calls for marketing cooperation, social development, better education, and opportunities for social and intellectual life for youth and women.
A farm era piece urges young readers to show daily affection to parents. It stresses thanking fathers for their sacrifices, expressing love, and maintaining small courtesies like smiles and greetings as lasting legacies for those left behind.
The piece argues that weeds and cover crops aid soil fertility by protecting and building the ground. It notes legumes fix nitrogen, green manuring improves mechanical soil conditions, and weeds are plants out of place yet serve to renovate soil, challenging the view of weeds as mere pests.
Near Jacksonville Illinois W H Rowe and son Charles operate an eighty acre farm using a corn soy bean small grain clover rotation. They average 150 hogs yearly weighing 260 pounds and corn yields reach eighty bushels per acre. The system rotates hog shelters through a central clover field and expands to a second eighty after success.
The Bowes explain clover pasture yields about four to five tons per acre and, with pigs finishing in July and August, can generate around 24 dollars per acre. Pigs forage on clover, soybeans supplement corn, and oil meal in winter. Shelters are movable, water is delivered via a barley barrel trough system, and coal oil keeps hogs free from lice.
A light apple crop this year leaves much fruit fit only for cider. Farmers can skip expensive presses, building a simple hand-made press from a wooden screw and common hardwood. The display shows an Illinois farm using this economical device to salvage unusable apples into cider.
Split up the peony roots and give plenty of room during resetting. Dig potatoes only on dry days. Combat tent caterpillar and weeds. Sow cover crops in the young orchard such as oats or rye to protect roots next winter. Empty standing water to curb mosquitoes and install drains in low wet fields now. Feed chrysanthemum Hauid manure for rich feeding.
A dairy farmer stresses thorough milking to preserve milk yield and quality, warns against skimping feed, and notes cows react to dogs. A Washington newspaper suggests sulphur fumigation to kill sheep parasites, but would likely kill the sheep. The egg baskets typically lay in August, requiring good feeding and shade.
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