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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
15
Missouri farmers have long fed New Mexico crossbred sheep on home farms for market. The article details costs, methods, and rapid gains from self-feeding New Mexicans, with yearlings 80 85 pounds and lambs 70 75 pounds, achieving five to eight pounds monthly gains.
J H Johnson of Hamilton county Ohio reports an average of 212 bushels of potatoes on ten acres this season. He bought a potato digger and with two teams and two boys managed the harvest in good condition. The average national yield is about 400 bushels per acre.
Fragmentary notes describe a creamy soup for hogs using wheat middlings skim milk and flaxweed jelly. The text mentions feeding a cow and her litter under six weeks, and hints at selecting a fairly good boar for better hogs.
A letter from Illinois farmer J. B. Miller argues hogs thrive with deep clean water pools rather than shallow mud holes. He describes his own setup with a cobbled, well-kept pool that kept hogs healthier and unaffected by cholera during outbreaks, contrasting with the mud bath practice.
R. B. Rushing of Illinois argues breeders should cull inferior males rather than keep scrubs or grades. He contends purebreds require true quality, warns against basing value on pedigree alone, and notes market forces favor inferior stock if cheaper.
In a Chicago area town last winter a major western milk firm used pond water to wash bottles at a bottling plant. Bad pond water caused a scarlet fever outbreak linked to the facility. Public uproar followed, leading to a cleanup and a sharp drop in business and dividends.
The piece argues the old-fashioned unclean dairy cannot compete with modern standards. It notes major milk firms require uniform feeding and clean dairy in contracts and that reporters monitor farms, as demand for pure milk grows stronger.
A 1000 lb per acre lime dose proved nearly as effective as 2000 lb on oats in New Jersey trials. Clover favored the higher rate, while carbonate lime produced more dry matter than nitrogen and ash burned lime. Nitrogen fixation increased with added fertilizers, with carbonate lime enhancing fixation more than burned lime.
The article argues location affects profitability and advises distant farmers to focus on finished products like butter eggs cheese pork beef and mutton for long distance markets. It also suggests supplying young pigs with fresh sod to prevent lean times and improve marketing.
Six to ten good ones make a starter for a beginner in sheep raising on a small farm. Do not start large due to many learning curves. Sheep need dry warm conditions. weeds, mud, and rain hinder them. They risk foot rot and nodular diseases. Medium-wool breeds fatten well and marble their meat, pleasing buyers.
The Durocs are red-haired hogs weighing 250 to 350 pounds at about one year, sometimes up to 500 pounds. They are large-boned and prolific but color offends many. They feed well and respond to feed like small unsalable potatoes boiled with skimmed milk, which aids growth.
T B Terry notes ex Governor Hoard in a Wisconsin dairy stable complaining that cement floors are cold for cows. Hoard suggests a plank layer over cement for the cows to lie on. The floor is praised for non slip and cleanliness but criticized for chill.
The article weighs value of early maturing lambs and fattening tendencies across Down and Leicester breeds. It notes Oxford Down as large and heavy, Leicesters with excellent fleece but some tenderness, and Border Leicester as sturdy yet not superior to English types. It urges farmers to know their flock, choose a breed, and stay with it through years of careful, intelligent sheep-raising.
A farmer’s prudence keeps the nation’s economy from collapse during a panic. A debt free ten acre field yields more contentment than a large mortgage on land. The chauffeur and the middleman are likened to burdens on progress with anecdotes of fence care and a lazy farmer. Peaches fetch high wholesale prices while housewives pay more delivered.
A photograph shows a basket of Early Alberta peaches. The fruit ripens with Early Crawford and most Albertas have tasted bitter this past year, yet these peaches grow very large and are described as excellent for market.
The article urges avoiding narrow headed sows for breeding and favors wide between the eyes, a full round eye, broad back and chest, long body, and deep torso to prevent thumps in pigs and similar risks for boys.
A magazine style note explains a sled design for hills. It suggests any boy can build it with basic tools and a blacksmith for the iron truss rod and steering bar. The iron steering gear increases strength allowing lighter planks.
The writer extols cement dairy floors as safe and economical, citing wide adoption over twenty years. He notes cooling effect with proper bedding, argues against garget from cold floors, and details construction tips and bedding choices to reduce slipperiness and improve sanitation. He recalls earlier wooden floors and urine savings driving the shift to cement.
A Nebraska farmer recalls 1880s orchard work as costly yet profitable. He warns that unfumigated or unchecked stock with scale can ruin neighboring orchards, arguing that each bearing tree cost about 100 dollars but paid off. Growers may store apples privately or ship to large houses or consignees to save costs in a strong market.
Jacob Faith of Missouri shares a method to preserve apples in a trench placed in the ground. Apples are layered with straw and dirt, then covered with hay and fodder to shed water. After freezing settles, the trench is buried and kept until April for eating fresh and crisp fruit.
The article outlines winter housing and feeding schedules for dairy cows in New Jersey. Cows are brought in at 4 pm for milking with roots and hay, straw at 8 pm, and morning milking at 6 am with the same feed, then turned out at 9 am. Calving occurs in the first three months, with dry periods a month or six weeks prior. Bran mashes accompany calving, bull calves fed dam milk for six weeks, and heifer calves reared. After calving cows are tethered on grass by day, moved every three hours, and water supplied morning and noon, with evening watering in warm weather. Butter is made in fall, and cows are considered prime from age 6 to 10.
Selecting boars and sows from large litters and ensuring proper housing and sunshine promotes thrifty offspring. Breeding pure-bred swine is a serious business requiring record keeping and investment in improved bloodlines to succeed.
Knox College reports a large share of new students entering last year intend to earn all or part of their expenses while in college. The institution notes more old students are working this year, with at least 65 percent of the student body self supporting through reporting jobs, merchant positions, restaurant work, and private board and room exchanges.
The Ohio station recommends millet as a late crop if corn fails or cannot be planted. Seed early varieties through July for fair yields. May is common, with millet rivaling timothy in digestibility and composition. Suitable for cattle horses and sheep, though overripe millet harms horses kidneys. Also used for pasture seed silage and serves as a soil cleaner near summer fallow.
The Arkansas station reports anthrax in horses across the state, with several outbreaks in two years. It notes vaccination generally unsuccessful for prevention, while isolation quarantine disinfection and cremation of carcasses are primary controls. Vaccination is advised only as a secondary measure under official supervision.
Professor W J Kennedy of the Iowa Station reports on English feeding practices for cattle and calves. English farms rely on roots linseed and cottonseed cake with roughage and limited concentrated feeds.
The article explains building a partridge trap with a four by four inch tunnel starting at the foundation and running under one side. Scattered corn along the trench lures partridges inside. they exit on the inside but try to escape through the trap doors.
A neighbor farms with poultry as a strong side line and yields nearly 200 dollars yearly from sales. He raises horses mules dairy stock sheep and hogs and sells wool lambs hog products every few months. He cultivates wheat oats corn hay and forage crops and maintains an orchard and garden for family use and sale of produce.
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