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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1911
Page
9
A Missouri man designed a barn shown here with the aim of cost efficiency. Proper barn construction can reduce labor, making the investment pay off in the long run.
A 50 by 60 foot barn plan outlines room for 14 cows and 12 horses with box stalls and a calf pen. Features include milk and feed rooms with silage chute, manure pit access, two grain spouts, hay chutes, cement floors, and a central harness room. The writer warns a strong foundation and notes cement floors may harm horse joints.
Rural communities push back as hunters and roaming dogs disrupt farms. Farmers unite to curb trespassing, protect cattle and dairies, and defend quail and pest control birds valued for land health.
Dr. Harvey Wiley, head of the bureau of chemistry, urges removing redundant middlemen to lower prices. He favors central depots and public storehouses to shorten producer to consumer routes, noting meats pass through five hands and milk costs are inflated by inefficient distribution. He cites a milk-hauling waste and the need for a sensible distribution system.
M W Kelley notes shredded fodder stored via ensilage cutter into the silo can rival timothy hay for feeding young stock, beef cattle, sheep, and horses. He reports variable results in preservation, endorsing wetting and packing, with corn worth 75 to 80 cents per bushel making the method pay, and recommends leaving top ears in shocks until Alles settle.
The text argues that manure fertilizers and crop rotations fail to compensate for soil underdrainage. It claims they add cost without returning crops. It contrasts good farmers who use fertilizers for lasting soil improvement with poor farmers who use them to extract short term gains from exhausted soil.
Government statistics show strawberries are the second largest fruit crop by revenue after apples. The piece explains soil prep, plant selection, and planting methods including hill and single hedge systems, with dibble tool use, spacing, and mulching to protect fruit quality and yield.
Practical guidance on hitch position and driver stance for dragging roads. Explains impact of hitch length on cutting depth, how to adjust for moist soil, ruts, and rolling terrain, and notes techniques to smooth clay roads, reduce dust, and manage center-height buildup on clay hills.
The Greenhorn explains how buyers often take several novices to help choose a horse, and dealers may take advantage of them. It notes that dark stalls can cause eye disease, that horses and mules need light but not glare, and recommends using a leather halter and a rein rather than a chain to avoid entanglement.
Government chemists claim a concealed tag in southern watermelons yields alcohol. One hundred pounds of melons may produce a tenth of a gallon, and sweet potatoes could similarly yield alcohol for industrial use. Pasture decline is linked to overgrazing.
Fragmentary text provides no clear event, names, places, dates, or actions. The readable portions mention a farmer and auto fever but lack context to form a factual headline or summary.
Poultry experts agree green succulent foods aid digestion in winter and sprouted oats are highly relished. Fast growth requires warmth moisture and sun with oats grown in shallow boxes. keep sprouts 4 to 6 inches tall and fed at about 3 pieces per 100 birds daily.
A farmer battles pests yet praises the beak worm for advancing agriculture. The piece urges nurturing agricultural education in boys, stressing scientific training and loyalty to progress in farming. It highlights the debt owed to earlier agricultural pioneers and calls for continued pursuit of solutions to farming challenges.
A historical report explains that a sow may eat her pigs when lacking balance nutrients and energy. It notes the habit stems from nitrogenous food cravings, triggers irritation, and stresses careful management. Winter diets of alfalfa hay oats corn and shorts improve muscle growth, with pasture in summer and exercise. Even after recovery, pig-eating can persist, affecting breeding safety.
The passage contrasts farm fertility from milk trade to city cans and mentions terms like fancy stock and judgment day. It reflects a rural dialect about efficiency, improvement, and time spent learning to do things well versus rest.
The ocellated or Honduras turkey is native to Honduras and Central America. It is praised for brilliant bronze-green plumage bands of gold bronze blue and red and lacks a breast tuft. Its head and neck are naked with distinctive carunodes, and it cannot be bred successfully as a domestic fowl in northern climates.
A tongue in cheek editorial urges dairymen to hire a Babcock tester as an honest detective in the dairy barn, arguing buyers should not pick best cows. It also recalls a Dakota farmer curing calf scours with raw eggs and suggests dried blood as a starter feed. The piece asserts cows are worth their price only if managed properly and implies profit hinges on rigorous record keeping.
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