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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
21
The piece warns city men chasing an ideal farm life, recounting vivid examples from a sea captain actor and others. It contrasts grand plans with costly mistakes and notes many end in debt and ruin, while practical farmers earn steady returns on farmland.
Instructions on using dynamite for stump removal are provided, detailing hole placement fuse length and safety cautions. The piece then covers the International Live Stock Exhibition in Chicago, noting crowd size, record sales of horses and cattle, champion and grand champion awards, and upcoming leadership changes at the show.
The article argues that a deal farm should be structured from a practical farmer’s viewpoint. City men with funds can buy small farms and succeed by using practical methods while avoiding visionary theories and get rich quick schemes.
Demand for light and heavy hogs depends on shipping centers and season. Buffalo buys the smallest carcasses while Boston takes the heaviest. Winter favors heavy hogs and summer favors light hogs, though light hogs appear more in winter and heavy hogs in summer due to autumn marking.
Eastern farmers adapt a stone boat a low sled built from 2 by 4 planks six feet long with ends formed and covered by a jasom. It serves as a back saver when moving stones logs and other heavy loads.
Farmers can balance rations by growing fresh forages and high protein corn. Emphasizes increasing protein in corn, using skim milk for pigs, and expanding alfalfa clover and rape pastures. Calls for winter planning to reduce dependence on external by products and improve pig nutrition.
This passage argues that horses and dogs instinctively resist pressure and move to relieve it. It compares halter pulling, foot handling, and doorway passage to show that when force is applied, animals simulate back or forward movement to escape. It urges riders to align with these natural laws to avoid avoidable trouble.
The article urges readers to care for winter birds by placing a grain sheaf on the roof for Christmas, notes January and February are tougher for birds, and recommends planting evergreen trees like spruces and pines for shelter and nesting. It highlights nuthatches and blue jays as year round and early spring visitors and stresses ongoing stewardship.
Glanders is a rare horse disease caused by a germ and can affect horses mules and occasionally humans. It ranges from acute nasal and respiratory symptoms to chronic ulceration and skin gland involvement with varying fever weight loss and emaciation, and may spread through contact, especially in chronic farcy cases.
Henry Stewart argues dairy success hinges on udder quality and training from birth. He notes inheritance sets potential but must be developed through proper care, massage, and feeding to cultivate a cow into a high producing milker.
Bulletin No 113 emphasizes detecting disease early and culling infected animals, notes unrecognized dairy issues, and argues for breeding thick meaty beets for higher cacharine yield, warning that long slender roots are unprofitable and that good seed and breeding improve production.
A fragmented text line appears to mix archaic phrasing with a question about arranging or counting people. No clear event, place, or names are readable to establish a news item or specific summary.
A Maine man trials canned corn byproducts in a silo but cows reject them due to odor. The article notes varied feeds for prize steers, including oats, bran, corn, oil-cake, and greens, plus the use of screenings in hog rations. It warns on sorghum, clover hay, artichokes for hogs, and stresses careful management of cattle on sorghum and muddy lots.
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