Why Buy Stock Feed The Good Farmer Can Grow Nearly All He Wants
The editor discusses fermenting chaff straw and fodder with pulped roots to boost feeding value. He notes a twenty four hour fermentation with added dried grains and home grown cereals. Bean meal improves nutrition when mixed, and yellow turnips boost milk production when paired with suitable foods. Cabbages aid cattle on dry fall pastures, preserving condition and aiding land health.
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American Farm World
Chicago
Grain-hauling wagons in Argentina draw six horses
Argentine wagons used for grain transport ride on hard roads pulled by six horses. Each wagon carries about ten tons and features six-inch tires designed for heavy load efficiency on tough terrain.
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Argentine Republic
Importance of gradual diet changes for farm livestock
The article urges gradual diet changes for cattle and sheep to prevent indigestion and stress. It discusses heat from food, fat storage from excess carbohydrates, and risks of frost-touched roots in cold weather. It cites turnip rations and suggests adding home grown cereals or alternative feeds like green corn or molasses to maintain health.
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England
Home Work With Flowers and Pest Control Tips
A guide to winter window gardening outlining aggressive pest control measures. It covers removing dying tissue to prevent disease, Bordeaux mixture for fungus, stipho tobacco soap for green aphids, and weekly scrubbing with suds. It warns about red spider mite in hot dry air and provides steps to spray, rinse, and maintain humidity. It also explains Seale removal, mealy bug treatment with alcohol, lime-soaked soil for white worms, and general care to prevent disease and poor growth.
Silage Use in Sheep Divides Farmers
Farmers split over feeding silage to sheep with breeding ewes. Some warn it causes heated conditions and digestive irritation, especially if silage is not sweet or is overfed. Best practice suggests moderate silage use, with clover hay or alfalfa and grains as alternatives, and to avoid frozen silage.
Mangels and fodder crops valued on stock farms
Mangels are valuable as stored feed, with high digestive value when compared to silage. An acre of mixed red clover and rye grass silage yields similar digestible feed as forty five tons of mangels, while seeding costs are low and soil remains fertile. Rape serves as a useful catch crop for ewes and lambs, and carrots add valuable feed on suitable soils.
New Year Advice for Hired Help on Farm
A fragmentary note gives guidance for a hired man starting a new year. It urges kindness to farm creatures, neatness, avoiding swearing, readiness to work, and avoiding quitting when tasks are unfinished. The text shows transcription errors but conveys moral expectations and work ethic.
Feed Ration Advice for Sheep: Corn Silage and Roughage
The practical feeder can double the gain with corn silage and good roughage. Good corn silage is inexpensive feed and, if tried moderately at first while watching results daily, yields excellent feed. Alfalfa or clover or sorghum should be provided as roughage, reducing or eliminating bran or oil meal when using alfalfa and corn.
Ice water hurts cows and heaters save feed costs
The text argues that ice water is poor policy for cows on cold days as it requires extra feed to warm them. A small kettle on stones can heat water sufficiently for a dozen cows at a lower cost than grain used to restore their body heat. Spring water is preferred if available, and warming water is generally worthwhile despite upfront expense.
Farmer Near Dayton Builds Large Sheep Band
A Washington farmer near Dayton for eighteen years has labored with intelligent effort and now owns a sizeable band of sheep valued at land holdings. The story highlights dedication and the expansion of a local pastoral operation.
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Dayton
Washington
Small Yards for Poultry Improve Fowl Management
A practical plan for keeping poultry in limited spaces by dividing a yard into two or three sections. One area is cultivated with early vegetables, another with grass seeds or small grains, and the third for the fowls. Rotate the birds between plots as crops mature to maintain productive scratching grounds. The method suits small yards and yields strong fowl performance.
Poultry Bone Mills and Farm Hygiene Tips
Farmers are urged to grind bones for poultry feed to recover lime phosphorus and nitrogen, noting high nutritive value and manure benefits. Advice covers bone mills, cleanliness, daily ventilation, painting buildings, diary keeping, and stepping outdoors even in winter. Denmark’s dairy and pig industries are cited as cooperative models.
Wonderful Iowa Farm Adorns Sac County Ranch
An extraordinary corn husking on Adams ranch in Sac County Iowa drew a visitor’s attention. The 1906 crop is gathered by eighty teams and mule drafts, with no horses in the field. The ranch sustains a vast labor force, a full road system, on‑site homes, a central laborers’ hotel, telephones, and extensive shops. The observer praises the ranch’s organization as a model for large scale farming.
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Adams
Sac County
Chicago
Middle West
Nathan Straus on Impure Milk and Child Health
Nathan Straus of New York City urges pasteurization to prevent infant deaths from impure milk. He cites infant tuberculosis and the “great white plague,” noting dairy farm losses and a wealthy New Yorker’s attempt to shield his child from tainted milk by private means.
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Nathan Straus
New York City
Straus
Academy of Medicine
Profit in 100 land? Illinois farmer disputes Nixon figures
A letter from Ira Nixon claims corn can be profitably grown on a $100 land area using a four-horse gang plow, with detailed costs for plowing harrowing pulverizing and labor. O T Gustus challenges Nixon’s analysis, questioning investments in horses, implements, feed, and depreciation, and concluding that farming corn on high priced land is poor business.
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Ira Nixon
Wallace
O. T. Gustus
Illinois
Nixon
Nervous Temperament Best For Milk in Cows
Prof T L Haecker of Minnesota Experiment Station argues temperament governs dairy productivity. A strong nervous system indicates a cow suited for dairy work, with signs including bright eyes, long clean face, high withers, sharp croup, and spare thighs. Results span twelve consecutive years across diverse breeds.
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T. L. Haecker
Dairy Husbandry
Minnesota
Care of Ewes and Lambs During Lambing Time
Advice for farmers on lambing time feeding and management. Recommends corn and oats with chopped roots, ruta bagas, clover or alfalfa hay, and separate pens to aid lamb suckling. Warns against turning ewes onto young grass without grain, noting risk of reduced milk and poorer coats.
News of the Farm and Agricultural Progress 1906
United States beet sugar output exceeded 300,000 tons with Michigan contributing about a quarter. The Department of Agriculture funds global crop exploration. crops from Russia, Sahara and Tigris valleys thrive in US regions. Factory and labor shifts in the Dakotas and Minnesota while Dickinson County Kansas forms a County Fair Association with 10,000 capital. Varying farm innovations include fertilizer production in Virginia, timber-to-lumber shifts in central Iowa, and a rose shrub farm in Yazoo Pass. Hog and chicken values noted. farmers pursue productivity and land use. Dr. Waters rejects Missouri offers. Crookston College relies on local funding after Minnesota’s lack of state aid.
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United States
Michigan
Department of Agriculture
Russia
Sahara
Tigris
Arizona
Finland
Alaska
Siberia
Commission Gessers
Kansas City
Missouri
Dakotas
Minnesota
Dickinson County
Kansas
Virginia
Iowa
Yazoo Pass
Lula
Mississippi
Nebraska
State Board of Assessment
H. J. Waters
Missouri Agricultural College
Doctor Waters
Agricultural College
Crookston
Do Not Kill the Robin Declares Ameri can Bird Union Leader
William Dutcher, chairman of the protection committee of the American Bird Union, urges farmers to spare robins as they are beneficial. An official Department of Agriculture study of 330 robins found 43.87 percent insect prey, 43 percent wild fruit, and under 8 percent cultivated fruit in their stomachs. Examinations spanned every month, and hort iculturists are advised to plant wild fruits to attract robins who will avoid cultivated varieties. In May robins’ diet is over half beetles, many harmful to vegetables.
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William Dutcher
Protection Committee
American Bird Union
Department of Agriculture
Keep Potatoes Dry Against Frost in Historic Storage Tip
A farmer recalls burying a crop during a harsh winter to protect it from frost. They covered the potatoes with boards and straw, then added six inches of dirt and a final heavy straw manure layer to keep them dry and safe.
Feed for Work Horses and the Value of Oats
A Wisconsin agriculture expert explains oats as the ideal grain for horses noting the hulls provide bulk to prevent overfeeding while aiding digestion. He advises cautious adjustments for hard work and suggests bran and gluten feed as partial substitutes to reduce hay intake.
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W. A. Henry
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Feeding Horses on Corn and Oats Contrast
The article discusses feeding horses with oats and gluten feed, noting gluten feed's high protein and advising a trial substitution of bran for one third of oat allowance. It highlights corn as energy rich, with cautions about sweating in large amounts, and suggests a mixed approach depending on region.
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Corn Belt
Value of chaffy corn in Indiana farming
A reader discusses light chaffy corn in Indiana, noting loose shrunken ears in low spots and poor feeding value. The writer shares that mixing with good corn harmed young cattle and colts, as the light grain lacks oil fattening qualities and protein, offering caution for rations.
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Indiana
Potatoes Stored Dry in Cold Cellar with Careful Hints
A reader recalls milder winters and rotted tubers, noting a dry cellar kept above freezing with six inch elevated bins for air circulation. Advice: train a young colt kindly, keep it calm, and gradually acclimate it to leading, framing the task as new business.
Feeding practices draw hog health concerns in Indiana letter
S C Miller of Indiana argues half good sound corn may suffice for hogs but warns crossbreeding hazards. He notes adding clover and alfalfa hay helped compensate for chaffy corn, stressing pairing animals of similar character to predict outcomes.
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S. C. Miller
Indiana
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