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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1912
Page
8
The article warns beginners in poultry farming to sustain enthusiasm with steady effort. It urges capital and experience, constant care, and disciplined work, noting frequent failures from overconfidence and haste but highlighting perseverance, planning, and thorough oversight as keys to success.
A farmer explains why sows may eat piglets and how to prevent it. Proper housing, feeding, and handling reduce stress. Suggested regimen includes basement pens, wheat middlings, clover hay, sugar beets, and constant water. He stresses gentle handling and avoiding overfattening brood sows.
Attach four strong wires to the windmill near the top one for each side stake them firmly in the ground and there will be very little danger of the wind blowing the structure down. Before sending potatoes to market pick out the smoothest and very best looking ones for seed next year. Poor b tchness to sell off good potatoes at 39 nts 3 bushel and buy seed two wodfishes later at 1.50.
The text argues that passage to Heaven hinges on honest reporting to the assessor. It notes a man might struggle to own a car or pay taxes, yet if he lives righteously and works, his passport to afterlife is secured.
Detailed instructions on building a concrete walk with proper drainage base, mix ratios, layering, and curing practices. Emphasizes six inches of solid base, wider edges, grading, grouting, top coat, and careful moisture control to prevent cracking and ensure even curing and long wear.
Raisins exports from the United States topped 18.5 million pounds in the last fiscal year with a value of 1.069 million dollars. Canada bought 11 million pounds, while exports to New Zealand, England, Germany and other regions reached multi-million totals over recent years.
A gray mother cat, bereaved of most kittens, nursed three gray squirrels and her remaining kitten with equal care. The quirky scene played out in a Lawrenceburg window where the unlikely family grew and thrived under attentive mothering.
A Virginia man invented a lever powered instrument that grips near the roots and pulls trees out with a side motion. The device resembles a dentist’s forceps and uses a long lever to uproot bushes. Storm doors can cut fuel use, and Japanese udo is described as a tender salad plant with white sprouts and a chicory like quality suitable for gardens.
A threshing machine at a shed near Sioux Walls, S and S D, is moved for the first time last season when a hen sitting on a nest of eyes in a corner of the separator is discovered. The wind from the fan and pulleys frighten her, yet she stays at her post. Of thirteen eggs, only one is damaged.
A practical guide describes building a feed box and manger to reduce waste and labor. It recommends a two by two by one foot trough, a four by two foot platform two inches below the box, and a 16 by 20 inch hay shoot to allow the horse to eat mouthfuls with head raised. The design channels spilled hay to the platform for easy collection and provides a convenient opening above the manger for the feeder to add corn or chops without entering the stall.
Advice urges keeping enough cows to avoid skimping on milk and cream so the milk check covers family expenses and matches neighbors. It emphasizes sustaining herd size for steady income and reliable household budgeting.
Guidelines stress a manure free well drained barnyard away from the barn and regular removal, strict stable cleanliness with cement floors and whitewash, proper ventilation lighting and water, routine milking practices including washing udders, avoiding excitement, grooming cows, testing animals, excluding pests, rapid cooling and sterilized equipment. Adherence reduces odors flies and bacterial contamination while ensuring milk safety.
The article notes a 700000 acre rise in rice acreage in Louisiana and Arkansas over two years and that new growers are learning irrigation practices. It states the United States grows nearly all the rice it uses, with some varieties imported for specific Orientals, while the Caribbean and Philippine Islands receive U.S. rice.
An Oregon farmer gathered 18 minute eggs packed in a four inch cylinder phonograph record box. The eggs were laid by two large hens of mixed Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red breeds.
The article argues farmers should study nature to enrich soil by adding topsoil and nutrients rather than focusing on underlying rock. It cites Holland as an example of artificial land formed from distant materials and asserts soil quality matters more than base rock. It emphasizes practical lessons for American farmers to improve land through intelligent top dressing and persistence.
In Chicago's Union Stock Yards a man named Michael Burns of Swift & Company was killed when a mad steer gored him. The incident marks the first fatal livestock attack recorded at the yards. The piece also notes Argentina's census showing cattle at 29,000,000 and sheep at 67,900,000, and mentions Theodore Roosevelt visiting Long Island farmers, praising farm work. It adds a reminder to buy seed potatoes now due to lower prices and larger available stock versus next March.
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