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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
7
The guide details sanitary room setup for Camembert making with cement floors sloping to a drain and walls whitewashed or painted, constant temperature via steam, and ventilation. It covers steam sterilization for tools, a galvanized steam chest, and a starter using pure lactic cultures or home sources like sour milk, with milk quality and temperatures for optimal bacteria growth.
The article outlines turning cheese and aging to reach acidity. It describes Camembert salting by rubbing two cheeses with salt, then drying on boards salt side up. Salting dissolves overnight and diffuses through the cheese.
The text argues farmers should slaughter and dress their hogs at home to avoid high marketing costs and packer profits. It suggests feeding hens properly with clover oyster shell and bone to prevent soft shells, noting excessive stimulating foods can cause shell problems.
Farmers weigh fall foal breeding against spring, arguing spring foals benefit from grass, sun, and mare milk. Proper care includes ample space, exercise, and quality feed. fall foals require careful stall management, but spring foals avoid dry winter milk shortages and easier weaning timing.
A Wisconsin swine breeder lost almost his February litter after keeping sows and piglets in warm cramped pens fed corn meal before weaning. Lack of exercise and improper nitrogenous feed led to high piglet mortality. the article argues larger pens and more exercise could have produced a viable spring pasture-ready flock.
The editorial argues against credit buying and blames neither consumers nor farmers for high living costs. It calls for ending buying on tick to solve the problem, asserting middlemen and farmers are innocent. Money talks.
The article explains coloring cement blocks with red oxide for a brown shade and lamp black, ultramarine blue for blue, yellow ocher for yellow, and notes that cement shade and pigment amounts vary by mix and dry lighter. It advises minimal coloring to preserve strength. It also reports W J McLean of Wichita Kansas growing a pear tree that yielded two full crops in the year and bloomed a third time in October.
The article warns buyers about crown gall and woolly aphid in nursery stock. Crown gall damages trunks and roots, spreading via inoculation. there is no effective treatment and diseased stock should be destroyed. Woolly aphid infests roots and trunks, weakening trees. dipping roots in kerosene emulsion and temperature treatments are noted as remedies.
An observer notes peculiar trees including a chestnut fallen trunk sprouting a black birch, a pine pinned to the ground with branches on one side, an apple tree shaped like an elbow after a gale, and another tree with branches resembling a paint brush.
Bitter rot threatens apples in sections where it occurs. It causes sunken dark cankers on limbs that crack and emit spores. Remove cankered limbs, pare dead bark from small cankers on large limbs, and spray with Bordeaux mixture four times next season.
The army elimination of chicken from the menu and a turkey limit during holidays saved the government thousands of dollars, with chicken costs falling by $52,000 for the year.
Fruit growers in the Northwest estimate over 20 tons of first class peaches were wasted this season due to high freight rates and shipping expenses to railroads and markets.
Instruction on how to mix farm fertilizer with step by step methods and equipment. It covers ingredients such as dried blood bone meal and nitrate, layering technique, thorough mixing, screening, and timing for best results while noting to reserve nitrate for surface application and to prepare in advance.
Read guidance for storing dahlia and canna tubers in cellars. Separate moulded roots from healthy ones, and keep shriveled roots near the floor in a damp corner. Ensure air circulation, vent the cellar, and seal cracks to prevent drafts. Also notes hens benefit from coal rinders in their yard.
The article describes a versatile barn design of 3v by 52 feet with stalls for horses and five cows, a 12 foot drive, two lofts 18 by 32 feet and 22 by 32 feet, and adjustable grain-bins. It costs about 1600 dollars including carpentry and day wages, with pine flooring. galvanized iron roof and two coats of paint.
Districts urge forest department to rescue walnut trees blamed for tannic acid harming soil and driving timber costs higher. James Hagan of Dover New Jersey notes two White Leghorn hens that lay only around 2 AM waking the neighborhood. In Washington, two Gifford farmers netted 100 pounds of honey from a wild bee tree.
Practical guide on duck nutrition and housing notes that ducks need ground grains with cooked vegetables, avoiding dry oats and wheat unless cooked. Recommends mashed potatoes, turnips, pumpkins, and green fodder. avoid gummy feeds, provide grit separately, and keep water near feed. Winter housing should be dry, draft-free, with straw bedding and a board floor, avoiding picking ducks in cold weather.
A report notes widespread parasitic tapeworm infestations causing 30 to 40 percent losses in many flocks. Early signs are easy to miss, especially in lambs eight to ten weeks old, with scouring common at weaning. Arsenic as a worm killer is discussed, along with salt-based preventive measures using land treatments of crushed rock salt to deter mollusk intermediaries. Pasture dogs near towns show high infestation rates at about 70 percent.
The piece argues for high quality milk and criticizes city health boards for costly regulations. It notes that affordable, clean milk is hard to provide and that dairymen should not be forced to offer superior product at low prices. It offers a simple cleaning tip and a method to bleach a straw hat with sulfur.
An Ohio man asks about beet silage. Experiments show beets fail as silage due to high water content. Trenches bury the crop with tops covered by straw to store through winter.
The article argues that livestock should be the main focus for farmers not a side line. It cites feeding 60-cent corn to hogs at 80 cents as profitable, saving on hauling and enriching soil. It urges gradual move to breeding pure-bred stock, noting livestock is essential for a lasting agriculture, especially on high priced land.
Fred Terron, a stockman, arrived in Kansas City with cattle and could not decide which state to register from. He claimed residence in four states Colorado New Mexico Utah and Arizona, with his ranch spanning all four and his house at their meeting point.
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