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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1907
Page
20
Feed the calf warm milk three times daily from birth to ensure high quality baby beef. Avoid indigestible solids and cold skim milk. Introduce skim milk after ten days, keeping milk warm, and use old meal to prevent scours. Also notes on Hollybrook and mammoth yellow soybeans for crop rotation and easier cultivation.
By C. D. Lyon, Ohio. It is essential for anyone selling milk vegetables fruit or berries to locate near the market on good roads. A six mile to market distance 365 days a year adds up to 2 190 miles yearly. over eleven years it equates to circling the world farther than a closer neighbor. Good roads ease travel. five miles on a level road beats two miles in mud. General farming requires less exact site selection.
Instructions describe making a jelly from water to feed calves, starting with a small amount to each calf and increasing as needed. Advice emphasizes separate feeding to prevent crowding, keeping spring calves in a clean dry stable, then turning out to grass in fall. Feed whole oats and other nourishing matter, pushing growth while maintaining bowels, to yield profitable beef in ten months.
Ohio dairyman Truman Wills urges careful bedding for cows to protect milk quality. He warns against using damp moldy straw weed-riddled bedding and bearded straw that irritates cows. Clean wheat straw remains the favored bedding, with dairy profitability tied to proper farm rotation and straw use.
A farmer advises against growing corn and soya beans together on rich land. He says the combined mass makes the corn hard to eat and easily toppled by heavy winds. He recommends growing each crop separately to maintain quality and stability.
The speaker argues farm design should align with system choices and water access. He ranks water sources from living springs to cisterns, stresses soil fertility, and suggests acreage ranges: grain farming 160, specialty crops 100, mixed 100, livestock 240, exclusive stock raising 320 acres, depending on labor capacity.
A farmer’s guide warns against keeping fresh meat in hot weather except in an ice house. It offers a curing method for beef and pork with brine and weekly turnover, notes safe smoking with cobs or hardwood, and advises wrapping and whitening after curing. The essay ends with a partial signature and instructions.
The article explains rising feed costs for milk cows due to reduced pasture and poorer hay. Silage offers some relief, but Borden restrictions hinder its use. Producers across Orange and New York counties appeal to Borden to lift limits, noting higher total costs and lower net returns on Borden lines versus open-market middlemen. The outlook foresees higher feed prices with no winter relief expected.
Bosley Littig of Baltimore distributes a circular stressing seed selection and testing. Iowa State reports 60 percent of seed sprouted, with potential 25 percent yield increase if Maryland farmers obtain and use bulletin No. 77 from Prof. P. G. Holden at Ames. Readers urged to test seed before planting.
A guide urges growers to prepare crates baskets and barrels and hire extra help. Build a packing shed arrange shelves paint ladders and organize field carriers baskets checks and labels for vouchers. Emphasis on advertising details as key to selling fruit packages and quality.
A young man mocked a mean farmer who set him to straighten crooked nails. He should have learned restraint and thrift, for the farmer’s careful saving habits built his successful start in life.
The note urges saving all board scraps not longer than a foot and trimming jagged ends. Use the pieces for nest boxes or tomato plant frames next spring. It also advises keeping records of the dairy herd and selling cows that do not pay to protect profits.
A good incubator requires ample egg chamber space a readable thermometer without disturbing the machine a first class lamp and a removable nursery tray below. Do not buy a cheap incubator seek recommendations from experiment stations and follow management instructions for operating the machine.
The guide details setting up an incubator, egg handling, turning, moisture, and testing on days seven eleven and fifteen. It advises a two year old drake with three ducks per drake, selecting broad backed birds, and maintaining a small run of twenty ducks with a cemented pond. Feeding mixes include meat and middlings, grains, grit, oyster shells, and occasional meat, with slaughter for eating around ten weeks.
The article outlines essential poultry house conditions focusing on warmth in winter, coolness in summer, and dry air at all times. It stresses foundation drainage and dry floors, then details a ventilation system with bottom intake and a vertical galvanized shaft to the roof, plus methods to minimize drafts and moisture, including straw insulation.
The article links poultry science and market demand, noting that selecting hens and feed drives egg production so buyers come to producers. It contrasts young vs old geese yields, and mentions rising milk prices and stronger apple selling. It cites Ben Davis apples sold to Liverpool at $4.10 per barrel, with $2.25 received locally.
An analysis of how weeds rob soil nutrients and moisture, smother crops, and disrupt rotation. It argues weeds convert plant food into weed tissue, reducing seasonal crop yields, and stresses the need for weed free, high quality seed grain to protect future harvests.
Two simple lunch recipes from Mary Evans described for children. Graham bread uses butter eggs molasses sour milk and graham flour baked and sliced for sandwiches with meat or cheese. Ginger bread combines butter molasses brown sugar soda hot water flour and spices baked as a wholesome noon dessert option.
A New York notice outlines how after three years of effort and enterprise in duck breeding, profits grew from eggs and young ducklings. It notes steady demand year round, the shift in farmers' views toward ducks, and cautions that ducks don’t live or lay as long as geese, stressing profitable egg and bird sales.
The article argues dairy farming is among the most profitable branches of general farming. It stresses careful management of cows to maximize profits and suggests attention to feed and care to ensure the dairy operation yields strong returns.
Mr James J Hill stated that by 1910, four years hence, the United States will reach one hundred million people and will consume all the wheat produced. He framed the projection as a bold forecast for the country’s growth and agricultural demand.
Hog welfare note warns that feeding corn exclusively and providing too much water leads to excess fat and weak hind legs in young pigs. Prevention includes gradual corn introduction, balanced rations with bran shorts bone meal and milk, and avoiding corn when paralysis occurs, using a bran mash plus a tonic from the Bureau of Animal Industry to guard against hog cholera and swine plague.
A historical note on fattening draft horses stresses dental care. It claims floating teeth by a veterinarian improves chewing, digestion, and condition, noting many horses suffer from sharp grinders causing raw gums and poor gains until the teeth are leveled.
Directions for using a pig medicine specify a large tablespoon per 200 pounds of hog weight once daily. When ill, mix soft feed with barn middlings or corn meal or oats and corn plus hot water with medicine, or drench sick hogs carefully through the cheek. Use in feed as a preventive for most swine diseases.
The piece extols mules as efficient farm workers, noting medium sized mares produce large mules, mules cost less to shoe, recover quickly from abuse, and eat less than horses. It claims farmers using mules save about half the feed and a three-year-old mule team can fetch $300 to $400.
Rhode Island Station quotes advise farmers on fattening cattle with bran and silage treated cornstalks while warning against millet for horses. They endorse corn and alfalfa hay with cottonseed meal to boost beef value and urge study of scientific feeding and practical reading.
W. E. Copple, a farmer, was loading shocked corn when he fell from the load in Shelbyville Indiana. The broken pitchfork end pierced his right breast and the handle passed through his body, requiring three men to remove it. He died soon after.
In Marlborough County South Carolina 1893 a farmer entered a corn yield contest offering 1000 dollars for the largest single acre. He cultivated worn pine land with over 1000 dollars in fertilizer and worked 12 hours daily as the crop grew rank and ears swelled so tall trellises were placed between rows. The harvest measured about 255 bushels per acre.
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