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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1912
Page
7
Instructions for building durable window and veranda boxes, including size and material guidance, soil quality, drainage, and watering practices. Recommends quick growing vines such as German Ivy and Tradescantia, morning glories for shade, and a selection of flowering plants like nasturtium petunia candy tuft Lobelia and Sweet Alyssum. Offers framing ideas for shade awnings and notes on plant maintenance and moisture needs.
The column argues sows should be kept for breeding years, not fattened, with mature parents yielding larger and more pigs. Keep breeding sows separate from fattening hogs, feed slop from wheat shorts and bran, and avoid farrowing underfed or overfed sows. A neighbor kept an old sow who produced 10 pigs and later sold them, recovering profit.
The article argues that drought losses to farmers stem from poor moisture retention and drainage. It urges spring and early summer soil conservation, better tillage, and drainage to improve water holding capacity, root penetration, heat action, and bacterial activity, predicting fewer losses from summer droughts.
A historic gardening note explains methods for handling cauliflower by wrapping outer leaves and tying tops, thinning turnips to about two inches, and plowing under rank weeds to keep beds flat and allow soil to heat in sun.
North Carolina's forests and dependent industries generate material valued over 35 million dollars annually and provide jobs for about 30,000 men. The text notes general dissatisfaction among nine of ten people with their possessions or lack thereof.
Kansas College of Agriculture field trials sprayed seven apple orchards noting a 37 percent increase in merchantable fruit per tree and higher grades. Net profit rose to 1.62 dollars per tree and nearly doubled with better grading. Insects and diseases were markedly reduced. lime sulfur plus arsenate of lead excelled on Bordeaux injury prone apples.
A. J. Lege argues summer pig feeding must be business like. Pasture plus moderate rations yields growth while overgrazing invites disease. Early spring pigs can gain a pound daily by eight to ten months. Consider sending a boy to agricultural school next fall for a fair start.
A simple feed rack built for sheep uses a bottom rail formed from a barn pole and a top rail of a 2 by 6 inch scantling. Crossbars, four feet long and about one and a half inches in diameter, are riven from an old timber and shaved smooth. Holes in the rails are cut with an inch-anger. crossbars are trimmed to fit and wedged in place. The bottom rail is retained by two bent heavy sheet-iron strips around the pole.
A farmer describes a hay rack mounted on the wall held in place by a half inch rope looped over a pulley in a wall hole. When loaded the rack lowers, then rises to press the hay flat against the wall, with a weight keeping it secure. A grain trough catches chaff and hay leaves to prevent waste.
A Pennsylvania farmer asks why his cucumber vines bore no fruit after blooming nicely last year. The suggestion states the likely cause is lack of fertilization, noting that like strawberries and other plants, cucumbers may fail to fruit without proper pollination and care.
The floods in the Mississippi Valley create an opportunity to curb cattle ticks transmitting Texas fever. Concentrating cattle on levees and mounds has reduced pasture tick exposure, but reinfestation can occur as ticks cling to cattle returning to pastures. The Bureau of Animal Industry advocates two steps: grease cattle with oil or arsenical dip before returning to pastures, and fence off or restrict access to flood-affected areas for about four months to starve seed ticks.
A historical note promotes sowing rape with corn as forage for sheep. It argues rape is highly palatable and profitable, requiring no grains, and suggests turning sheep into fields late in cultivation. It also recommends selling older ewes conditioned by the corn and rape forage.
A fragmented OCR keeps a terse note about resisting a war date or draft. The readable bits reference opposition and a stated intention to avoid participating, with no concrete names, places, or official actions available in the text.
A Washington hen abandoned her brood of chicks to care for a litter of Poland China pigs after the pigs' mother died soon after their birth. The hen gathered the pigs with the same cluck call and showed mothering behavior.
A hen brazenly herds a disparate group of animals in the barnyard as they jostle for position. She crouches to sleep among the four legged creatures and sings a gentle good-night lullaby to them, as if they were her own offspring.
A new invention attachments to metal frames promises to ease back strain for workers on farms. The implement, riveted to various tools, would brace the user and reduce fatigue when operating cultivators and similar machines.
Poultry products form a major farm crop with vast supply from small flocks. Better and more uniform goods plus smarter marketing lift profits. eggs offer the clearest yearly price forecast. Markets demand timing, formats, and steady shipments to top prices, while cold storage balances seasonal surpluses.
A new method enables moving large trees with a single contrivance attached to a wagon's running gear. The tree can be raised at an angle and held by endless chains in a framework, replacing risky guy ropes. The rear wagon axle is removed so the truss supports the tree over its root ball and planting site, with wide tires to protect lawns. The adage that “know how” counts as much as work echoes through the piece.
Investigations and experiments indicate no significant effect whether a horse is watered before or after feeding. The key condition is that the horse is not allowed to drink to fullness on an empty stomach while warm.
The inter state commerce commission has ordered the Pullman Company to reduce sleeping car rates. Fifteen years ago this item would not interest many farmers but it will now.
A reflective view compares the world to a whispering gallery that mirrors human speech. It suggests our reactions to life shape its response, noting laughter invites laughter and curses invite curses in a mutual echo.
An English farmer on clay soil used unique practices to protect potato crops from Colorado potato beetles. He planted in drifts, leveled land, and covered shoots with a single shovel plow, keeping rows filled. The farm also produced abundant watermelons from which syrup was boiled and thickened with apples to make high quality apple butter sold locally.
The article notes Dorsets’ combative nature aids defense against dogs in Western flocks. It mentions a claim that some raise 14 sheep per acre on alfalfa and beet pulp. It also discusses evaluating a sheep by physical examination and notes ram crosses with Merino can yield good lambs early.
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