A Woman's Big Dairy at Bern Dale Jersey Herd
A. D. Burhans recalls Mrs. R. W. Thomas of Missouri building a Jersey dairy from two cows to about sixty, selling half the herd at a public sale, earning $6,000 in profit. She supplies doctors with custom butterfat milk, charges 8 to 10 cents a quart, and notes strict recordkeeping, with large feed costs and a focus on top breeding. She has exhibited at fairs and sold cattle to Cuba, with a reputation for quality milk and careful herd management.
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Berndale Jersey
R. W. Thomas
Missouri
Jersey
Thomas
Cuba
St. Louis
Mixing Cement and Reinforcement: A Step by Step Guide
The text explains mixing sand cement and crushed rock to create mortar. It details measuring each part, spreading on a board, adding water to reach mortar consistency, and achieving strong material through full coating of sand grains and void filling. It contrasts a dry three-part method later wetted to form a packable mixture.
Cement on the Farm Concrete use grows with farmers
Farmers adopt concrete for walks foundations and floors as a practical, economical method. Urbana college expert Fred R Crane outlines steps for mixing cement, sand, and crushed rock, stressing coarse sand, clean material, and rough edges for strength.
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Fred R. Crane
College of Agriculture
Urbana
Cultivation of Cow Peas For Soil Health And Feed
The cow pea is a nitrogen fixing legume suited to warm soils and multiple regions. Early varieties like New Era mature with millet, and inoculation may be unnecessary where soils supply nitrogen. cow peas offer high protein value, with one ton of hay equaling wheat bran in feed potential.
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A. J. Lege
Educating the Farm Girl Says She Brings Home Riches
A Wisconsin mother argues daughters on farms gain wealth through home training. She details cooking baking mending washing fruit preserving butter and animal handling. She says the wife’s success comes from upbringing with parents not formal schooling and urges parents to provide wealth via proper education.
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Wisconsin
Spray Death to Weeds By Prof Moors Wisconsin Experiment Station
During 1906 the Wisconsin Experiment Station tested iron sulphate spray to eradicate wild mustard across Wisconsin grain fields. The 20 percent iron sulphate solution killed mustard with no harm to grain, using a Platz sprayer pulled by a horse and covering up to 35 acres daily.
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Department of Agronomy
Wisconsin
Europe
Platz
Germany
Sheep Care in Hot Weather Guidance for Flocks
The article warns that hot months bring dangers to sheep, especially flies that kill young lambs. It advises daily eye checks, close examination for neglect, early breeding of ewes after lambing, separating lambs from ewes, rotating pasture, and providing shade and cooling breezes to reduce heat stress.
Iron sulphate spray used to fight mustard weeds
Instructions describe making iron sulphate solution from sulphate in 50 gallon barrels, mixing with water, and spraying on mustard plants in the third leaf stage or before blossoming for best effect. Notes cover handling, timing, weather, and cost at about 11 dollars per ton with one hundred pounds treating about one acre.
Horses in Fruit Plantations
Observes that large fruit plantations have used horse cultivation to work soil between bushes and trees. Six feet spacing allows two directional plowing for years, with small cultivators stirring four and a half feet wide bands and leaving a hand-hoed ring around each plant. Winter digging may be reduced if horse cultivation continues.
Farmers urged to sow late crops for fodder and yield
The note encourages choosing crops that can be sown late to produce green fodder. It mentions soybeans, sorghum, millet, barnyard millet, and corn as viable options, aiming to improve future fruit and overall harvest despite timing challenges.
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Mouith
Whole corn for the silo technique shared by dairymen
A letter from A Chapin of New York explains how dairymen fill silos with whole corn. Using hay forks, carriers, and hands placing bundles in regular courses edges filled, then water poured atop. The method preserves corn as ensilage and avoids cutting, with a caveat for those who try otherwise.
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Chapin
New York
Floating fruit stores in Ontario’s remote towns
In the far north of Ontario floating stores serve isolated communities where meat is costly and vegetables are scarce. Fruit becomes a notable staple three times weekly, while locals rely on berries gathered by country girls and their sweethearts to ship via rail to Toronto and Quebec.
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Ontario
Canada
North
Toronto
Quebec
Illinois Geological Commission Estimates Swamp Lands Value
The Illinois Geological Commission estimates swamp lands in the state may be reclaimed at an average cost not exceeding $9 per acre, with total value around $10,000,000.
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Illinois Geological Commission
Northern Michigan Pine Nurseries Aimed at Reforestation
Extensive pine tree nurseries are being established in northern Michigan to replant cut-over lands. It is estimated that forty years will be required to produce a pine tree of marketable size.
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Michigan
Hutchinson Man Dies Without Revealing Burial of Wife
Thos. Lewis of Hutchinson Kansas died some time ago and forgot to tell his family where he had buried his wife. The note appears in a dreamlike fragment from the era. No exact location is provided.
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Thos. Lewis
Hutchinson,Kan
Iowa
Fat Sows Favorable to Pig Litter Says Farmer Breeder Debate
An Iowa farmer argues fat sows produce steadier litters while lean sows tire dam early. The piece notes fat sows with proper feeding stay calm, feed stays in trough, and better pig growth. It also warns excessive fat risks and stresses gentle handling during farrowing.
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Lfe
Keep Control Of The Roads For Rural Areas
The piece urges farmers to demand local control over road building to avoid debt and overreliance on unscrupulous contractors. It warns that state supervision can shift costs to rural communities and cites state histories where highway building under state oversight led to burdensome obligations.
Notes on Clover and Oats as Horse Feed
Clover is a valuable feeding crop due to its high protein content. Oats provide more flesh forming elements while corn supplies fat forming elements, making oats a better food for horses. The excerpt discusses how weeds and other factors influence feeding quality.
Away with the old trees in New York orchards
Prof. Hendricks of the Geneva New York station says old crowded orchards with dead lower limbs and tall tops should be felled for firewood to remove a nuisance and a source of infection. Younger, salvageable orchards need pruning, cultivation, spraying, and soil amendments to regain health and yield.
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Prof
Hendricks
Geneva
New York
New York State
San Jose
Orchard Advice On Fire Blight and Pests
Fire blight turns leaves and new growth black. cut out infected parts and burn. Grass and weeds invite mice. if grape vines suffer from cutworm use arsenic mixed with bran water and sugar around their bases. Mow sweet clover to kill. clean cultivation next season helps. Pear blight causes losses in Colorado Utah. do not harvest unripe apples. droughtrequires surface cultivation or mulch to hold moisture.
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Cut Worm
Indiana
Colorado
Utah
Lands Open for Settlement in Western National Forests
Interior department releases nearly 1,000,000 acres from withdrawal in Washington Oregon California and Wyoming to adjust forest boundaries for land valuable to forest aims. Open to settlement in late July and entry in August under the 1906 homesteading act.
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Washington
Oregon
California
Wyoming
Interior Department
Forest Service
San Jacinto National Forest
San Diego County
Washington National Forest
Mt. Rainier National Forest
Cowlitz, Clarke and
Skamania Counties
Medicine Bow National Forest
Colorado
Cascade and Heppner National Forests
Morrow
Umatilla
Grant Counties
Birds Aid Cotton Growers by Eating Bull Weevil
Government experts report thirty seven bird varieties feed on insect life and help southern cotton growers by destroying the bull weevil. Blackbirds wrens and flycatchers also reduce weevil numbers in the fields.
Last Congress Raises Rural Letter Carriers Pay
The 86,900 rural letter carriers receive annual pay increases from 720 to 900 dollars. The increase costs the government about 3.647 million dollars.
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Uncle Sam
Seventeen Year Locust Emerges Across Midwest and East
The seventeen year cicadas arrive in regular cycles with buzzing starts in May or June. The life cycle spans sixteen to seventeen years underground, then a dramatic emergence where adults molt, wings unfold, and males drum to attract females before dying.
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Middle West
York State
Esse
Wyoming Wool Growers Claim Plan By Eastern Buyers
The Wyoming Wool Growers Association says a conspiracy is being planned by eastern buyers to force a change. The statement frames the alleged plot as a coordinated effort impacting local producers and markets.
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Wyoming Wool Growers’ Association
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A. D. Burhans
L. H. Perry
R. A. Moors
Wisconsin Experiment Station
Kansas
Bullock Tim
Chicago
Ised
W. M. Kelly
Grosecloses Brothers
Sully County
Minnesota
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