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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1915
Page
7
Careful planning and economy help farm wives dispatch work with ease. Eliminate nonessentials, simplify kitchen layout, use compact shelves, movable tables, and at home devices like a fireless cooker and improvised sink. The farm telephone remains vital for contact with markets and friends.
The article stresses milk as a vital yet contaminable staple and urges farmers to deliver clean milk to city babies. It notes diseases like tuberculosis diphtheria and scarlet fever linked to milk and highlights that one fifth of U S infant deaths stem from preventable diseases, many from improper feeding or impure milk.
The article argues soil restoration is essential as America’s resources are not unlimited. It traces past prodigality, urges intelligent farming, longer leases, and full livestock use to sustain soil fertility, noting government land dispersal created wealth but depleted soils. It emphasizes improved farming methods and readjustment agencies to maintain cheap, abundant food.
A historical look at rambling roses, noting white and pink classics, and the push to create perpetual blooming ramblers. Mentions Jardin varieties like Turner's Crimson Rambler, Tea Rambler, Victoriana, Lady Gay, Hiawatha, Jersey Beauty, and musk and noisette hybrids. Calls for amateur crosses to yield a true perpetual rambler.
For the first thirty six hours newly hatched chicks need no feed as the yolk is absorbed. Afterward provide fine grit and charcoal and, if possible, hard boiled eggs using infertile incubator eggs. Then offer commercial chick food or a mix of steel cut oatmeal millet seed and fine cracked corn.
The article argues that selecting a strong head sire is crucial for herd quality and uniformity. It cites a swine example where a poor sire produced mixed offspring and low weights, while a good sire would raise pigs with better profit potential.
Neighborly warning follows a brood of chicks found cold and dead after eating spoiled salmon kept in a can. The note urges caution with canned meat and fish and suggests burying or burning spoiled products.
The article outlines requirements for clean milk production. It calls for healthy cows, clean lighted ventilated stables, easy to clean constructions, a clean well drained barnyard, sterilised utensils, dry milking, a small-top pail, and immediate cooling to 50 degrees Fahrenheit or below. It also emphasizes low temperature storage, separate handling house, and abundant pure water.
The passage notes turkeys are adept at gleaning and utilize seeds and residues that might otherwise go to waste. It emphasizes that fruit and vegetable gardens require rich soils and careful cultivation, suggesting turkeys contribute to farm efficiency through waste reduction and soil enrichment.
Do not feed spoiled grain fruit or vegetables to poultry as it offers little value and may harm flocks. Oyster shell is cheap and superior to grinding old dishes with several grades available. Use appropriately sized shell about the grain size and provide grit separately in accessible boxes or places.
A fragment notes a peculiar comparison calling the fly the undertaker's traveling salesman and mentions regular lines, reflecting a curious old saying or metaphor from the text.
The farmers of this country should take courage as war raises food demand. American farms stand secure with vast, well managed land and modern labor. Prices rising will boost production. Europe faces crop and shipment difficulties, boosting U S exports for staples like grain flour meats and potatoes.
Geese forage well and can be range raised on green pasture for much of the year. Feed during breeding with corn meal and shorts, add stale bread and ground beef scraps, and provide ample water. Hatch under hens, incubate about thirty days, and keep goslings warm and dry. Goose meat costs compare favorably with pork, suggesting profitable farming potential.
The article urges stockmen to have bloat remedies ready for quick use, noting mouth-opening aids, ginger and soda for relief, and a trochar as a last resort. It advises consulting a conductor on proper use and warns not to experiment. It also asks if barns and houses are protected by lightning rods.
Advice warns that red mites kill setting hens and multiply in dark damp nests. Clean out every part of the hen house at night with a strong disinfectant solution after inspecting with a good light. Overhaul nesting boxes, burn nesting material, take down roosts and repaint with disinfectant.
Bacteria enter milk from the udder and dust, dirt from the udder and flanks, milker, and unclean utensils. Disease-causing bacteria may come from cows with tuberculosis or from handlers with typhoid, diphtheria, or septic sore throat. The middleman is described as a necessary evil in the cost of living chain between producer and consumer.
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