Skim Milk as Valuable Dairy By-Product and Feed
A Department of Agriculture estimate places the national value of dairy by products at over 50 million dollars per year. Skim milk emerges as the key by product, praised for high protein value and economic feeding for calves, swine, poultry, and other livestock, with experiments from New York and Wisconsin supporting strong bone and growth benefits.
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W. Milton Kelly
Department of Agriculture
Eol- Jewes
New York Experiment Station
Henry
Wisconsin
America
Fireless Cooker Makes Meals Quick at Camp and Home
The fireless cooker, available for 8 to 16 dollars, uses a wooden box lined with asbestos and stuffed with hay to cook food. Meat vegetables and cereals are boiled first then left to heat for six to eight hours, with cereals ready by morning. The government uses these cookers for marching parties to provide fully cooked meals at night.
Bee Stings as Medicine and Roads Progress
An essay by F G Herman extols bee functions from honey to propolis and wax, praising farmer influence on a better world. It reflects on evolving roads from dirt paths to public highways, noting costly changes and the need for improved highway laws and funding mechanisms.
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F. G. Herman
Poultry and Farming Tips From a Longtime Writer
A writer with 35 years in poultry shares historical farming advice on winter egg production using milk, field cultivation methods, and corn ridging. He notes modern improvements but finds much of early guidance sensible, citing practical tips from a Bloomington Illinois article signed by Eugene Funk.
Great Weed Killer Harrow For Preplant Cultivation
A harrow designed for corn and other crops to be used just before emergence or while plants are young. By removing the center teeth it will straddle a corn row and cover ground thoroughly. The 3x3 inch material and backward angled teeth ensure a sharp edge in front.
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United States
Congress
Great Northwest Territory
Pacific Coast
Hudson's Bay
Canada
Northwest
Immigration Bureau
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Pruning Strawberry Plants Tips From Early Planting Guide
When you receive your strawberry plants prune the roots as shown in the picture before setting out. The guidance emphasizes proper root trimming to promote strong establishment and healthy growth in the garden.
Bees and highways and farm notes from rural America
A rural miscellany discusses bee venom use in medicine and bottling bees, U S highway funding debates, immigration questions, and north western railway expansion. It covers fowl feeding, henhouse needs, broomcorn production, Edison’s electric motor claim, and cherry farming success in Colorado.
From the Farmer's Window Perspective on Rural Life
The piece argues the farmer offers a clear view of the world from a hilltop vantage. It contrasts calm farmhouse reflection with city hurry, claiming quiet study yields more accurate estimates. It notes farmers feel sorrow for grave problems beyond the farm.
Art in Cultivating Corn Roots and Cultivation
The author describes corn root depth six weeks after planting and explains a first cultivation deep to five inches. He details surface riding cultivators with four blades, a two inch skimming depth, and a drag to level soil and expose weeds. He notes weed roots are destroyed and tops dry out, and cautions against a universal cultivation rule.
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Sox
Bits of Homely Wisdom for Farmers and Families
A collection of farm vignette style counsel urging kindness and practical care. It stresses humane treatment of workers and animals, modest wages, home storage for harnesses, weekend rest, and supporting young people in agricultural training as sound investments in a family’s future.
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Institute
Selecting a Good Feeder Steers for Profit
Advice on choosing feeder cattle emphasizes selecting animals with low, blocky bodies and no dairy-leaning narrowing. The guide notes a steer in a group of twenty five last year that failed to profit, illustrating the method's outcome.
Agricultural educators urge housewives to spot real butter
The Chicago butter and egg board announces an education effort aimed at housewives to distinguish genuine butter from imitation spreads, seen as supporting pure butter producers.
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Chicago Butter and Egg Board
Dr Wiley commends pure food law success
Dr Wiley of the Agricultural Department reports that about 95 percent of food drink and drug manufacturers and dealers supply pure products with accurate labels. He says dishonest producers face vigorous government prosecutions and that the law has largely increased trust and business in correctly labeled goods.
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Wiley
Agricultural Department
Wey
News and notes from farm life across the Midwest
A collage of agricultural tidbits includes a student leaving a Minnesota school with an orange tree and corn, rising U S honey output, New Orleans land development for oranges, county bounty and hunting results, a rabid dog incident in Illinois, rabbit hunt scores in Kansas, Michigan bean crop notes, Cannon City apple shipments, a Missouri shooting case, Texas peach woes, Chicago chicken ordinance, a barn fire tragedy in Pennsylvania, shamrock debates in New York, and a closing quip on neighborly sour moods.
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Facn
Minnesota School of Agriculture
United States
Chicago
New York
New Orleans
Lee County
Hinois
Marissa
Pasteur Institute
Stafford
Kan
Cannon City
Cal
Samuel
David Lynn
Buchanan County
Missouri
Mollie Seamour
Samuel Lynn
East
Texas
Pusey
Oxford
St Patrick
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Eugene Funk
Bloomington
Til
Jersey
Columbia
Dovdle Anarrotu
Europe
Russia
Il{nois
Oklahoma
Kansas
Thomas Edison
American Sunday School Association
Charles H
Golder
Col
Yakima Valley
Eugene Davenport Sean
University of Illinois
Uncle Sam
Nubbins
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