Cheap Fruit Evaporators For Handy Farmers
A Missouri station professor outlines a simple drying house plan for fruit evaporators. Use any old solid building about 24 by 12 feet, no bottom floor, with 6 foot high joists. Upper slat floor allows hot air circulation, two vents sufficient, two large stoves on ground floor for furnace. Apples dried on galvanized trays, bleached with sulfur but not too long to avoid flavor loss. Evaporator dimensions and materials listed for a 40 by 40 foot setup.
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Goodman
Missouri Station
Box Or Barrel For Apples Heads May Be Left Out
Apple growers debate packaging as New York barrel shortages last year raised prices. Pros of boxes include easier handling by inexperienced labor and potential higher quality fruit, with buyers often preferring bushel boxes. European markets report bruising in headed barrels, pushing some packers to store fruit without heads as the Artisan Cold Storage Co. demonstrates with Jonathans.
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New York
New York City
London
Artesian Cold Storage Co
St. Joseph
Jonathans
Construction Materials and Fruit Storage Methods
A detailed list of timber, boards, and construction items including 192 feet B M of posts and joists, 1x6 sheeting, siding, bins, floor strips, shingles, glass panes, and a note on packing fruit in barrels. It explains that fruit was packed in barrels with burlap and upper hoops, then hauled by wagon or freight cars for storage, keeping fruit free from bruising.
Found in the Soil Economy and the Value of Fertility
The essay explains soil value per acre and how fertility affects profit in farming. It notes that soils can be run down or improved and that knowing soils is crucial to prosper in Illinois farming, focusing on nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium as the often limited nutrients.
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Ouse
Ifnois
Skim Milk Advice and Pig Breeding Note
A short agricultural note urges skimming sweet milk and avoiding cream thickening. It warns that a pig stunted early in life should have no place in breeding programs, reflecting practical farm management guidance.
Draft horses beat autos for deliveries say New York store
Henry Siegel, opening a large dry goods store in New York, favors draft horses over automobiles for delivery. After trying steam and electric trucks, he and associates ordered 240 draft horses, arguing teams work more reliably with trucks, incur fewer delays, and that demand for draft horses will rise as farmers improve breeds.
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Henry Siegel
New York
Economic Value of the Bobwhite Study
A Biological Survey paper by Sylvester D. Judd analyzes the bobwhite as a farm asset. Field observations and lab tests show it is abundant on farms, omnivorous with weed seeds forming about 51 percent of diet and many insect prey. Virginia estimates suggest 169,800 bobwhites statewide, consuming 573 tons of weed seed from Sept to Apr. The bird aids pest control, eating beetles, caterpillars, and other insects, including potato beetle, bean leaf beetle, boll weevil, armyworms, and cutworms, with multiple worms eaten per meal.
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Biological Survey
Department ‘of Agriculture
Sylvester D. Judd
D. D
Mr. Judd
Virginia
Best Cuts Dominate Chicago Beef Trade
An expert at the Chicago stock yards says ribs and loins are the best parts, averaging 13 cents a pound. Porterhouse and sirloin steaks fetch 18 to 26 cents in Chicago, while ribs run 106 percent of the carcass and loins just over 17 percent. The rest goes to cheaper cuts, with round steak at 64 1/2 cents and retail price about 12 cents, prompting packers to dispose of remainder at a loss as demand for prime cuts grows.
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Chicago
Apples make good pork at Millerton Pa
A. A. Osgood of Millerton Pennsylvania reports using fallen apples from an orchard and a dairy skim milk and wheat middlings ration to feed pigs. With cold weather the grain mix becomes half corn, enabling about three hundred pounds of pork per sow by February.
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A. A. Osgood
Millerton
Dont Force Teams to Drink Warm Water
A terse note urges against compelling work teams to drink warm water, framing it as unnecessary and undesirable for workplace routines. It signals discomfort with mandated hydration practices and prioritizes employee comfort.
Barbed Wire Fencing Guidance for Stock and Horses
An article weighs pros and cons of barbed wire versus woven wire fences for stock. It favors woven wire for safety and durability, details post depths of three and a half to four feet, spacing every twenty to twenty five feet, recommends heavier end posts, the dead man bracing method, galvanized wire, and a 30 inch woven wire fence with No 10 wires plus top barbed wire, all costing under 40 cents per rod not including posts.
Cows Show Higher Milk and Butter Fat Yields in Study
In Prof. Glover's Illinois station experiments five herds compare ten cows, with the best ten producing 3 579 pounds of milk and about 194 pounds more butter fat annually than the poorest ten. Butter fat profit rises with yield, illustrating increasing profitability beyond 150 pounds per cow.
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Glover
Illinois Station
Point by point on Leghorn laying type and practical selection
The article argues that a distinct laying type may not exist across breeds, with Mediterranean classes showing wide variation. It highlights White Leghorns as highly productive and notes major egg farms in New York and California favoring them. It discusses breeders using trap nests and a hen with a bright, alert appearance as indicators of good laying potential.
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Dryden
Utah
Howell
Maine
New York
California
Petaluma
Cattle Kill Morning Glories In Indiana Farmland
A practical farmer in Menatah Indiana reports that clean cultivation to eradicate morning glories is costly and ineffective. He recommends grazing a morning glory field with cattle to nibble leaves and vines, killing roots over one or two seasons. A hay crop or mixed grasses in year three may suppress regrowth.
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Menatah
Ind
Beets Yield High Returns Across Michigan Fields
Reports from Lansing Sugar Co show average returns of 67 to 68 dollars per acre in the Michigan beet region. Despite many middle west farmers claiming little profit last year, those who cultivated carefully and aimed for maximum possible yield achieved strong profits. The company records indicate profitable outcomes for well-managed beet crops in the state.
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West
Lansing” Sugar Company
Michigan
South Becomes Beacon for Modern Beef Raising
A large land purchase in Florida and Alabama aims to boost beef cattle production in the south. The plan envisions replacing scrub stock with improved bloodlines, ensuring higher quality beef at lower costs and better prices for farmers. Large western ranches fragment into smaller farms, pushing packers to the south to meet rising demand for more and better beef with registered cattle leading to farmer success.
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Florida
Alabama
South
West
Hogs Thrive on Roughage in Feed Experiments
Prof. George M. Rommel of the USDA Bureau of Animal Industry reports long running tests showing hogs can thrive on roughage. Kansas experiments with alfalfa hay used mixed Berkshire and Poland China hogs, comparing whole versus ground hay, with cottonseed meal and wet grain factors observed during severe winter conditions. Utah tests added chopped alfalfa hay to a grain and bran mix, examining wet feed effects.
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George M. Rommel
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Rommel
Kansas
Berkshire
Poland
China
Utah
Misleading claims on iron sulphate as fertilizer
A Illinois Experiment Station bulletin debunks the use of iron sulphate on farms. Professor C G Hopkins notes advertising overstated benefits and cites lack of conclusive evidence that iron sulphate increases manure value. Practical soils contain iron. gypsum remains cheaper for iron supplementation.
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C. G. Hopkins
Illinois Agricultural College
Illinois Experiment Station
Bridge grafting cures girdled fruit trees
Ordinary girdling by mice can be repaired with bridge grafting. Trim the bark edges to firm wood, raise the bark above and below the girdled area, and insert wedge shaped fresh scions at intervals. A 30 year old pear shown grafted young demonstrates success.
Alfalfa and grain rations tested on Berkshire pigs in Montana
The Montana station compared grain only, grain with alfalfa hay, and grain with alfalfa hay cut and mixed with meat to measure feeding value. Results show 593 lb grain per 100 lb gain on grain alone, 505 lb grain plus 89 lb alfalfa hay when hay fed, a saving of 88 lb grain credit to hay. Other tips include cleaning stables, using white hellebore for worms, and noting the value of offspring from mature parents.
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Montana
Berkshire
Poland
China
Iron Sulphate vs Gypsum as Soil Stimulators
The Kentucky station reports 68 bushels of corn per acre with sixty pounds of iron sulphate versus 73 bushels without it. Gypsum and sand plaster act as soil stimulants, but the practice should be avoided. If a soil lacks essential plant food elements, increasing those nutrients directly is more profitable than using stimulants, which can impoverish land over time.
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Kentucky
Early market beef and dairy care advice
The passage discusses maximizing profit by early market placement for beef pork or poultry noting dairy cows should be milked with dry hands and udders washed clean. It adds that the amount digested, not the amount eaten, determines horse strength.
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