Best Breeds for Farmers by Gilbert Canadian Experiment Station
Farmers should choose general purpose fowls for winter egg production and steady meat. Buff Orpington leads, laying brown eggs with good flavor and strong winter laying, though prone to sitting. White Wyandotte and Barred/Partridge Running variety offer different flesh color and egg sizes. Plymouth Rock and Langshan remain options though less favored. Langshan lays deep colored eggs but slow to mature. An insect powder remedy is recommended for cabbage worm control, safe for humans and animals.
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Wyandotte
Fighting the Berry Bug and Cabbage Worms in Manitoba Gardens
A reader asks about currant and gooseberry leaf spots and cabbage worms. The currant aphis causes reddish leaf galls. spray with kerosene emulsion or whale oil soap wash twice, three days apart. For cabbage worms, dust with pyrethrum as soon as damage appears, since wood ashes are only partially effective.
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Manitoba
Summer pruning tips curb growth and boost bloom
Summer pruning keeps plants healthy by removing faded blossoms on lilac roses and wisteria. Cut back new shoots to encourage side branches and nip the tips of tall, lanky growth to strengthen bark and compact form. Fruit trees benefit from restrained growth. climbings roses respond to selective cutting for desired direction.
Learned by hard knocks on farming and stock breeding
A Missouri Farmer notes that proper crop rotation and tillage improve soil fertility, good stock and manure use reduce waste, and growing finer products can be more profitable than large staples. Emphasizes hay over grain, oats’ mineral value, and stock health for early maturity.
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Missouri
The Useful Lightning Rod
A department backed guide stresses correct lightning rod attachment for buildings. The article notes rice production reaching 14 million bushels on half a million acres and mentions rice farming spreading north with good grain reported in Arkansas.
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United States
Arkay
Making Up a Good Hot Bed in Illinois
Instructional piece by William H Underwood detailing a hot bed construction with trench, boards, and cross braces. It covers manure and oat straw mixing, watering and packing, plus guidance on fall versus spring planting and cautions about mixing orchards with grain and oats draining moisture.
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William H. Underwood
Illinois
Butter Churning Tips and The Egg Diet Mystery
An old lecture discusses butter making with a dash churn and cream bowl, listing causes for hard butter and advising churns not to exceed half full. It then questions whether a diet of eggs can extend life, citing Luigi Cornaro who allegedly lived to almost 100 on one egg daily.
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Luigi Cornaro
Holstein Heifers Fed Alfalfa and Garden Bed Construction Advice
A guide discusses raising Holstein heifers on alfalfa and details preparing seed beds with six inches of worked soil, framing covers, and careful watering. It covers plant bed management, seed depth, and temperature control for cabbage and tomato crops, plus tree spacing for orchards and dairy cow breeding practices emphasizing consistent feeding and humane treatment to maximize milk production.
Fertilizing the Potato Patch Methods for manure or cover crops to boost yields
The article advises using well rotted stable manure over the ground, plowing it in and spreading ashes if available. It suggests applying manure before planting, then plowing and pulverizing the soil to fully incorporate nutrients. If manure is unavailable, it recommends planting cow peas or sowing rye as a cover crop and plowing under before applying a fertilizer rich in potash and phosphoric acid.
Starting an Orchard for Long Term Growth
The article advises soil preparation a year before planting and warns against planting on wet ground. It recommends tile drainage if dry ground is unavailable and stresses that orchard decisions affect many years, not just one season.
How to Grow Asparagus For the Home Garden
The guide advises rich warm soil with manure, using two year old or strong one year old plants. Plant in fall or spring, fall preferred, in rows four to five feet apart with 3 to 4 feet between plants. Set crowns 3 to 4 inches deep, weed work possible, avoid cutting until the third season.
Rough on Weeds Two-in-One Scraper Tool
A compact two in one gardening implement is described as a highly effective weed cutter and soil stirrer. The scraper cuts weeds like a hoe and its teeth dig them out, offering a versatile solution for garden maintenance with a changing design.
AN EVEN DOZEN HINTS
Practical home tips cover rest for wives and joint chores with farming notes. Advice includes afternoon naps, ventilating odors, opening a bank account, animal care, garden tasks, and safe fire handling. Several lines warn against bad weather clothing, straw mulch, and proper dairy management.
Eggs and hoarding threats prompt state action
New York authorities crack down on egg shipments and destroy those labeled hoarding house. Italians used aged eggs in covert canisters shipped from the west to serve east side crisis buyers. The department fined the chief offender and ended the illegal trade. Massachusetts spends 20 million annually on out of state eggs and four million on in state eggs. A medical authority notes eggshells as antacid and egg whites as antidotes to certain poisons.
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New York
East Side
Massachusetts
York
Short Talks With Farmers by Clinton M Shultz
The author argues praise motivates workers including hired hands and notes workers respond to kind words. He cites railroad opposition to a 2 cent passenger rate but shows earnings rose after submission. He emphasizes organized farmers succeed when they act like seasoned professionals and that effort and efficiency matter more than size. English farms appear more productive than American fields.
Suggestions for the Dairyman
An 19th century style exhortation argues winter and summer dairying both offer profit over crop farming with fertilizers. Strong dairy breeding and careful handling of bulls and heifers are urged, noting some dairymen struggle while others prosper. Compare practices with successful peers and implement changes to achieve profitability.
Boy's pants explode as dynamite cap detonates during spanking
An Indiana farmer's wife attempted a disciplinary spanking on her son when a dynamite cap in the boy's hip pocket exploded. The blast tore two fingers from the mother's hand, but the boy was not harmed.
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Indiana
Merits of Cotton Seed Meal for Cow Feed
A cotton seed meal rich in protein, about 40 percent, can balance cow rations but is costly. Feed sparingly, starting at one pint per cow and gradually reaching one quart per feed mixed with cornmeal or other carbohydrates. A farmer reports milk doubled after swapping a similar amount of cornmeal for cotton seed meal.
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A. J
How the Boys Can Boost at the Great Farmer Encampment
W S Corsa of Greene County urges practical planning and record keeping for boys in farming. He recommends writing ideas, indexing maps of the farm, labeling fields and buildings, noting tile outlets, and tallying permanent pasture and land use to analyze and guide future work.
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Farmer Boys
Winchester
Ill
W. S. Corsa
Greene County
Fowl Manure as Early Season Fertilizer Coastal South Jersey Practice
In South Jersey households farm adapt rock clear methods. Fowls provide manure dropped in runs. It is worked into soil as the sole fertilizer, with careful use near plants and as mulch mixed with road dust or coal ashes. Liquid manure is prepared by steeping a peck in water for weekly applications.
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South Jersey
Rural notes of farms and farming careers across states
The item lists farm costs including a cattle barn at 33000 and a judging pavilion at 20000. It notes vast emigration to Siberia for wheat raising, an 12 inch ear of corn at McEwan Tennessee, thornless cactus experiments in Riverside California, a boy stung by a bumblebee nest near Ridgeway Ohio, a farmer's suicide over selling the homestead, a state lecturer on animal husbandry for Virginia, Iowa graduates joining Massachusetts Agricultural College, and strong demand for high level agricultural graduates with salaries from 3000 to 2000 dollars.
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Ohio
Russia
Siberia
McEwan
Tenn
Riverside County
California
Luther Burbank
Charles W. Trock
Ridgeway
Nerbold Brown
R. W. Crouse
Iowa Agricultural College
Virginia
Iowa
Massachusetts Agricultural College
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W.W. R. Gilbert
Canadian Experiment Station
R. B. Rainey
Department of Agriculture
J. B. Meadows
Clinton M. Shultz
England
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