Farm Boy Education Ushers in New Agriculture Era
A rhetoric urging reform details how farm boys need scientific training from district schools through colleges to lift farming from backwater to independence and wealth. It argues urban bias harms farm families, asserts 80 percent of successful city men are country-bred with college Ed, and advocates practical farming studies for every boy from the first arithmetic lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton M. Shuliz
Boston
New York
Chicago
Agricultural College
Cut Worms In The Garden From Rockville Conn
Francis L Risley from Rockville Conn explains that cutworms damage many plants especially in cloudy rainy weather at night. He advises bending down to locate them just below the surface or where stems are eaten and destroying as many as possible on the spot using tin can barriers to prevent their ascent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis L. Risley
Rockville, Conn
Ventilating Sheds in Lean-To Stables
A described method vents air into lean-to stables via openings AB near the ceiling and exhausting through a flue inside the upright barn. The flue may rise through the roof or end at a cupola, with balloon frame barns using stud spaces as ventilating flues lined with light galvanized iron.
Can Outdo the Boll Weevil in Cotton Culture
The article describes USDA Bureau of Plant Industry cooperative demonstrations showing cotton can be grown in boll weevil ravaged southern districts. It details method principles, farm participation, and the wide spread of advice from Dr Knapp, with emphasis on soil management, seed quality, crop rotation, and improved farming practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
South
Congress
A. Kwneypp
Knapp
Agricultural College
Agricultural College and Experiment Stations
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Poultry Hints for Beginners on Stock Selection and Breeding
Advice for new poultry keepers covers when to choose pullets or yearling hens, the risks of buying older stock, quarantine practices, and dangers of inbreeding. It emphasizes introducing new blood annually, careful feeding, and avoiding irregular, careless care that harms stock health and market quality.
Shear the Sheep Early for Health and Wool Quality
The guide advises shearing sheep as soon as spring frosts end to prevent wet heavy fleece causing cold or snuffles. It recommends ready shelter, watchful lambs, and driving rain-exposed sheep to shelter. It notes March shearing on the home farm with hand or power machines, stressing owners, not outside shearers, handle large flocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
The Plow poem of toil and promised harvest
A fragmented poem voice depicts the plow as a living worker feeding people across time. It contrasts toil with divine word, notes war’s toll, and envisions grain rising again as earth yields, amid night and dawn. Named imagery includes plow, earth, cornfield, and destined harvest.
Forage Vetch and Cream Separator Care
Vetch seed rate and sowing windows for southern Alabama are given for hay and pasture use from September to November. The plant is annual with long vines needing oats or beardless wheat for support. Proper maintenance of cream separators is essential to avoid reduced skimming efficiency and to extend machine life, with thorough cleaning and warm washing steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Duggar
Alabama
Ala
Vetch as soil improver and forage for diverse soils
The guide explains sowing vetch with grain, soil adaptability from sandy to lime soils, and seed rates. It compares hairy vetch with crimson clover, notes reseeding potential, and outlines cutting windows for hay and grain. It highlights vetch’s nitrogen benefits, reduced fertilizer needs, and enhanced livestock carrying capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bama
Cream Separator Proves Its Worth In Dairying
The cream separator is essential for dairy success, paying for itself many times over. Indiana state experiments by Professor F O Hunziker show hand separators save 3.50 to 7.00 dollars per cow yearly in butter fat. A herd of a dozen or more gains significant profit. the separator yields richer cream, cleaner skim milk, and removes dirt, unlike gravity systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
F. O. Hunziker
Indiana Station
Water Pans for Poultry Improve Clean Water Access
A Cornell experiment station bulletin by J B Rice and R C Lawry describes a simple, satisfactory poultry watering device designed to keep water clean from dust litter and droppings. It outlines the device’s straightforward construction and practical use for preventing disease in poultry housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Rice
R. C. Lawry
New York Cornell Experiment Station
Watering pan for fowls described with features and cost
An AW notice describes a round deep watering pan with flaring sides and a cone shaped top to prevent roasting, with side openings for drinking from multiple points. The 10 inch high galvanized iron stand keeps water off the litter and dust, with a suggested cost not to exceed 1.40.
Points in turkey raising for small farms
A fragmented guide on breeding and rearing turkeys detailing preferred flock size, mating ratios, feeding, and housing. It notes the benefits of mid sized gobblers, broad roosts, and old hens, warns against overfeeding, inbreeding, and ill health, and suggests foods like scalded curd cheese and mashed potatoes with cornmeal for fattening.
Glean Milk Production Guidelines Outlined
A state experiment station outlines milk management for sanitary milk. Key points cover cow health, odor-free feed, grooming, udder moistening, neat milker, disease control, clean hands and clothes, sterilized pail, dust-free stall, light ventilation drainage, and clean stable. Early cooling and cold storage are emphasized to limit micro-organisms and preserve quality. An additional station notes that meticulous cleanliness shortens time from milking to cooling and improves profitability and wholesomeness.
The Double A Smoothing Harrow Construction Guide
A farm implement guide describes building a smooth harrow from dressed oak pieces with bolts and teeth set in a diamond pattern. It details parts, layout, holes, tooth boring, assembly, painting, hitching, and notes a fifteen to twenty year lifespan when kept dry. The piece is attributed to J Wesley Griffin of Warsaw Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrow
J. Wesley Griffin
Warsaw
Wheat and fruit crops highlight Montana to Tennessee items
A heavy wool crop is forecast for Montana sheepmen with prices around 18 to 20 cents per pound. John Haverstahl of Low Point NL shipped 10 500 dozen eggs weekly to Boston at about 13 1 2 cents each. Kansas wheat sown area stands at 6 878 828 acres with 2.4 percent plowed, leaving 6 811 300 acres for harvest. Tennessee strawberry crop rated among the best despite smaller acreage and strong fruiting. Postmaster General mail delivery notes appear at article end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
John Haverstahl
Low Point
Boston
Mass
Kansas
Tennessee
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Farm Boy
W. A. Henry
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Madison, Wis
M. K. Boyer
Alabama Experiment Station
Fraser
Illinois Experiment Station
Plains
Turkey
Nubbins
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