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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1907
Page
12
A practical guide on sowing clover with wheat, recommending March sowing between the 1st and 16th and April as a latest, plus soil prep, harrowing, mulch use, and weed control. It notes eight pounds per acre as a typical seed rate, hand sowing improves results, and advises against grazing the first fall unless growth and conditions permit.
A low cost milk aerator with a metal cone and water cooled trough to chill cans or bottles. Instructions detail careful clover seed saving, timing after cutting, and handling to minimize seed loss during loading and hulling, stressing use of a good huller and field drying practices.
The article advises cutting clover at full bloom when heads turn brown, then curing by turning and stirring to reduce moisture from about 60 percent to proper levels. Leaves aid feed value and moisture evaporation. Prompt handling prevents losses, with emphasis on timely harvest and seed crop profitability.
An expert guide by W. M. Kelley outlines dairy cow selection criteria focusing on form and function. Key traits include a bony muscular head, bright eyes, strong neck, refined brisket, and a well set backbone. Emphasizes deep body capacity, broad chest, large heart girth, strong loin, wide hips, and prominent milk veins. Warns against judging by color or breed, noting color fads can ruin quality. Also stresses udder health and whether milk leakage occurs when full, to ensure dairy viability.
A reader from Illinois argues that intense farming, with precise manuring, proper drainage, ploughing, and soil preparation, yields larger, more profitable crops over years. The writer stresses returning nutrients to soil and treating farming as a science to offset high wages, taxes, and land costs.
Practical horse care guidance warns against whipping for stumbling and suggests consulting a skilled farrier for improper shoeing. Regular dental checks for horses over three years, filing jagged teeth, and avoiding forceful corrections are advised. Also urges courteous stall manners and teaching horses to lift feet on command. A separate line notes a transfer of thirty thousand sheep on a ranch in Maui.
An essay advocates gradual orchard planting with tested standard varieties over flashy new options. It warns buyers against overreliance on nursery marketing, notes that older standards often endure, and stresses testing new varieties before large investments. It then shifts to sheep farming, urging attentive shepherding, proper ventilation, clean water, and regular feeding to avoid digestive issues and optimize pasture use.
An agricultural note praises alfalfa as a strong maintenance ration for hogs, especially when paired with corn. It recommends alternatives like clover and rye if alfalfa is unavailable and cites Nebraska Station trials using corn with alfalfa hay, alfalfa meal, and other combinations as evidence of enhanced flesh production and potential profitability.
Cream colored worms with dark heads feed on leaves in spring, dropping on silk threads when disturbed. The leaf roller causes extensive damage to fruit trees nationwide. Eggs are shown in two stages on limbs. A spray mix of arsenate of soda eight ounces and acetate of lead twenty four ounces is prepared in water and diluted to seventy five gallons to kill them.
Experienced orchardists should locate and plant reliable, proven varieties that yield well at major markets. Do not abandon Jonathan Grimes Golden Winesap Ben Davis or Kieffer pears for flashy new stock. Keep Oldmixon Elberta Heath Cling peaches for steady returns while testing promising new fruits on a limited basis.
The article notes that profitable sheep farming favors small flocks on farms with ground corn and cob meal as a starter feed for lambs, gradually increasing to two pounds per head. It highlights weather effects on appetite, grinding corn, and the rise of irrigation in the Far West driving forage availability. Rations with alfalfa show higher gains, with mixed corn and alfalfa or corn and bran achieving notable weight gains over twelve weeks.
Hints on growing geraniums advise starting slips from last summer for winter blooms, using rich soil, pinching leggy tops, and employing a sprayer to maintain vitality and pest control. Favor diversity, note single varieties fade faster than doubles, and pelargoniums are summer bloomers. Emphasizes white geranium value, ornamental foliage, bright light, weekly ammonia spray, silkier silver leaved varieties, scented rose types, and training skeleton rose into a tree with trimmed side branches.
Growers favor spring setting over fall due to timing and yield. Fall set plants rarely establish before winter and produce two inferior crops, while spring set beds yield one full crop in about sixteen months. Best practice is to transplant in early spring while dormant, with ground kept firm by late-season covering. UNCLE HENRY.
The article advises using soot to enrich soil and deepen blossom color for peonies and roses, either dry or as a tea around plants. It recommends sowing nasturtium seeds in vacant spaces, notes ladybugs aid the garden, and praises ashes for asters and gladiolas to enrich soil and strengthen stalks. It also suggests using discarded quart berry boxes for transplanting, noting early planting leads to spring blooms.
Advice on transplanting apple trees and care practices. Maintain planting depth, pack soil firmly, avoid air spaces, and be gentle with the roots. Do not disturb ants and protect trees from sunscald with paper cylinders. Water deeply in dry winters and limit pruning to shaping. Consider neighbor spraying practices and laws.
An editorial criticizes government focus on military horse breeding while asking where a genuine American cane breed would come from and questions sheep farming viability, citing a 160 acre farm with 25 to 50 sheep and lower fertilizer costs compared with neighboring farms.
Dutch belted cattle originate in Holland and were nearly wiped out in historic wars. Nobility preserved the breed, later exhibited by Barnum in America and housed on a Hudson River farm. They are large, good feeders and strong milking dairy cattle. cows weigh 1000 to 1200 pounds.
Dutch belted cattle, black with a white belt, are widespread across the United States and exported to Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. They are large, docile, and persistent milkers with strong udders. notable examples include Lady Baird at Chicago World’s Fair delivering 32 quarts daily and Queen yielding 70 pounds a day for a week on grass.
Report from Kansas stations shows 15000 bushels of corn waiting for cars while frost and snow ruin grain piles in the Dakotas and Montana. Texas farmers union claims 20000 members with many warehouses to hold cotton until prices rise. Franklin Cattle Company of South Dakota sells 80000 cattle and exits business. Baron County Wisconsin forms 860 strong dairy breed group as Wisconsin farmers push dairy improvement. Be Dean Henry of the Agricultural valley.
A Pennsylvania farmer recounts fourteen years of soil improvement and shift from book farming to berries and vegetables. He details soil, manures, deep plowing, and precise fertilizer use, noting profits from berries surpass other crops while potatoes yield more money but with lower percentage profit. The plan includes crop rotation, planting patterns, varieties like Haverland and Brandywine, and yearly bed turnover.
The green bug or wheat plant louse has caused significant damage to wheat in the Southwest this year. It targets wheat oats sorghum corn millet and other grasses and is hard to control. fields should be plowed and left fallow until next year. Two natural parasites attack the pest but are not enough to curb it over large areas.
In planting raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and currants the rows are six feet apart and the plants are set three feet apart, except raspberries which are two feet apart. Clean cultivation is given and a heavy coat of stable manure applied about once in three years. Dressings of commercial fertilizer rich in potash are very beneficial. When berries are picked the old canes should be cut out and burned as they are of no further use. Goose berries and currants are benefited by having the old wood cut out occasions. Raspberries properly cared for will last about six years, blackberries eight years and currants and goose berries longer. We found that success did not come all at once but only by patient, persistent effort.
A Rockford woman has invented a poultry feed and water fountain praised by early reviewers as superior to anything yet made. Nearby Stoughton Wisconsin farmers accuse local blacksmiths of collusion and high prices. They plan to hire a smith by the month to challenge the tradesmen.
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