James J Hill as a farmer at North Oaks near St Paul
The Great Northern president James J Hill runs a 5000 acre North Oaks farm near St. Paul. It hosts 260 cows with about 100 Ayrshires, 150 milked daily, and butter output around 120 pounds a day. The farm also keeps 900 to 1000 swine, 200 Shropshire ewes, 80 two year old steers, and 60 long yearlings, with crops of 500 acres of oats 225 acres of corn and a large potato yield, plus deer and buffaloes in inclosures.
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North Oaks
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Wisconsin
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Berkshires
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Shropshire
McKissick
Minnesota
Missouri
North Oaks Farm
Starting Alfalfa A Farmers Guide From Ontario Station
The Ontario experiment station outlines alfalfa planting steps including soil quality the use of clean seed with proper bacteria and early spring seed bed preparation. It recommends sowing about twenty pounds of alfalfa seed per acre with one bushel of spring wheat or barley, smoothing and rolling the soil, and timely harvests to ensure a strong start for the first year.
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Ontario Experiment Station
Yearning for Freedom Beyond Duty in Clover Field
Poem fragment expresses fatigue with rigid duty and desire for freedom and beauty. Speaker longs for a quiet field of clover and daisies, listening to wild birds, abandoning thought’s worry, and escaping the constraints of life. Mary Ashly Townsend is the attributed author.
Wool tying advice from Boston wool merchants
Boston leading wool merchants advise growers to avoid sisal or binder twine when tying fleeces. They warn buyers will discriminate against such twine as it leaves fibers and white or yellow streaks that resist dye. Farmers using binder twine risk rejection or price cuts of several cents per pound. use small hard twine instead.
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Boston
East
SOW MANGELS IN MAY ROOT CROP PROSPECTS
A pictorial note praises mangels as a prime root crop to sow in May. They grow six to eight inches long and three to five inches in diameter. Cornell experiments show mangels yield over 5,000 pounds of dry matter per acre versus about 4,000 pounds from Dent corn in silage.
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Cornell Station
Cement for Fence Posts and Garden Borders
An article by H. H. Shephard explains making fence posts from cement with hollow designs, reinforcing with No 9 steel wire, and the 1-2-4 concrete mix. It covers material costs, fastening methods, and the four concrete mixtures for various structures, plus tips on mixing and moisture resistance. It also discusses border planting to harmonize lawns and plant selection for decorative borders.
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Fred R. Crane
University of Illinois
Massing and Border Planting in Home Grounds
The article advises placing the house as the focal point of the grounds with a wide open lawn along multiple sides to admit air and sunshine. It recommends keeping trees in rear or distant clusters, using solid mass plantings on one side and irregular groups in far corners to create background and shade, while avoiding shade directly over the house and limiting flowers and shrubs near the dwelling.
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H. H. Shephard
Allendale, TM
Notes by a Working Farmer
Practical maxims for farm management. Emphasizes scales for accounts, reconciliation over fences, healthy stock indicators, responsible borrowing, manure and fertilizer value, pasture and clover for hogs, avoiding wasteful burning, bees as income, timely machinery repair, sharing troubles with neighbors, keeping old tools, and consulting the good housewife for farm plans.
Pasture as productive as corn and shorts for hogs
Experiments show one acre of good pasture can yield as much pork as one ton of shorts or corn. Minnesota favors clover as top hog pasture. Missouri expert urges a planned succession of pastures, including red clover alfalfa cow peas and soybeans, to finish hogs efficiently.
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Minnesota
Waters
Missouri
A Sensible Hog Crate For Easy Livestock Loading
A stout box with one end closed by a gate allows a large hog to be driven in and lifted into a wagon via an inclined plank. A four-wheel undercarriage helps move the crate, enabling the loading of a 200 pound hog with comparative ease.
Blackberries Good Crop Despite Easy Growing
Garden advice extols blackberries as profitable and reliable producers, thriving in poor soils and challenging conditions. It urges practical tips for women gardeners, including tools, seating under fruit trees, and companion plantings, while noting robins and sparrows nearby. Early radish planting hints suggest thinning is essential and that Dwarf Champion is the best mate for a woman’s garden.
The Blackberry as a Profitable Garden Crop
The piece outlines blackberry cultivation basics emphasizing deep loose soil and excellent drainage, noting the plant's extensive root system and high response to rich feeding. It covers soil building with legumes and stable manure, weed control, mulching, and thorough cultivation to maximize yields, plus a brief garden-advice section on crops and flowers for the same period.
A Woman's Garden Guide for May Planting and Weeding
A May gardening note advises busy women to weed early and hoe rice corn by rows. Plant Cory xsee corn in two 30 foot rows at May 1 and repeat in two weeks. Cory corn is favored for short stalks that keep a small garden from shading adjacent beds. If self tending, allot space larger than 85 by 45 feet.
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Cory
Onion growth challenges Texas cotton crown
The Onion in Texas notes onions threaten cotton as Texas's top crop. In rich soils farmers yield 300 to 350 bushels per acre, with seed supply businesses highly profitable. Onion farms of five to twenty acres report net profits of 200 to 250 dollars per acre.
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Texas
Treating Corn for Crows with Coal Tar Method
The article describes coal tar coating of seed corn to deter crows from pulling it up. Apply tar by dipping a stick end into tar and stirring a peck or half-bushel of corn, then add dry ash to prevent sticking. Treated grain remains largely unharmed and deters crows and hogs from disturbing the crop. It notes the American Humane Association urging Roosevelt to back range cattle protection involving food and water provisions.
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The
American. Humane. Association
Roosevelt
West
Fire Remedy in Foul Brood Warns Beekeepers and Abets Destruction
W. R. Gilbert warns beekeepers about foul brood, a germ disease threatening apiaries and fruit growers. The piece urges expert inspections, destruction of infected hives, and cautions against attempting cures, detailing the disease's rapid spread and detection signs.
Farm News Highlights From Across the Midwest and Northeast
Reports show wheat in India at 27 million acres while New York ships 11 000 barrels of new potatoes daily. Iowa feeders seek corn at 60 cents a bushel as cattle move to market. a ten acre fruit patch is created near Canby High School to keep boys on the farm. A Kansas test praises alfalfa and Kaffir corn meal for dairy cows. Long Island potato growers form a trust to control output, selling only through shipping stations. A New York woman buys a Long Island farm to raise hummingbirds for market. a proposed Atlantic to Pacific road named The Roosevelt Way gains state approvals. Wyoming snow and rain kill some shorn sheep, a New London man finds a $30 000 pot of gold later suing to recover it. Missouri horticulture officials predict a record fruit crop barring frost damage. Wisconsin crops look ahead two weeks. sugar beets planted. Chicago professors plan summer farming in Wyoming’s Bitter Root valley. Great Falls opens 205 farms totaling 18000 acres for settlement. A two headed calf in Pleasanton Iowa interests a local farmer. Waterloo dairy expansion could add 30 million a year with a new dairyman education system. Laurel stock pavilion burns at Farm ers Exchange. a few horses and hogs die. Chippewa Sugar company imports men women and children to work in Wisconsin beet fields.
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New York
Florida
Iowa
Canby
Minn
Kansas Experiment Station
Long Island
Roosevelt Way
Gilbert R. Weir
Denver
Col
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Wyoming
Louis Hoffmann
New London
Wis
Tippin
Missouri State Board of Horticulture
Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Bitter Root
Great Falls
Mont
Pleasanton
Waterloo
Laurel
Farmers’ Exchange
Chippewa Sugar Company
Consity
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James J. Hill
Wisdom
Mary Ashly Townsend
A. M. Soule
Virginia Experiment Station
Minorca
George Northrup
Chicago
Philadelphia
F. R. Crane
Kane County
Illinois
Chlotilde Soupers
Julie Adams Powell
Aplarians
W. R. Gilbert
Nubbins
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