Gandy Roads Are Latest In Dust Suppression Tests
A National Public Roads Office team tests molasses and oil blends to curb road dust. Prevost Hubbard leads a half mile molasses road trial blended with limewater rock dust and sand. Separate test in Independence Kansas uses heavy oils with soil and sand to form oil roads.
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GET AFTER THE CHERRY SLUG
The cherry slug has two broods, appearing in June and August or September. The mature insect is a black four winged fly with wormlike larvae that remove fleshy leaf tissue. Professor A T Irwin advises spraying in the warm stage with paris green or other arsenical poison to destroy it.
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A. T. Irwin
Manure Spreader Requirement for Large Farms
No farm equipment for more than 100 acres is complete without a manure spreader. The ad notes proper use when loading directly from stalls and handling manure.
Fertilizer Use Across Winter Seasons Described
The passage explains applying fertilizer to land every two or three days during winter to maximize benefits, noting this method yields the best possible improvement in soil and crop outcomes.
Mailing Size Plants Offer From Reputable Nurseryman
A reliable nursery firm offers a wide range of fruit varieties and shrubs in mailing sizes at low prices. The collection is well packed ensuring minimal damage in transit.
Notes on Sheep Farming Practices and Care Principles
Practical guidance for feeding lambs and sheep including diluted cow milk, early hay nibbling, lamb creeps, salt access, avoiding ticks, feed choices, water quality, and quarantine. Warns against overfeeding for minor ailments, checks for foot rot, and urges consulting an experiment station director. Emphasizes selecting quality rams and isolating new stock to prevent disease.
Work in the Poultry Yard
The article urges diversified poultry feeding and cautions against overemphasizing special purpose fowls. It stresses selecting a balanced ration, maintaining consistent feeding practices, and using waste vegetables and scraps as economical winter and spring poultry food for the farm flock.
How to Repot Ferns for Winter Health
Ferns should be repotted now with about two inches more pot diameter. Use garden soil with barnyard or commercial fertilizer, careful not to overfeed. Place crockery at the drain, add three inches of dirt, transfer plant gently, water thoroughly, and keep one inch deeper in soil. Avoid sun for a day after repotting.
Mixed farming pays best say farmer with 560 acres
The farmer reports 560 acres with corn and small grain on about 120 acres, alfalfa and hay on 80 acres, and two pastures for seasonal grazing. He highlights alfalfa as superior for three hay crops and seed, notes 2 tons per acre last year and near three tons this year, and says he prefers stock farming to selling crops. He prefers Hereford cattle and aims to feed all produced cattle and hogs on the farm.
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Talao
Ea Pieterrting
Feed adulteration scare targets northern farmers
Rice hulls shipped into Wisconsin and other northern states, claimed as egg packing material, are suspected of adulterating concentrated feeds. Feeds sold as rice bran, rice feed, rice mixed feed, and rice middlings range from 12.50 to 16.00 dollars per ton, with only one sample found unadulterated.
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Wisconsin
As the Hired Man Sees It
A farmer shares practical advice for hired men and employers. It emphasizes safety and care on the farm, caution with animals, smoke habits, and preparedness, encouraging repairs and organization to avoid delays and trouble.
Can Sex Be Controlled by W R Gilbert Canadian Experiment Station
The author argues that sex determination relates to parental vigor with clearer proof in poultry. He notes that in poultry breeding the cock is separated from hens during the season, then mated again before breeding to influence offspring sex ratios, observing predominance of cockerels early and a shift later in the season.
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W. R. Gilbert
Rice by products and feed quality cautions for buyers
South rice mills note three by products sold as livestock feeds rice bran rice polish and rice feed with feed mixtures. Rice hulls irritate digestive tracts and adulteration of feeds is suspected buyers should demand written purity guaranties and protein fat contents plus check dealer standing.
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Rice Mills
South
Fence Rail Philosophy and Moral Vignettes
A collection of rural maxims on virtue, honesty, and human foibles. The piece links neighborhood judgments, marriage dynamics, work ethics, and the consequences of wealth, pride, and overwork, ending with a parable about a farmer whose life ends in decline.
A Small but Good House for a Farm Home
A neat farm house features three exterior doors including one to the basement. The basement is accessible via the pantry as well, a design detail noted in the illustrations.
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Unusu
Kansas City Home Plans and Livestock Breeding Observations
A detailed home layout describes an airy Kansas City residence with a large dining room and connected parlor, plus a versatile sewing room. The article then discusses cattle and poultry breeding trends, noting cow frame and milk yield influence calf sex tendencies and advising on bull age and work to favor heifer or bull offspring. It cites a physician friend observing more girls than boys in fragile families.
Notes on Orchard Pruning and Fruit Handling
Advice on pruning grapes and fruit trees for Northern latitudes stresses timely cuts, light cherry pruning, slow work for young trees, and gradual reshaping. Emphasizes sorting apples for market, avoiding wormy fruit, and continued tillage for strawberries as fruit buds form. Also notes tobacco dust harms woolly aphid and hints at financial gains from prudent pruning and savings.
Far reaching notes from the Missouri and national scene
The item lists various observations from agriculture and science. It notes plans for denatured alcohol education under Dr. Wiley at the Washington department, advises colleges to send observers, and reports on salt solutions as fruit whiteners. It covers medical advice, poultry trapping, weather forecasting hopes, declining school enrollment, Dutch Belted cattle history, and a Kansas fatal wagon accident involving Thomas McDonald.
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Journal of Medical Science
Harry Hansen
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Hansen
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Weather Bureau
Kansas
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Germany
Thomas McDonald
Philips County
McDonald
Celery Culture Tips for Market Growers in Illinois
William H. Underwood of Illinois advocates extensive celery culture. He details seed sowing in May, bed preparation, thinning to stocky plants, midseason transplanting, blanching by earth and boards, and the need for rich moist soil with liberal ashes and well rotted manure. He notes high yields from one ounce of seed and irrigation as necessary on dry land.
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Willam H. Underwood
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES From Rev J L Scudder
A column of admonition on married life urges women to maintain matronly dignity and temper. It warns against autocratic wives who dominate their husbands with sharp tongues and constant scolding.
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J. L.scudder
Why Farmers Buy Separators and Creamery Trends
The Wisconsin Creamery Butter Makers Association president explains farmers want fresh warm skim milk from hand separator cream. He argues educated farmers drive demand for on-farm cream ripening and regular collection, challenging critiques of the separator system. He notes cost factors and a shift from centralized plants to on-farm processing, citing substantial monthly federal expenditures.
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Wisconsin Creamery Butter- Mekers’ Association
Turnip and rutabaga cultivation guidance from Underwood Illinois
A horticultural note explains soil types for turnips and rutabagas, emphasizing loams rich in organic matter, moisture, and climate. It covers soil preparation, lime to combat clubroot, manure and fertilizer rates, seeding rates, row spacing, thinning, weed control, and postemergence fertilizer as the crop develops.
Sensible feeding floor saves hog feed costs
A feeding floor will save its cost in one season. It reduces waste from hogs trampling corn into mud and snow. The design calls for a floor four to six inches from the ground, built of solid timbers with a tight edge of 2x4 scantling to keep corn from being scraped away.
Fertilizer for Palms and Slow-Growing Plants
An article discusses horn shaving as an excellent slow releasing fertilizer for palms ferns aspidistra and similar plants. It notes its availability from most dealers and its low cost. When mixed with soil it decomposes slowly delivering steady root food and lasting a long time. The fertilizer is concentrated and safe and has been tried satisfactorily.
Treatment of bulbs for potted plants
Proper bulb care advice notes that breaking up small bulbs creates new ones and stresses drainage. Avoid overwatering to prevent clogged drainage and wet soil, as moisture control is essential for healthy blooming.
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