Best Feed Guidelines for Brood Sows After Farrowing
This passage outlines feeding plans for sows post farrowing including water and thin mash during fever, then wheat shorts bran slop, corn and oil meal blends, and full ration proportions by weight. It emphasizes corn as a primary energy source, balanced with protein feeds, skim milk, mangels, and alfalfa while cautioning against sour milk and stressing milk quality for prolific litters. It also covers piglet care, weaning, and management of sows and boars for multiple litters per year.
Cow Robber Line Sparks Dairy Testing Tool Ad
An old advertisement extols the Babcock tester as the only way to gauge dairy cows’ productivity. The illustration shows the complete outfit with parts including a weighing scale, a milk pail, and a galvanized iron box.
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Babcock
Fence Rail Philosophy from Uncle Silas
A collection of maxims on farming virtue and daily practice. It likens wise conduct to work in the field and warns against verbal boasts. It links soil care, neighborly aid, and moral deeds with lasting value and cautions that public virtue often falls when self does.
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Silas
Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of America Promotes Youth Planting
In California a national club named The Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of America aims to engage boys and girls in planting and caring for trees. Initiator H. H. Green of Monterey promotes forming clubs in every state to help recover forest losses, initially calling the effort The Tin Can club.
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California
Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of America
H. H. Green
Monterey
Cal
Tin Can Club
Pair of Golden Pheasants for Small Farms
Farmers with one to three acres can profit raising golden pheasants kept inside a six foot fence. Birds lay 40 to 60 eggs per season and six month old birds sell for 4 to 6 dollars a pair for meat, up to 15 to 40 dollars for breeding stock. Request the Washington Agricultural Department bulletin for detailed guidance.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Millet is Poor Feed for Sheep in W C Wing Notes
W C Wing of Ohio states millet makes poor sheep feed. Sheep need high protein, with clovers, alfalfa, red clover as winter feeds. Cowpea hay suits thin land, soybeans help stimulate lambs early life.
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W. C. Wing
Ohio
Work Among the Chickens Skim milk aids chicken growth
The article notes skim milk benefits for chickens fed in ample ranges and stresses exercise sunshine and ventilation. It claims larger ranges reduce feed needs and that capons can reach twelve pounds with proper care. It advises keeping steady feed if chicks thrive on it.
Farmer Maxims and Modern Tools Reflections by M. C. Miller
A column of rural observations discusses milking hygiene dry hands, market hopes for wheat, the cost of action over intent, acceptance of autos, and gender roles. It notes windmills, water pumping, and windmill skepticism, with a concluding sign that silos show progress.
Making the Most of Clover on the Farm
An Illinois farmer explains feeding clover hay to cattle and hogs to improve farm economics. Use well protected lots, allow cattle to clear stalk fields, then feed corn and hay to finish steers by late spring. Hogs can turn clover into profit, paying board for other stock.
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Illinois
Feeding cull beans to sheep and hogs in fall
Reader asks if cull beans are safe for sheep and hogs. Experts say good beans are valuable for sheep, inferior beans unsafe. for swine, beans fed with linseed meal, corn meal and wheat bran and middlings can be ideal when properly prepared. Boil beans thoroughly for pigs and avoid stirring to prevent burning.
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John Kratt
Honey Falls
New York
Cheap Hanging Baskets From Pine Box Frames
A reader suggests an inexpensive substitute for hanging baskets using a common pine box covered with birch bark. The potting box should be about 10 by 10 inches and 4 or 5 inches deep. The method emphasizes frugal, readily available materials.
Tree Growing Clubs Spread Across States
The piece describes widespread formation of tree growing clubs from San Francisco to San Jose and beyond. Teachers, landowners, and public officials engage in nurseries and planting, with payments per tree and local incentives offered to encourage street and park plantings. Information requests target soil and climate conditions to guide varieties.
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San Francisco
San Jose
Solano County
West
H. H. Green
Tree Growing Clubs of America
Monterey
Cal
D. H. Anderson
Irrigation Age
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Brown Swiss cattle breed overview and American interest
A Michigan reader considers Brown Swiss cattle to start a new herd and notes the breed as dual purpose with large frames and cows averaging 1200 to 1300 pounds. The article outlines the breed’s Swiss origin, limited milking and feeding data, and growing demand worldwide despite low general familiarity in the United States.
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Michigan
Switzerland
Europe
Italy
Germany
Russia
United States
Henry M. Clark
Belmont
Mass
Union
State of the Union on San Jose scale in orchards
Alva H. Brown of Illinois asks if any state lacks the San Jose scale and shares experience with alfalfa in a young orchard. He notes trees did not thrive after three years, suggesting moisture competition. The reply references old-fashioned orchard practices of shaking trees to harvest fruit.
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San Jose
Alva
H. Brown
Wiinois
Ofithe
Housing the Bees For Winter Cellar Storage
Instructions to move hives to a cellar in November with tight covers and loosened bottom boards to prevent jar. Do not disturb bees to avoid honey fill, allowing five to six months before cleansing flight. Diagram shows stacking hives on joists with two-tier support for ventilation.
Building Up a Live Herd at the Connecticut Station
The Connecticut dairy station spent five years cultivating a productive herd by culling low producers and replacing them with cows bought at about 42.50 each. The article argues intelligent selection and proactive removal of poorer cows, noting any farmer can improve a herd the same way.
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Connecticut
Diocesan Growth and 1893 Panic Aid Mentioned
A century after the Roman Catholic diocese of New York began, the text notes rapid church construction in Greater New York and references the Philadelphia Vacant Lots Association formed during the 1893 panic to provide food and work for unemployed families.
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New York
Greater
Philadelphia
Lots ‘Association
Ensilage and soy beans in sheep feed for midwest farms
Farmers weigh corn and ensilage as key roughage. Soy beans fill space but droughts limit use. Two pounds per head daily suits lambs and older sheep, while ewes with lambs tolerate dry feed if they lamb late winter or early spring. Tobacco in salt mix is advised to deter parasites.
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Middle West
Crimson clover in crop rotation and climate limits
A Missouri reader asks if crimson clover fits rotation and climate. The answer says crimson clover is valuable but not a substitute for red clover, not biennial, not a reliable hay crop, best sown in corn at last cultivation and plowed under late May, used mainly as green manure and cover crop. thrives in mild, moist southern Missouri but not dependable in the north.
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Charles Burrell
Jefferson City
Missouri
Buying Pure-Bred Sheep For Flocks And Wether Lambs
Advice on purchasing pure-bred sheep emphasizes selecting rams and ewes to build or improve flocks. Prospective buyers should inspect the source flock to ensure quality before acquiring a ram to head a new high-class herd or a group of ewes for foundation stock.
Dairy barn costs and farming quirks across the nation
A roundup notes a new Iowa dairy barn costing 11000 with cement floors iron stanchions and finished ceilings yielding profits over 70 yearly per herd. Other items include Kansas twine from prisons New York strawberries acid moroseness and large birds injuring livestock Los Angeles savage blackbirds Salvation Army farm colonies Henry Wright selling cattle Kansas City price averages a wild stallion pacing Wyoming breeding offspring and a early corn sheller.
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Iowa State Farm
Kansas Penitentiary
New York
Los Angeles
Cal
Salvation Army
Armity
Col
Romie
Henry Wright
Antelope
Kan
Kansas City
Good Roads Association
Lycoming County
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Wyoming
Buffalo Bill
Boge Garth
Clinton
West
Price
Washington
Sacramento Valley
California
Texas
San Antonio
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Congress
Australia
Fruit Orchard Tips and Household Hints From 1900s Columns
A collection of farming pointers discusses dust versus liquid spraying, fruit ripening in cool cellars, and keeping cats to deter pests. It also covers pruning wounds with paint, mowing clover to prevent regrowth, grass control around young trees, box storage of apples, and affordable farm-stencil branding.
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John Grancough
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Manure Use and Waste in Grassland Plowing Note
Fragmentary note discusses manure as dressing for grass and soil improvement. Claims much manure is wasted when plowed under deep or before proper incorporation. Emphasizes better timing and method for effective fertilization.
Government basket willow project in Arlington yields higher rods
An Arlington forest experiment tests close spacing of four willow varieties to optimize basket rod quality and yield. Results show U S government methods surpass typical American practices, with higher rods per stool and per acre and potential to boost domestic willow ware. A publication on practical results will be mailed to foresters.
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Arlington
Wzo
Washington
France
Germany
Holt
Indies
Notes by a Working Farmer on Practical Hazards and Attitudes
A farmer offers compact lessons from everyday practice. He warns about wagon milk covers to save cream, recalls a near hay fire from smoking on a load, and stresses testing cattle for tuberculosis to prevent transmission to pigs. John Dunbar cited.
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John Dunbar
Curing the Seed Corn and Drying Racks
The article urges farmers to select and dry seed corn in the fall and presents a drying rack illustration as a helpful aid for breeders who missed a prior diagram. It emphasizes regular use of proper drying methods for quality seed stock.
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