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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1906
Page
12
Practical guide discusses winter window gardens with sun exposure tips, moisture, air circulation, and plant propagation methods. It then contrasts pure bred versus grade bulls, showing higher gains and profits from strong bloodlines, arguing for better stock genetics.
Do not fatten sheep while parasites are active. Dry soil aids thrift and feed quality. Keep sheep on improving pastures for better wool and mutton. Succulent feed yields brighter stronger wool. Health and care ensure long-term profits. neglect invites disease like hog cholera.
A Missouri swine breeder argues for larger hog pens and sheds to prevent crowding and ensure exercise. He describes a 24 by 16 by 14 foot shed on a hillside with open south side and hay insulation, noting warmth and reduced crowding. He stresses space for farrowing sows and growing pigs, admitting past costly mistakes from smaller practices.
A report notes fifty horses sold in New York for 520,000 total, averaging over 51,000 each, with strong demand for high class stock. It warns breeders to avoid indiscriminate breeding as prices are rising and to focus on selecting truly useful animals to ensure profits. Prices are expected to climb for six to eight years as breeding increases slowly.
Alabama quail and Virginia pheasants are being released across Illinois by the state game warden to place at least a pair of birds on every farm in all 102 counties. Farmers are urged to protect and feed them through winter. A surge of farmer participation is reported as each pledges to care for the birds. The objective is insect control funded by hunters licenses.
An Iowa farmer advocates cement wallows as clean water baths for hogs, arguing that a shallow tank fed from a hill tank and disinfected regularly improves health. He notes pigs prefer water to mud when clean options exist and predicts cement baths will become common in modern swine yards.
Western farmers report traders selling common cheat that resembles blue grass seed with longer kernels and harder texture. Advice warns against trust in dealers, urges neighbor notification, and emphasizes buying quality fertilizer while avoiding nitrogen. Suggestions cover proper corn harvest for silage, alfalfa and clover effects on cholera, ewe weaning timing, and cautions about silo contractors rushing fills to maximize contracts.
C. N. White of Maine describes feeding hogs and poultry with cooked potatoes and meat scraps, plus apples and pumpkins. He notes preferring sound potatoes of any size, mashes hot fruit with bran for hens and young pigs, and housing hogs in winter, claiming years of successful yields and sweet pork.
Instructions outline standard methods for sealing fruit cans and applying labels. Includes preparation of jars and lids, sanitation steps, heat processing guidance, and label placement to ensure product safety and shelf appeal.
The article describes fighting garden insects with Paris green soap and arsenical sprays, notes on oil-based treatments for pests like warbel larvae, and introduces a low-cost Buff Jersey silo design with 16 by 24 feet dimensions, detailing foundation, doors, hoops, and timber components.
A dairy guidance piece urges proper cow care and milk handling to improve profits and safety. It emphasizes using a good cream separator, clean cans, sun drying, and cooling milk quickly. It warns against dirty udders and dirty milk causing illness, and promotes proper transport and hygiene practices.
The author argues farmers deplete soil fertility by cropping without fertilizer. Calculations show eighty acres of meadow, potatoes, wheat and beef crops draining tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of soil nutrients over four decades. Rotation and fertilizer are urged to prevent further decline.
The Missouri Experiment Station led by Prof J H Waters reports wide 6 inch tires reduce draft by 26 percent on good macadam and 24.1 percent on gravel, with even larger gains on mud and wet fields. The study notes the wide tire spreader promotes adoption of broad-tired wagons by farmers.
A collection of household hints on cleaning, cooking, and care. Uses for a whisk broom flour with suet for chopping, salt with vinegar to clean enameled ware, pumice for cut-steel buttons, hot vinegar to deter moth larvae, and other practical domestic advice.
Readable fragments report a Detroit dairy firm feeding cows a daily four ounces of salt mixed with feed. The owner believes the animals perform better when slim and consume their food more readily.
The article argues inbreeding causes many turkey failures while demand rises. It recommends medium to large birds, eight week old poults do better outdoors, and best stock should be large high quality. Turkeys roost high to avoid foul air. drive to town with produce like potatoes and apples.
Ringbone can be prevented by keeping horses feet properly trimmed avoiding overworking young colts careful driving on hard and uneven roads and avoiding all strains on the tendons.
Agricultural guidance from H. E. Alvard of the U S Department argues autumn calving yields the most milk and best calves. Fall fresh cows spread production through the year, with September ideal for first calves and December to January for bull service control. In practice four fall calves reach or exceed five spring calves in annual output at lower cost.
Practical advice on pig rearing emphasizes forage and moisture, with recommendations to let boars run on grass in summer and feed cracked wheat for pigs. Warns against purebred scrubs and ungovernable boars, stresses healthy brood sows and balanced fatness, and argues farmers can profit even with lower prices if feeding is prudent.
The article argues that thunder and nearby shocks do not kill embryos in incubators. It cites experiments with incuba tors near struck poles, a cellar blast, and frequent tremors yet producing hatched chicks. It endorses strong fertile eggs, healthy hens, and notes that trap nest and pedigree breeding advance breeder knowledge.
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