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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1915
Page
4
Farmers discuss breeding Dorset and Merino sheep for early lambing. Emphasizes high quality quarters, dry clean flocks, and profit from premium mutton. Notes that Dorset rams breeding with Merino ewes can yield a good starter flock, with eventual shift to grade Dorsets as breeding stock grows.
Trials at the Myrth Dakota experiment station show rape as a forage crop for pigs during stormier months. Feed efficiency varied with grain-to-gain ratios, with rape offering potential savings per pig and higher feed output per acre, outperforming oats in some comparisons.
Notes on training draft horses by age and safe work limits. Includes vegetable garden guidance, nursery packaging, and early chick care. Mentions light work for butchery, maturity timelines, and methods to cultivate efficiently. Also covers seedling planting, tomato care, and soil prep across home gardens.
Farmers report adulterated seed with dodder and cheat contamination. Kansas and Missouri seed labs test samples, warn against low germination and poor quality seed sold by dealers. Seed control station analyzed about 1500 samples for weed quality and adulteration over the past year.
The article outlines selecting breeding birds by breed type and constitutional vigor. It notes pure breeds must have correct size, comb shape, body form, and color, with vitality influencing productivity and disease resistance.
Describes poultry features and temperament with emphasis on constitutional vigor and breed traits. Mentions State College of Agriculture at Brookings, South Dakota, as the source or related institution.
The article pitches affordable feed, silage use with hay for better cattle nutrition, and celery and garden practices. It covers converting cheap feed into palatable rations, combining with cottonseed meal, and using boards to shade self blanching celery. It advises rapid vegetable growth, preparing lamb for market, and suggests bees prosper with free clover and early forage.
The article offers practical advice for propagating perennials by cutting and division, handling crown buds, and potting in rich, deeply spaded soil. It covers raising window plants, compost heap preparation, growing sweet alyssum, geraniums, and sun-loving strawberries, plus handling frost-damaged bulbs and autumn cleanup.
Maintain cosmos by sowing late varieties in spring or planting extra pots. Pinch shoots at 2 to 3 inches, repot as needed, and feed with rich soil. Grow outdoors in summer, keep pots in soft coal ashes, lift pots to prevent ground rooting, and water generously. Bring indoors before frost to extend flowering.
A nostalgic note on planting old fashioned flowers from grandmothers era. Fragrant pinks, sweet william, marigold, mignonette, and sweet alyssum evoke memories and inspire a simple, hopeful life begun in the garden.
The queen of bedding plants is the Phlox Drummond. Sow where they are to grow in fine rich soil and thin the tall ones to about ten inches apart while the dwarfs stand six inches apart. Provide rich soil and plenty of water for best results. A home without books leads to discontented boys and girls.
A Pittsburgh editorial notes that farmers should hatch early and work with USDA poultry specialists to capitalize on high egg prices. Early hatched cockrels sell well at 0.75 to 1.5 pounds by six to ten weeks, while pullets start laying in fall when eggs are scarce and prices rise.
The American Humane association asks clergymen nationwide to observe Sunday May 23 as Humane Sunday to spotlight protection for distressed children and animals. Dr William Stillman of Albany will mail literature to interested humane groups.
A Cuticura advertisement promises thicker hair from Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a free sample offer by mail. The text shifts to a stranded leading lady in a dilapidated hotel who questions water, only to be told the roof was fixed. Also notes Castoria for children and a quip about ghosts using skeleton keys in a haunted house.
Bloomington Indiana woman Mrs Homer Sexton reports relief after using Mayr s Wonderful Remedy for long digestive and stomach disorders. She endorses the treatment as permanently helpful and urges friends to try it. Also a Washington banquet features Representative Gardner joking about public ignorance of warfare and a poem of miscellaneous ad style lines.
In tracts of ten acres and up wards adapted to cultivation of citrus fruits vegetables and general crops. Healthful location. Send for circulars. Railroad runs through tract. Sold on monthly payments. Agents wanted. Address Florida Land & Settlement Co. Care Alex St. Clair Abrams Attorney 615-19 Dual-Upchurch Bldg Jacksonville Fla.
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