American Honey In Holland Weighs On Dutch Beekeeping
Wisconsin and California honey fuel an “American invasion” of Europe with Holland a key market. The piece traces beekeeping history from ancient India to monasteries, wax production, and sugar’s impact, noting Dutch methods yield slower growth than American movable-frame hives. California joins Wisconsin in dominating imports.
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Wisconsin
United States
Europe
Chicago News
Badger
Holland
California
American
India
Virgil
Bees Prove Vital to Pear Orchard Yield
The owner of a large pear orchard reports that introducing a colony of bees transformed his trees. Previously the pear trees refused to bear fruit in paying quantity, and he considered replacing them with apples. After placing bees, the orchard began bearing heavily.
Dutch Doors for Homes Could Aid Light and Lightness
Dutch doors, already common in stables, are versatile in houses. A two part door allows either half to open, or both. When lower is locked and upper opened, you gain light and can supervise or restrain children and romping.
Growing the Sugar Beet and Soil Permeability
The article explains that sugar beets must grow with the taproot descending deeply, requiring a pervious soil to prevent root distortion. If the subsoil is impervious at 8 to 10 inches, roots spread laterally, beets distort, and the portion above ground loses sugar content.
Pruning Guidelines for Berries and Grapes
Pruning methods vary by fruit. For berries and grapes, shorten current shoots to two or three eyes for new growth. thin overly dense canes and ensure air and light reach all canes. Red and white currants fruit on one to three year wood. prune back to three or four buds. Black currants fruit mainly on last season’s wood. shorten shoots as needed and thin. Raspberries fruit on last season’s canes. remove old canes after harvest and keep three to six strong new shoots for next year.
Variety in the Orchard Pollination Methods
Growers lack knowledge about fruit pollination yet observe mixed variety orchards yield best. Keiffer and pears like Bartlett Howell and Shelton have imperfect blooms and need pollenizers such as Le Conte or Garber. Alternating Le Conte with Keiffer boosts yields. topworking staminate scions into trees can help old plantations.
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Keiffer
Bartlett
Howell
Sheldon
Garber
Ornamental peppers for winter pot culture
Various peppers suit room decoration in winter. Prince of Wales, lemon fruits. Tom Thumb, dark scarlet. kaleidoscope, white turning red. Start seeds in small pots, shift to larger pots as they grow, plants fruiting by Christmas. Require rich potting compost, bright sun not on pot rims, and regular watering. Easy from seeds.
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Prince of Wales
Keep Pigeons Clean to Prevent Canker in Flocks
Advice urges pigeon keepers to avoid using chicken water for baths and to maintain cleanliness. Filth and improper watering are linked to canker in flocks, with emphasis on proper husbandry and upkeeping of aviaries.
Seedless orange boom sprouts California towns and wealth
Seedless orange trees emerged from a Bahia shoot sent to Washington then planted in Southern California. By 1882 groves expanded and demand for Tibbetts buds rose, with buds selling for five dollars and later fifteen thousand in 1889. The first naval oranges followed, fueling a statewide boom and growth of numerous towns.
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California
William Judson
United States
Bahia
Brail
Department
Tibbett
The Jerusalem Artichoke Cultivation and Uses
The Jerusalem artichoke grows well in deep loam and can yield 3090 to 600 bushels per acre with proper planting. Two to three tubers per hill are planted three feet apart. It resists freezing and appears fresh in spring, usable boiled steamed in cream sauce or as salads and pickles. Each pint of tubers yields 25 to 70 hills when planted.
Planting Strawberries and Varietal Guidelines
The article covers ordering, handling, and planting strawberry plants in 25 or 50 plant lots. It emphasizes keeping roots wet, shielding with damp coverings, and labeling varieties, noting alternate-row fertilization for staminate and pistil types and preferring staminate varieties for small beds. It ends with dairy guidance on churning to ensure proper cream mixing.
Home Cheese Making From Milk At 70 Degrees To 100
A Field and Farm guidance outlines steps for cheese making from milk held at about seventy degrees. Heat to eighty six, add rennet, coagulate thirty to forty minutes, cut curd to finger size, heat to one hundred degrees, and press curd into molds with generous pressure. Salt ratio around two and a half pounds per thousand pounds of milk.
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Field and Farm
Proper Use of Cream Separators and Butter Making
Prof Erf of the Kansas Station explains four key factors in cream separators: bowl speed affects fat content, milk temperature changes cream thickness, hourly throughput and even feeding alter outcomes, and flushing water quality matters. For butter, maintain churn speed to optimize butter granule size, add salt, and wash with cool water to harden grains.
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Prof
Erf
Kansas Station
Milking With Regularity Reduces Sunday Milk Yield
A Denver dairyman delayed Sunday morning milking by an hour and a half and saw a large shrinkage in daily yield. From fifty cows the Monday morning loss averaged two pounds per cow, with further drop observed on Tuesday, underscoring the importance of consistent milking times.
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Denver
Farm tips on dairy herd care and fruit thinning
Keeping dogs away from dairy herds reduces milk drops. Clean cow stables use gutters 15 to 16 inches wide to catch excrement. Record keeping links each cow’s milk to feeding, aiding feeders. Cows may eat freely hours before milking. Aluminum wrap preserves butter sweetness. Thinning fruit improves quality and market prices.
Selecting Apple Trees for a Practical Orchard
In choosing apple trees focus on fruit quality over appearance. The best fruit often comes from trees with crooked growth, so avoid rewarding mere looks. Prioritize vigor, flavor, and yield when selecting stock for the orchard.
Raspberry Growing Tips From Charles G Nash
Notes on soil, thinning, and manure for raspberries. Best soil is mellow loam with clay subsoil. Gregg black benefits from barnyard manure. London red prone to root rot. Watch for anthracnose and coppery spots. remove diseased canes. Avoid huge plantings. liberal annual manuring boosts yields. Don’t cultivate late. allow canes to ripen. Maintain humus in soil for strong canes. End with plan to start a new patch while replacing old beds.
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London
Charles G, Nash
The Apple Maggot Life Cycle and Control Measures
This report explains the apple maggot’s annual cycle from July to frosts, describing the small fly's limited flight, susceptibility of hogs and sheep, and how feeding infested windfalls to animals can reduce maggot spread. It notes maggots mature inside fruit and remain underground until summer.
Variations in Cream Richness From Separation Temperatures
The dairy owners learn that cream richness from hand separators varies with milk temperature, separator bowl speed, and milk flow rate. These factors affect the final cream quality even if the screw setting stays the same.
Old Screen Wire Used To Build Durable Chicken Coops
Old screen wire past its useful stage for fly protection serves to craft small individual coops. It can provide two years of protection against rats and other vermin in chicken coops.
August sowing for hardy vegetables and soil richness
The passage notes that winter radish spinach kale lettuce parsley and other semi hardy crops may be sown in August. It adds that growth rate depends on the cultivation and richness of the soil.
Improving Piayer of Butter Notes from Ohio Buttermaker
An Ohio buttermaker praises butter flavor by adding a tablespoon of white sugar per five pounds of salted butter. Advice on calf care warns against letting calves suck the cow and to wean within a week. The text also mentions calves nibbling at bay when very young.
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Piayer
Ohio
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