23 Jul 1915
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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
1
The article explains geese are strong foragers, especially wild types, but improved breeds wander less. It covers feeding, water needs, breeding and incubation, and caring for goslings. It notes goslings grow quickly, parenting risks exist, and compares goose meat cost to pork, urging geese farming as profitable.
The article notes poultry success hinges on soil quality where the plant rests. Heavy soil fosters disease buildup, harming fowl thrift and profitability. It suggests using colony houses to move stock to fresh ground annually to limit contamination and negatives.
A local notice warns that liquid lice killers sold as good insecticides may harm young poultry if pens are kept in freshly painted coops. The advisory stresses proper ventilation and waiting periods before housing birds after application.
Summer months favor a bright plan to use a poultry food brand for feeding chicks. The suggestion emphasizes choosing a reliable feed to support growth and health during warmer weather.
The article outlines diverse fattening foods including corn, potatoes, beets, mangels, oats, and grains, with French methods using beets, artichokes, and nuts. It advises ventilation, grit, water, and occasional American mash with milk, notes three daily feeds, and warns against overlong fattening for market readiness and profit.
Guidance on mite control for poultry advising not to fight mites on the hen but to target them before they leave roosts and perches. The text notes mites go on hens to feed, implying preemptive prevention at roost sites.
Skim milk is noted as an excellent fodder for fattening chickens and for improving laying value. The readable portion emphasizes its utility in poultry feeding, highlighting its nourishing quality and dietary benefits for hens and chicks.
A fragmented editorial style piece on farming ethics and personal growth urges timely action. It highlights planning, public service, wealth through contribution, and prudent living while warning against laziness and flashy epigrams. The text blends aphorisms about opportunity, knowledge, and character with scattered, archaic phrasing.
The article argues every farmer should maintain a business office or den fitted with a desk a stove and chairs. It highlights filing shelves a phone extension a typewriter and space for accounts samples seeds and soils. It notes such an office boosts professionalism attracts callers and supports experimentation and better markets.
Farmers often apply the motto Use your head and you will use your hands to succeed. Those who live by this maxim tend to be the most successful in practice.
County Demonstrator showcases hands on methods for farmers on their own farms, emphasizing practical application over theory and encouraging direct, field tested results.
A fragmented note suggests a belief that minor improvements at the farm home will boost attractiveness from the boys' viewpoint, reflecting local sentiment on place appeal and youth appeal dynamics.
An Atlanta dispatch reports that the South is moving away from a one crop system toward crop diversification. Boards of trade and educators urge hay, hogs and hominy, improved hay curing, and new cattle breeding as substitutes. County officials are urged to supply thoroughbred sires, and town markets to hold regular market days, in face of fertilizer tag cuts and shrinking cotton acreage. The piece warns that high cotton prices next year may lure farmers back to cotton.
The Wall Street Journal notes cotton is being blown up at record rates for use in high explosives like guncotton and cordite. It estimates 4,000,000 soldiers on the firing line consumed about 40,000 bales weekly during active fighting, with powder companies among the major buyers.
A column warns that one dishonest producer taints a district’s entire produce. Buyers cannot tell individuals. they blame the whole district for a sting and a long recovery period is needed for trust in all commodities from that area.
A plea to cultivate farm youth by securing purebred chickens pigs a calf or a colt. Growing up around high quality animals fosters enthusiasm respect for purebred stock and builds lifelong love of farming.
Make a portable chick yard using old burlap sacks. Rup them open sew them lengthwise and nail to strips at the top and bottom of posts set in the ground. The fence stores in sections for easy removal and reuse next year.
Farmers study cooperatively owned elevators to learn marketing methods that make these ventures successful. By examining operations and practices, they seek to apply proven strategies to improve outcomes in their own elevator ventures.
The dasheen, a new edible, challenges the potato with profitable cultivation in Florida. Plants reach four to six feet, bearing one or two large five-pound corms and many tubers. Both corms and tubers resemble the potato but with less water, and a plant can yield four to ten pounds of tubers per hill. The nutty flavored parts are digestible, and cooks can use dasheen like potatoes or harvest shoots as asparagus. leaves can substitute for spinach. It may become a familiar market vegetable soon.
Farmers adapt harvesting of wheat or oats to weather and distance from threshing. In hay use the milk to soft dough stage for green stalks. cure like hay. For grain in straw, cut after hard dough, allow curing in shocks, and thresh later. Near the coast use small six-bundle shocks to dry quickly. cap only if needed. If grain is for sale or seed, cut later, but dead ripe harms quality. When self binders fail, cut earlier, cure in field, then thresh. Store in barn or stack if machines unavailable, or form carloads with neighbors. load promptly to avoid demurrage, and do not mix wheat and oats. Weigh bags with net weight marks per federal law.
The Farm Progress notes a permanent, war-independent market opening in the South as diversified farming grows. Demand for mares to breed with jacks grows for plantation power, with mules and horses in larger numbers. Despite prices, buyers, especially in southern cotton regions, will stay steady long term.
A new spray to defeat the onion maggot is proposed. It targets the fly that lays eggs and should be applied before maggots appear using a coarse spray. The formula mixes one pint of Orleans molasses one sixth of an ounce of sodium arsenite and one gallon of water.
The article notes that ten tons of roots per acre is not profitable, but with good management twenty or twenty five tons per acre can be secured and will pay well. It emphasizes root crops as a viable alternative when corn yields are around 60 bushels per acre.
Rye in early spring and rape in summer form a base mix. Corn and field rape fail, while rye with alfalfa, corn with rye, clover, oats and peas provide varied forage.
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