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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
4
The piece urges workers to reap rewards through effort and planning. It stresses timely action, intellectual effort, health as the top asset, and road improvements boosting value, advocating city supporters back farmers.
The article argues against burning fallen leaves and promotes leaf mold as a moisture retaining soil amendment. It describes making leaf mold by pressing leaves into a ground pit and watering, or spading leaves into garden soil, and notes leaves can also serve as fodder bedding for animals.
The piece explains that soil needs replenishing as natural plant food fades. Manure enriches soil with humus and nutrients, while a compost heap of sods leaves and litter provides a steady humus supply and plant food, usable even when manure is scarce. It notes to plow decayed material into soil every fall.
The article argues against spring only fertilization and suggests feeding through the summer with nitrate of soda or liquid manure. It notes quick acting nitrate for crops above ground and liquid manure for all kinds, with careful application to avoid leaf burn. Tomatoes benefit from a small base dose before rain, and roses may produce better blooms.
Clear the ground for midsummer planting and till soil as last April. Remove old pea vines and enrich soil. Keep all areas active, prevent squash and melon vines from overrunning. Pinch ends to direct energy to fruit. Cut back hybrid roses after first bloom to boost later yield. Sow corn and cucumbers and prune fruit tree suckers.
A historical note on dairying showing how machinery reduced labor once done by athletes. It recalls young men leading mowing gangs and storing feed for harsh winters, contrasting bygone hard manual tasks with modern equipment. The piece highlights shifts in dairy labor and the evolving role of the farmer.
The text notes improvements in mowing machines, feeders, and rakes with spring seats and easy use. It explains how weather allows timely hay harvests and how a silo enables year round, succulent cow feed as good or better than green grass for every day of the year.
The Horse Breeder advises shipping mares with foals by partitioning a car end and bedding with hay. He notes many have been shipped this way without injury, as good mothers avoid stepping on foals. Provide hay and water. even with delays, mares stay fed. Yearlings and two year olds can be shipped similarly.
The article outlines three rat destruction methods hunting traps and poison or rat virus. It notes terriers ferrets and practical experience as key for hunting. It recommends a spring trap that kills instantly and a wire trap on the basket principle where the rat enters for bait but cannot escape.
Do not wait until spring to clean and grade seed grain. Start now while plenty of grain is on hand to select from. The best twenty five bushels from a hundred are worth more for seed than grain cleaned from a smaller autumn amount. Cleaning and grading then is inexpensive and yields heavy plump seed at little cost.
A sunny barn and clean surroundings encourage better effort among the stock. The text laments muddy yards and filthy barns, noting few self-respecting workers seek jobs on farms run in such slip-shod fashion.
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