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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
6
A discussion of a head gate system for canal irrigation describes requirements from both canal companies and farmers. It outlines a watertight closure, ample size, and a mechanism allowing partial or full closure while preventing raise above a fixed point, with a wooden box and a steel rod gate operated by a hand wheel.
An Orange Judd Farmer writer notes growing beet pulp use as sugar beet byproduct increases annually. Experiments show pulp equals corn silage in dry matter value but requires more weight due to water content. Feeding pulp saves hay, boosts milk yield, and supports lamb gains, with caveats on fatness and flesh quality. recommendations urge early, greater pulp use at feeding start.
Nebraska reports a notable rise in winter wheat production. Fifteen years ago winter wheat accounted for about 15 percent of total output. now spring and winter wheat stand in similar relation to yearly yield. Kansas remains the top winter wheat producer, Nebraska second.
French smallholders rear pigs on dairy byproducts and kitchen scraps for months, then fatten quickly in the final period. Many use little grain until the last two months, with pigs nourished mainly on dairy byproducts and homegrown crops.
Read by H. W. Mumford and L. D. Hall from the Illinois experiment station, a summary of 500 feeders reveals few provisions against mud. Some pave lots with brick and gravel, others use tiles, grading, or dirt scrapers, while several note bedding to protect feet and proper shelter with feeding banks and storage for fodder.
A barnyard feed system with six foot wide dry floors reduces mud by keeping cattle out of wet ground during feeding. Two inch bridge planks form the floor, while feed bunks measure two feet six inches high, three feet wide and sixteen feet long.
A writer in American Agriculturist stresses clearing rubbish from around bearing apple trees to remove shelter for vermin. Avoid base hollows, form a slight mound, and prevent water pockets that freeze. Use wire netting if mice or rabbits are a concern. Shape wire around the trunk with a broomstick to hold itself in place and ensure drains are clear.
The article argues farmers gain independence from improved finances and stronger demand for key products. It notes farmers’ economic position strengthened as consumption grows faster than population and surpasses production for certain goods, boosting land values.
Deciduous trees may be pruned after sap runs from branches. Landscape gardeners typically prune trees and shrubs in February. Cover large pruning wounds with gastar or linseed oil paint to prevent decay.
In Tiflis and Hama communities harness the river currents without dams. Water wheels rise with the river level, delivering constant power from enormous wooden frames. The Orontes supplies irrigation while travelers describe the city’s sonic forest of rotating wheels as a perpetual, monumental chorus.
The coyote thrives in Southern California and terrorizes towns by night, outpacing dogs and leading prey to ambush sites. It ranges across canyons, rests on hillsides at dawn, and tests even the fastest California dogs with sustained bursts of speed. Master Coyote remains elusive until a race-like pursuit ends in victory for the hunter or hound.
The term slug in college football is linked to slog and slag, while another sense ties slug to slouch and slack used by Spenser and Milton. The origin of the bullet named slug remains unclear, with theories about weight or garden slugs. Ice on telegraph wires can increase weight dramatically, sometimes by up to nine hundred percent.
The Cow Horn turnip is described as a soil ameliorator that improves texture and humus, suited to clay soils. Seeded with crimson clover in August or September on bare winter ground, it showed perceptible benefits in trials on Hope farm and nationwide.
Kansas farmers report a simple crude oil method to control pests on hogs and in henhouses. A thin layer of oil on hog wallows and oiling henhouse interiors allegedly eliminates lice ticks fleas and other pests, with two oiling applications a year claimed sufficient for immunity.
Farmers face uneven terrain where ravines cut fields and require ditching. Levees on each side are cheapest but leak early. wooden flumes work though decay risks. clay or cement pipes under the surface cost more initially but prove cheapest to maintain over time.
The margin of supply ditches on irrigated farms breeds weeds as seeds scatter through irrigation. Banks should be graded and smoothed for easy cutting and burning. A rapid growing forage crop like alfalfa may be sown along banks to suppress weed growth.
An American Agriculturist illustration presents a wooden brace to hold a swing gate open at any width. The device uses a 1 by 2 inch piece of wood, fastened with a spike into the gate edge or hinge, and a spring to lock it when not in use.
Dr. Boe Galloway and the Bureau of Plant Industry report a winter lettuce seed crop immune to common diseases and ready for early large heads. Seed from successive, carefully selected harvests was sown in the department’s plot and distributed to greenhouse men and state stations to save the winter lettuce industry.
A note from Ohio Farmer describes a portable killing rack using a long top stick, hooks, and a rope setup to hang hogs or small beef. It folds compactly by removing two lower bolts, and the gear wheel and worm are obtainable at any machine shop.
A Country Gentleman observation notes thawing and re freezing damages tree roots. If trees arrive frozen, plant at once or mimic with packed roots in soil or sand to thaw slowly. Do not expose to water or warm air. cellar thaw without cover also harms roots.
The annual products of dairying fruit and vegetable raising and poultry keeping totaled nearly two billion dollars in farmers hands in 1905, about three tenths of the gross value of all farm products. These luxury farm products show demand exceeding supply as there is a lack of satisfactory quality at moderate prices and the public remains underfed in higher grades.
The Prince of Schwartzburg Rudolstadt faces rising costs and demands from ministers and eight Social Democrats as he seeks an extra 8 000 dollars beyond his 67 000 annual civil list. Diet dissolved amid constitutional struggle and public discontent.
An explanation of hailstone formation notes that each stone starts with a dust grain as nucleus. Moisture condenses on the particle as it rises in strong updrafts into cirrus-altitude air, freezes into ice or snow shapes, then falls, gathering more layers as it passes through varying temperature and moisture layers on the way to Earth.
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