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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1914
Page
14
The article discusses meadow and pasture seeding methods focusing on red clover and timothy. It explains sowing timing, nurse crops such as rye and oats, and how these choices affect first and subsequent hay yields, noting timothy persistence and red clover biennial lifespan.
Beekeeping guidance on ensuring a strong honey harvest through crowding, colony management, and proper use of drawn combs. Tips cover avoiding swarms, positioning frames, recognizing queen cells, and minimizing disturbance during extraction.
A Virginia farmer describes a flock of 35 grade Shropshire ewes and 36 lambs yielding 289.80 dollars and 216 pounds of wool at 30 cents per pound. The flock required little feed beyond hay and no grain, grazing most of the year with winter hay rations and occasional rest in the hay barn, illustrating profitable small-scale sheep farming.
The article urges farmers to view weeds as intruders that waste soil nutrients and seeding to avoid. it praises beneficial birds for pest control and notes insects and animals that aid crops. It emphasizes protecting wildlife like robins blue jays to reduce insect pests and protect soil health.
The issue known as staghead presents on apple and shade trees with dead top branches that resemble antlers. Causes include old unsprayed and unfertilized trees allowing fungi to invade. treatment includes severe heading back, cultivation, fertilization, or top grafting, with caution to avoid new wounds.
The article lists grain pests including weevils and four moth species like the Angonu mois grain moth. It advises preventive measures such as cleaning old grain, fumigating badly infested granaries, and maintaining cleanliness to deter pests. It promotes carbon bisulphide fumigation with precise dosages and safety steps.
The article states dry picked fowls have a superior appearance to scalded ones and advises saving blemish free wax beans for seed if the beans show no spots or anthracnose.
A fragment quotes Dr Gray recommending half a five cent packet of smoking tobacco in a gallon of hot water for lockjaw in man or beast with a note on cooling and administration by rectum. The garbled text also mentions alfalfa filling the haymow and paying for privileges.
The degree of care you should exert in handling apples depends largely on the grade of fruit you market and on the effort you invest in maintaining your reputation as a fancy fruit producer.
The article describes injurious plant diseases crown gall and hairy root, noting their varying impact by locality and plant type. It highlights that canes like red raspberries, peaches, cherries, apples, grapes, and berries show susceptibility, with damaged trees often stunted or killed and yields reduced. It also mentions alfalfa as essential to dairy farming.
Study notes that Bordeaux mixture often causes russeting and spotted fruit, more than lime sulfur sprays. Injury appears as regular black or brown spots, then russeting as fruit grows, with distortion in severe cases. Recommendations include proper dilution, even spray, no spraying in damp weather, and staged use: Bordeaux before leaf unfold, followed by lime sulfur later.
The article notes pastures fail midsummer due to narrow grass mixtures and suggests adding early and late maturing clovers with Timothy. It cites a weekly bran mash for driving horses using oats and wheat bran with salt, kept warm, as renovation. It mentions nearly 200 million Indians depend on agriculture for livelihood.
Guide on starting a week old colt with daily quiet handling. Emphasizes kindness patience and early training. Warns against rushing training at two or three years old to avoid costly mistakes and fear.
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