Silage and Pasture Practices for Small Farms
An extended feature explains practical silage use to feed cows on small and large farms. It advocates two silos on larger plots, mixing corn with cowpeas or soybeans, and details cost savings, milk production benefits, and pasture improvement with grasses like timothy and clover for permanent pasture. It highlights a farmer who keeps thirty cows on thirty acres with two silos and emphasizes silage as a labor saver and productivity booster.
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United States
Farm Commandments From Knapp of the U S Department of Agriculture
Dr. S A Knapp of the United States department of agriculture formulates nine farm commandments. They urge thorough seed beds, best seed varieties, proper spacing, intensive tillage, humus through legumes and manure, systematic crop rotation, more work per day with better tools, expanded farm stock, and careful accounting of all farm products.
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S. A. Knapp
United States Department of Agriculture
Pear slug control and a homemade weed plow
An agricultural note explains pear slug damage to cherry pear and plum leaves and recommends controls including arsenate of lead or paris green sprays, lime dust, white hellebore, and black leaf 40. It also provides a step by step guide to building a homemade weed plow from a buggy axle and iron strips.
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C. R. Jones
Colorado
Paris
Southern Agriculturist
Growing Raspberries
Raspberry culture favors sandy or light clay loam on a cool slope with fertile well drained soil. Plant in rows six feet apart and set plants three to five feet apart. black varieties need more space. If soil is prepared, a small spade hole suffices and roots should be firmly firmed in.
Sloan's Liniment for Rheumatic Pain Relief
An old newspaper blurb touts Sloan's Liniment to relieve acute and chronic rheumatism and rheumatic headaches. It promises immediate relief by penetrating to the pain site with repeated applications. Also advertises 25 cent bottles and Manifold Typewriter Paper for sale at The Echo Office.
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Sloan
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P. A. Snyder
Eliott
Attorneys AT Law
Fred Reeves
Commercial Bank & Trust
Wenatchee, Wash
Fred Kemp
E.L. Baker
N. A. Pearson
Elliot Elk
Leavenworth, Wash
Wm. A. Reneau
G. G. Hannan
Ira Thomas
Wenatchee
Crohard
Washington
W. M. McCoy
Columbia Valley Bank Building
Ofice
W. Hoxset
DR. J. Stillson Judah
Leavenworth Hospital
Co. E. Briggs
King’s Drug Store
Chelan County
Chelan County Abstract Co. (Incorporated
J. A. Gellatly President
W. W. Gray Secy
Wenatchee, Wase
Life
S.H. Knowlton
Seattle
Phird Ave
Cherry St.eattle
Knights of
Pythias
Valentine Franklin
C.D
A. R. Brown
Ae Aear
Masonic Temple
A. G. McCoy
W. M
Wm. O. Atwood
B. J. Williams
A N.corbin
Williams
Corbin
Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
Leavenworth, Wasr
J. B. Adams
E. . Fox
Eight St
Weeler’s
Leavenworth
John E. Porter
Attorney At Law Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Wenatchee Wash
Hotel
Wenatchee Abstract Company Incorporated
R. W. Vermilya
Mgr
Columbia Vally Bank
City Drag Line
Rainier Beer
Lee J. Howerton
The
Echo
Vooo
Manifold Typewriter Paper
D. H
Leavenworth, Wn
Lamb
Davis Lumber Co
Stanford
Kearny Street
San Francisco
Ike Harris
Vendome Hotel
Davenport
Exposition Grounds
Bush and
Kearny St
Third and
Townsend St
Ferry
Sutter St
Tovook
Harrington
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
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