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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1917
Page
3
The article urges testing all seeds before planting and planning a vegetable garden. It notes watchful storage for bulk roots, indoor corn starting in paper pots, and transplanting after frost. It also cautions limited apple plantings and highlights ornamental shrubs for home grounds. It praises Minnesota farmers breeding corn scientifically.
Agricultural notes emphasize rest between lactations and targeted grain rations. Experts advise a dry period before calving, bulky feeds, and carefully adjusted grain to build nutrient stores. Practical winter mixes include corn meal with cottonseed meal or brewers grains for dairy herds.
A dairy cow weighing about a thousand pounds voids roughly twelve tons of solid and liquid manure annually. The liquid portion constitutes sixty percent of the total and is usually a total loss, while the fertility value of the waste is about thirty dollars.
The article stresses preparing box stalls for spring calvers, ensuring abundant clean water, and allowing self-service in the stable. It warns against bitter cream from long-held milk and urges special care for heifers due to calving. It also covers gentle handling during milking and removing stray udder hairs with shears.
Prior to farrowing sows should not be overfat as feverishness and constipation raise piglet mortality risk. A Penn State recommended ration uses corn, middlings, tankage or oilmeal, and bran. switch to a light bran feed the day before farrowing, then gradually introduce a cornmeal based mix with tankage and sweet skim milk after 36 hours.
A rural advice note from the Iowa Homestead warns that old orchards suffer from excess limbs. Suckers and water sprouts at the base should be removed, dead or broken limbs cut and burned, and only essential growth left on trees to improve fruit and health.
In Iowa a silage based ration lowers costs for fattening steers. One group fed 17 lb corn 29 lb silage 2 lb oilmeal 1.5 lb alfalfa gained 2.94 lb daily at $9.57 per 100 lb. A second group with 8.5 lb corn 51 lb silage 2 lb oilmeal 1.5 lb alfalfa gained 8.04 lb daily at $7.67 per 100 lb. Increasing silage while reducing corn boosted gains and reduced costs.
A practical hog worm remedy combines glauber salt common salt charcoal sulfur copperal and sodium bicarbonate in equal parts. Mix and place in a self feeder for hogs to access continuously. Hogs free from worms are hardier and more profitable due to better resistance to common hog diseases.
Bordeaux mixture used in spraying can stain fruit. A simple bath of pure acetic acid at half a cupful to two gallons of water removes the stains. Rinse with running water to wash away the acetates formed.
J B Norton of the U S Department of Agriculture outlines essentials for profitable asparagus farming. Emphasizes well drained level sandy loam near markets, proper manure lime and fertilizer, careful root selection, seed bed timing, pest control, spacing, and cover crops. Recommends ten times as many roots as needed and avoids two year old roots.
David Gray of Kansas State Agricultural College stresses that the best draft horse action combines size with agility. The walk should be clean and bold with a straight, smooth stride and minimal knee emphasis to cover ground efficiently.
Cheap start in pure bred hogs with a spring farrow plan. Buy a pure bred gift and a good pure bred boar pig to sire sows for next fall and the following year. Raise two litters yearly to build 10 or 12 pure bred sows and gifts ready to breed. Smart initial choices may cover sow and boar costs. Pure breds comparable to grades in ease and profitability.
Early March is ideal to prune fruit trees in the north. Hard wood ashes may aid stressed apple trees. Cranberries strawberries watermelons and potatoes do best without lime. Sixty buds per bearing grapevine is maximum for strong growth and yields about 150 grape bunches. For tree wounds paint with white lead and raw linseed oil. After heavy snow or ice on berry bushes knock off excess with a pole to prevent damage.
The Iowa Homestead notes frostbitten combs and wattles are common in cold houses. Frostbite stems from poor bird condition and dampness with sudden temperature drops, worsened by wet headgear and chilling winds. Treat by rubbing with cold petrolatum then a mix of sweet oil and spirits of turpentine daily. avoid warming the bird.
Breeders advise nourishing winter rations for mares carrying foals in spring to ensure strong colts. A three to one oats to corn grain mix, oilmeal with roughage like timothy or mixed hay, or skip oilmeal with clean alfalfa. Dr Havner notes feeding wheat is preferred by some, and successful breeders invest in quality stallions and offspring. The mare and foal pictured are Percherons.
The article notes bran rejection due to high mill feed prices and favors oilmeal for protein efficiency. It advises limiting hay, with 1 to 1.25 pounds per 100 pounds live weight daily for brood mares, and 1 pound if clean alfalfa or clover is used. It argues a combined grain and hay plan supports milk flow at foaling. It also cites University of Missouri data: efficient cows use feed mainly for milk, lowering feed cost per pound of fat or milk.
A Waupaca County dairyman reduced his herd from eleven cows to ten while joining the Waupaca and Butternut Ridge Cow Testing association. By removing robber cows and improving feed and care, his monthly cream check rose from $35 to $110, with one fewer cow to milk.
A farmer finds that using a larger and shallower vessel for scraps keeps chicks from upsetting it and prevents feed waste. The method ensures easier access and reduces loss as the flock feeds.
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