Four-horse evener design by J F Krens of Woodville Wis
Wisconsin Agriculturist describes a four-horse evener without side draft. It details parts: two double trees, a long 5 ft 4 in stick, two iron pulleys, bolts, and strap iron braces. Pulleys placed to form 24 inch spacing, holes bored at the left end for adjustment, enabling one horse in a furrow and three on unturned land without side draft.
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J. F. Krens
Woodville
Wis
Wisconsin Agriculturist
TRYING FARM HELP PROBLEM LABOR NEEDS IN MODERN FARMS
The article notes farm labor now requires extensive science knowledge across chemistry bacteriology entomology botany and breeding while hired helps need only moderate intelligence. It predicts rural labor will stay countryside not city and urges retention of country youth and improved home life to make rural living appealing. It warns weeds harm soil and pest cycles and stresses practical handling and marketing of large crops.
Farm Notes On Stocking And Cropping Practices
Practical guidance from a historical farm column covers apple picking on bright days, hog care and market timing, cattle welfare, poultry space, grain soil balance, stored corn ventilation, dairy herd proximity, and alfalfa cutting timing. Emphasizes disciplined hog removal, appropriate henhouse height, sunlit calf pens, fall cow shelter, and small-root alfalfa harvest cues.
Winter Dairying Profits for the Average Farmer
Br B Rushing argues winter dairying can yield higher profits due to stronger prices and steadier labor. He urges fall calving to balance year round milk, notes feeding costs, silo use for January February milk, and stresses that year round supervision boosts output.
Be master of your own barn and dairy notes
Be master of your own barn. Study rations for each cow. Grow your own seeds to the utmost. Milk comes by invitation, not force. Seek June conditions in feeding in December. Tickle the cow's palate and increase production. Study the whole problem from a business standpoint. Test, weigh, weed out. The margin of profit allows no guess work. Brains in the milk pail ensures equality, quantity, cleanliness. More sunshine for big producers, more fresh air for all. No man can succeed by being simply a machine. Be content with nothing but reaching after more. Clean every particle of fertilizer out of the drill before putting it away. Good cows are never cheap, hard to find and harder to buy. Re-enforce your dairy from your own best cows. Do not be cursed by feeding a mass of stuff under the name of mixed feeds.
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BR. B. Rushing
Curing meat at home with wood smoke and a concrete smokehouse
Leah Ruth Lippin argues farmers can save 25 cents a pound by home curing using hickory or maple smoke. She outlines a fireproof concrete smokehouse design from North Dakota Agricultural College, notes safety and storage benefits, and provides a bill of materials costing about 65 dollars plus labor. The unit includes cement sacks, sand, stone, doors, lumber, meat hooks, and forms.
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Leah Ruth Lippincatt
Breeze
North Dakota Agricultural College
Well-Tilled Farm Is Best For Net Returns
A veteran farmer urges focusing on quality over quantity. Small well cared for plots with a mix of sheep cows hogs poultry yield better profits than large herds. Plan winter work to fit regular help and harvest crops fully to achieve larger yields from less land.
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Plymouth Rocks
Experiment compares hog feed value of corn and potatoes
Wisconsin station tests show 400 pounds cornmeal yields 100 pounds gain while 262 pounds cornmeal plus 786 pounds cooked potatoes yield the same gain. Henry notes 786 pounds cooked potatoes save 178 pounds of cornmeal. Copenhagen station finds 460 pounds cooked potatoes equal 100 pounds mixed grains. Overall, 4.5 bushels of cooked potatoes equal one bushel of corn for pigs. sunlight benefits pig vitality.
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Wisconsin Station
Henry
Copenhagen
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