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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
3
Practical farming guidance covers changing feed, record keeping, and testing milk quarterly. Emphasizes selecting a sturdy cow line, proper housing, disease prevention, pasteurization rules, and sanitation. Includes notes on horse handling, poultry care, water quality, and early injury management to prevent long term losses.
A Missouri Valley Farmer correspondent describes a three piece drag barrow made from 24 13, ten, or 12 feet long stock. Penny spike nails act as teeth protruding three to four inches through a board, using 120 small nails. This device is claimed to perfect ground preparation for emul grain.
The article surveys authorities on corn origin, noting consensus that maize began in tropical or sub-tropical America. It cites De Candolle arguing against old world cultivation, cites its widespread antiquity from La Plata to the United States, and mentions its ceremonial ties among ancient Mexicans and Peruvians, with New Granada proposed as a possible original home.
A 19th century agricultural note urges farmers to mix ground phosphate rock into stable manure and heaps to restore soil fertility. It argues nitrogen and phosphorus loss from sun and rain wastes manure, and claims phosphate rock boosts soil nutrients for better crops, citing Hoard's Dairyman as authority and calling for rebuilding land fertility as essential farming practice.
The Bloomington Pantograph reports farmers debate moldy corn in 20th century harvests. Experts warn dry rot spreads via field debris, urging removal of moldy ears, separate storage, and burning of spoiled grain to protect seed quality and future crops.
Instructions from Farm and Home describe a cheap home built ditching scraper crafted from two planks two inches wide and three feet long, with old plow handles and a cross-cut saw blade to form a sharp edge. Two single tree hooks secure the assembly, enabling two men to trench a quarter mile in two days and to fill highway holes.
Advice on spring farming tasks urges keeping roads clear for access and repairing fields. Emphasizes enriching soil with well rotted manure, proper spreading, and avoiding waste from rotting outside soil. Encourages involving a son to foster shared effort and notes worms improve rich land.
The article notes two barns that never shed manure, with daily use of a spreader to move waste to meadows. It warns that short feeding and rigat feeding are common for cattle this winter, advising novices to avoid tackling the tasks to prevent losses to the corn crop.
A detailed design for frost resistant watering systems in buildings and grounds. It describes a central storage tank with a lined loop of cast iron pipe and a secondary small tank with float valve, protected from frost. The system uses circulating water to prevent freezing, burying loops eight feet deep where feasible, and adding hinged covers, deeper main pipes, return lines, and brass screens to keep sediments out while maintaining continuous flow.
Practical notes emphasize selecting breeding stock with rapid growth and strong conformation, maintaining varied feeds with soybeans clover and alfalfa, and strict feeding discipline. Tips cover intake control, green winter fodder, shelter orientation, clean feeding floors, water access, ventilation, bedding with ashes, and staged feeding around farrowing to optimize sow condition and pig growth.
The article discusses milk albuminoids including casein and albumen, their properties, and how heating affects separation. It briefly covers lamb feeding by hand with cow’s milk, heating temperature guidance, Adventitious buds on trees, and a note that success in dairying comes from intelligent methods rather than luck.
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