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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1912
Page
8
The Dairy Belt Farmer volume six issue thirty nine provides agricultural news and notices from rural communities. Local farm reports, market notes, weather outlooks, and brief notices appear in this weekly farmer’s column.
Prof. E J Delwiche reviews the rapid expansion of small fruit farming around Chequamegon Bay, noting high returns from strawberries and bush fruits on sandy Lake Superior soils. Bayfield area shipments totaled about sixty carloads, with wealthy Wealthy apples and other varieties growing in Barfield and nearby orchards. Improved standards and quality help a wholesale community gain a stronger reputation and better prices.
Prof G H Benkendorf notes Wisconsin now produces nearly half of the nation's cheese, surpassing New York which once led. He cites milk demand in cities driving prices and Wisconsin's milk-fed growth, illustrated by two cheese disks mapping national output in 1890 and 1910, showing Wisconsin's rapid rise over twenty years.
A compilation of Q and A on equine care and silage. Drills cover treating shoulder galls with a cold wash and a mercury tannic lotion, silage differences near concrete silo walls, apasmodic colic emergency steps, and corn frost handling for silage readiness. Prof Hadley and F. Woll provide guidance, with veterinary advice urged for severe colic and caution on silage preparation after cutting.
A reader's note from Indianapolis offers to share a full history of his recovery from lung troubles through Rev. E S Conner. Advertisements tout Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for colds and disease prevention. A Des Moines man finds Chamberlain's Liniment a cheaper cure for muscular rheumatism after a three day treatment.
An old clipping blends moral quotes with drugstore plugs for Chamberlains Cough Remedy and Chamberlains Tablets, then veers into North Australia geography and a Sparr Cereal Company catalog of farm items. It lists prices for onions potatoes butter eggs beef pork veal and more, plus flour feed grain items and wagon goods with unit prices.
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