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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1907
Page
3
A broad set of farm tips covers sheep and hog housing, fencing, ventilation, and manure use. It stresses proper feed, careful marketing, and woodlot management, with notes on dairy handling, bee keeping, turkey rearing, and winter courses at agricultural colleges. The piece blends practical husbandry with seasonal considerations and farm equipment upkeep.
Poultry care tips recommend whitewashing houses two or three times yearly with hot thin wash containing carbolic acid and coal oil to prevent pests and promote poultry health. Emphasizes thorough crack coverage and notes green cut bone as a valuable feed to induce egg production and growth.
The article notes that successful poultry farms often started in plain, improvised buildings made from scrap materials. Over time, owners' care and economy proved that expensive, elegant houses are not essential for productive poultry culture. It argues that comfort for fowls and workers outweighs ornate design and that cheap housing can suffice without sacrificing profitability.
Bulletin 248 from Cornell University outlines a box design for carrying hatching eggs and using trap nests with many pens. The wells keep eggs upright on their small ends for easy number reading, enabling orderly collection and nightly assembly in the egg room for recording.
Lameness in heavy fowls often stems from high roosts. Damp sites need a board floor, dry soil helps. Poor breeding is as bad as four scrubs. In fall young stock can be fed without over fattening. To ensure eggs next fall and winter, hens should moult promptly. Scaly legs respond to melted lard and sulphur weekly. Repair and build poultry houses in warm season to be ready for winter. Close crevices and seams in summer to prevent sickness and losses.
The guidance stresses feeding ducks a substantial corn ration for fattening while not relying solely on corn. Include green food until sale time and add chopped lettuce or bitter greens to the grain mix. Ducky relish is praised as the best vegetable addition for this purpose.
The piece explains U S hop cultivation concentrated in Oregon California New York and Washington with minor plantings elsewhere. It covers soil selection including rich alluvial and sandy loams, ripeness indicators in cones, drying factors such as temperature duration and air flow, and training vines with multiple runners per string in different yards.
The article urges farmers to invest in purebred rams to improve lamb quality and profits. It cites lamb sales from $3.00 to $3.56 per head and rival market lambs at $7.50 to $8.00, arguing that a better ram boosts first crop returns even when ten ewes are kept, despite higher upfront cost.
Farmers urged to prune unwell cattle from herds and avoid keeping cows whose health or productivity does not yield profit. Emphasis on dairy operations discarding diseased or nonproductive stock to improve overall herd value and profitability.
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