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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1907
Page
3
Practical agricultural notes cover herd care, milking practices, winter prep, and farm management. Topics include cattle handling, calf rearing, pig and poultry care, seed corn, fodder storage, manual training in schools, and equipment like the hand cream separator to improve efficiency and profits.
Dodder seeds may reach fields despite precautions. Early detection before rapid branching is crucial to remove all parasitic stems. Field dodder, alfalfa and clover varieties show distinct growth, flowering, and spread patterns that aid spotting and eradication. Thorough destruction within reach of the host is needed, as are careful measures to prevent seeding and reinfestation.
A breeder’s Gazette correspondent outlines a high 25 by 48 foot crib building with a square pitched roof and an elevator on the roof. The design accommodates 6,000 bushels of corn and 2,200 bushels of oats, with an enclosed plan intended for efficient handling and a neat appearance.
Seed corn arrives with high moisture and must be dried with ventilation and moderate heat. Avoid rapid artificial drying. suspend ears in a well ventilated shed or granary, keep air around each ear, and vent windows at day. Dry weather favors winter survival, damp or early winter needs artificial heat. Use boxes with wire mesh for storage to ensure ventilation and dryness, and store in a dry attic or furnace room. Thoroughly dried corn resists injury, but moisture reabsorption can occur if exposed to damp air. Ohio Station.
The article offers practical farming guidance on turkey breeding profits up to year five, protecting young poults from storms, and managing feed. It mentions soil wetting with quicklime, using ground phosphate rock with barnyard manure to improve phosphorus availability, and the abundant supply of lime making prices low.
J G Hines notes two 26 by 321 foot log houses used year round for pig protection. One has a cement floor, level with gutters for drainage. the other has a board floor. One house faces south, the other not. He urges hog houses be designed to admit maximum sunlight, especially in winter, for early raisin pigs.
The article notes pain cellars for manure are of little use in the country. It recommends hauling manure onto the land as soon as a load accumulates, unless it contains cornstalks or similar materials that require time to disintegrate.
The article weighs wide versus narrow tires for wagons on different terrains. Missouri agr icultural college tests show broad tires draw lighter loads on soft ground but not on hard roads. South Bend tests suggest broad tires injure roads less and ease road use. On sod, wide tires win, while on hard pavements narrow tires fare better. Experts cite state debates and urge thorough discussion before rules.
A brief, practical description suggests building a one foot wide box for seed corn during husking. The box length matches the wagon box width, is slightly shorter, and includes hooks over the cutgate. A worn fuse may be used to stiffen the frame by bending it from the outer side to the inner top, ending in hooks as illustrated.
A 19th century style note discusses dairy profits outlining annual costs of keeping a cow at about 25 dollars and potential yields up to 40 dollars for a good cow, 19 dollars for a poor cow, and 15 dollars profit or cost difference per animal. It emphasizes choosing the right cows to maximize earnings and advises careful dairy farming.
A quirky numerical tally notes 10,438,219 farmers and 5,739,057 farms in the United States with assets totaling 20,514,001,888. It claims products worth 1,704,177,706 and shipments of 117,718,657 bushels of wheat plus 32,919,048 barrels of flour to foreigners who pay substantial sums for corn and wheat.
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