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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
7
Pigeons require constant water but not excess salt others feed management tips cover milking cleanliness, udder prep with gunny sack, early shearing, and feeding timing. Notes on cattle, horses, hogs, clover pasture, bowel health in swine, and grinding feed for digestibility. Includes humane handling and kindness to stock as financial as well as ethical.
A New York Tribune suggestion replaces blind-boards with a humane rope halter. The rope rests on the head and between forelegs, allowing natural head position while preventing fence jumping. A neck cord can lift the animal if feeding danger arises, and rope length can be adjusted as needed.
Discussion notes fruit price disparities with New York and New Jersey consumers paying ten to fifteen cents per quart while Delaware peninsula producers earn only two to four cents per basket. Hammonton Co operative Association has cut freight and commissions but farm gate returns remain small. Call for comprehensive cooperative stores to connect growers with consumers directly and improve distribution nationwide.
Practical hog farming notes advise quick maturity for profitable hogs, provide dry warm shelter, avoid wasteful feeding, and breed sows in June or July. Emphasizes maintaining vigor and bone, culling low stock, and preventing parasites with kerosene-lard treatment. Also discusses potato bug control with a new green insect found in Indiana.
Hoosiers flock to Johnstown to obtain legendary long billed diamond backed bugs that prey on potato bugs. The creatures, praised for protecting crops, migrate potato patches as the bugs fearfully retreat. The article extols the bug as a welcome boon to poor farmers in this land of trees.
At a Maritime Cheese Makers meeting a paper argues the pooling system rewards milk quantity while the Babcock test rewards richness, warning pooling yields poor results. Amherst Creamery speakers, including Bancroft and Sabine, oppose the Babcock machine, while Dr. Lindsay of the Agricultural College advocates replacing the space system with a fair method. The New England Farmer notes disputes over fair distribution of dairy proceeds and calls for a more just division.
Fresh earth in the poultry quarters and dusting aid egg production. Feed wheat to improve yield. Never breed from outside your stock to avoid inbreeding. Larger breeds like Pekin or Rouen suit ducks. Fowl should be kept two years as breeders and fed thrice daily. Overfeeding reduces profits. screen for appetite and keep meat costs low. Turkeys grow heavier and fetch higher price per pound. Poultry costs less than sheep or swine and offers healthy meat.
The article notes abundant rains and excellent crop prospects across the nation. Wheat outlooks improve in the Northwest and Kansas, with potential record cotton yields in the Southwest. A bumper harvest could lift exports, imports, and trade, boosting rail earnings and lifting the economy from a lull.
A garden column from American Gardening urges using wire netting fences to train vines for beauty and shade. Grapes and other climbers thrive on such structures, offering decorative and practical benefits in hot weather. The hop vine around doorways is also recommended to enhance entrances.
An American Cultivator note describes white clover as an exceptionally stubborn weed in soil and strawberry beds. It propagates by seed and runners, survives smothering by grass, and often blooms after grass cutting reveals its presence. The piece warns of its weediness yet acknowledges its seed value.
The American Agricul turist notes about 600 million acres of vacant public land in the United States. Most is in semiarid regions unsuitable for cultivation even with irrigation. States like Texas own additional land. State figures: Alabama four, Arizona fifty five, Arkansas four, California forty five, Colorado forty, Florida two, Idaho forty six, Kansas one, Louisiana one, Michigan one, Minnesota five, Mississippi one, Missouri one, Montana seventy two, Nebraska eleven, Nevada sixty two, New Mexico fifty eight, North Dakota twenty two, Oklahoma seven, Oregon thirty eight, South Dakota fourteen, Utah forty one, Washington nineteen, Wisconsin one, Wyoming thirty.
Keep lids tightly pressed on kettles with boiling liquids to prevent steam from carrying away delicate flavor and aroma of boiled dishes. The steam erodes taste and fragrance, reducing quality.
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