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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1917
Page
3
Agricultural readers are urged to consider stem health as the Times notes input from the United States Department of Agriculture and other respected writers. The piece highlights best practices for crop stems and sustaining farm yields this season.
The guide explains ripening and drainage of equine abscesses especially salivary glands during strangles, and outlines hot fomentations and poultices. It discusses cold abscesses breast boil and methods to induce inflammation for drainage, plus cautions on not over squeezing wounds. It covers gangrene forms and prevention with antiseptics and proper bedding and handling.
Grain ration should be equal parts corn oats and bran with a touch of teal oil. Even young calves nibble grain early and crack corn is best first with inter shell oats. Clover hay or mixed clover alfalfa outperforms alfalfa alone. pasture plus grain in summer aids growth.
Birds favor mulberries over cherries. Planting fruiting trees and shrubs aids them. Bear cherry trees may protect crops but birds still prefer mulberries.
Farmers plan a few hundred feet of tiling and grading to dry a feed lot. The upgrade aims to improve winter comfort for cattle, promoting better flesh and animal well being.
Care instructions mention tending an asparagus bed with notes on tops and beds. No clear dates or names are present.
An article in Commercial Farming notes that sending fowls to market alive can cost time and money. It recounts B. Orr’s comparison of live versus dressed birds, showing dressing losses of 21 to 24 cents per group and suggests many farmers should stop dressing birds after weight and price analysis.
Wheat yields varied with previous crops at the Chic experimental station. After corn the yield was 28 bushels per acre, and after soy beans potatoes or oats the yield was also about 28 bushels. Soil treatment remained the same across rotations.
Advice on stacking alfalfa hay to keep the center full and well packed, with the top covered by chova or marsh hay to shed water, then weighted to resist wind.
Regions with semiarid climates can produce alfalfa successfully in nearly all soil types and through a wide range of temperatures.
An editorial favors tile drainage over open ditches, noting tile systems cost little more when properly built, require sloping banks, and leave fields smooth with no waste for cultivation.
Fall plowing improves soil texture and structure and enables earlier spring planting. It benefits farm hands and horses, though the text contains errors and unclear details.
Government expert advises combining corn silage with protein rich feeds to balance nutrition. A thousand pound steer can eat about 25 pounds of silage daily with 6 7 pounds of alfalfa hay and a grain mix of ground corn cottonseed or linseed meal. Smaller grain rations from four to six pounds yield economical gains.
Circular No 12 from the North Dakota experiment station outlines methods to obtain pure seed grain free of mixtures and disease. Professor Bolley recommends selecting clean seed, thoroughly cleaning and treating it, and sowing with every seventh row left as a walking path to remove diseased or off type plants to ensure disease free seed for next year.
Factors determine farm business success and reveal both strengths and deficiencies. Knowing the deficiencies guides the method to improve the farming system.
The ad pitches a fanning mill as a useful tool for grain producers, claiming it pays for itself in a single season by cleaning and grading grain before market or seeding use.
State colleges will assist by keeping in touch with agriculture students, urging them to enroll for bulletins, and reminding that professors are experts in their fields. They will advise when you show interest by seeking information.
Product brief claiming hogs gain stronger bones using hog Sones Wood Sashes and bonemeal loubie. Endorses reduced need for other feed by boosting bone strength and overall vigor.
Treated as a brief item noting an outcome in a marketing sector with unclear details and a fragmentary reference to TREY and ignorance. No clear persons or organizations are identifiable beyond vague terms.
W. B. Barney the Iowa dairy and food commissioner reappoints twenty nine staff members for the coming year. The roster lists appointments for acting deputy, state chemist, several assistant dairy commissioners, weight and measure inspectors, food inspectors, clerks and stenographers across Des Moines Waterloo Atlantic Ottumwa Burlington Creston Des Moines and other cities. Budget requests total nearly four million more for the 1917 1919 biennium with increases slated for education penal and charitable institutions and a few departments spared from cuts.
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