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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
3
J E Millett of Hudson Dakota sketches a road drag with two eight foot bridge planks and three four foot 2x8s braced to sit above the scraper, a wagon tire bottom cutter, and a chain linked adjustable hitch. The design leaves the area underneath clear and could extend the cross pieces further back.
Frank F. Rogers outlines Michigan road construction tips for durability and cost efficiency. The piece covers drainage, grading, plank road floats, timing for drag tools, gravel road benefits, and state reward incentives. It stresses proper drainage, level grades, shallow gutters, and local materials to maximize rewards and labor to stay at home.
A Michigan inventor created a husking device with pivoting curved jaws and twin handles. Its serrated interiors grip an ear of corn and strip the husk in one swift motion, rolling the husk back and allowing the user to husk as fast as they can pick ears.
Farmers are urged to construct silos with deep walls to ensure tight packing of silage. Proper depth improves density and feed quality, reducing spoilage and waste.
A simple handmade device to break five rows of stalks. A 3x8 inch plank with rods bolted four feet from each end, an old wagon tire attached to the lower front edge with its sharp edge down, used when stalks are frozen.
The article by H L Kemster describes a 14 by 24 foot poultry house for a flock of seventy laying hens. It sits on a raised 6x8 inch wall with a 6 foot 8 inch front height and 4 foot 8 inch back, featuring a 2x4 stud frame and a flat roof with one foot rise per three feet. The muslin front has four windows with upper sash muslin frames and lower sash six light glass panes.
The front view describes muslin framed windows supplying 21 square feet of floor area per muslin frame with equal glass. Framing allows adjustable ventilation, high placement for lighting, roosts and dropping boards, nests and a feed box, portable nests, dust baths, and elevated water stands to keep cleanliness in a chicken colony house.
Buy your clover seed early. Deep plowed land stores moisture. Weeds hinder clover growth. Clover sod aids corn foundation. Prepare ground for sweet clover like alfalfa. Open hay loses 20 percent value. Rotations repair land and combat weeds. Lime loving crops include alfalfa clover peas beans vetches. Fall plowing helps cut worms. Silo stores feed in small space. Grass dry in pasture needs silage. Crops for silo include corn sorghum clover alfalfa soybeans oats rye maize. Farm protein grown on the farm can be cheaper and tastier.
By J. F. Nicholson, Bacteriologist, Idaho Experiment Station. Manure heaps drive nitrogen losses as ammonia and nitrates wash away or volatilize. Nitrogen is valuable, about eight cents per pound, with a horse producing around 130 pounds yearly. Compact storage away from weather minimizes losses. saving manure can be profitable for farmers.
A leaflet from the board of agriculture and fisheries of Great Britain and Ireland states farmers and landowners form rat clubs. Rewards are offered for killing a set number of rats. Hunting trapping and poisoning are the common methods used.
Orchard heaters represent an insurance against frost losses next spring. Get ready now.
A veterinary-advocate piece stresses feeding for growth in year one to maximize future value. It warns against neglecting nutrition, proper training, water, and bedding, and advises humane handling over harsh punishment. It emphasizes shoeing, blanketing, shelter, and avoiding overloading young colts.
The Philippines produced 269000 short tons of crude sugar and panochas in the year ending June 30, 1911, on 297000 harvested acres. This equals 1813 pounds per acre. Exports for the same period totaled 164608 short tons.
Professor Riley advises guards against borers by rubbing hard soap up and down the trunks of young trees and placing a piece in the crotch to let rain wash it downward. This home remedy aims to deter infestation in early growth.
The round headed apple tree borer is widespread and damages apple pear and quince trees. Adults are brown with two white stripes, active at night. Eggs are laid under bark, larvae develop for three years, causing bark damage and possible tree death. Prevention uses washes like soft soap and carbonic acid solution, or manual removal with a knife and wire to kill borers.
A writer from Iowa Homestead urges feeding hogs corncob charcoal mixed with wood ashes salt air stacked lime sulphur and copperas. The pit made from corn cobs yields good charcoal in about 12 hours and free access keeps hogs thrifty, aids bone building, and helps control worms while meeting appetite.
Professor Massey argues that manual labor to cultivate every row of corn or cotton four times wastes enough effort in a season to cover the cost of a two-horse cultivator. He challenges readers to verify the point with pencil and paper.
The guide advises keeping a file in the field to maintain sharp hoe edges. A sharp hoe reduces fatigue and increases daily productivity by making work easier and more efficient.
U S Department of Agriculture notes bats greatly reduce pests such as mosquitoes and beetles. Bats cause little harm though their roosting in attics can annoy households. sealing entryways solves this. Bat guano is a valuable fertilizer and artificial shelters have been proposed to boost bat numbers for pest control and guano production.
The Duroc Jersey is a refined hog of the lard type thriving on corn clover blue grass or alfalfa pasture. It adapts to diverse climates and does well in dry or warm regions unsuitable to other types. Jerseys won prizes at many state fairs in the west.
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