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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1913
Page
8
A Boston educator urges strong elementary training to build understanding of fundamental principles. The author argues cooperation between farmers and agricultural schools boosts practical use of chemistry of soils and fertilizers, promising higher yields and better business for farmers while schools seek to guide local agricultural practice.
An article outlines major pests threatening sweet potatoes, including cutworms and the stem borer. It explains habits and control methods such as poisoned bait for cutworms and notes the leaf eater and weevil threats, with emphasis on managing damage to maintain quality crops.
The article explains sphinx moth eggs laid singly on leaf undersides and caterpillars feeding on foliage. Full grown worms vary in color from green to brown and can be controlled by hand picking or spraying insecticides such as lead arsenate. Leaf miner larvae bore tunnels just beneath the leaf surface as they feed.
A lengthy notes piece describes sweet potato pests including leaf miners stem borers leaf rollers and two weevil species. It covers damage patterns for each insect, suggested controls such as arsenate sprays hand-picking moving to new fields burning plant waste and crop relocation, and notes natural enemies help control leaf roller populations.
A devoted egg sorter and packer earns good pay as prices rise, while a moral note counsels aiding others to prevent personal decline. troubled times prompt practical acts of service and selflessness.
A domestic guideline urges ignoring petty complaints and focusing on practical tasks. It argues that removing weeds and maintaining moisture will repay the extra labor with tangible benefits and improved well being.
Post mortem guide urges farmers to involve a competent veterinarian and isolate suspected hogs. It details lesions by organ including kidneys with black spots, enlarged friable spleen, caecal mucosal inflammation, and possible liver congestion. Diagnostics rely on multiple organ signs, prompt examination after death, and disinfectant readiness to prevent infection spread.
Readings describe cholera in a frog with lungs showing red or brown spots from pinhead to half dollar size. Complete lung hardening can occur with pus formation. Heart may exhibit congested areas at the base and adhesions to the chest wall.
The Shire Horse Society of England awards ten gold challenge cups worth 250 dollars each from 1913 to 1917 to encourage American breeders. Two cups will be awarded annually at rotating shows, starting with the 1914 International Live Stock Exhibition in Chicago for best registered Shire stallion and best registered Shire mare sound and free from hereditary disease.
The article advocates clear blood and good complexion through proper foods. It highlights salt on onions as blood and nerve tonics, praises greens like spinach lettuce and watercress, notes spinach as a system broom, and mentions carrots for rosy cheeks and rhubarb as a laxative. It ends with a plan to keep a blanket of loose earth on field surfaces.
A family note counsels keeping visitors out of the sick room to spare the ill and grieving. It suggests expressing sympathy to the family member and discarding the milk strainer for a cloth pall to keep the area tidy and uncluttered.
A humorous column notes shifts in rural life and attitudes toward work and modern goods. It contrasts past prosperity signals with present habits, jokes about farming intellect, and observes quirks of farm animals and labor. The piece uses aphorisms to poke at societal changes.
Seed corn selection offers improvement of crops through conscious or unconscious plant choice. Since early farming, people have shaped plant character by selection, though many farmers view it as difficult and reserved for qualified hands.
A North Carolina farm youth shows the potential to grow corn effectively with natural ability and training. The article notes no special technical expertise is required, implying simple methods can boost yields.
A recipe suggests using alcohol diluted with cool water for soothing relief while sleepless in heat. It warns against using a whip on a barge and emphasizes patience and kindness as better approaches. It also notes turkeys roost high to avoid foul air and cautions that pasture reuse harms sheep.
The piece argues that Indigenous knowledge shaped early American agriculture, noting tobacco, cranberry bogs, and especially corn as core gifts. It praises Indian farming, cites shell-ended hoes and maple tapping remnants, and urges modern gardeners to emulate Native planning and industry to honor the legacy.
A 1910s agronomy note explains western peach tree borers, moths that lay eggs on trunks, and the life cycle. It advocates hard asphaltum applications to trunks in spring, noting 95 to 98 percent barrier effectiveness, zero tree injury over four years, and practical application steps including heating, coating depth, and annual inspections for borers and soil replacement.
The advice urges farmers to plant standard tested corn varieties and to seek an ideal stalk with perfect ear, foliage, and root systems. It argues continuous careful selection can produce three to four times as much corn per acre, citing J. M. Gray and the success of corn club boys in improving yields.
Nitrogen is valued at eight cents per pound with a horse producing about fifteen tons of manure and litter over two years, containing one hundred thirty pounds of nitrogen. At eight cents per pound the manure is worth 10.40. Experiments show stored manure deteriorates less when kept compact and sheltered. A hint for progressive farmers: manure nitrogen is valuable and worth careful handling.
Notes from Ola pastures warn internal parasites and grazing changes as necessary. Frequent shifts prevent overgrazing and weak, thin flocks. Caution against selling curled rams to ignorant farmers likened to counterfeit money.
Mary L Bull advises home canners to preserve beet greens and spinach in sterilized jars after thorough cleaning and brief cooking. Trim tops, rinse well, steam or simmer with little water, then seal and process. A can of greens offers a cheap, wholesome variety, with small amounts of vinegar added if desired.
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