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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1910
Page
10
Farmers are urged to shelter and feed sows before farrowing to ensure strong litters. Portable hoghouses with protection, straw bedding, and careful rationing, including leguminous pastures and balanced corn intake, reduce losses and cut feeding costs while maintaining sow health.
Farmers should shelter gasoline engines and maintain them to achieve reliable, economical power. Protect from weather with tarpaulin, keep batteries charged, ensure clean spark plugs, and properly strain fuel. Use good lubricants and learn simple adjustments to avoid problems and waste.
Two Canadian geese confined on a New Orleans area game farm ambushed and killed a large fox squirrel found stealing corn from their enclosure. The incident shows wildlife defending territory on the farm.
The article stresses rural water safety and warns against well contamination from barns and yard drainage. It recommends guarded wells with water tight, cemented walls or tile linings and notes driven wells as safer when water needs are modest. It emphasizes preventions in dairies and proper construction down to the water level.
Farmers can stagger flocks to lay year round by raising winter hatched pullets to lay from late June through summer. Deep litter feeding and warm housing help growth, while early spring ranges finish plumage and strength. A Illinois case shows pullets produced continuous summer laying with good winter condition.
Practical guide to building a simple greenhouse from window sashes suitable for south facing panes. Describes materials, assembly with screws, ventilation, soil mixes, plant types from cabbages to pansies, watering and humidity tips, and temperature cautions for winter gardening.
The article explains methods to fasten wire fencing to concrete posts. It favors encircling the post with a slightly smaller wire and twisting to the fence wire, avoiding staples, holes, or embedded wooden strips. It notes tight tension prevents livestock damage and suggests roughening the post if needed to maintain a secure hold.
The guide advises keeping one cockerel per dozen pullets and choosing the most masculine, vigorous bird as the breeder. Keep breeders separate until three weeks before egg saving for hatching, then replace breeding pens weekly.
The piece warns against high offers for colts and urges preparing fresh teams for future needs. It suggests the cost of quality young horses is high and notes how harness sellers push blankets. It claims proper training reduces balky horses and envisions few bulky horses if well trained.
U S farmers produced the greatest harvest, boosted by corn, with total crops in 1910 about 7.6 percent above 1909 and 9.1 percent above the prior five year average. Prices for key crops on November 1 were about 5.4 percent lower than last year.
Farmers across Minnesota and other states are starting to name their farms and register the farm names at county deed offices. In one Minnesota county the names Oakland Pleasant View Farm Roseland Sunny Slope Cozy Nook and Droad Acres are recorded.
Mexican stingless bees will be introduced into Missouri early this winter to bolster pollination. The state has realized the need for more pollinators as millions of fruit trees await proper bee activity, with only a small percent of blossoms currently yielding fruit.
A farmer touts guinea hens as excellent summer egg layers and natural insect destroyers. He notes their high egg output, compares them favorably to crows, and describes a brood of crossbred youngsters thriving near the house.
A Grandy Louisiana resident maintains a small farm to raise mice rats guinea pigs rabbits and ferrets for scientists conducting tuberculosis and other disease research.
A compact moral line asserts that a dirty dollar does not bring lasting good to the man who stains his soul by taking it.
The article explains why mulch is used to prevent thawing rather than frost. A light, loose cover of leaves straw or similar material shields soil from sun and wind, keeping surface warmth down and preventing bulbs from starting too early. Use simple supports to hold mulch in place and ensure air circulation.
This readable table explains service dates and due birth dates for farm animals. It notes mares bred by August 1 will foal around July 4 next year and sows bred January 1 will farrow around April 2, 234 of the same year, stressing approximate accuracy but general usefulness.
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