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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
11
A guide on cellar wintering for bees explains dry, well ventilated spaces with stable temperatures between 43 and 48 degrees. It covers hive placement, entrance management, honey reserves, feeding sugar syrup blends, and moisture control to minimize fatalities and maintain colony vitality through winter.
Winter feed bank helps preserve feed and keeps cattle out of the mud while eating in open lots. Uses a simple layout to protect feed and reduce waste during winter conditions.
The notice warns that a trough with quarter inch cracks between boards will waste corn as hogs following cattle will feed on the spilled grain.
Grasshoppers ravaged Fall River Valley crops prompting widespread flooding to protect harvests. Deer eat Boston area gardens as a buck roams West Newton trolley tracks. France spends 310000000 on highways with 23656 miles built. draft horse output contrasts U S on dirt roads. Watermelons flood Chicago mid July from California Alabama Georgia South Carolina.
A collection of farmer aphorisms on discipline, practicality, politics, and ethics. Notes compare root crops, cattle, and grain to human character, praising modesty, hands on work, and proper treatment of animals. It closes with a quotation from John Beebe on praise.
Hand rear an orphan colt with cow milk diluted by one third water and sweetened. Feed 3–4 times daily for a month, then adjust milk and water as the colt grows. Use fresh milk, scald pails, add a fresh egg for strength, and teach drinking from a bottle if needed. Let it graze and advance to bran and grain. avoid sour or skimmed milk.
F A Boarman warns Kansas readers that overfeeding calves causes indigestion and scours, killing more calves than starvation. A calf must maintain a good appetite, which overfeeding robs him of, especially when young. Skim milk in excess can kill a calf, as can corn, clover, hay, or alfalfa when eaten to gorge.
A Virginia farmer's cows are left to fend for themselves in winter. The image shows numerous weak, dry cattle unable to rise, illustrating financial losses from neglect in livestock care.
The author argues that for the average farmer buying pure bred cattle is not essential. He contends that high grade or native cows can be as suitable as pure breds for dairy production and beef, often offering similar returns with less cost.
Practical tips for domestic chores and home maintenance including oiling irons and sewing machines rust prevention, stove and cake care, safe work balance for spouses, cleaning pipes with hot water and chemicals, repairing old floors with glue and sawdust or putty, lamp wick preservation, and advice on managing a stubborn partner.
Practical dairy guide warns against overfeeding skim milk calves and stresses proper ration by week three. It notes scours result from indigestion, dirty milk, or poor conditioning, and suggests remedies such as raw eggs, small dried blood doses, and Kaffir corn for calves still drinking milk.
The report analyzes feed efficiency and costs for cattle and sheep. It notes pounds of alfalfa and beet pulp required per pound of gain, and the ad libitum beet pulp values for steers and sheep. It also compares costs for mixed rations including alfalfa, grain bran, shorts, and pulp.
A writer promotes mixing three quarts salt with one quart powdered lime per a ton of cured hay and cites farmers achieving superior stacks after rain and dew. The method allegedly yields pliable stems, soft leaves, and fragrant feed while illustrating skepticism from a hesitant worker.
A Hereford steer weighing 1470 pounds at two years old competed at the International Live Stock Exposition. He finished third due to being slightly over fat and lumpy in appearance, though described as a magnificent specimen.
Garden notes advise focusing on winter blooming geraniums like Mrs E G Hill. Discard old plants and start new, avoid leggy growth, pinch to shape, remove buds from window garden plants, and clean and sun the pots. Use charred wood ash in drainage and keep vessels clean.
A device on a large poultry farm uses a cut tin pail filled with kerosene and hung over a small door to automatically apply the liquid to fowls. The method promises efficient lice control without laborious individual dressing.
A. J. Legg notes four acres sown mid September on poor corn ground survived winter with little fertilizer and will be ready to cut soon. A half acre sown November 1 shows similar vigor though riskier. Winter oats provide land cover and winter pasture for calves and sheep, ripen earlier than spring oats, and can fill well if they survive winter. August or September is best for sowing.
A fifty acre chestnut orchard in Pennsylvania, led by J. L. Lovett of Bristol, is the world’s largest privately run chestnut operation. Thirty acres are bearing, twenty in growth, with grafted trees yielding a barrel to a barrel and a half per tree. Lovett has run the business thirty years, keeping prices from six to seven dollars per barrel in New York, while marketing is steady and controlled.
Dr C P Bennett argues Scotch Collies suit farms, deliver profits from 30 to 100 dollars yearly, and require little care. He notes their intelligence, steadiness, and usefulness for herding and guarding, with occasional high prices for top dogs and puppies.
Pigs fed a mix of grain and skim milk at a 1 to 3 ratio averaged 1.38 pounds of daily gain. Production cost was $4.20 per 100 pounds of gain, with pigs sold at $6.50 per hundredweight on the Chicago market when they reached 380 pounds.
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