How to Work Sandy Soils by W Milton Kelly
An instruction on sandy soils highlights how organic matter is readily available, soil warms quickly, and cropping must be maintained to prevent exhaustion. It promotes legumes like clover and cowpeas, a three year rotation corn wheat with clover, and using manure as top dressing to preserve soil fertility. It urges selling and feeding produce wisely, and ends with farm economy advice and a note on distributing eggs and poultry to help neighbors.
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W. Milton Kelly
New York
Winter farming tips from Farmer Vipent
Winter is a time for planning while staying active. Guard against fires from lanterns, keep water ready, protect exposed wells and pipes, and insulate cellars. Save strong birds for Christmas, manage cattle feeding, and note crop notes on celery flavor and root care for best taste.
How to Start Alfalfa in Your Field
Question about sowing alfalfa answered: use 25 to 30 pounds per acre, prepare soil well, avoid low wet ground, plant on clay rolling land. Broadcast needs 5 extra pounds per acre vs drilling. sow shallow or germination may fail. Fall sowing favored in the South, spring common in the West. consider nurse crop and soil from old fields if clover fails.
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M. Warner
Kentucky
Notes on feeding cattle and celery storage for farmers
A long practical guide covers feeding for fattening cattle and milk production, using corn, green fodder, and proper housing. It also discusses celery growing and storage, including banking earth, dry leaves, air exposure, and methods to prevent rotting and frost damage.
Easy to Grow Good Celery by Miss Anna Gallaher Ohio
Miss Anna Gallaher explains celery growth patterns favor cooler fall weather and warns hot dry periods require careful moisture and cooling. She advocates banking rows with earth or mulch with well rotted poultry manure and notes self blanching varieties differ in tenderness without protection.
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Anna Galliher
Ohio
Care of Milk on the Farm Notes Feed Quality
On dry feed supply good clover hay also supply good sweet ensilage for dairy herd nutrition. Emphasizes balanced ration to maintain milk production and herd health on farm.
Profits in Clove Onions and Pest Control
Rk B Rushings tips from Illinois advise fall planting of red clove onions to gain spring start. If planted spring soil must be dry and well prepared. Worms over winter require fire and field cleanup after harvest. Use kerosene fires to burn debris and spray with disparine Bordeaux mix. For more details see Ohio Experiment Station Bulletin No. 63.
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Jack Frost
Nebraska
Mumford
Illinois
Rk. B. Rushing
Ohio
Columbus
Work Among Poultry for Profitable Flocks
The piece urges standard bred poultry for consistent results and profits. Start small and build up, avoid bad inducements, treat hens kindly, and combat mites to preserve vitality. Emphasizes replacing old stock while prices stay favorable and minimizing waste for maximum profits.
Onions from cloves and soil tips by R B Rushing
R B Rushing of Illinois explains best practices for planting onions from cloves. He recommends annual resetting, spacing of eight by eighteen inches, fall planting in four inch rows, and spring weeding for large, marketable bulbs. Soil type, manure, and balanced fertilizer affect yields from 400 to 1000 bushels per acre.
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R. B. Rushing
Illinois
Grape Berry Worm Ravages Ohio Grapes Warned
Professor Gossard of the state college warns the grape berry worm has caused major damage to Ohio vineyards in recent years. Eggs appear as tiny specks on grape skins in midsummer and larvae burrow into the pulp reducing fruit quality and yield.
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Ohio
Gossard
State College
Farm News Briefs Highlight Crop Yields and Prices
Illinois and Indiana corn sold in fields for 50 cents per bushel. Oklahoma corn estimated at 35 000 tons this year, 50 000 tons last year. Washington flat crop may net about 20 million for growers. Apple trees 3 500 000 bearing. current crop heaviest ever. Government to broadcast sow millions of forest seeds. Over 700 000 acres reclaimed from railroads in west. Diamond found in gizzard of fattened chicken near Evansville. girl retains job with legal help. Rabies death from contact with calf bitten by a mad dog near Nevada Missouri. Santa Fe planting eucalyptus for fence posts and ties in Southern California. Accident near Conto Wisconsin injures Fred Schiller dragged over stumps by horse. Milk prices rise in middle and eastern states. New York farmers paid 4 cents per quart, retail at 9 cents.
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Ilinois
Indiana
Oklahoma
Washington
Forest Service
Evansville
Ind
D. Calhoun
Nevada
Santa Fe Railroad
California
Fred Schiller
Conto
Wis
New York
New York City
President Roosevelts Cook Exemplar of Attic Southern Cooking
A veteran colored cook who tended President Roosevelt and his family at Pine Knot Virginia reveals a life spent in service to two households. Her mastery of old fashioned dishes stands in contrast to modern young cooks and offers a rare glimpse of genuine attic Southern cuisine.
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Roosevelt
Pine Knot
Learnings from a Working Farmer on Costs and Stock
A working farmer notes that methods and surroundings vary the cost of products and the supply. he argues that all improved stock deteriorates at a greater rate than it can be proven or rebuilt.
One Bright Woman's Way by Mrs Mary Hirschfield Otto
A farmer notes benefits of using incubators and brooders over hens for hatching. She records 1906 egg and poultry sales and costs, including 374% dozen eggs gathered, 327% dozen sold for $52.60, and remaining eggs used for setting and fertilized eggs. She lists flock size, feed, and labor considerations under close neighbor restrictions.
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Mary Hirschfield
Otto
Wim
Feeding Methods for Chick Broilers in Early Rearing
The author describes a chick rearing regimen feeding schedule and diet components. They start with warm mash of wheat and parched corn ground in a coffee mill, feeding four to five times daily for a week or ten days, then reduce to three times daily. After two weeks, switch to whole wheat and coarse ground corn with oats, plus bone meal and oyster shell, with continuous water access, noting good results.
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KE. L. Vincent
New York
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Thosa
Little Nubbins
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President Roosevelt
Cook
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