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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1909
Page
6
Beekeeping offers recreation and practical value for farmers with busy lives. The piece notes bees help pollinate fruit and cover nectar sources on many farms, and explains spring purchases are safer than fall transfers, with wintering posing the main challenge for beginners.
University of Wisconsin dairy expert clarifies that water content equals moisture content and details the 16 percent limit, tax implications for adulterated butter, and practical washing steps to reduce moisture through cold water washing, draining, salting, and thorough working.
The Danish creamery men push water tanks to pump cooling water around milk cans. An American method with rapid tubular coolers could cool milk to within a few degrees of the water. Using a water pump at milking start yields better cooling than tanks, though a cold-water tank helps.
The Texas experiment station for two years tested foods and found Kaffir corn and Milo maize cheaper than Indian corn with better results. Molasses replaces half the Indian corn in a mixed ration of molasses Indian corn cottonseed meal and hulls. Supplying Kaffir corn with cottonseed hulls as roughage, cottonseed meal at 26 dollars per ton proved more profitable than cottonseed at 12 dollars per ton.
Horticultural notes describe the clove as the flower bud of an evergreen tree. Washington Oregon Idaho inspectors report 16,000,000 growing fruit trees with 5,744,257 bearing fruit last year. A yearling is favored for safer transplanting and fresh roots must stay moist. An elm near Oldtown Missouri yielded $27.50 from 121 knees and five cords of wood at $5 per cord.
J E Bridgeman of Lamar Missouri describes a improvised wire stretcher built in two hours from 2x4 lumber to tension fences on a forty acre farm in McDonald County. He notes it was faster and stronger than a factory device and used until a purchased stretcher arrived from Neosho, Missouri.
Nova Scotia apple region in Annapolis Valley stretches 100 miles with orchards six to ten miles wide. The industry, 200 years old locally, has seen rapid commercial development since 1880-81 when 41 785 barrels were exported, rising to 370 018 barrels in late September 1908 and an estimated 600 000 barrels for the last season.
Raspberry beds require rotation to keep soil healthy. In the Ohio valley a four year cycle with beans onions melons and potatoes works well. Once started, take new plants from the patch rather than buying from nurseries. Some nurserymen top old bushes to force more young plants.
This notice lists free bulletins from state experiment stations and the U S Department of Agriculture. It highlights Nuts and Their Uses as Food by M E Jaffa and M S, describing nuts as food and noting their role as a protein and energy source.
North Dakota bulletin reports millet hay seriously damages horses. Experiments show millet causes kidney trouble, lameness, joint swelling, and bone tissue degradation, reversible only when millet feeding stops.
A compact aphorism set ponders prudence and risk at moral edges. It argues drought limits troubles, cautions judge of others, and notes farmers profit through foresight and trading acumen. It concludes not all farmers are good traders, though all good traders may be farmers.
Practical advice to keep foods fresh and stains from carpets and dishes. Covers methods for preserving meats and fowl, removing grease with flour, cleaning kerosene spills, smoothing irons with beeswax, using hot vinegar for mortar and paint, rust removal with lemon juice, paint odor reduction, glass cleaning with vinegar, pie crust pie juice retention, matting grease removal with alcohol, and cleaning china or porcelain with ashes or ammonia.
A compile of farm and science notes from 1908 including Sow Thistle weed pests by J Eaton Howitt in Ohio, a girls and boys schooling piece on studying sheep and albumens by C S Plumb from New Brunswick, and a study on insecticide materials with practice suggestions by John B Smith in New Jersey.
Grow cauliflower using cabbage soil enriched with well rotted manure. Transplant two inches apart, water well, and harden plants by exposing to air. Set three feet apart, plant shallowly, and water. Protect heads with a leaf daily as they mature. Requires very early or cool fall planting for success.
The article urges farmers in northern states to test new silage corn varieties offered by state experimental stations or the U S Department of Agriculture and to select their own seed. It notes that where potatoes replace corn in rations, Japanese millet or other crops can provide succulent winter feed.
After sixteen years with fowls the Rhode Island Reds are praised for rapid growth, hardiness, and large winter eggs. The article details incubation, brooding, feeding, and cleaning practices, noting early maturity, strong vitality, and profitable roasting weight reaching five pounds by three to four months.
The piece advises choosing pure breeds over crosses and notes geese are hardy with few diseases. It says 2-3 year old geese are more profitable than yearlings, a mating can last 7-8 years, and that geese often become friendly if fed by a trusted keeper. It adds handling tips and warns against lifting geese facing you due to wing strikes.
A light foldable frame with hinged sections supports young peas beans and tomatoes. It is driven into the ground with pointed leg ends and braced by wire and staples at each end for extra stability.
A historical note traces the origins of many produce items. Rye from Siberia, peas from Egypt, citron from Greece, onions from Egypt, chestnuts from Italy, celery from Germany, sunflowers from Peru, tobacco native to Virginia, oats from North Africa, parsley from Siberia, spinach from Arabia, cucumbers from the East Indies, mulberries from Persia, walnuts and peaches from unspecified regions, horse chestnut from Tibet, radish from China and Japan.
The drawing explains a cheap level construction for farmers. Place a notch in a board end, drive the opposite end into soil, set the square as shown, and use a string with a weight to obtain a level.
The horseshoer must grasp anatomy and the forces on the horse foot to treat foot ailments. Corns are stubborn and often misnamed. proper diagnosis hinges on blood vessel ruptures between bar and wall. Shoes should be balanced around the frog center, with right and left not distinguished, and every point observed like a marine compass.
Cornell station expert Professor Rice urges hopper feeding to save labor and prevent crowding, notes incubator issues point to operator error, praises guineas as broilers with high prices, warns against keeping unprofitable hens, and stresses proper ventilation, kerosene use, cleanliness, sand grit, and selective culling as a path to healthier flocks.
A compilation of humorous student definitions shows wide gaps in reading comprehension. Entries lampoon concepts from stability to anatomy and language, revealing misinterpretations by public school children. The specimens underline linguistic slips and playful mislabels.
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