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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
9
Farmers face a late planting season that will require extra careful cultivation to preserve surface moisture. The author describes moisture retention through deep plowing, dust mulch, and nonuniform tool use, noting wetter conditions demand more soil work and preplant disking to aid moisture transfer.
Secretary Coburn denounces grain speculators and their methods as famines loom from Alma to Wamego. A satiric critique describes market manipulation, transport schemes, and the rush to harvest as Kansas braces for record crops and rising prices.
The article explains that farmers must invest in tanks vats pipes and gear to distill denatured alcohol and that large scale equipment is costly. It suggests farmer groups form small associations to run a central distillery where members bring their mash for processing.
A Iowa writer describes a corn cultivation plan focusing on deep plowing and thorough pulverizing, timely disking, leveling, planting, and successive weeding. He stresses creating a dust mulch to prevent crusting and preserve moisture, with late-season cultivation to avoid root damage. He notes a separate claim about a generous act paying 200 percent dividends.
Farmers face limited immediate profits from home denatured alcohol due to congressional restrictions. The whiskey trust seeks to block farm production this year and next, while long term prospects suggest growing denatured alcohol manufacturing will benefit farmers who grow suitable crops.
Farmers are urged to test seeds before sowing to detect weed seeds and impurities. The advice stresses keeping a results record, testing plates to identify different plant shapes, and returning impure seeds to the dealer.
A dry stall in the barn is recommended for cows and horses during wet, cold days of late winter and early spring to keep animals comfortable and protected from the elements.
Albert Dickens of Kansas State College explains that heavy thinning of peaches and plums leads to larger, finer fruit and reduces rot and tree breakage. He notes experiments showing severe thinning and summer pruning yield better crops, with wounds healing faster when done before mid July.
H B Cobb of Illinois details a Kansas City to Scarboro shipment of eighteen Durhams and six Herefords weighing 1148 pounds average, bought for 4 25 per cwt and sold in January 1907 at 1460 pounds. The eighteen weeks feeding used corn based rations, stock food up to 150 daily, good weather and care, yielding 3.7 pounds daily gain per head.
Summary plan to audit all previous work from last year. Identify errors, gaps, and inefficiencies. Set corrective actions, assign owners, and implement safeguards to prevent recurrence this year.
Practical horse care tips cover shoeing lightly for mares with suckling colts, regular hoof checks, cleaning and damp clay packing for cracked feet, and avoiding whip shy dogs. Advice on feeding, cribbing, and training stallions contrasts with a Morgan mare story and a colt fed on milk and grains. Also notes tomato trellising with a six foot trellis.
Counsels on eradicating Canada thistles through crop rotation. Rotate crops, top dress patches, plow sod for corn, cultivate every ten days with teeth sweeps, hoe remaining sprouts, follow with a hoed crop next year, and prevent seeding in grain and hay. S. B. Hartman asserts success.
The text describes using berry boxes filled with soil to start plants with a single hill per box. When warm weather arrives, boxes are placed into garden holes and the wood rots away, leaving roots undisturbed. It suggests removing the box bottoms when setting in the garden.
Advice urges not staying home, but visiting neighbors with spouse. Social contact is presented as a source of knowledge and companionship that enriches life and keeps the heart young.
The milking machine is here to stay and will pay on any farm with ten or more cows.
A reflection on how praise fuels a child's motivation and self worth. It argues that both parents and caregivers should actively affirm efforts to prevent loss of heart and to foster resilience and growth.
Article urges careful silo filling with cooperative local hires and smaller cutting. It warns against rushed work by jobbers, notes variation in silage quality, and promotes timely cut, proper glaze, and aftercare to minimize air and freezing. It advocates neighborhood ownership and earlier planning for improved feeding value.
William H Underwood of Dlinois describes a 1905 alfalfa trial on six acres showing strong growth and deep green color where soil was inoculated with alfalfa bacteria. He notes un inoculated portions remained pale, stunted and destined to die without inoculation, and plans to inoculate the rest of the field.
An editorial urges expanding agricultural education for farmer youth to treat farming as a business. It argues that training improves efficiency and career satisfaction, noting states should invest in school programs. The piece parallels farming with book keeping and machinery making, warning against overconfidence.
The article explains that eight to nine pounds of dry feed yield one pound of gain in lambs, with older sheep requiring more. It advocates using hurdles to separate pastures, notes benefits against parasitic diseases, and stresses thoroughbred breeding, proper hay, clean water, and cracking corn for fattening old ewes. It warns against overstocked western markets and urges study before starting.
Harold C. Barr reports a single acre yield of 119 bushels with 15 pounds extra not husked, claiming the soil on high marsh land, mixed sand and clay, produced over 120 bushels. He details early fertilizer, plowing, dragging, weeding, and tallied dates from 1902 to July, aiming to show possible yields of 1265 bushels per acre in LaPorte County.
Frances L. Risley of Rockville Conn. shares advice on cultivating wild flowers such as ox eye daisy golden marguerite and ferns from roadside and meadow. She notes soil moisture differences and recommends careful removal with soil clump for transplanting to preserve color and fragrance.
William Penn told a man to stop drinking by opening his hand before a glass touches the lips. The man, challenged to be convinced, pledged to follow the plain method and reformed. The anecdote appears in the Ladies' Home Journal.
The article advises delaying fruit tree deliveries to ensure arrival in spring, emphasizes pruning peach trees heavily to balance growth, and notes birds aid pest control. It urges sorting fruit for market, proper packing to avoid lowering prices, explains root limitations, and stresses vigorous care for Canada’s rising fruit exports.
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