Skim milk as a valuable dairy by product guide
A Department of Agriculture estimate places dairy by products at over 50 million dollars annually. Skim milk, the top by product, offers protein value equal to meat with lower cost. It boosts bread weight, feeds livestock, and supports poultry gains. Professor Henry and other feeders cite strong bone development and high digestibility.
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W. Milton Kelly
Department of Agriculture
New York Experiment Station
Henry
Wisconsin
America
The Fireless Cooker and Bee Poison Trade
The piece describes a DIY fireless cooker using a wooden box and asbestos, noting prices from eight to sixteen dollars and eight hours to cook. It then shifts to beekeeping, detailing how to bottle live bees for medicinal use, including safety measures and handling. It ends with commentary on highway funding, rail expansion, and immigration, discussing national transport needs and population growth impacts.
Edison claims dangerless electric motor saves farmers money
Thomas Edison announces an invented dangerless electric motor capable of a hundred mile range at twenty miles per hour. He asserts it will appeal to farmers near electric lines as a cheaper, better alternative to old-fashioned buggies.
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Thomas Edison
Prize for best article on Christian Principles in Rural Districts
The American Sunday School Association offers a prize for the best original article addressing how Christian principles can serve as a guiding influence in rural districts. The competition invites writers to explore practical applications, community impact, and enduring values.
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American Sunday School Association
Bee Stings as Medicine by F G Herman
An essay to students on honey bees functions and farmer perspective. The bee processes honey pollen propolis and wax, illustrating a quiet world view. It argues progress from rough roads to modern highways reflects effort and cost, urging continued improvement for a better world.
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F. G. Herman
Advige on Poultry and Corn Cultivation From The Past
Eugene Funk of Bloomington Illinois reflects on thirty five years studying poultry and farming and shares historic advice. He notes winter laying tricks with milk for hens and discusses corn cultivation without ridging, favoring surface plow blades and careful weed control.
From the Farmer's Window View of the World
A farmer explains that vantage matters for understanding. From a hilltop perspective above fog and mist, the current farmer holds a high position enabling him to see farther and clearer than valley views.
Broomcorn Harvest Totals by State Nationwide Use
The central Illinois harvest yielded material for about 18 million brooms. Oklahoma produced roughly 25 million of coarser broomcorn and Kansas about 5 million. Kansas provides nearly all the broomcorn used in whisk brooms.
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Central
Illinois
Oklahoma
Kansas
Fattening Fowls With Sweet Cornmeal and Henhouse Tips
Advice on feeding fowls with cornmeal and raw moistened food, praising Brahmas for hardiness and low sickness. Notes on using hen droppings as fertilizer, building a comfortable henhouse, egg production metrics, and farm management practices from roost to sale. Mentions egg yields from sixteen dozen eggs for $8 and hens hatched last March kept in clean houses with controlled roosting and feeding routines.
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Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Art in Cultivating Corn Roots and Cultivation Tips
A farmer notes that corn roots can extend six weeks old to match the stalks and spread underground. He describes a first cultivation to five inches deep to aerate soil, then uses surface riding cultivators with four blades to skim two inches, followed by a drag to level the ground.
Selecting a Good Feeder Steer for Profit
A guide to choosing feeders notes that a good feeder steer should have a low body profile and an oblong block shape. Narrow upfront and wider hindquarters signal dairy breed traits and slower flesh gain. The accompanying photo shows a steer from a group of twenty five that yielded no profit last year.
Great Weed Killer Harrow For Early Corn Fields
Describes a harrow designed to kill weeds in pre emergence or young corn crops. By removing the center teeth it straddles a corn row and covers all ground thoroughly for effective weed control.
Shamrock Confusion Sows Irish Symbol Debate
The text cites a dispute over the shamrock’s identity and origin in New York. Some insist the shamrock is wood sorrel, others white clover, while some deny St Patrick used it as the Trinity symbol and argue watercress is the real shamrock.
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New York
St. Patrick
Cannon City fruit growers ship apples worth half a million
The Cannon City area sent over 500000 dollars' worth of apples to market last year. Strawberries were also plentiful through September and October with shipments continuing for the Thanksgiving trade in some cases.
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Cannon City
Col
New Orleans Firm Forms to Develop 18,000 Acre Orange Plantations
A New Orleans company is organized to cultivate 18,000 acres on the lower coast, with plans to plant oranges and garden truck across the entire tract. Local investors and organizers stated the venture aims to create a large fruit and produce operation, boosting regional growth.
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New Orleans
Lower Coast
Students to receive corn, apple tree upon graduation
Each graduate from the Northern Minnesota School of Agriculture will be given a quart of No. 13 red corn and one apple tree as part of completion gifts, supplementing the typical diploma.
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Northern Minnesota School of Agriculture
Pure Food Law praised by Dr. Wiley and officials
Dr. Wiley of the Agricultural Department says 95 percent of food drink and drug manufacturers and dealers supply pure goods with accurate labeling. He notes early fears of the pure food law were unfounded and enforcement has increased business for honest makers. The government prosecutes dishonest rectified whisky drug sellers and fake preparations.
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Dr. Wiley
Agricultural Department
Wiley
Farm News Notes and Rural Oddments From Midwest Region
Nubbin s of farm news report Samuel and David Lynn of Buchanan County Missouri accused of shooting out the eyes of Mollie Lynn in a quarrel while the court hears her blind testimony. County farmers and bounty hunting data, Chicago poultry ordinance, Michigan butter yield, and fruit acreage plans round out a compact rural news item.
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Samuel
David Lynn
Buchanan County
Missouri
Mollie Seamour
Samuel Lynn
United States
Chicago
New York
Lee County
Illinois
Country Boys
Stafford
Kan
Boston
Chicago Butter and Egg Board
Charles H
Golden
Col
Yakima Valley
Pruning Strawberry Plants Before Planting
Seedlings information notes trimming strawberry plant roots to about 98 in length before setting them in soil, advising proper pruning prior to transplanting.
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