Construction of Hog Houses Inexpensive hog houses with floor ideas and ventilation
The article discusses hog house construction focusing on floors. It compares ground woven wire, electrically welded corner wire, concrete with planks, and guard floors. It covers partitions to prevent pig escape, pen sizes, doorway openings, and the benefits of removable fences and ventilation. It also notes burlap curtains, whitewashing, and sun reflection to reduce dampness and heat loss. It warns against cold concrete and drafty designs while recommending practical, well-ventilated, double-walled builds.
Sorghum As Winter Pasture For Livestock Planting Guide
Farmers should plant sorghum after corn planting window closes. Use wide rows about thirty inches apart with corn drill or grain drill, sow twenty five pounds per acre to create tall stalks for winter grazing. The crop yields twenty to thirty bushels of seed per acre, stalks are consumed, and caution advised as second growth sorghum is poisonous to cattle and could cause death.
Mosquitoes Cause Malaria in Historic Report
A historical article explains malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. It details mosquito life stages, regional species differences, and century methods for control including personal protection, drainage, quinine treatment, and biological controls like fish, insects, birds, and bats.
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United States
Cesspools
Cuba
Panama
West Africa
Eggpt
India
East Africa
Italy
Menna
Loza
Sewamp
New Jeraey
California
Texas
Barbados
Rio de Janeiro
Public Health Service
Cacti as Garden Plants Bright varieties and bloom paths
Cacti offer varied color and form with striking flowers. Watering rules vary by growth stage with dormancy and active growth. most tolerate richer soil for physic cactus and need sparing watering in rest. Notable types include phyllocactus leafy stems, hummingbird rat tail, cereus with sandy soil, and night blooming corpuses.
Parrot Plague Spurs Panems Steamer Commotion
Two Spanish speaking parrots aboard a Panems steamer arriving from Jamaica caused chaos on deck near a Chilean horse. Amid shouts of giddap and whoa in Spanish the horse jumped about while the steward tried to restore order. It took two hours to quiet the scene and return the animals to their stalls.
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Panems
New Yorke Harbor
Jamaica
Giddap
Steen Vilain
Farmers See Cost Of Labor And Fence Repairs
Farmers across states reflect on the consequences of drought and fences as labor and money costs rise. A wary bull is described as breaking through barbed wire, losing hide but finding poor pasture. Advice comes: select top mares and breed to a single good horse type to improve colts.
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Utah
Gore
Traction Plowing Transforms Great Plains Farms
Traction engines both steam and gasoline are increasingly used in large farms and ranches from the Great Plains to California. Heavier engines and gang plows replace makeshift outfits, enabling faster work, reduced labor, fewer horses, and operation in hot dry weather. Engines also handle difficult soils, expanding plowing capabilities.
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Great Plains
California
Gray and White Call Ducks Description and Color Traits
The Gray Call and White Call ducks are bantams bred for show and decoy use. The Gray is similar to the Rouen with green head and purple green wing bands. the White Call is pure white with no other color on feathers. Both share size, shape, and habits, differing only in plumage.
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Rouen
Wood ashes as fertilizer value and tips from Lege
The piece explains wood ashes as a fertilizer substitute equaling about 250 pounds of good acid phosphate and 200 pounds of sulfate of potash per ton, plus 700 pounds of lime in ash. It notes benefits for crops like clover, warns against applying to potatoes, and cautions mixing with manure or acid phosphate. It also shares anecdotal results from applying ashes to trees.
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Csvesee Baccaee
German and Canadian foresters link seeds and seedlings trade
Reports from Montana and Ontario show a cross border interest in forest planting. German nurserymen seek Montana larch seeds while Guelph plans to import white pine seedlings to reforest 168 acres for water protection and future timber. Municipal planting aims for park beauty and sanitary value with an $8 per acre cost deemed worthwhile.
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Montana
Ontario
Germany
Guelph
Ont
Europe
America
Lolo Forest
Guelph Park
Ontario Agricultural College
Steam traction plowing costs and capacity described
The article explains traction plowing cheaper under favorable conditions than horse plowing. Steam engines weigh 7 to 20 tons, output 20 to 50 horsepower, cost 1600 to 6000 dollars, and can plow 15 to 50 acres daily. A traction outfit includes an engine, gang plows, and repair conveniences. size and cost depend on plow number. It also notes 2000 cherry trees sent to Taft were infected and destroyed and mentions a hen’s comb indicating laying and general condition.
Poultry Yard Turnstile Gate Design Sketch
The article describes a corner gate arrangement for a poultry yard where four lots meet. It outlines end posts set 2x24%4 feet from the center post, an 18 inch long iron pin, and tight post holes to allow solid turning. Also mentions cautions about using commercial fertilizers versus stable manure. A Shemeld Mass citizen owns the oldest churn in the country, made during the War of 1812, used on ships to churn goat milk with two wooden barrels and a walking-beam mechanism.
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SheMeld
Mass
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Liverpool
England
Bessie Ll. Putnam
South Africa
Atlantic
Flathead Lake
Department of Agriculture
Taft
National Capitol
Thia
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