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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1907
Page
8
Agricultural note on sowing clover with wheat between March and mid April. Advocates soil preparation, light harrow, and rolling for good seed bed. Recommends 8 pounds per acre, hand sowing preferred, no first fall grazing, and mulching to preserve moisture.
The article outlines low cost cooling for milk cans, plus detailed clover seed harvesting practices. It emphasizes timing harvest after heads turn black, drying in damp air, allowing field curing, turning to prevent sprouting, careful loading to avoid seed loss, and using a quality huller to maximize yield.
W. M. Kelley explains dairy cow selection focusing on body depth chest girth and milk capacity. He warns against cosmetic color biases and emphasizes udder condition and overall form as reliable indicators of milking ability and profitability.
The article discusses spring clover cutting timing based on bloom color, noting full bloom is when cutting begins as heads turn brown. It explains curing needs 60 percent moisture loss to reach proper hay condition and emphasizes leaf preservation for feed value and moisture evaporation. It advises turning swaths when weather is favorable and not leaving cut clover in swaths beyond one night.
The article argues for intense farming, stressing soil preparation and balanced manuring as the path to larger, profitable crops. It contrasts this with extensive farming and urges returning all soil nutrients through careful application of fertilizers and meticulous soil care. It stresses long-term payoffs amid high wages, taxes, and land costs.
An article on choosing fruit tree varieties, risks of new introductions, and long term testing. It discusses distant irrigation impacts on sheep, feeding practices to prevent indigestion and stomach worm in lambs, and leaf roller control on apple trees using arsenate of soda and acetate of lead sprays.
A 19th century agricultural note says alfalfa alone sustains hogs well and, with corn, greatly enhances flesh production. if alfalfa is unavailable, clover rape rye peas oats and wheat are recommended as alternatives.
Experienced orchardists warn against discarding long proven varieties like Jonathan Grimes Golden Winesap Ben Davis Kieffer and Oldmixon Elberta Heath Cling. They urge continuing with money makers and limiting new seedlings to experimental plots only, stressing proven worth over flashy gains.
The article outlines profitable sheep and hog feeding practices on small flocks. It highlights ground corn and cob meal for lambs, gradual feeding starts, and cautious rations during warm weather. It also reports Nebraska Station trials comparing corn based mixes with alfalfa hay and meal, showing a five and a half pound twelve week gain for corn with alfalfa.
A farmer near Alva Iowa reports his cow delivered three bull calves about fifteen months ago. The triplets weigh roughly 1100 pounds each and are nearly identical in appearance.
N M Edgerton of Petoskey Mich advises against fall strawberry planting under ordinary conditions. Fall setting delays root establishment and fruit bud development, reducing next year’s yield. Spring set beds produce a full crop in 16 months, while fall sets yield two poor crops in 21 or 22 months. He suggests transplanting in spring while dormant and using ground cover to delay growth if needed.
Advice urges using soot to enrich soil and deepen blossom color for peonies and roses, with dry or soil mix and a tea brew around plants. Recommend sowing nasturtiums in vacant spaces and using ash rich in phosphates for asters and gladiola beds. Also notes ladybugs as helpers and using discarded quart berry boxes for transplanting. Early planting now ensures spring bloom.
Uncle Henry muses on American enterprise in farming including cows, sheep and alfalfa, critiques cheap wire and soil, recalls Iowa State Institute talk on roads, notes potatoes keep if sand covered, and urges attending state fairs for lifelong lessons. The piece blends farm wisdom with observation of national production trends.
Practical guidance for planting and caring for young trees. Advice covers planting depth, packing soil, avoiding air spaces, leaving ants undisturbed, watering after a dry winter, sun scald risks, protective paper cylinders, spring spraying, and prudent pruning to prevent stress and excessive sprouts.
A band of thirty thousand sheep was transferred from a Mexican ranch to multiple farms in Colorado. The migration involved logistics across borders and a fleet of herding crews to settle the flock into new grazing grounds.
Dutch Belted cattle originated in Holland centuries ago and nearly vanished in the Holland wars. Nobility kept the breed pure, with Barnum bringing a few to the United States fifty years ago for display. Noted authorities praise their milking, breeding, and fattening qualities. cows weigh 1000 to 1300 pounds.
Dutch belted cattle are now found in nearly every state, with imports to Canada Mexico and Cuba. They are black with a white belt and often white feet and switch. They are docile hearty and large with 1000 to 1250 pounds cow weight and over a ton for some bulls. At the Chicago World’s Fair Lady Baird yielded 32 quarts daily, Queen calved young and never dried, giving 70 pounds of milk daily for seven grass fed years.
A farmer reflecting on fourteen years of improvements details moving from book farming to intensified soil care. With seventy acres and two acres of berries and vegetables, profits rose as soil quality and crop selection improved. The piece outlines soil types, manuring, deep plowing, potash application, row spacing, plant variety choices, and annual restarts to sustain yields.
The green bug or wheat plant louse has damaged wheat in the Southwest this year. It attacks wheat oats sorghum corn millet and other grasses and is hard to control. The land should be plowed immediately and left fallow for the next year to limit the pest until natural parasites increase.
For raspberries blackberries gooseberries and currants plant rows are six feet apart and plants three feet apart except raspberries two feet apart. Apply stable manure every three years and use fertilizer high in potash. Remove and burn old canes after harvest and prune out old wood periodically. Raspberries last about six years, blackberries eight, currants and gooseberries longer.
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