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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1909
Page
8
Isaac Motes urges careful preparation for deer hunting as seasons shrink and opportunities fade. He advises stalking slowly in valleys, avoiding haste that spooks deer, and staying alert to dog hearding. He stresses blending with a tree, remaining still, and sharing meat with hounds to keep drives lively.
A pamphlet-like guide lists home cures for animal ailments. It prescribes turpentine rubs for equine colic, egg dosing for choking cattle or horses, shoe chewing for pig administration, and fly blisters to reveal and remove bone felons.
The steamer Gold carried 1460 cases of fresh eggs worth 16000 dollars on a single voyage to Alaska. The eggs were produced by over 250000 tons of local poultry feed in the Petaluma area of California.
Charles Painter of Paris Missouri shows 14 acres of oats yield 44 bushels per acre on drilled and fertilized fields versus 33 on old-fashioned sowing. Other notes cover Texas truck gardening, a Mattoon Illinois oats turnup, a 150-year-old California pear tree, a Dutch-Italian dairy byproduct, and a Java bean coffee tree grown in Oregon.
To prevent a state bank in Rushville Missouri from shutting after a break in robbers blew but could not open the safe, local farmers brought in their cash ensuring ample funds to keep business running until the safe could be opened.
A Colorado farmer in Arapahoe County reports growing a giant pumpkin so large that after being cut in two each twin used half as a cradle. The note contrasts with typical crop yields and highlights extraordinary produce.
The article notes cows act as weather barometers by changing milk flow and nervousness before storms. They calm after storms, restoring normal milk production as the weather clears.
C Millers discussion weighs the New Dairy Farming and soiling practices. He cautions that pure soiling fails without high prices for grain supplements and argues for growing green forage while improving pasture quality for efficiency.
The silo offers benefits to dairymen in countries with limited corn maturity. In England producers seed corn for fodder due to unfavorable crop conditions, using silos to store corn for cattle feed.
A rural advisory piece explains practical butter making year round using cellar storage caveats, wash and scald vessels, and careful churn care. It details cream temperature, water dilution, washing, salting, and drying to maintain grain and flavor even in hot weather.
W Hanson of Illinois details hog slaughtering and processing from scalding to hanging. He covers equipment like a wooden scalding tub, a hay hook, and a gambrel, and prescribes temperatures 180 to 190 degrees, along with steps for entrail removal, salting, curing, and smoking using borax and smoke with hickory.
Article compares pasture and green feeds with grain for dairy cows, noting six pounds of grain daily at a Pan American test to sustain milk on top crops. Emphasizes cost savings from grazing, turnips, and clover, urging diversified land use and liberal manuring.
The speaker urges self examination over gossip and warns that farm progress hinges on crop rotation and vigilance. He contrasts farm life with urban excess, champions roads and good training for farm youths, and notes monopolies influence on parcels post.
The guide describes building a two by six frame marker on a farm pond, cutting ice into two by two foot cakes, and storing them in a drainage friendly icehouse. It covers tooling, loading, packing with sawdust, and maintaining airflow to keep sixty tons usable for under forty dollars.
Director A D Hall of Rothamsted explains long term field trials showing how continuous fertility, phosphates and potash raise yields and root growth while nitrogen alone can hinder clover and grain quality. He notes nitrogen can delay ripening and increase disease risk, with beets and mangolds affected by nitrogen and potash improving yields.
A Moscow inventor unveils a six horse powered harvester cutting six feet wide. Ro land Peterson reports scrub mesquite only survivable near Las Vegas New Mexico amid 130 degree spells. American Tobacco withdraws 32 Kentucky agents moving HQ to Cincinnati. Louisville remains top tobacco market. Prof W G Chambers raises poultry cost one dollar per hen yearly feed and lice control with steady 120 eggs per hen. Minnesota hens produced fifteen million nine hundred seventy five thousand dollars of eggs while dressed poultry valued at eleven million nine hundred six thousand. South Dakota farmers use artesian wells to power mills and lighting. Texas orange trees flourish with Dr R Walter Smith of Galveston noting a tree bearing about one thousand oranges.
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