Record of a 1909 1911 corn yield experiment on one acre
A farmer documents multiple trials across 1909 to 1911 detailing soil preparation, manuring, beds, and fertilization. He reports yields up to 283 bushels per acre, notes adjustments to row spacing and planting depth, and asserts 280 bushels per acre is attainable with improved methods and lower fertilizer costs.
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Hartford County
Finn
Vere
Brand
Gan Mil
Scala Board of Agriculture
Hinsa Bugsy Company
Murfreesboro
Sagon-Londa
Brogden
Mathoda
Worms in Garden: Limewater Helps Potatoes and Onions
A reader from Ontario explains how he grows vegetables on eight plots and uses Ames water as a mild remedy for worm incursions in potatoes radishes onions and lettuce. He notes worms persist but limewater reduces their impact and improves quality.
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Ernest Gilray
Ontario
Poultry-Xard Suggestions From A Troubled Note
A misspelled guidance note warns caretakers to tidy houses and floor areas to keep poultry healthy and safe. It stresses keeping the place healthy to prevent fear and illness among people, noting extreme fright can cause a hen to die suddenly from apoplexy.
Public Health Urges Elimination of House Flies
An analysis links house flies to diseases and economic loss, urging sweeping control. It calls for removing horse manure, sealing kitchens, cementing manure pits, and promoting sanitation to curb fly breeding and disease transmission locally.
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Daora
Manura
Filay Tolriy
The Man and Machine on the Farm
A historical overview traces farm mechanization from ancient hand tools to modern engines. It highlights the gradual shift from wind and water power to gas and traction engines, and notes the adoption of binders, headers, threshers, and manure spreaders. The piece contrasts early labor with improvements boosting efficiency and yields across American farms.
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Ameria
Pliny
Jonty
Atnte
Union
Method of Pasteurizing Milk by J F Frandsen
Instructions describe a home method for pasteurizing milk using a perforated bottom tin pan, water bath, and bottles. It covers equipment, temperatures around 160 degrees, 38 minutes standing, cooling by running water, and storage on ice. Advises use of special bottles for infant feeding and notes 24 hour aging caveat. Also mentions saving a cow with a prosthetic leg and a New York highway law about stray animals.
Notes on Hog Lot Feeding Practices and Care
Notes describe maintaining hogs at full capacity by supplying digestible, milk producing feed. Recommends feeding ground grain and slows for a few days to keep the animals productive and healthy.
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Eha
The Raising of Guinea Pigs by D E Lantz
Guine pigs or cavies are raised for pets and fancy stock as well as scientific uses. Long haired forms like Peruvian Abyssinian require more care while smooth haired pets are easier to manage. The animals are bred for medical research and must come from verified, nonexperimentation sources to be sold to laboratories.
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Rome
Bert
Guiness
Horse Sense and Guinea Pigs in Rural Life
A fragmented article discusses horse work and how a man could herd birds into a barn for a reward. It extols guinea pigs as hardy pets and food animals, noting rats as their enemy and detailing rat-proof housing and the growing demand for scientific use.
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C. W. Parker, Jr
Woodland, N. C
Limewater Hills
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Poutltry-Xard
W, B
Hermes
Hoxsey Wan
Tractionm
Wear
J. F. Frandsen
Gylanay Tl
New York
D. E Lantz
Horace
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