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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
11
Advice on raising early market lambs using simple dry pens with southern exposure. Dorset breed favored for spring lambing, feeding grain rations, proper ewes’ milk supply, and proactive parasite control. Shares tips on triplet management and seasonal market timing to maximize profits.
A rustic column mocks modern farming tricks from electricity to poultry and dairy. It contrasts old methods with new tools like the Babcock tester, praises soil fertility, and extols agricultural education as wise investment for youth.
The piece urges farmers to avoid speculative ventures like Belgian hares ginseng frog culture and skunk Raising. It advocates sticking to legitimate farming with traditional manure as the best fertilizer and maintaining steady wheat prices despite market swings.
The mangers pictured are noted as great feed savers. To stop cattle and horses from wasting feed by slinging heads, the trough should be divided into compartments or upright inserts so designed they cannot toss their heads while feeding.
The Agricultural Department presents drawings of a good farmhouse type with adaptable cost. Initial build includes only two rooms with option to extend. Living room doubles as dining room with an enclosed porch a summer dining area. Fireplaces provide ventilation, and a lift connects kitchen to dining room and moves items to the cellar.
The article reports Mrs. Margaret Mather Romine’s address urging girls to combine homemaking knowledge with other careers. It emphasizes dignity in labor, practical home skills, and an educated approach to household work, tying These ideas to broader female roles and moral standards. It notes Frances Willard’s view on women shaping the world at home and beyond.
The text explains weather patterns predicting storms from temperature shifts and cloud movements. It notes wind direction toward fair regions, cumulus travel from storm zones, cirrus speed signals rain within a day or a cold hailstorm from southern flows.
Selecting seed potatoes by diggings, noting stalk count per hill and tuber yield per stalk to choose the best seed. The article argues that stalk number hints eyes, but tuber count per stalk better indicates prolificness and tuber quality.
The text urges using Bordeaux mixture as a remedy when buds swell in spring and advises writers to describe tree appearance in detail when contacting the experiment station to receive proper instruction.
Advice to girls on farm etiquette for introductions and courtesies. The piece notes women should rise for other women, offer a handshake, while men are bowed to and named. It claims women are less courteous at games, and that card parties often become bitter contests among the “fair sex.”
The passage describes weather signs from barometer readings to sky conditions. Rising barometers indicate calmer or fair weather while falling bars signal wind or rain. rosy sunsets and gray mornings predict rain. cloud forms, dew, fog, and distant-object clarity also hint at coming weather.
The article argues that maintenance rations waste labor and that animal comfort drives owner profit. It stresses timely, systematic farm work, quality breeding stock, adequate rations for older animals, and soil fertility as keys to prosperity. Palatability of feed predicts consumption and production.
The article argues that hills with many small tubers per stalk produce better seed potatoes than hills with few larger tubers. It explains smaller size results from soil deprivation, while abundance of eyes yields many tubers. It advises selecting small potatoes for seed, planting whole, and keeping soil rich. It notes eight years of seed use without yield loss. It also covers manners and kindness around children and guests.
A reader from Santa Cruz asks how to treat curly leaf on peach trees. The reply suggests early spring spraying with lime and sulphur wash made from fifteen pounds lime equal parts sulphur and fifty gallons water and recommends contacting an experiment station bulletin for detailed preparation.
The writer describes a mother who cannot protest to avoid trouble and leaves a neighbor’s child with inconsistent training. The child’s insatiable appetite signals harm from neglect, and the piece argues neighborhoods host such cases. It laments how shifting responsibility harms both child and mother and community alike.
Advice on caring for fowls especially ducks and geese. Avoid leg handling, overfeeding, overcrowding, and poor ventilation to reduce losses. Cleanliness, grit, and timely sales help prevent disease and improve breeding stock selection and market timing.
A. J. Legg argues that preventing hillside wash requires immediate and general remedies. He recommends avoiding crops that promote erosion, using back furrows and straw dams, and plowing along hill sides. He emphasizes filling soil with humus to bind particles and increase water absorption, citing experiences with well-fed soils resisting erosion.
A Kansas roundup notes December 14 farm institutes discuss alfalfa sowing. Canada faces crop shortfalls worth 100 million dollars due to weather. Texas sues the Millers trust for 6.75 million dollars and charter forfeiture. Murray Iowa farm ships 27 carloads of Timothy seed at 1.50 to 1.75 a bushel. A Kansas inventor touts a two horse power fence weaving machine. Canada imports butter as feed scarcity grows. Over 13 million letters and 1 million money orders shipped to dead letter office valued at over 2 million dollars. Holland begins Zuyder Zee drainage to reclaim land for 56 thousand residents. Majestic brings 1327 cases of eggs from England in first egg imports by ship. Local New York egg merchants ride high prices on the new stock.
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