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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
5
An article discusses how many tomato varieties differ in merit for soils climates and markets. Early ripening types vary in shape walls seeds and uniformity while later types tend to thicker walls fewer seeds and even ripening. The note stresses choosing varieties with firmness and seed balance for canning and marketable appearance.
Hackedorn of the Missouri College of Agriculture urges immediate docking of lambs not yet docked to prevent maggot infestation and delayed healing. He notes docked lambs look better and fetch higher prices, and describes age timing, methods using hot irons or knives, and cautions against excessive bleeding.
An American farming guide explains three water sources surface underground and deep supplies, with cautions on surface use, cisterns, and spring protection. It details gravity and pneumatic storage, tank placement, and capacities, including wooden and metal tanks and auto pneumatic systems for fresh water delivery.
Kohlrabi earns growing recognition in Europe and slowly in America. It is an enlarged stem bulb used as food, often replacing turnip where turnips fail. It withstands heat and yields despite challenging growing conditions.
The text argues tonnage should guide variety choice while warning against overreliance on names or neighbors success. Soil variation means best variety is often one developed by the grower. Emphasizes varieties with large smooth solid fruits thick walls and few seed cavities.
Winter and early spring spraying helps reduce orchard insect pests. Insects spend winter in egg larval or pupal stages on trees, and pruning or other orchard work can destroy them. Dormant-period washes can be stronger than those used when trees have foliage.
The article argues that feeding livestock yields double remuneration: income from feed crops through livestock and valuable fertilizer from manure. It notes that nearly all nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash in seeds ends up in manure, urging landowners and farmers to manage crops and livestock accordingly.
Halyoake Farm owned by Lucius H. Hallock spans 80 acres on Long Island ex frame end. Forty acres use overhead irrigation drawing water from a well, with expected two crops per year and onion yields of 800 bushels per acre and carrots at 1200 bushels per acre. Last season onion yields averaged seven to nine hundred bushels per acre on 25 planted acres.
A Oregon poultry farmer shows economical, practical poultry buildings designed for laying hens. Each eight room unit houses 30 hens with 3 square feet inside and 136 square feet outdoor space per hen, suspended nest boxes and perches, no wall contact to deter vermin, tar treatments for vermin control, and annual whitewash with disinfectant. One man can manage 1500 to 2000 hens.
An old walnut tree blown down and buried in alluvial sand along a western river yielded over 1800 in sales after transport to the railroad for sawing into boards. The note reflects the growing value of farm wood lots and wood products under changing market conditions.
Instructions describe cleaning and disinfecting incubators after hatching. Remove shells and bad eggs, spray with croolin, scrub trays, and allow steam with heat on to sanitize. A warning urges keeping dirt out of milk and emphasizes proper chick feeding.
The Kansas Experiment Station states the spring canker worm has killed more apple trees in a single season than the San Jose scale has since its introduction. The pest is described as easily killed by spraying, with caution against letting horses roam untended and overworked.
Runners from strawberry plants take root and separate from the parent, affecting commercial plantations. The text discusses pruning runners and the challenge of removing all runners on large scales. It also mentions chick care for young birds and soybeans resisting frost.
A fragmented column offers household tips about cleaning vegetables with soda and water, cleaning kettles and bowls, plus a wry remark about public judgment by a wife’s knowledge of a man. The text then devolves into garbled phrases and stray words.
Leeks, from the onia family, are valued for a mild onionlike flavor in soups and as a kitchen seasoning. They are hardy perennials grown as a secondary crop after beets and peas, with blanched stems and bulbs used in cookery. Seed in late spring, transplant in June, plant deep for blanching, last into fall storage like celery, and expect rising demand as their value becomes better known.
An old note discusses how much nestling birds consume. It states the average young bird’s daily food equals about four times its body weight. The text asserts insectivorous species have an incalculable diet in their early life stages.
Indiana farmer reports cutworms threaten tomatoes cabbage potatoes and other vegetables especially under glass. The pest can wipe out seedlings in a single night. Agriculture officials show a bran and arsenic mash mixed with molasses to be spread near plant bases, with evening applications favored for active moths.
A suggested grain ration combines 300 pounds corn and cob meal, 200 pounds oats, and 100 pounds cotton seed meal. Feed at one pound per three pounds of four percent milk produced, plus available legume hay and corn forage. The note warns of disease germs exposed to sunshine and mentions garden concerns.
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