Six Basket Carrier for High Grade Peaches
The six basket carrier replaces the Leh ware basket for top quality peaches. six veneer baskets hold about half peck each and protect fruit from bruising through canvas compartments. A sorting table with shallow compartments aids packing two bushels per side, while a shoulder lifting picking basket frees hands for gathering fruit Maryland Experiment Station notes the method improves market presentation and price.
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Maryland Experiment Station
Sugar Cane Culture and Hardship in the Sugar Belt
A Louisiana planter writes that sugar cane is the hardest and most costly crop, requiring year round care from January planting to July harvest. Planters divide land, grow corn for feed, then sow cowpeas, with green feed like sorghum used in favorable seasons.
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Sugar Belt
Louisiana
Florida’s droughts rare and fruitful year round crops
A writer from Hernando County Florida notes droughts are unusual and rainfall remains around fifty inches yearly, with a rainy season July to September. The climate supports strawberries Christmas to May, peaches April to October, watermelons May to Christmas, cantaloupes April to June, plums July to October, pears August to October, and citrus varieties year round, plus abundant wild berries including blueberries.
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Florida
Hernando County
Pla
Wome
Farn
English Sparrow Aids Fight Against Locusts in Illinois
A Medora Illinois letter notes thirteen year locusts appearing in Macowpin county woodlands and fears they may harm crows. The English sparrow, long condemned as a farmer's enemy, is revealed as an ally against locusts, waging war and killing them by the thousands per the Country Gentleman.
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Macowpin
Woodlands
Fertilizer Experience in Growing Strawberries
The article cites Texas growers comparing fertilizer methods for strawberries. It notes nitrogen alone causes lush vine growth with soft, ship-broken berries, while a complete fertilizer including potash and phosphate yields firm, well colored fruit with strong shipping quality. A Texas center using heavy cottonseed meal suffered losses. another site applying potash and phosphate produced large, marketable berries.
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Texas
South Texas
A Wire Fence Tightening Method From Iowa Homestead
A writer from Iowa Homestead suggests using small stays between fence posts to tighten slack wire. He recommends threading a strong stick through a wire loop around a post, twisting it to tauten, then stapling or wiring the stick to the wire. Repeating the twist tightens the fence with minimal effort.
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Iowa
The Most Profitable Horse On The Farm
The article extols a mare named She WIT as the farm’s best income source. With careful care she can raise valuable foals and work like a horse, making her a wise investment for farmers seeking profit and self-sufficiency in breeding and sales.
A Man's Time and Value of Labor
A Town homestead writer argues that using mechanical means saves time and energy. He suggests investing in a windmill and corn sheller, noting the value of time when a man considers his worth. The piece advocates efficiency and modern methods over hand actions.
Milk Teat Cup Sizing For Efficient Dairy Work
Observations note varying teat cup sizes and pulsation settings needed for different cows. Properly matched equipment with consistent operator technique reduces stress and improves milking efficiency in mixed herds.
The Science of Dairying Emphasizes Scientific Dairy Principles
A writer from Homestead argues that dairying is grounded in science. Proper milking cleanliness, immediate strain, quick cooling, and maintaining a pure barn atmosphere yield sweet cream. Controlling temperature and environment predicts butter quality and churn timing within minutes.
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Homestead
Milk or Butter Breed Your Cows for Market Needs
A chairman in American Cultivator argues farmers should breed cows for a purpose, considering breed traits, distance to market, price dynamics, and personal taste. He urges applying strict accounts per cow to know if milk or butter is more profitable, and why a given choice may fail.
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Chairrman
Mike
Value of Careful Milking in Dairy Cattle
A short note argues careful milking increases milk flow and animal value, while careless milking reduces efficiency. It emphasizes intelligence, patience, and conscientiousness in dairy workers as essential to maintaining milk production.
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Java
Insects Threaten Dairy Cattle and Remedies Urged
A Cornell winter dairy course feature explains horn fly and ox warble fly pests. Horn flies suck blood and breed in fresh cow manure. a soap kerosene repellent spray is suggested. Crude petroleum and axle grease deter flies. Warble fly larvae cause lumps on backs. smothering with petroleum or grease and squeezing large grubs are noted. House flies also spread bacteria and trouble dairies and homes.
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Cornell University
M. V. Slingerland
The Small Silo
W T MacSparran argues against building silos under eight feet in diameter. He says silage feeding requires enough capacity to feed the entire surface daily. For an eight foot silo he advises planning for eight to twelve mature animals to feed silage.
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Farmers Advocate
W. T. MacSparran
Wash to Protect Cows From Flies Recipe
A dairy journal offers a fly repellant wash for cows using two quarts of fish oil, one pint of crude carbolic acid, one ounce of oil of pennr royal, and oil of tar to total one gallon. Apply with a sprayer that delivers a fine mist just before milking to minimize waste.
Cheese Making and Butter Storage Tips from a Bygone Guide
A compilation of practical dairy notes covers cottage cheese from sour milk, paraffin-coated butter tubs for longer storage, and a cream cheese method using cream and rennet. It explains why washed butter avoids a cheesy taste, plus a checklist to improve butter quality by cleaning vessels, avoiding dirty udders, and maintaining clean surroundings.
Live Stock And Quality in Farm Testing
A Philadelphia Record inspired piece urges farmers to test every animal and the feed across seasons to determine stock quality and profitability. It notes twin lambsody, productive mares, and effective sows, with emphasis on observing performance year round to avoid past mistakes and maximize returns. The Hardy Galloway breed is highlighted for its tough coat in cold weather.
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Philadelphia Record
Mies
Galloway Cattle Described At St Louis Expo
The fragment describes Calloway roves and overcoats resembling a bovine breed, noting high prices for beef and the rarity of cows yielding twenty curtis or sixty wild pes days. It highlights the Galloway breed as shown as worth y Od and as a prize winner at the St Louis exposition and at American and Scotel shay.
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Calloway
Ubis
Feeding the Wool Grower Says Good Feed Boosts Sheep Quality
A creaky note urges proper feeding for Juanes sheep across the country. It argues that pushing feed rather than lambs away improves growth, with bran oats oil meal and clover aiding muscle and bone. Though costly, good feed yields profits and enhances breeding.
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Twofield
Feeding Young Pigs Weaning Time and Rations
S Wallace notes pigs are best weaned at six to ten weeks with most caen belt piglets weaned around eight weeks. After weaning, feed a mush of wheat middlings oats chopped and sweet skinned on Dwarf Essex rape as pasture. Seed the rape early in spring. plants will suit pigs when pasture is ready.
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Caen
Seung
Wallace
Journal of Agriculture
Rape for Live Stock Feeding Tips and Caution
Practical guidance on using rape as fodder for sheep pigs and cattle. Advises feeding with dry cam, rotational grazing with portable fences, rest periods for regrowth, and harvesting height. Warns of digestive issues like blown if leaves not wilted and advises silage mixing with vetch oats rye for dairy cattle.
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Braz
A. R. Gilbert
The Sow as Foundation of Market Pig Rearing
The brood sow forms the foundation of feeding swine for market. Proper methods produce strong, lusty pigs. Pasture growth keeps them vigorous, building digestion and assimilation for efficient fattening on corn, with resilience to heavy feeding.
The Horseman on Stables and Colt Care
The Horseman advises on proper exercise for breeding stock and foals, stressing gentleness, early cooling after work, and regular watering. It covers feeding, disposition, collar fit, horse classifications by weight, and the risk of vanity without soundness, with tips about stalls and stable upkeep.
Overcrowding in Poultry Housing Cited as Major Elil
A YORKSHIRE author in American Poultry Journal argues overcrowding is the greatest evil in keeping domestic fowl. He notes that space varies, recommending about five square feet per adult bird in houses, and half that in open fronted designs, while urging as much liberty as possible with at least fifty square feet per bird in runs. He warns dense packing causes diseases and stresses confinement during breeding.
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George Scott
Pudsey
Yorkshire
England
American Poultry Journal
Partridge Plymouth Rock Hen Revealed as New Variety
The cut shows a female of a new Partridge Plymouth Rock variety. It mirrors the Barred Rock in all respects except plumage. The Partridge pattern is praised as among the most beautiful seen on domestic fowls, suggesting growing popularity.
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Plymouth
Rat Exterminator Suggestion for Pest Control
A subscriber to the Poultry Journal advises a method to kill rats using a closed tin trough placed over a rat hole. Pour a dose of sulfuric acid followed by ammonia water into the trough, seal the hole, and wait about ten seconds for the rats to emerge fatigued and unable to flee.
White Feathers in Leghorns Acknowledge Disqualifying Trait
The article notes white feathers in Brown Leghorn stock as an exhaustive issue with multiple causes. White plumage is a disqualification under a standard of perfection, though chick white appearance does not guarantee future white feathers at maturity.
Egg Eating Hens Notice
Egg eating is a bad habit in fowl keeping often caused by confinement and lack of tasks. Keep nests toward the bank and provide ample perches and enrichment to prevent the habit.
Food For Ducklings and Young Geocks Feed Advice
A fragment discusses feeding ducklings and young geese with corn or mixed grains. It notes four weeks as a milestone, mentions Ned corn, and emphasizes animal food as necessary while suggesting a veterinary aid for growth.
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C. BR. Jones
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