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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1900
Page
6
Instructions detail building a hayrack with sills crosspieces boards and tenons plus hardware. includes adjustable blocks and removal method. Also reports Kaffir corn varieties black hulled white and red with yield data and planting guidance. Grafting chestnut timing methods and success rates noted.
A 19th century farm note discusses boosting protein on average farms via crops like alfalfa and Turkestan alfalfa, pea and clover mixes, and silage. It covers planting, harvest timing, and the value of alfalfa as a high protein feed, with experiments in Turkestan alfalfa showing strong hardiness and potential yield benefits for dairy operations. It also describes practical sprayer setups for fields, potato spraying methods, fertilizer ideas, and silage practices led by experiences from New Jersey, Vermont, and Rhode Island farmers. A dairy farmer, John Patterson of Adair County, Missouri, shares success growing cowpeas for silage and mixed silage with corn, signaling wider adoption of silos for winter feeding.
An 1900s homemaking guide outlines practical cheese making at home. It describes affordable equipment, a simple press, and steps for preparing curd, cheddaring, salting, and aging, plus notes on cream ripening using starters and butter cultures. It ends with a brief on horses and farrier skills for farmers.
A long read on how butter was churned and flavored, its fat science and winter issues, plus how Cambridge England sells butter by the yard. It details churning tips, adding water, fat particle behavior, and how yard butter ships to university students daily.
A Prairie Farmer correspondent argues hogs grow better with proper winter feeding and forage pastures. He criticizes dry corn and water alone and urges farmers to provide good summer pastures to avoid poor weights and hungry hogs in markets.
A Texas Farmer note discusses the ongoing debate over quick versus slow feeding for fattening cattle. The issue hinges on feeder judgment, with the controversy likely to continue. Also mentions that some large oxen have grown from small advertising costs.
An old agricultural note extols rape as superior for sheep feed, noting its high sulfur and potash content in wool production, easy growth, and safety when introduced gradually. It warns against overfeeding to avoid bloating and urges using rape as the primary forage before summer plowing for other crops.
The Emir Abd al-Hadr endorses early breaking of Arab colts. He asserts that those not educated at a very early age become stubborn and unfit for war. He cites long marches with thousands of horses and says early schooling prevents rearward gaps. Arab colts are started at 18 to 20 months and first ridden by children to train both rider and horse.
McSetters answers he is going south for his health and McSwatters questions how health could become so far away, in a terse exchange from the Syra cuse Herald.
The quotation attributed to Eliott's Magazine notes that men frequently fail to seize chances, while opportunities rarely pass by on their own. It reflects on human agency versus chance.
An agricultural note discusses growing forage beans as a winter or summer crop for dairy and livestock feed, noting drought tolerance and regional suitability in states west of the Mississippi. It compares milk fat percentages among cows, sheep, elephants, and other animals, and outlines lamb rearing methods using Jersey or crossbred cow milk. It also observes ongoing steady sheep flock value growth alongside rising meat demand and mutton markets.
The piece blends quirky quotes on scientific humility with a tale of two geologists and a mounted stone that tipped a theory. It notes the first US orgro minstrel troupe circa 1935 led by Johnson, with songs like Oh Old Gray Goose and comic lines about Mr Punch.
A long religious reflection on John 6 describes Jesus as the living bread and emphasizes belief as reception of life. The piece links faith to eternal life and cites related scriptures. It also notes Admiral Remer’s orders as the Brooklyn heads to Taku, via Nagasaki, under the Asiatic squadron.
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