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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1896
Page
6
An illustrated Rural New Yorker item describes a barn stack roof built from two boards nailed together to form a ridge, with hooks and eyes fastened to secure the roof over stacks of hay or grain. The design allows quick unhooking and reassembly, protecting stored contents while enabling year after year reuse.
An exhaustive Rural New Yorker interview details a one man New Hampshire farm. He keeps no hired help, favors sheep and horses, and relies on a stallion to pay his way. The operation includes eight to ten horses, a small flock of 25 to 75 pure bred Dorsets for early lambing, a few cows, and pastured mares, colts, and sheep in summer. He emphasizes pure bred Jerseys for cows and pure bred males, with good females to maintain stock quality. An improved hog trough is noted as a troublesome issue in hog raising.
Field notes describe clover growth, manure trials, and crop responses across wheat, barley, oats, carrots, and sugar beet. Experiments compare fresh versus rotted manure, with yields favoring fresh for some crops while rotted manure helps others. Additional items cover irrigation fertilizer sticks, tobacco demand, and animal feeding, plus fencing and etiquette notes.
An early 20th century Rural New Yorker description promotes plank frame barns with tenon and plane features. It highlights a 40 by 60 foot frame with 29 red posts, a basement hay bay, granary or machinery space, and docks over driveways for feed delivery, touting reduced labor and timber use.
A century old plea argues for government support to educate farmers in the middle states and beyond about breeding high quality harness horses. The piece cites regional strengths in New England and the South, calls for crossbreeding with thoroughbreds and hackneys, and highlights markets in Chicago and New York for first class stock, with emphasis on price and profitability. It urges establishing breeding facilities, suitable stallions, and a standardized approach to produce draft and harness horses.
A farm narrative details two Jersey cows, including a purebred and a grade, yielding heavy butter production. It notes careful milking, regular feeding, and the farmer’s family use, plus lessons on cream ripening, separating, and the debate between on-farm separators versus hauling to a creamery for efficiency and quality control.
Mr A P Carpenter explains in The Creamery Journal the difference between batter fat in milk and the fat produced by churning. He argues reports misstate fat yield, notes 1256 pounds of milk with a 3.3 test yield 47.7 pounds fat, and urges patrons receive monthly fat production statements to reveal true gains.
The piece discusses export values, butter and butterfat testing, and dairy practices from the Montreal Herald. It covers the Babcock test, milk fat content, farm consolidation, truthful pricing by commission men, water quality for dairy work, and ensilage methods. It also mentions cattle plague history and a masquerade anecdote featuring Sam.
Fragmented text blends a sanitation crusade by Dr Bowen in the Eleventh ward with a Chicago Redux report on census trends and London demography. It mentions a wooden garbage box menace, a sweeping citywide overhaul, and plans for ordinances. The piece shifts to cultural sketches of Romantic painters in Paris and a Temple Bar reflection.
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