Planting Strawberries and Set Depth for Success
Instructions from a Michigan station bulletin on selecting healthy runners and crowns, preparing plants, and proper depth for setting strawberries. It covers handling dry or heated bundles, watering, shading, and using tools like spades and dibbles to avoid root damage and ensure soil contact. It notes caution against excessive foot pressure and cites Taft and Gladden.
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Taft and
Gladden
Michigan Station
Black rot in cabbages grows. recognition and prevention
The article explains Black rot as a growing threat to cabbage in southern Wisconsin Michigan New York Maryland Vermont and beyond. Early signs appear on outer leaves turning yellow with spots near margins, leaves wilting as veins blacken, and infected vessels darken the tissue, a key diagnostic cue for growers to detect and combat the disease.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Maryland
Vermont
Cabbage disease and farm hygiene tips from station bulletin
The article outlines measures against club root in cabbage like crop rotation and new seed beds, cautions about feeding infected material to livestock, removal of diseased leaves, and suppression of cruciferous weeds. It also includes agricultural notes on peas, blackberries, hotbeds, and sugar maple cleansing practices.
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Gregory
The
New Yorker
New England
C. W. Matfields
St. Louis Republic
Counterfeit Butter Threat to Dairy Industry
An editorial condemns oleomargarine and process butter as frauds undermining the dairy sector. It calls for clear labeling and regulation to protect consumers and honest buttermakers, noting actions in Pennsylvania Albany Minnesota to label or ban disguised butter products.
Aeration of Milk and Drying Up Cows Practical Guide
Practical notes from a Kansas bulletin advise cooling and aerating milk to improve quality and price, recommending a combined cooler aerator and cautioning against airless units. It also covers drying up cows by reducing feed, spacing milking, and adjusting rations before calving, highlighting dangers of forced drying and the value of hay, silage, and bran linseed mixtures.
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Elgin Dairy Report
Kansas Experiment Station
Gluten meal boosts milk and butter in dairy herd study
Massachusetts experiment station reports gluten meal as feed increases milk and butter output. Feed cost for milk drops by 16 cents per 100 quarts and butter by a fraction of a cent per pound compared with cornmeal. Results averaged across the herd.
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Mik
Massachusetts Experiment Station
Indiana
Berkshire
Poland
China
Milk yields show feed type impact on dairy output
Gluten meal and corn meal yield differences show better cows gain more milk when fed high quality rations. Muted by cost, the article notes varied feeds like gluten corn silage clover and alfalfa affect milk production and stresses gradual diet changes to avoid drops in yield.
Texas cattle feeding shift boosts prices and profits
A Denver stockmen's convention report notes Texas breeders are keeping cattle at higher prices due to ample local feed. Texas experiment station findings encourage earlier feeding with meal, reducing cornmeal needs. This could extend feeding to 150-160 days and lift fattened beeves’ value at Kansas City, St. Louis, or Chicago yards.
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Denver
Texas Experiment Station
Staty
Texas
Lone Star
Northwest
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
Galveston
Jessy
Union
Care of Horses and Angora Goats in Texan Regions
A cor respondent warns against treating horses as machines and urges humane handling to prevent injuries. Advice covers avoiding whip use without signal, gradual ascent on hills, and recognizing wind and bowels risk. The piece then discusses Angora goats in Texas, noting grazing needs, profitable mohair output, and feeding practices, including kidding in separate pastures and winter foraging. Part of a larger note on rich feeding for breeding cows near parturition.
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London Live Stock Journal
Angola
Texas
Molasses Cake for Cattle Feed Exposed in Paris
At a late session of the French National Agricultural Society in Paris a molasses cake was shown as cattle feed with excellent effect. Made by A Vaury, a Paris bread maker, the cake blends one third molasses one third flour and one third bran. Suburban dairymen report higher milk yield and butter fat with six to ten pounds daily as a condiment and digestive aid rather than a daily staple.
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French National Agricultural Society
Paris
A. Vaury
National Provigioner
Value of Employment in Dairying and Sheep Notes
The piece argues dairying offers year round employment for Wisconsin farmers and families, contrasting with grain farming. It discusses labor needs for stock operations, sheep wool origins, and beekeeping hive management, then notes Henry Stewart’s advice on dehorning sheep as a practical measure.
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Wisconsin
W. A. Henry
Henry Stewart
Disease signs in horses and cattle from old farm notes
The text reports on a late horse disease tied to improper diet, likely fungi from unripe corn, with rapid onset and fatal outcome. It also warns sheep about maple sap causing weakness and potential abortion in pregnant ewes, plus guidance on swine fecundity studies and alfalfa feeding risks and remedies for kidney-related issues in livestock.
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Wingia
Berng
Porcupine Grass Ailment Kills Indiana Sheep
Several hundred Indiana sheep thought to suffer from a new disease died from punctured hides caused by porcupine grass. The grass, a prairie product, penetrated flesh up to an inch in places, causing inflammation and decay. The flock, shipped from the west, succumbed before Purdue University scientists identified the cause.
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Indiana
Purdue University
Wintering cows and stable water practices in old farming tips
In Home and Farm, Mr L. 4. Mardin advises keeping stables clean to prevent disease, bedding cows with inexpensive bedding, and using controlled water systems. He discusses warming water, but notes risks from open basins and fermented feed, recommending small basins, daily cleaning, and monitoring cows' intake to avoid waste and contamination.
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Mr. L
Mardin
High Class Wool Clip Ranked Among World’s Best
The piece praises a last American clip as exceptionally clean light and bright, compares it with Australasian wools, and notes its high standing among global ranking wools.
Hindoo Widow's Hard Lot Sparks Reform Idea
A Bombay Advocate of India reports plans by enlightened natives to ease Hindu widows' burdens. The proposal would delay shaving until age 21, allowing widows to retain dignity, wear acceptable clothing, fast less, and receive more meals, challenging harsh customs.
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Bombay
India
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