Practical Farm Advice From The Farm Journal
Farmers receive tips on humane handling of hogs and horses, calf care, stable cleanliness, and water access. Advice stresses calm routines, matching horse temperaments, and avoiding overwork of young horses. Includes a weathered note on a 20 acre wheat yield in southern Washington and Oregon, reporting 1140 bushels total and 67 per acre from Lewis Winnett’s field in a not-ideal soil area.
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Washington
Oregon
Lewis Winnett
Winnet
Waltsburg Times
Poultry Yard Advice for October Preparations
The article outlines farm tips for October including preventing November losses, painting buildings, managing hens and ducks, and curing poultry illnesses. It advises cleaning cones, housing under cover, using lard and turpentine for lumber neck, caring for April hatched pullets, limiting flock size, separating breeding ducks, providing range and swimming water, preparing hay for feed, feeding three times weekly in winter, and repairing hen houses with wallpaper as insulation.
New Wheat Variety Shows Promise in Local Valley
Farmers report Jenkins club wheat an eastern importation promising extensive future growth. It marks the first season this variety has been grown locally in any quantity.
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Jenkins Club
Increase In Fertilizer Sales 1908-09 Report
The state department of agriculture reports fertilizer sales for 1908-09 totaled 84,295 tons, up 41,520 tons from the prior season. Growth traces to 1874 when sales were 48,648 tons, with brands registered rising from 110 then to 2,274 in 1908-09, reflecting broader market presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Farmers Should Become Specialista
A report of the August meeting of the Columbia Club of Jackson county argues that specialists drive progress. It says farming benefits from choosing a focused line, using state and national experiment stations, and sticking to a farm adapted system. It urges farmers to study feeds and feeding to become line specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Club
Jackson County
Use of Un Scales for Profitable Dairying
Expert dairying advice stresses that butter fat content, not just milk volume, drives profit. Accurate scales and testing, as advocated by J H Frandson, University of Wisconsin, help producers judge both yield and richness to boost efficiency.
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Babcock
J. H. Frandson
Tntveratty of
Wistho
Why Pity the Partner Konens Hog Story
Mr Mann of Geuda Springs told a Konens newspaper how he loaded a large hog into his car and took it to Arkansas City to sell at a good price. He reached town quickly, earned money, and washed the auto in minutes to remove the barnyard smell, while joking about farm life meetings.
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Mann
Geuda Springs
Konens
Arkansas City
Pendleton Seeks 100000 Harvesting Machinery Plant
A Pendleton plan aims to form a corporation with capital stock of 100000 to manufacture the Reynolda Automatic side hill harvester on a large scale. The plant would be in Pendleton, produce castings and offer repairs, with farmers and bankers backing the project to boost local industry and reduce freight costs. Local boosters cite past trials and favorable opinions from Bittner Williamson Elgin Neil and others.
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Oregon
Pendleton Iman Works
Bittner & Williamson
Elgin & Neil
William Meiners
Brown Broad & Wright
Umatilla County
L. C. Rothrock
Spence Bentley
W. W. Harrah
Washington
Idaho
Pendleton
Taft remembers Yale professors for government posts
New Haven Sept 28 The appointment of two Yale political economy professors to government positions under President Taft has alarmed alumni who note Taft’s likely plan to reward Yale friends. The Yale department has supplied President Hayes and economist William G Sumner.
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Taft
Alma Mater
New Haven
Yale
Department of Political Economy
Haciey
William G. Sumner
Foley's Kidney Remedy Ad Claim Backed Cure
Many people dismiss symptoms and blame weariness. The ad promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy as a cure for backache rheumatism and kidney and bladder trouble claiming relief from pain weakness and urinary issues Koeppen Bros endorse or sell the product.
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Foley
Koeppen Bros
Wisconsin Bakers Meet Opens in Milwaukee Convention
The Wisconsin Association of Master Bakers opened its annual convention in Milwaukee. An exhibition of bakery machinery and products will be held in connection with the meeting.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin Association of Master Bakers
Go With a Rush. Dr Kink's New Life Pillar Ad
The advertisement touts Dr Kink's New Life Pillar as a cure for sour stomach constipation indigestion biliousness jaundice sick headache chills and malaria. Tallman & Co claim unmatched success and offer the pill for 26 cents.
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Kink
Tallman & Co
Tts
Taliman & Co
Women Do Your Work Say Oregonian Carrier Ad
An old Oregonian carrier promotion urges readers to let the women handle tasks while implying weekly delivery arrangements. It reflects a period voice promoting labor gender roles in a terse classified style.
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Farm Journal
Company 10
Reynolds Side Hill Harvester
Umatilla-Morrow County Fair
Ers
United States
Workingmen’s Clothing Co
Main and Webb Sts
Wisconsin
Dally
Oregonian
Robsart
Northwestern Gas & Electric Co
Matlock Building
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