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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
4
A Northern agricultural column covers crop timing for wheat oats and clover, notes on flax and corn fodder value, horse hide prices, bird nesting, game laws, stalk saving, cherry blossoms, and lines on telephone co operatives. It also discusses oleomargarine legislation, dairy pricing, and poultry breed comparisons.
The article notes that on large farms root crops like turnips swedes and mangel wurzels provide the backbone of farming. It contrasts English reliance on roots with a semi tropical climate here that favors corn but harms turnips while asserting corn and silo reduce need for roots.
The piece notes Kansas with 400 creameries, Minnesota 650, Iowa 1,000, and links dairy success to the cow and product. It warns about soil crusts and dust mulch for moisture conservation, and muses on changing apparel for clipped horses. It suggests beef cattle shift from traditional ranges to well bred steers fed on western corn. It also imagines hog farmers prospering if hog prices rise and cholera is controlled.
The southwest corner of the cellar is advised as the safest area during cyclones in the absence of a storm cave. Notes on white ash being slow growing in ten years compare it to larch and other conifers for timber belts. A hay load scandal where two men hid beneath the hay to ride unseen from the scales is recounted. Eggs moved from storage fetch a higher spring price, while May and June eggs at thirteen cents a dozen hit producers hard on speculative markets.
Farmers are advised that cows on full feed in May or June may suffer milk fever. Start milking one to two weeks before calving to prevent trouble and save many good cows.
The article says a hardy legume like Siberian alfalfa could replace clover for soil health in the west and northwest. It notes sowing clover and timothy in July after plowing is practicable if the field surface stays level, with corn cut in early September to allow robust fall grass growth.
The proposal to substitute liquid air for ice as a refrigerant for Pacific coast fruit cars bound for the east aims to cut costs. Liquid air would be carried under the car, freeing space and saving one sixth of the car’s carrying capacity for freight.
A discussion on harnessing wind energy for electricity and wider use follows a note on a new bulletin from the National Beekeepers Association edited by EB Secor Forest City Iowa. The bulletin explains how beekeeping supports fruit growing through pollination and fertilization of orchard fruits.
The article traces changing ideas on silo design from underground cement pits to above ground masonry and wooden bins. It concludes silos can be built of staves like water tanks and placed anywhere. The key factor is airtight sealing to preserve silage, making construction method flexible.
The acquisition of the Philippine Islands brings vast mahogany forests with trees suitable for boards four feet wide and twenty feet long.
A city man proposed 22 times to a city girl before she finally agreed. The piece then muses on persistence versus country folk, notes the Irishman and shovel are losing ground to dirt movers, and mentions Chinese coal being raised in sacks by a cooly climbing a ladder.
The piece notes scarce black walnut trees are being harvested at high prices for government gunstock production and that some trees have not yet reached a metaphorical time of harvest for building tools and weapons.
The article notes farmers often replace dead trees in orchards but warns that after four years the effort is wasted. Once ground is occupied by living trees, newly planted stocks struggle to establish and thrive.
Iowa agricultural experiments report shallow cultivation raises corn yield by eight bushels per acre. Mowing at the right time before seed stalks appear benefits rich land, with uncut, low cut, and high cut yields measured at 46.7, 53.4, and 38.2 bushels per acre. Also notes stock market and pig value while warning about gophers and rats reducing crop yields.
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