Glimpses of Norway and Its Rugged High Roads
A travel sketch vivid with Norway and Sweden’s alpine landscapes. Descriptions compare their fjords and peaks to Swiss icons, naming Jotunheim Glitterlind and Skagastoldind, then recounts a trek from saeter to saeter. Hospitality, roads carved in rock, and a gifted host satisfy wanderer curiosity amid distant, scenic wilds.
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Norway
Sweden
Europe
Mont Blanc
Monte Rosa
Matterhorn
Switzerland
Jotunheim
Alps
Lucerne
Axenstrasse
Via Mole
Akyda
Seed Weight Effects in Barley Oats and Wheat Yields
Minnesota Experiment Station analyzed heavy and light weight seeds of barley oats and wheat. Heavy seeds were starch rich with lower relative amounts of nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, yet total NPK was higher per acre. Light seeds offered greater feed value per hundred pounds, suggesting seed buyers prefer light weights while growers profit from selling starch.
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Minnesota Experiment Station
Indiana Alfalfa Experiments Highlight Growing Requisites
Indiana and neighboring states explore alfalfa cultivation with varied results. Professor Fisher concludes any Indiana soil that grows corn will also grow alfalfa, prefers open soils, and notes inoculation is often needed to secure a stand. Failures arise from poor drainage, grazing young plants, weeds, and inconsistent inoculation practices.
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Indiana
Fisher
West
Benefits of Cooperative Farming and Knowledge Sharing
Ontario Experiment Station reports twenty three year crop yields across barley winter wheat oats peas beans spring wheat buckwheat rye with averages showing lower results on ordinary farms compared to recent years. Cooperative trials involving hundreds of farmers under station guidance yielded substantially higher crops, demonstrating that informed farming raises provincial averages.
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Ontario
Agricultural College
Work To Finish U S Topographical Map By 1980s
About a century more will be needed to complete the topographical map of the United States, a project begun by the government in 1882.
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United States
Mixing Tree Fruits for Better Cross Pollination
John Y. Smith of Alexander Co Illinois argues in Farmers' Review that mixed varieties in orchards enhance cross pollination. He notes single variety blocks yield uneven fruit and recounts a Garber pear near a Kieffer pear turning fruitful after cross planting. He suggests diagonal alternating trees to surround each with four of another variety for optimal pollination.
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Kieffer
Garber
John Y. Smith
Alexander Co, IL
Famers’ Review
Spade Deeply for Trees and Watering Orchards
The article urges preparing planting beds with a spade to ten inch depth, forming a ten foot diameter space to prevent water pooling as trees grow. It discusses how soil water influences winter survival of apples, noting trees near water survive harsher winters than those in drier, colder Illinois and Iowa soils.
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New York
New England
Illinois
Iowa
Ilinois
Heading of Shade Trees for Lawn Edges
The placement of shade trees dictates their head height. Low heads suit edge lawns where limbs touch the ground, while high heads suit other spots to preserve beauty and light underneath. Keep the tree tops thinned to allow sunlight to reach inner limbs and prevent dieback.
Sanitary milk pails improve milk quality practice
The Farmers' Review notes a simple sanitary milk pail with a largely covered top and a rim around the entry orifice to keep hair and dirt out. It cites Gurler milk as exceptionally clean and longer keeping, with bottled milk reaching Paris in good condition without pasteurization. Open pails admit dust and spores, accelerating souring, advocating universal sanitary pails to raise milk, butter, and cheese quality.
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Paris
France
Good and Poor Breeders Need Exercise and Proper Diet
The article discusses hog breeding quality, stressing exercise, adequate muscle-building nitrogen, and energy from starches. It urges ground lime rock use to combat soil acidity, advocating more mills and accessible ground rock for farmers. It also notes a Dahomey temple with over 1,000 snakes tended by priests and fed birds and frogs as offerings.
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Ilinois
Kingdom of
Dahomey
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Colo
Gabe
Sabin & Beall
le Junta
Enterprise Publishing CO
Els
Enterprise Office
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James
Uounud Punbueg
Fiorticultore
Spade
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