Wisconsin dairyman hails silage as key to cheap roughage
A Wisconsin dairy leader argues silage lowers roughage costs and boosts yields. He details 1888 to present silo use, costs of land work, seed, manure, and labor, and notes soybeans with corn improve feed. He advocates large silos, alfalfa hay, clover, and using by products like bran and oil meal to cut production costs and raise butterfat efficiency.
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L. Hitl
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Dairyairy
Hill
Winter Chick Rearing For Winter Layers
The article discusses raising early chicks to become winter layers, warning against overdoing it. It covers timing for laying starts, aiming for December to March, and for spring layers, with chicks hatched in May to August. It prescribes stimulating feeds using meat, especially beef meal, to accelerate growth and maturity by six weeks, enabling laying by late fall. It emphasizes rapid, early growth and notes past experiences with meat feeding effects.
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Plymouth Rock
Collective Efforts in Agriculture and Marketing
Farmers and breeders are urged to cluster operations near common stock and fruit markets to cut shipping costs and boost prices. The article argues that nearby breeding farms improve efficiency for cattle, fruit growers, and peach shippers, highlighting Shorthorn cattle, strawberries, apples, and peaches as examples. It notes concentrated locations reduce rail fares, enable refrigerator car access, and enhance bargaining power with buyers, leading to better market outcomes.
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Texas
The Various Cuts of Meat
A Farmers' Review summary explains tenderloin versus porterhouse and sirloin butt, noting tenderloin comes from the loin and is pricier, while sirloin butt offers good quality at lower cost. It warns tenderloin from poorly fed cattle and asserts careful meat evaluation by grain, color, marbling, and texture. It also warns pork tenderloins carry trichinae risk and require thorough cooking to prevent disease.
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Poldt
Price Ag Sirloix
Aa. S. Alexander
Farmers’ Review
Uniform sheep ranching practices across western North America
The article surveys sheep ranching in Canada to Mexico, noting winter and summer ranges, forage varieties, and feeding practices. It explains how winter ranges are shrinking as settlers take land, forcing reliance on summer ranges and alfalfa hay. Costs rise from 25 cents to 75 cents to 1.25 dollars per sheep when winter feeding and ranch building are needed.
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Canada
Mexico
Rocky Mountain
Bacon Hog vs The Fat Hog Debate Across Regions
An agricultural essay argues against rigid hog production rules. It notes Canada and the U S corn belt face different finish costs and markets. Canadian bacon hogs profit from dairy byproducts while U S feeders rely on corn finishing for beef and pork.
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Canada
United States
Cumming
Ontario Agricultural College
Britain
Middle West
Dominion
The Land Roller Proposition in Spring and Fall
A Farmers' Review discussion weighs spring versus fall land rolling. Spring rolling tightens soil, levels ridges, and aids mowing but can hurt sandy or windy areas and may worsen washing. Rolling after seeding oats risks poor stands. harrowing afterward helps. In wet clays rolling is inadvisable. well drained porous lands benefit, especially hay fields. Readers urged to share experiences nationwide.
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Great Britain
Farmers’ Review
Shipping Infected Hogs Spread Of Cholera Warns Against Transport
An editorial warns that sending cholera infected hogs harms public interests. It recounts a sow shipped to an experiment station who fell ill after arrival, spreading disease to station herds. The piece urges strict quarantine and prior notice before movement to prevent costly losses.
Fragmentary 19th Century Telegraph Snippet
A garbled excerpt references a man named Smith with an ax to grind and a Philadelphia Telegraph remark about a "good" woman. The text is fragmentary, with interjected names and unclear attributions, offering little coherent narrative or context.
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Jenners
Smith
Beyners
Care in Feed Buying Says Prof Jenking
Prof BE H Jenking from Connecticut Bays warns that current prices for commercial feeding stuffs do not reflect their true chemical composition or feeding value. He urges careful intelligent selection of feeds, noting no single feed is always economical and market variation often tempts feeders to rely on price rather than value.
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O. P
Wisconsin
BE. H. Jenking
Connecticut
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