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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1903
Page
3
A collection of farm notes covers England horse sales, New South Wales sheep losses, and a $8 per acre tax in Nila valley. It discusses dairy feeding, root crops, tile drainage, butter storage temperatures, and critiqued Patten's Greening apples. It ends with a satirical view of trusts dominating farming life and religion.
A long account recounts St Patrick as an Irish royal lineage bearer: his lineage links to Calphurnius and MacAlpin, his missions in 5th century Ireland, and miracles against druids. It claims his death at Armagh in 492 AD after converting 3,000,000 pagans within sixty years.
A historic report notes a westward pest problem increasing in numbers over thirty years. It describes the elmvet cat or smashink as a constant plague on poultry farms, citing two nearby farms near a city of 4,000 where at least thirty-five birds were killed last season.
A friend asks about apples shrinking in a cool cellar. Likely the air is too dry, causing evaporation. Apples stay better packed in moist sand or an underground pit, similar to potatoes. If kept in a cellar, cover them to prevent evaporation.
Molasses, once seen as a nuisance by products of sugar factories, is now recognized as a valuable stock ration when properly mixed with other foods. In France and Germany it is increasingly used to feed horses, keeping them in excellent condition at about one third the cost of the old grain-only ration.
The article notes numerous creameries require Sunday milking to care for milk, despite moral sentiment against Sunday labor. It reports communities arranging to handle Sunday milking at home, arguing Sabbath labor has a demoralizing influence and should be avoided where feasible.
Fifty years ago in Wisconsin logging bees cleared timber to make farms. The piece recalls old practice, notes wasteful burning of valuable logs, and contrasts city board of trade life with possible farming. It ends by advising to let family views guide such a switch to country life.
In a wary note a trade board hails May corn as sure to rise with talk of profits while recalling a past drought where corn fertilization failed. It argues farmers should study crop conditions and market timing rather than gamble on options, stressing prudent production and selling at the right time.
The piece notes no major shift in farm labor this year, with wage sealing and a general shift toward unionization. It highlights ongoing farm labor shortages, wage constraints, and consideration of methods to reduce reliance on hired help through farm innovations.
A farmer's loss follows a chain from lightning killing two steers to the sale of carcasses to a traveling junk peddler who took hides. A horsehide dried on the ground drew hogs to scent, spreading hog cholera from a distant outbreak that wiped out about 3700 dollars in hogs, illustrating a chain of misfortune and disease.
Farmers on quarter section farms sold hogs totaling 1600 to 2000 dollars in 1902. The hog business yielded high prices and low disease, making hog raising appear highly profitable in the corn belt.
The writer discusses rising rents in the western corn belt where land values have climbed from 50 to 90 per acre while cash rents rise from 3.75 to 5 per acre. He argues tenants cannot profit as crops decline, warns that high rents threaten farming viability, and favors copartnership leases with shared profits and better land purchases in newer regions.
A newspaper ad seeks a capable man with modern farm experience for a permanent position. The article argues agricultural science offers safer, profitable investment for capital and more jobs for educated farmers, noting surplus doctors lawyers and teachers. It urges young men to consider farming as a career with strong opportunities.
The article explains sowing clover in cornfields is workable in favorable seasons. Sow in early July after the last tilling, with adequate rain to ensure a strong stand for next year. Do not harvest corn until ground freezes. restrict livestock access. break stalks before frost. Hay downstream may be rough due to old stalks remaining.
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