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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1905
Page
7
Mr Wragg invites readers to submit new ideas for the department and offers to answer correspondence. Address M J Wragg 300 Goodock Des Moines Iowa for information on subjects selected.
A Maine Poultry expert reconsiders whether hatched chicks fare better under a turkey hen or a hen, noting travel and foraging impacts. The piece favors sanitary yard conditions for chicken growth and compares horse kindness to steer animal disposition, praising Arabian horses as especially docile.
Detailed instrucciones on top grafting to ensure success with proper elons, stocks, and relations. Emphasizes fall cutting for storage, selecting mature wood, matching species, and wax wrapping with hot wax and paper to seal wounds. Notes waxing risks, grafting methods, and starting points at ground level using whip and splice techniques.
A reader describes land washed badly on a four acre corner and offers a planter’s plan. Grading to fill gullies, deep plowing, cross disking, and applying 400 pounds per acre of 16 percent dissolved bone. Plant cowpeas in May, add potash and dried blood if thin, cultivate to keep weeds down, harvest rye in September, and sow timothy and red clover in fall and spring.
The notice urges making a business of cleaning vehicle hubs and spindles at least three times yearly. It warns against untagged grime, recommending high quality engine cylinder oil for greasing to prevent gumming and grease buildup.
Poultry pointers advise pasting tissue on cracked eggs to set them. Separate roosters from hens during molt as roosters molt slower. Fowl roosting in warm houses molt sooner than those in open air. Feed chicks for fancy prices starting at three to four months. Pheasants rise in popularity and may become common in yards. Do not set young hens after their first laying. they become good mothers by the second cycle.
Practical notes from a seasoned grower on correct planting depth for fruit trees nine acres under cultivation. Emphasizes planting to nursery depth, soil and drainage considerations, and shading roots. Also covers orchard site selection, head height, October borers, and yearly prevention strategies. Includes garden tips on fencing, animal damage, slope effects, and manure use to protect young vegetables.
The piece advises enriching soil as a farming first principle and warns against poor fence posts. It suggests planting evergreen windbreaks, separating manures from potatoes and strawberries, and sowing clover early for a good stand. It notes gullies, brush piles, drainage effects on snowmelt, and the value of time gained for thrifty farmers.
If the land was not plowed last fall, plow as soon as dry enough in spring harrow at once and do it thoroughly or until the coll is fine and mellow. Six or eight times over it will not be too many. The object is to get at least two inches of fine mellow soil on top and below that have it compact and firm. It will then be in the best shape to hold moisture in spite of sun and drying winds.
Canadian experiments in fattening steers are reported. At Brandon station steers were fed 110 days with silage grain and straw, flaxseed added last 55 days, bought at certain prices and sold for 4.85 cents per pound. Daily gains varied by lot and profits reached 20.11 and 19.04 dollars. At Indian Head, barley oat and wheat straw with silage and meal were compared across five lots. Four animals per straw group and two per hay group showed gains per steer of 126.25, 91.66, 162.5, 127.5 and 180 pounds in four months, with a constant 7 cents per pound of gain.
A correspondent asks for the best plan to set out raspberries. The writer prefers fall planting but notes spring suits soils prone to frost heave. Suggests planting depth slightly deeper than nursery, and trimming tops to about four buds to limit growth from old canes.
Anyone wishing to drain land can obtain information by applying to the Department of Agriculture Washington. Request Farmers' Bulletin No. 40 on Farm Drainage. These bulletins are furnished free of charge.
President Roosevelt's 11 hour New York visit included giving away a bride at a wedding, addressing two banquets, and joining a jig to St. Patrick's Day music on Delmonico's balcony. Crowds surged along Fifth Avenue as lights illuminated the scene and the president saluted the cheering assemblage. He praised Irish character at the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick banquet, noting Andrew Jackson’s Celtic roots.
The Chadwick household property of Mrs Cassie L Chadwick was sold at auction in Cleveland to A D Nelson of New York for 25200. Samuel L Winternitz of Chicago was second with 25100 and there were twenty bidders. Nelson plans an art gallery in New York City.
New York and Chicago grain bids show No 2 red wheat around 1.28 to 1.31 per bushel with various northern and mixed lots quoted in other cities. Live stock prices list Chicago at 1.60 to 4.35 for cattle, Omaha and Kansas City at 2.00 and 5.10 respectively, with several regional offices reporting bids and ranges across the sector.
Plans to build the Bellevue hospital as the world’s largest are approved in New York. An appropriation of $850,100 is allocated to start construction on the project.
Brigadier General Thomas H Barber, longtime Army officer and Hawaii’s first military governor, dies at his New York home from heart disease. His career included service in the regular army and notable posts.
An advertising notice promises a money making home business anyone can do and invites readers to send their address to M. A. Donohue & Co. in Chicago. The rest of the item recounts literary and social anecdotes about Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie and Nat C. Goodwin’s critique of coupon promotions, ending with a quip about prizes and a grand piano versus a harp.
Ex-Sheriff James Scott of Scott County testifies eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his kidney disease. The piece notes the pills’ claimed broad efficacy against Bright's disease diabetes and bladder troubles, and cites rising U S kidney-related death rates.
An 1890s medical advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for womb disease and related female complaints. It claims other doctors misdiagnose symptoms as separate illnesses, while the potion supposedly heals the underlying cause, restoring health, flesh, and complexion through patient testimonials from Dr Br V Prenon of Buffalo and a case of persistent uterine prolapse improved after use.
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