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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
6
G A Gaynor argues growers lack control over supply and prices. He cites twenty five years of data showing limited effect of destroying crops, outlines price impact on consumption, and suggests a rising price schedule to balance shrinkage, risk and investor return while promoting fair distribution across the season.
An Iowa farmer cites rape as a high yielding, succulent summer feed, ideal when moisture is scarce. Experiments at Canadian, Wisconsin stations show rape can replace substantial grain for hogs and pork production, with careful feeding avoiding milk taint and bloating in sheep.
Hardy flowers often fail to survive winter. Protect with careful mulching or brush coverings and apply manure mulch around roots. Shelter should be prepared in spring or early summer, and plants grown to strong roots before winter. A light top mulch prevents smothering and aids soil fertility. Emma Clearwaters.
The article warns that moldy or wormy hay causes urinary disorders and diabetes in horses, with hay selection, water quality, and lime content affecting health. It advises feeding sound, nutritious hay, avoiding low wetland hay, and proper rationing. It also covers pregnant cows, calf weakness from poor nutrition, and better housing hygiene to reduce disease and flies.
Ohio farmer M. L. Ruetenik runs an eighteen acre operation near Cleveland with fifteen under cultivation and three for orchards and buildings. A pipe sprinkler system delivers nightly showers from two elevated reservoirs, reusing fertilizing elements, enabling two celery crops per season and rapid blanching. Harvested produce is sorted and sold via telephone to city retailers, with many orders secured before harvest.
A. B. Alexander in Farmers' Review stresses clean tools, antiseptic use, and careful technique to prevent tumors after castration. He warns against dirty instruments, rough handling, and improper wound size, urging full skin incisions and high cord severing to reduce complications.
A New York bulldog named Hannah risked her life to rescue an infant from a fire. The mother returned to save other children and found the dog carrying the baby to the room door before escaping. The infant and dog suffered singeing, treated by a doctor who also soothed the dog's burned nose. The incident prompts a surgeon to consider animal thought, though possibly different from humans.
The piece traces fears that railways bicycles and cars would end horse use but notes horses remain in demand. It cites English buyers finding difficulty securing horses in England and American buyers paying high prices at home. It links rising U S population wealth to growing demand and good horse prices.
Adelbert Shadberger of Boone County Missouri argues in Farmers' Review that dairy cows lacking sturdy bones may suffer from soil deficiencies, especially in acid soils with carbohydrate-heavy feed. He notes lime helps plant minerals. while cows can't be fed lime directly, soil-limestone exposure could improve forage and cow bone strength. He invites reader opinions.
Text discusses summer fly infestations in farms and homes, noting household disruption and the burden on women. It urges men to share in eliminating flies, arguing that the nuisance affects kitchen areas, milk rooms, and living spaces and interrupts daily life.
A historical note discusses grinding cob with corn to create a versatile feed for farm animals. It asserts ground cob and corn mix yields similar returns to ground grain, aids digestion, and suggests cobs should not be burned or wasted. It mentions climate and variety selection affecting oat crops and notes experimental results and uncertainties in exact cob value.
A physician argues that patients resistant to milk can be led to digest a milk diet with tact. Start with a teaspoonful and gradually increase as souring and rejection fears fade, allowing careful dilution to build tolerance.
A farmer argues that dairy profits depend on uniformly high quality dairy products. He notes creamery butter sets higher market prices than farm butter and suggests improving farm butter to creamery standards could raise returns without lowering creamery prices. He urges cost reductions to achieve consistency.
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