Conducting County Fairs Review Calls For Reform
A Farmers Review article by A. S. Alexander argues county fairs need better judges and clearer teaching. It praises Marathon county Wisconsin for post‑award talks that explain animal merit and urges preselected competent judges, strict class definitions, and elimination of grade or unworthy entries to educate growers and improve fairness.
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Marathon County
Wisconsin
Carlyle
Alexander
Farmers Review
Selecting the Calf for Raising
The article argues for careful calf selection to improve beef and dairy outcomes. It describes judging calves by conformation, hair, and digestive development, noting farmers often sell prime stock to butchers for short-term gains, harming long-term dairy and beef quality, and calls for better on-farm selection practices.
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Agricultural College
Still Inventing Milking Machines Still Inventing Milking Machines
The article argues milking by hand remains best despite ongoing invention efforts. It notes the Thistle machine dried cows and failed to imitate calf tongue, while a new German hand run device shows mixed results. Inventors claim success but the public remains skeptical. Poor seed and variable crops also loom as farming risks.
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Germany
Not Always the Most Productive Land Is Most Valuable
Two farms with identical soil can yield different crops due to management. A consistently high producer may exhaust soil fertility, while a less productive farm kept in good tilth can retain greater long term value. Cited example from Canada and Illinois shows flashy early yields can mislead buyers.
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W. J. Thompson
Canada
IlHnois
The Brook in The Pasture
Advice on managing pasture streams to keep cattle water clear and avoid swamp pollution. Emphasizes fencing or channeling small brooks, relocating troughs, and rotating pasture to protect summer water quality and prevent mud and contamination.
Fruit Juices Resist Cold Unevenly Across Fruits
A study by Professor Reynolds at Guelph tests how juice from apples plums pears peaches grapes and quinces freezes. Grapes resist cold best next pears while plums are least resistant. sweetness and other factors may govern freezing, not water content alone.
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Reynolds
Guelph
Forest Preservation Efforts Costing U.S. About $400000 Annually
The United States currently spends roughly four hundred thousand dollars each year on forest investigation efforts and related activities aimed at forest preservation and protection.
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United States
Ohio wheat tests show top yielding varieties and seed timing
An Ohio station reports twelve year wheat trials with leading varieties led by Mealy Gypsy Improved Poole Poole and others and notes Red Wonder Nixon and Valley excel in weight per bushel. Seeding timing impacts yields with September 22 and mid September dates yielding best results amid past Hessian fly impacts.
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Ohio
New Yorker
New Columbia
Stanley
Poole
Nixon
Rudy
Fultz
Health and disease resistance in animals and milk standards
The article explains that healthy animals resist disease only to a point and that large germ loads overwhelm germicidal blood corpuscles, risking herd outbreaks. It urges strict hygiene and separation during local cholera cases to limit exposure, noting milk fat variability and legal penalties for under three percent butter fat.
Flies Spread Typhoid Warns Science and Press
A Chicago Tribune report summarizes science showing house flies as major carriers of typhoid bacilli. It notes experiments with infected insects, army camp outbreaks, and Boer War findings, urging fly prevention measures like screens, fly paper, and vigilant food hygiene to reduce epidemics.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Spain
Variations in Fat Content of Milk
A discussion on the inconsistent fat content in milk within daily cycles. Researchers note constant long term fat but daily tests show wide fluctuations, citing Ingle's 700 sample study with morning fat around 3.2 percent and evening fat 4.5 percent, plus solids differences.
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England
Ingle
Get the Children Interested in the Study of Nature
D M De Camp urges increasing school days to 160 or 180 to spark interest in farming. He argues farmers must wake to farming as a noble, enjoyable, lifelong occupation and push educational reforms for real progress in rural life.
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D. M. de Camp
Poultry neglect by experiment stations prompts farm issues
The poultry business has been more neglected by the experiment stations than any other important branch of farm work, and there are as many unsolved problems connected with items with any other branch of farming.
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