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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1911
Page
3
Purdue University argues for aggressive early feeding to develop bone and muscle in colts. Emphasizes oats bran and timothy hay as core rations, limited corn, salt access, and ample exercise with clean conditions to assure durable growth and vigor.
The plan emphasizes counting available dairy cows before starting a creamery and warns against starting within reach of city milk plants. It outlines stock sales, meetings, officer selection, and the need for a skilled manager and buttermaker, plus stockholder cooperation and community spirit.
The article explains the codling moth’s life cycle from overwintering larvae to spring emergence and fruit damage. It emphasizes widespread spraying with Bordeaux mixture to combat infestation, outlines timing for three applications, and notes potential profits from careful orchard care and neighbor cooperation.
The article outlines common silo failures from careless filling to poor construction. It notes that earlier square and barn inlays failed without airtight joints and proper lining, warns on non airtight walls and decayed staves, and stresses rigid walls, proper height to diameter ratio, deep silos, and protection against freezing for better silage preservation.
A duckling cannot escape danger and becomes easy prey, while a chicken stays alert and runs to a hiding place at the first strange noise.
The English forced grape industry uses span-roof hothouses 100 to 800 feet long and 20 to 40 feet wide. Central and side piping, horizontal tubular boilers provide heat. Vines are planted three feet apart, with one or two leaders trained to the ridge. No returns expected for 3–4 years as vines establish before bearing.
A farming columnist argues that straight rows reflect good farming and pride, while crooked rows waste crops. He notes the need for rigid hitch to prevent crooked cultivation and suggests straight rows indicate a farmer’s character and diligence.
Professor Ten Eyck warns against burning pasture in late fall or early spring, calling it poor practice and potentially harmful to forage, soil, and grazing management.
A farm owner touts a ten horsepower gasoline engine as a labor saver and profit booster. It drives a corn shredder, wood-saw, water pump, cream separator, and grindstone via line shaft and pulleys. Portable on skids, it can be moved between locations by horses, reducing cost and labor compared with steam power.
When hog cholera appears on a farm, quarantine the herd and take all possible precautions to prevent spread to the surrounding area. The article urges swift isolation, sanitation, and reporting to authorities to safeguard neighboring farms and public health.
Agricultural guidance warns against close or late grazing as young plants require green leaves to foster vigorous root development and healthy growth.
The Pennsylvania station suggests grain rations used with success for fattening poultry. For yellow flesh cornmeal five parts, ground oats two parts, animal meal one part with sour milk. For white flesh cornmeal two parts, buckwheat two parts, oats two parts with sour milk. Barley meal two parts, middlings two parts, buckwheat two parts, corn meal one part with sour milk. Refuse from shredded wheat and sour milk. If confined, sour milk aids digestion and fever prevention. If milk is unavailable, provide animal or green food. If a bird loses appetite, turn it out in the yard to recover. Water once daily and grit twice weekly. Feed should be soft and removed twenty minutes after feeding.
Instructions describe a simple candling setup using a tin cylinder over a lamp to inspect eggs. Clear eggs are good, dark spots rings or lines mean bad eggs. If several days old with an air space, they aren’t bad and may be sold as seconds.
Instructions for poultry farming cover stocking density one hen per acre, culling cockerels, daily egg collection, nest dusting corner, selling excess breeders, keeping eggs in a cool dry place, preventing moisture, limiting outdoor time in storms, feeding oats bran and greens, avoiding corn for weight gain, and winter feeding with minced meat for layers. It also notes ideal pullet candidates ready by November 1.
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