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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
2
A collage of light anecdotes and facts from the Beaver Herald column includes a parrot’s taste for mastication, a bachelor in Korea wearing skirts until marriage, and a Norfolk coal man amassing gains. It cites Lord Strathclyde, Morgan’s $25,000,000 Bible purchase, milk bottle content, and street observations on fashion, wealth, and aging.
An agricultural note explains soy beans and cow peas as protein rich legume crops that improve soil, fix nitrogen, and fit into rotations with corn. They serve as green manure, hay, or grain, with cow peas often preferred for hay and beans valued for seed and feed. Planting should wait until after corn planting and warm soil.
The article outlines a farm water system with wind power as the common source, noting other options like gasoline and tread power. It describes elevating tanks on frost-proof walls, routing water from a tubular well through a garret tank to supply various uses, and keeping water fresh and pressurized as long as the well and windmill function. It also suggests placing main drinking tanks inside barns to prevent freezing and ease winter stock watering.
Think Tanks Wanted Every year Meyer demands useful farm articles. Agricultural colleges and farmers institutes have done much good. The thinking farmer is essential for profitable fertilizer use and better crops. Also tips on horse handling, dry leaves in hen house, preventing waste by stacking fodder for winter feed.
Farmers breeding grade draft horses err by focusing only on mating mares to heavy draft stallions. Proper results require not just selective breeding but ample feed, shelter, care, and handling. Undernourished stock underperforms, while well fed, steadily grown drafts command higher prices.
The text argues that opposite conditions speed growth, with full nutrition from foalhood to maturity producing 1,600 pound drafts by age two to three. It warns against rough feeding, advises winter rations of oats bran corn and dried blood meal or flaxseed, and stresses consistent breeding and feeding to avoid disappointing buyers. A breeder earned averages of 177 dollars for two-year-olds and 225 dollars for three-year-olds.
Professor P G Molden explains that within a single hill corn yields vary from a strong ear to a nubbin due to the genetic power of the parent plants. Selecting kernels from the best ears and sowing them should raise overall yield and reduce barren stalks across fields.
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