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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1897
Page
8
Correspondence discusses optimizing dairy operations through balancing milk quantity and quality, selecting cows suited to rational feeding, and ensuring supplementary feeds during low pasture. It covers forage crops like clover, rye, oats, and corn, silo use, grain feeds, regional crop variations, and year round strategies to stabilize milk yield and improve butter and cheese output.
A guide on proper cow care and milker selection emphasizes quiet temperaments, cleanliness, and routine. It notes that skilled milking increases fat content and milk value, recommends separate milking spots, and warns that disturbance lowers butterfat. It also outlines profit via efficient feeding and modern practices at Hood Farm for calf raising and early growth.
The article outlines a plan for improving Jerseys through careful feeding, proper handling, ample air, sunlight, and exercise. The goal is to develop animals with robust constitution and increased capacity at the pail and churn.
Advice for poultry farmers covers selling older fowls before moulting, feeding management with bones, best fences, damp floors, lime for laying hens, free range during moulting, and raising good varieties. It warns against careless market prep, stresses wholesome daily feed, caponizing goals, and avoiding over pampering that harms fertility and stock quality.
The article explains raising chicks by hen and hen brooding, with chicks kept in screened box coops, fed bread, rice, corn, meat scraps, and greens. Coops are cleaned, lice prevented, and four week old chicks given liberty with the flock under supervision.
Growing chicks should be separated by size with the largest, middle, and smallest groups kept apart. Provide free range and avoid overcrowding at night to prevent sweating and boost growth. Proper separation and spacing improve strength and health in the flock.
Chicks must be kept active and fed to maintain growth through the day. Use a morning mash and a varied grain mix spread widely to encourage scratching and gradual crop filling, avoiding gorging at once for steady health and vigor.
A low iron kettle or a moderately high earth crock serves well for watering fowls. Purchase for five to eight cents at most grocery stores. Place the dish on a box eight to ten inches high to let fowls mount while drinking, keeping water clean and straw from scratching it. Fowls need ample space as they act as scavengers and benefit from exercise while feeding on insects.
A staunch attack on landowners for monopolizing land and denying common rights. It argues land ownership is a social theft that robs birthright, inflates unearned gains, and sustains injustice. The piece denounces vested rights as a moral wrong and calls for restoration to the victims of land speculation.
The speaker warns against appealing to unjust law and asserts that true justice comes from the people's will and divine hand. He speaks of restoring human rights and ending inhuman wrongs, urging readers to abandon hope in oppressive injunctions as the landless seek justice.
The column shares aphorisms on mortgage prosperity, truth vs falsehood, populist reform, sugar trust protection, public officials’ honesty, plutocracy, and revolution talk by Wanamaker. It discusses labor, bread, and a critique of indolence, then turns to fence posts durability in sandy soil, garden notes on cucumber planting dates, and pruning vines to maximize plant food efficiency. It ends with a Ram’s Horn fragment criticizing churchgoers angered by sermons on sin.
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