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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1897
Page
8
Orchard advice covers planting, grafting, pruning, and soil care. Emphasizes quality over quantity, cross pollination, mixed varieties, and careful pruning to boost fruit yield. Warns about adulterated Paris green and Colorado spray rules for bees during blooming.
The article explains apple scab disease from spores on leaves and fruit, how spraying with copper sulphate and lime in spring helps, and that regular spring and summer sprays protect trees even in off years. It urges consistent care to avoid future losses and notes prices in agriculture.
Three mustard family plants have appeared in several northern U.S. and Canadian localities over four years. They are starting to spread in grain fields meadows and cultivated land and are already aggressive in some areas. Farmers should watch for them and destroy on sight to prevent damage.
Damaged excerpts advise on horse care dairy cows sow breeding and pig management. Tips cover feeding grooming milk extraction keeping sows and piglets and value of bran corn butter eggs and chickens on a farm. Includes remarks on breeding age sow longevity and early piglet weaning while stressing regularity cleanliness and sensible farming practices.
Kentucky saddle horses are praised for beauty and charm with a roan gelding near Lexington exemplifying refined carriage and tail movement. Tail carriage linked to Denmark grace and Arab ancestry, suggesting a shared trait with English thoroughbreds.
A historic guide notes hens cannot lay daily for long and explains rest periods, moulting, and spring start after cold weather. It urges whitewashing hen houses to kill lice, proper shell nutrition, and fresh food for ducklings. It cites Edward Atkinson on egg production value and advises charcoal, meat, and bone meals for egg producers. It mentions cholera in chickens and turkeys in early stages.
Correspondence on dairy economy describes Leslie Fuller of Bramans Corners Schenectady County converting skim milk from a portable creamery into cottage cheese using a Swedish cream-raising method. He produces about ten pounds per dozen, ships weekly to Amsterdam clients, and reports $100 per 100 pounds of skim milk as revenue with whey fed to calves.
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