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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1897
Page
8
Practical advice on using wood ashes as fertilizer, fighting crab grass early, protecting orange trees with water ice, and using brush burning to reduce pests. Notes on cutworms, weed control, soil pulverization to conserve moisture, and a quote from Waldo F. Brown.
The article urges gardeners to rotate crops and rest soil, noting clover green manures and avoiding weed buildup. It cites Japanese use of burdock as valuable food and describes orchard trials with plowing, sowing crimson clover, and pea cover crops, reporting healthier foliage and larger Baldwin fruit in cultivated sections.
An experienced New York apple grower discusses managing old orchards aged thirty to thirty five years that have grown grass or been in pasture. He recalls a 1895 experiment plowing one third of a ten acre field lightly to turn furrows and notes concerns about root pruning and potential tree injury.
The article offers practical dairy guidance covering separators, cow welfare, and feeding. It stresses variety in feed, alfalfa as a top grass, regular salt, clean utensils, and proper water. It advises against horn growth, notes calves' needs, and highlights teat care and gentle handling to prevent soreness.
A Michigan dairyman at an institute lists six reasons dairy farming dominates: control over production and distribution, a unifying and profitable art of farming, protection from destructive competition, precise forecast of gross receipts, winter dairying using cheaper labor, and butter returning fertility to soil while regions with butter farming remain fertile.
The author shares lessons from buying and selling butter, stressing neatness in packing. He describes prior poor packaging, brine leaks, improper salting, and miscoloring. By using oak tubs, proper salting, and a butter carrier with trays and prints, his product looked attractive and sold at market price. He plans to switch to this method until June, then store tubs for next fall.
Fragmentary quote urges people to favor careful work and neatness, suggesting compulsion to buy for a year or two would reveal the value of tidiness. Mentions Broome County and a Vincent.
A fragment advises on feeding and care for poultry including cleaning, lettuce greens for chicks, using charcoal, onion tops for all fowl, and resting hens after May. It notes avoid breeding after May except certain breeds, use air lime, and keep grasses nourished. For disease, it recommends culling and burning affected stock despite cruelty concerns.
A Farmers' Voice call urges farmers to raise pure bred poultry, noting most farms lack pure bred stock while hogs and cattle are often pure bred. It argues pure bred poultry costs less and yields higher revenue, urging owners to breed up their poultry to improve overall farm profitability.
A Farm Journal note describes a test with sixty two five month old pigs weighing 165 pounds fed corn and water for eighteen days. They gained an average of 1.5 pounds per day and consumed seven pounds of corn daily, yielding twelve pounds per bushel. Early gains reach 30-40 percent of feed weight, later about 20-25 percent, arguing against prolonged rough handling of hogs for bone.
Dr G Hamilton Griffin vanished from Wall Street after time promoting or controlling 18 companies since last summer with about 40 million dollars in capital. He presided over them all and nearly pulled off major swindling schemes. A London firm advanced 50000 on worthless collateral and West Asbury Park Water Co lost 26000 in bonds sold to innocent parties. He owed rent wages furniture and more upon disappearance. It emerged he was an ex convict who served a sentence in a British Columbia penitentiary for similar swindling.
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