27 Oct 1896
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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1896
Page
1
A fragment lists officers and committees for the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union with names and locations across states. It includes president Mann Page of Brandon Virginia and various officers from Pennsylvania, Colorado and North Carolina, along with judiciary and state alliance details and member newspapers referenced.
Early sown winter rye provides fall and spring pasturage for all stock. Manures linger longer than commercial fertilizer. Last days to repair farm buildings before cold weather. Farmers urged to grow home sustenance and use movable fencing. Covnch bugs and other pests winter in debris along fences. Girls on farms deserve weekly allowances. Avoid bragging about next season's crop. focus on current practices. Emphasizes energy and knowledge over blank theories. mentions improving farming through shared counsel.
An English chemist notes that ten gallons of urine contain as much nitrogen as seven pounds of nitrate of soda, thirty four pounds of bone meal, or seven hundred twelve pounds of white turnips. The piece discusses waste from liquid manure in barns and recommended practices for absorption and fermentation and also advises on currant cuttings and winter protection to ensure rooting and survival.
October corn condition at 90.5 percent with September 91. Wheat yields show 119 bushels per acre, six tenths below 1895 preliminary. Quality 84.4 percent, down from 85.7. drought and heavy rains blamed. Regions from Ohio to Kansas worst. New Jersey Maryland and Rocky Mountain Valley fair. Oats 24.3 bushels per acre. rye 13.3. barley 25.6. buckwheat 86. Potatoes Irish 81.7. tobacco 76.9. Also includes notes on farming resilience, bee management, and ice house construction ideas.
A man proposes using bees as message carriers in England. He trained bees to carry small paper packets with mock dispatches, bound to their backs, and released them to return home. The idea relies on warm weather and would beat pigeons for invisibility and crossing lines.
A Cornell horticultural experiment shows bees wintered in a tomato house do not fertilize flowers and attempt to escape. Recommendations include moth protection for combs, keeping bees lightly handled, and arranging hive openings to maintain brood chamber heat.
Agricultural note from Massachusetts Plowman on strawberry planning. Avoid white grub losses by prep and fall plowing. Three year cycle: land prep, plant growth, and manure. Safe winter protection with meadow hay preserves berries and cleanliness.
The article discusses low dairy prices, urges improvements in butter and cheese production, and advises culling poor cows, buying a thoroughbred butter bull, and better dairy management. It highlights dairying as a profitable, fertility-boosting part of a mixed farm and notes feed and housing practices for poultry.
The article explains dairy cattle require two thirds of a full ration for basic life functions and only the remaining third contributes to profit. It warns against cows with small appetites or low milk flow and urges testing such animals promptly to prevent losses.
G O Jackson argues humane care for Jersey and other dairy breeds extends productive years. Neglect in winter and harsh conditions hasten decline, while generous feeding maintains strength, keeping cows profitable into twelve or thirteen years.
Hoard's Dairyman warns that improper handling from maker to consumer ruins cheese through rushed aging and misuse of cold storage. Proper curing lasts months and moisture must be maintained. A Massachusetts farm demonstrates efficient manure disposal by draining liquids to a cesspool and distributing solids to fields.
An English farm paper recounts a method to relieve cattle chokes using a four foot wooden stick with forked prongs wrapped in yarn and cloth, greased with lard, inserted to push food into the stomach. The writer claims rapid relief, recounting a night call where the animal choked on a potato and began eating within minutes.
In Texas Farm and Ranch, H B Geer extols the egg as highly productive and versatile. He notes eggs confer vitality for invalids, enrich baking and table dishes, assist industries from druggists to winemakers, and have cooling healing properties for burns. He asserts egg virtue and production as essential.
Farmers should select winter layers now by ensuring hens complete molting before cold weather. Molting takes about three months, during which hens do not lay as minerals are redirected to feathers. Feed should emphasize meat and bone with milk, seeds, and linseed meal. grain alone causes fattening and poor winter lay. If molt not finished by September or December in some climates, dispose of birds likely to be unprofitable.
A pig complains he cannot eat corn due to missing teeth while a hen nearby jokes that the bird lacks a gizzard, in a humorously anthropomorphic exchange from the Chicago Tribune.
Correspondence from the Progressive Farmer dated Oct 15 1996 notes Pamlico County Alliance met on the second Thursday in October with two subsidiaries absent. The writer Jooun W Aldridge reports endorsing Bro Iveys plan and plans to raise funds, including a sub with eight male members pledging 900 in thirty days.
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