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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1899
Page
3
Potatoes Varieties and Planting in Cold Winters
The piece argues for careful potato variety selection based on yield tests, noting some varieties consistently produce half crops. It cautions against fad varieties, discusses soil suitability, and stresses that each farm must test multiple varieties. It also covers tree and fruit hardiness and critiques fading theories of frost injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Agricultural College
Farmers’ Review
Freeman
Improving Seed Yields Through Careful Selection
The Journal cites Texas Stock and Farm Journal and Kansas Experiment Station findings that selecting and cultivating seed can boost yields and quality like animal breeding. It notes gains from breeding corn and aims to enhance nitrogenous protein for better flesh production, while urging farmers to use the best seed and proper cultivation beyond corn crops. It cautions climate may cause seed degeneracy but argues seeds from adaptable stock remain preferable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Stock and Farm Journal
Kansas
Cause of Winter Killing In Orcharding Wisconsin
A reminiscence notes that extreme long cold periods in winters were a principal cause of injury to orchards, recalling an article written about thirty years ago on orcharding in Wisconsin. The author reflects on cold damage and its impact on fruit trees and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Tuttle
Wisconsin Horticulturist
Budd
Wisconsin
Silo construction tips and dairy poultry guidance
Practical notes from a agricultural column discuss silo building with 2x10 or 2x12 studs, earthen floors, and tongue grooved interior lining. It covers freezing entrapped silage, quick handling, and cost on a farm. The piece also weighs milk versus cream economics, with skim milk value and labor costs, plus a Poultry section on pneumonia in chicks and open front housing as a preventive measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying
New Jersey Farming Leaders Ponder Milk Market Changes
Secretary Franklin Dye of New Jersey’s State Board of Agriculture argues farmers overemphasize milk for the New York market as urban prices sag. He notes rising cow costs, stagnant breeding costs, and considers sheep and grain farming as better profits. He advocates producers' and consumers' leagues to balance city demand with farmer profits. There are 40,000 farms valued at $160 million and over 100,000 farming voters in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Dye
New Jersey
Dye
Pneumonia in Fowls Defined and Causes
An article defines pneumonia in fowls as an acute infectious lung inflammation also called lung fever or winter fever. The disease is caused by a specific germ and requires conditions such as cold damp exposure, sudden weather changes, and coddling or confinement of fowls to develop.
Failures In Poultry Raising Warn of Risk and Caution
The article argues water finds its level in business including poultry. It cautions that many enter the poultry field on optimistic assumptions and lose capital, urging careful, gradual entry, prudent management, and the need for brains, money, and experience to achieve profits.
Poultry Pasturage and Clover in Winter Rations
The article urges providing hens with pasturage like a small clover patch or bluegrass sod, protected until established. It notes hens will quickly ruin early spring sod and recommends clover fed steamed with ground feed, corn meal, bran, and middlings. It also covers unripe cheese versus fully ripened cheese for digestibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Spring Manuring For Immediate Crop Gains
Old time fall manuring is still common for winter wheat but spring applications of coarse manures gain favor for clean cultivation crops. Field practice should couple ammonia with potash and phosphates to prevent loss, as quick-available nutrients optimize growth and reduce foliage waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Garwood
Michigan Fruit Prospects Report Warns of Heavy Peach Losses
The state report says peach buds destroyed 50 to 75 percent across Michigan with 25 to 75 percent mortality inland and in northern regions. Pear plum and sweet cherry fare poorly while sour cherry and apple trees hold. strawberries survive with snow cover. potatoes suffer 25 to 75 percent losses in pits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Lakes Erie
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Y'S
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Sanborn
Dr. Woods
Illinois State Dairymen’s Association
Montana
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