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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1906
Page
3
The article extols drainage and irrigation under public control to transform the Kankakee marsh into productive farmland. It highlights cooperative farming, timber planting, and intensively cultivated plots, noting how location affects fruit storage, seed quality, and farm profitability. It covers labor dynamics, horse handling, wild game shifts to luxury, and the value of manure, nitrogen from air, and early corn planting practices.
The article argues for soil care and crop rotation to improve corn yields. It notes many fields suffer from neglect, urges more clover and intensive farming, and highlights feeding corn off in the field as common in England. It also reports rising expertise in Iowa and Ames with better breeding and higher yields through education.
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