Selection of Breeding Swine and Ideal Hog Type Insights
The article argues breeders should focus on the pure objective of high feed efficiency to produce pork. It critiques extremes, praises the Tamworth as closest to primitive form, notes its bacon-curing appeal, and contrasts with lard hogs and Berkshire trends. It cites Breeder's Gazette on Tamworths' length, depth, and lean meat.
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Ejuch
Bree
Breeder's Gazette
Corn Belt
Berkshire
Tamworths
A Simple Test For Suspected Spavin In Horses
A method to detect spavin when lameness is not obvious. Have a horse haltered and trotted after lifting and holding the hind leg near the belly, then dropping it to provoke a temporary limp followed by rapid recovery. Dr. A S Alexander cites National Stockman.
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A. S. Alexander
National Stockman
Wool Markets Guidance on Wintering Sheep Sheds
Good sheds are essential for wintering sheep, not expensive but well ventilated and on dry ground. Provide a large open yard for exercise, avoid overwarm confining stables, and ensure regular feeding ample water and salt to secure healthy lambs in spring.
Angora Crosses and Wool Markets Report
The article notes that many goats labeled Angoras are Angora crosses with common goats. Crosses prove good stock after being bred with pure bred bucks for four or five generations. It also mentions wool markets and sheep.
Treatment For Enlarged Joint In Horses
Prescription for a horse leg enlargement involving blistering with red iodide mercury four parts to one part mixture. Apply for fifteen minutes, rub in, then tie the horse to prevent it biting the leg for several days. Farm and Ranch.
A Tale of Disposition and a Wedding Trap
The narrator recounts a summer test of temperament with Miss Caroline Kennedy, detailing a volatile project of living together to reveal true dispositions. Missteps and tempers rise as the house ordeal unfolds, culminating in a wedding where Miss Kennedy reveals she staged a trap to test him.
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Miss Kennedy
Thomas Barber Judson
Farm fodder handling and fence post setup guide
The passage describes methods for handling shredded fodder in barns or outdoors. It outlines stacking fodder, using straw for topping, and constructing a long narrow wire rock. It also gives post setup guidance with posts six to eight feet high, two parallel rows five feet apart, and a lower frame one foot wide and two feet shorter than the posts.
How to Build a Shredded Fodder Rack
Instructional passage outlines assembling a shredded fodder rack using rails poles or scantling. Describes frame spacing eight inches top and bottom, wire passing around nails, driving large headed nails, filling rack, and topping with roof boards straw or thatch. Notes racks can be very long and hold several tons and that the roof can be raised by longer posts.
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Ohio
Asparagus Varieties and Fertilizer Tests Favor Palmetto
A. T. Jordan of the New Jersey Experiment Station reports six years of asparagus trials comparing commercial fertilizer and manure. Palmetto leads in disease resistance, early and total yields, and returns. Elmira is second. Commercial fertilizer alone gives the best yields at lower cost, while manure costs more despite high yields. adding bone or nitrate steps up costs with no yield gain. Palmetto outperforms Elmira by over 32 percent in six-crop averages, with Palmetto’s cash advantage about 111 dollars per average crop and 222 in 1903. Manure is the most expensive option with the lowest return per dollar.
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A. T. Jordan
New Jersey
Donald Elmira
Elmira
Bernard Benrbe
Goodell
JR. McWhorten
Anitia
Texas
Donald Aerosekrans
St. Johns
Mich
J.T. Jolly
Juniata, Ky
Lambs For Market And Winter Flock Management
Farmers urged to start fall and winter feeding early to prevent emaciation. Dr Wittycombe of Oregon advises separating ewes, housing lightly, and feeding oats at first frost. Plan early lambing by January end with ample grain post lambing and careful lamb rearing for high market prices.
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Wittycombe
Oregon
Tomato raising with trained plants in Michigan study
L. R. Taft and M. L. Dean state trained tomato plants allow closer planting and yield better quality. In very wet years they can ripen a good crop where ordinary plantings fail. No major difference in maturation time between field grown seed and greenhouse started seedlings.
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L. R. Taft
M. L. Dean
Michigan
How Tall Must a Hay Stack Be to Weigh a Ton
An exchange notes that hay weight depends on stack height, hay type, season, and moisture. To find tonnage, determine the stack’s feet and the cubic feet per ton, with figures ranging from 343 to 612 cubic feet per stacked ton. Bottom of large stacks may require 8348 cubic feet per ton, while the top may need 512. A square 16 feet wide stack built straight up and capped typically needs 400 to 450 cubic feet.
Rural New Yorker on unskilled labor and home work limits
The Rural New Yorker notes that modern industry offers little room for unskilled home workers, citing women in the city paid 9 cents per hundred buttonholes and 85 cents per dozen fluish overalls. It mentions forecasts of potato prices near the dollar within four months and details New York state farmers institutes from Nov 21 to Dec 24, plus broader institute sessions. It also reports increased foreign demand for apples, rye crop prospects above ten year averages, and Professor Haecker’s view that food and comfort drive harvester success.
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New Yorker
New York State
Geneva
Haecker
Minnesota
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Angora
Caroline Wennely
Sumer
Toran
Ilo
ACFAR
Wiere
Swanson
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
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Lake Street
Teace
The
California
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Los Angeles
E. L Palmer
Pass
Equitable Building
Des Moines
Great Central South
G. A. Park
General Immigration and Industrial
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Louisville
Mason
Transfer & Storage Co
Nickel Plate Road
Buffalo
Ft. Wayne
Findlay
Cleveland
Erie
New York
Boston
Chamberlain
Dr. King
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