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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
12
Red clover covers one eighth to one third of cultivated land across the North Central and Eastern states and the West. It thrives in milder winters but struggles in extreme North and far South. Used as hay, pasture, or green manure, it helps conserve soil and sustain staple crop yields.
Agricultural guide stresses red clover benefits for hay and soil nitrogen, warns on stand maintenance, seed quality, and common adulterants. It details sieving to remove weed and buckhorn seeds, plus a method using wetted sawdust to separate buckhorn from clover before sowing.
A report on the carrot rust fly, an import reaching twenty five years ago, attacking carrots celery and parsnips. It advises kerosene emulsion sprays to deter egg laying, late sowing for table carrots, crop rotation, and carbon bisulphide treatment of stored roots with caution due to fumes.
A compilation of farmer letters from Kentucky Ohio Tennessee Georgia Kansas North Carolina arguing mules are hardier cheaper to feed and longer lived than horses. Respondents stress mule strengths in heat steadiness and garden work while warning against long-legged ill built stock and noting regional suitability and preference.
A Wisconsin reader asks about growing dahlias in the North. The Grant County experience shows beautiful, low maintenance blooms. Plant tubers by June 1, deep spading and rich with rotted manure, and water with thorough soaking weekly.
A dark stall without company makes stallions moody and savage. Some stallioners ride a pony nearby to form attachment, keeping ponies in adjacent stalls at night. Some horses are too gavage for pony company but can be broken to it when young. Potatoes rot unless sprayed at least three times.
Experts report that 109 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda, under ordinary conditions, will raise yields for barley 400, corn 289, oats 400, rye 300, wheat 300, potatoes 3,000, hay 1,000, cotton 600, cabbage 5,000, onions 18,000, strawberries 200 quarts, asparagus 100 bundles, celery 30 percent, sugar beets 4,000, beets 4,000, sweet potatoes 900. They advise protecting flowering plants to delay seed production for late bloom.
Page as chairman of the American Association for Highway Improvement argues roads uplift prosperity and equality, saying urban and rural areas gain from better corridors. Taft joins the movement with prominent backers, urging public education on road value and long-term national interest.
Practical tips on sow management and piglet rearing, warnings against inferior sows, plus preservation of milk capacity. Reflections on conservative resistance to new farming ideas, road improvement benefits, and timely mulch use for grape vines. Mentions a 10 cent belt van as efficiency aid.
A driver, arraigned for working a galling mile, brought a veterinarian as a witness who testified the horse’s back sore did not pain it. The veterinary statement aided the defense in the court proceeding. The case reflects 19th century legal treatment of animal welfare.
The article discusses rising wood prices and dwindling supplies pushing paper makers to seek alternatives. It highlights conifer and broadleaf trees as well as non-tree crops like hemp and cotton hull fiber, explaining cellulose as the key pulp component and noting cost and availability challenges for wide newspaper use.
The article warns forests cannot sustain continuous overdrafts and that paper fiber must come from crops within years. It notes Lae Wiber and Indian corn byproducts as potential sources and urges prudent use of farm byproducts while noting pest threats like San Jose scale to watch for.
The article describes a Philippine threshing device with two bamboo baskets and a lever system to separate hulls from rice, noting Filipino labor has long relied on manual methods. It contrasts modern equipment with traditional practice and laments soil depletion, urging home and school education and scientific farming to restore land value.
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