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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1911
Page
7
An agrarian guide stresses summer lamb care to prevent backsliding growth. It urges early weaning, separate pastures, and strategic grazing like rape patches or cut hay to sustain lambs when ewe milk drops and pasture is scarce, ensuring healthy lambs by Christmas.
The speaker argues that fear of neighbors’ lies keeps a cultivator from using an umbrella, hindering work under the sun. He also notes that pure-bred sheep are increasing, signaling improvement across flocks.
A farmer described mowing a five acre field two years ago where grass and weeds had grown tall in an early season potato patch. The note implies ongoing weed overgrowth affecting cultivation.
The writer notes the first farmer cut and mowed potatoes before digging, yielding about 72 bushels per acre due to poor cultivation. A neighboring three acre field produced 718 bushels, illustrating how better farming could more than double output and inviting comparison of methods.
The article stresses growing clean timothy hay for market, with high pay relative to feeding value. It advises plowing early, thorough tillage, and even soil nutrients. Thorough mixing of mineral fertilizers, shallow placement, and moisture conservation are key. Seeding uses one-half bushel per acre, covered and rolled to promote quick germination.
The writer laments missing trim, clean bodied Morgan horses once seen pulling along country roads at 12 miles per hour. He contrasts with pig farming practices and criticizes farmers for producing poor market animals. The piece invokes a nostalgic image of sturdier work horses.
W. B. Kelly argues against continuous hauling of soil amendments. He contends soils can stay fertile by keeping grass roots nourished with chemical plant foods, maintaining humus on the field rather than transporting it.
Dr. Hopkins of the Illinois Station explains that crops are not made from humus. Humus aids plant food availability and moisture retention but does not feed plants itself. He warns that decaying organic matter is more valuable and that nitrogen is the key to the humus issue, with practical notes on soil and poultry yard management.
A farmer should fencing small ground to create hog pastures for potatoes and a patch of weed corn. Hogs fed on rape and grain outperform grain alone, gaining faster and producing more value. Wisconsin Experiment Station found rape plus pasture and corn feed yields more galon pork and healthier hogs. The note ends urging hiring skilled ditching and road work instead of individual road tax work.
A Michigan boy won a $10 cultivator prize at the National Corn Show in Omaha after earlier earning $16 in county prizes. He began corn culture inspired by a professor at the agricultural college, and in 1908 he planted 16 acres of corn and wheat with fine results. He notes that good corn has straight rows, well covered tips, and cobs nearly fully covered except for the last third.
Beekeeping guidance from B L Putnam urges providing a shallow water trough near hives to prevent drowning of bees and stock stings. Details cover construction with a wire screen, avoiding sharp edges, and ensuring a constant fresh water supply. The note explains bees will extract nectar from nearby flowers, produces golden rod honey, and honey must ripen two to three weeks before market, with proper storage in a cool dry space.
A Long Island farm showpiece by Edith Fullerton demonstrates a thriving four year old peach grove. She credits summer pruning coreing clean cultivation and nature's fertilizer for bumper yields. Experts note the trees were on land bought four years before harvest, not seven as thought.
Dodder in alfalfa fields threatens yields as seedlings spread from clover. New York Geneva station describes its impact and recommends using a 20 mesh sieve to remove seeds. A wooden frame with 20 by 20 mesh cloth can cost 16 to 20 cents, enabling cleaning of three to seven bushels per day.
Seed cleaning notes suggest that a small amount of dodder may be removed with minimal sifting while heavy dodder presence, especially large seeds, requires two strict siftings. Trials show dodder also filters out other weed seeds, broken seeds, dirt, and some alfalfa seeds, with batch sizes ranging from one to five pounds.
Ada Howie runs a dairy herd of pure Jerseys and reports better milk supply when cows hear music during milking. Tunes include Drink to Me With Thina Eyes and Going A-Milking Sir, while Coming Through the Rye signals evening milking. Mrs Howie or assistants accompany on guitar.
The text explains poisoning ground hogs with wheat soaked in strychnine or bisulphate of carbon and trapping at burrow entrances. It notes moss or material placed deep in burrows to release carbon dioxide, stressing deadly risk and the need to keep the bottle corked and away from inhalation.
A discussion on melon harvest timing, shading, refrigeration, and seasonality. Authors weigh ideal ripeness, impact of cooler temperatures on flavor, and the risks of over or under picking. The piece explains grading and branding to secure better prices and notes horses in government purchases and draft horse quality.
A fragment advises fruit producers to label packages with the farmer’s name and address for local and shipment markets. It emphasizes packing fruit in clean baskets and wrapping in paper to improve market appearance rather than for protection.
Onions thrive in rich, well drained loam avoiding heavy playas and stony soil. Best results come from muck lands mildly enriched and fallow before a spring top dressing of barnyard manure or compost plus a commercial fertilizer high in nitrogen phosphoric and potash. Wood ashes are valued for potash though careful sheltering is needed. Proper soil prep allows multi-year onion use. avoid weedy or diseased plots. Apples should be picked promptly when fully sized and colored to prevent drop.
The article contrasts traditional Indian wheat harvesting with American machines, noting natives use hooks and oxen-drawn threshing. It then explains dry farming in the West, the Campbell system evolving into scientific farming, and how large tracts are acquired to encourage settlement, preserving moisture via dust mulch and new tools.
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