Maintaining Fertility of Clay Soils with Humus and Phosphorus
The article explains how heavy clay soils need humus, nitrogen, and phosphorus to stay fertile. Natural humus is scarce in wooded areas but built up in prairie soils by grass roots. manure alone cannot restore all organic matter. Growing clover and alfalfa, turning them under, and using legume crops increases humus and nitrogen. Phosphorus is often depleted on livestock farms, but can be maintained with bone meal or phosphate fertilizers and by preserving organic matter through clover incorporation.
Pleasure in Fruit Growing
A column extols country living and the joys of agriculture. It urges city dwellers to seek nature, explains how familiarity with the country deepens appreciation, and cites Thoreau and Danish agrarians. It notes the bond with trees, offers fruit growing as a path to companionship with nature, and closes with anecdotes on farm life and poultry care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoreau
Walden Pond
Mother Earth
Rackham
Wildlife breeding and game laws highlighted in annual report
The Biological Survey annual report notes fur bearing animal farming in captivity, high black fox prices concentrating breeding, limited mink trials with the National Zoo, and rising muskrat value on Maryland's eastern shore. It warns antelope extinction risk, buffalo numbers up 44 percent on the National Bison Range, and expanding bird refuges. Regulation tightens on plumage sales and Alaska game refuges, with cutters enforcing walrus protections in the Bering Sea.
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The
Biological Survey
Wilson
United States
National Zoological Park
Maryland
California
Bureau
Farallon Islands
Laysan Island
Hawaii
Jalan
Alaska
Bering Sea
New Cabbage Pak-choy Promises Garden Value
A New cabbage Pak-choy closely resembles ordinary cabbage and has been grown with success in the United States. The plant features white stalks and inner leaves like lettuce, usable raw or cooked, excellent for autumn crops in temperate climates, and benefits from blanching as it matures. It deserves a place in home and market gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Isonn
Exercise Care In Buying Trees And Turkeys
Advice warns buyers to deal with reputable nurseries for quality trees at fair prices and avoid unscrupulous sellers with diseased stock. It notes that one-year-old trees are ideal for transplanting, while older stock risks transplant shock and higher costs. Also cites Prof Blanton's electric hatchery method, claiming improved turkey propagation and disease resistance.
Washing and Salting Butter Techniques from a Farm Guide
A farm handbook outlines butter washing with pure water, matching wash water to buttermilk temp, and avoiding extremes to prevent soft or brittle butter. It advises one ounce salt per pound, warns against coarse salt, stresses clean storage, and recommends paddles over bare hands to avoid contamination and quality loss.
Good horse sense on bedding and stall safety
Old corn fodder bedding is better than stalks for comfort and spreader use. Pregnant mares should be kept in box stalls, but in mild weather they should be in open sheds day and night. Each mare needs a tied feeding place to prevent crowding and waste. feed from racks, not regular troughs, to reduce kicking and gobbling.
Sheltered yard for colts proposed in winter report
A winter measure recommends a sheltered yard for colts to run and exercise daily when weather allows. A Censtra report notes no material changes in the sheep industry over the past decade. The text cites Tasponsathia as a factor in slow sheep industry growth.
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Censtra
Planting English Walnut Trees and Lawn Care
English walnut trees need no special soil but should avoid low wet sites. Plant 40 to 50 feet apart with a cultivation plan that includes corn or potatoes as a payoff before nuts bear. Practice between fall and spring, trim interfering branches, spade around the trunk, add manure after year one, and stop cultivation after early August to harden growth.
Raymond farmer wins traction engine sweepstake at dry farming congress
At the Seventh International Dry Farming Congress in October the $2,400 traction engine sweepstake prize for the best bushel of hard wheat drew 183 competitors. Winner Henry Holmes of Raymond, Alberta, sold 400 bushels of his Ataranis seed wheat for $4 per bushel and declined a $7,000 offer for the winning bushel, distributing it free among farmers, grain growers, and government reps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Holmes
Raymond
Alta
Hutchel
Hints for Tilt Sheep Raiser in Market
A compact tip list urges focusing on well conditioned ore and even top quality lots. It emphasizes growing protein feeds on the farm and suggests a watchful eye plus practical experience as requisites for successful marketing. More sheep are needed on farms.
Concrete Cisterns On Top Of Ground
An article describes building a top-of-ground concrete water cistern to supply a house with soft water. It outlines materials mix ratios using cement sand gravel, reinforcing rods, and timber forms, and provides step by step construction details for a 8 by 8 foot cistern. The method emphasizes avoiding pumping by piping water directly into the house and notes curing time and ornamental options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brent
Government Buys Stallions for Military Horse Breeding Plan
The Department of Agriculture and War officials appoint advisory agents for Thoroughbreds American Saddle horses Standardbreds and Morgans to guide stallion selection under a 50000 appropriation. Thirteen stallions have been purchased including Gold Jicels Young BU Fair Acre King and Prince M with notable lineage and racing or show records. More purchases expected through winter.
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Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of War
Henry Fairtax
Virginia
Co. L. Bailey
Kentucky
Bureau of Animal Industry
the Lord
Golden King
Bourbon Chief
Plex Peavine
King Chard
MacNunne
Mace Dougall
Nunne Sigler
Red Medium
Maud Sigler BeGue
Wiggins
Lady Cres
Twilight M
Delmont, Jr
May Fry
Lord Rion
Arion
Madge Fullerton
Daniel Webster Lambert
Joe Allen
Madison Lambert
Lambert B. Prince M
Ethan Allen
Topsy MM
Common
Charcot
Isonomy
England
Carmen
Colorado Stud
Robert McGregor
Sigler
Prince M. Ethan Allen
Vermont
Enriching tie lot and waste manure advice
Do not rob the land continuously and give nothing back to it. That method has been tried very often. It does not pay. Do not let the manure pile up behind the barn and go to waste. Sell it out on the fields. It will do more good then.
French Way of Dressing Fowls
The French poulterer kills his fowls by a swift neck dislocation near the head. Dressing starts immediately as the body cools. Legs and wings are tucked, the bird placed breast down on a board, and a moist cloth set on the back to impart a fine grain. A weight ensures market flatness before the cooled birds are packed in crates or cages for shipment.
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E. J. Delwiche
Nelson
Pennsylvania
Pedder
H. C. Thompson
F. Rasmussen
Vorua
Huble
Tilt Sheep Raiser
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