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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1911
Page
11
Farmers can build sanitary, affordable barns by focusing on site specific plans, proper drainage, sunlit interiors, and effective ventilation. Emphasizes grass roots design, open windows to ceiling, and keeping cattle out of mud to reduce disease risk and improve milk quality.
A simple farm gate design is described that resists sagging after months of use. By nailing barbed wire at the bottom and smooth wires at the top, it can turn swine and larger stock. Solid, firmly set posts, painted to extend life, ensure durability. the gate is hammer and nail built with a saw and no improvised parts, doable by any handy man.
A farmer column stresses the importance of sunlit poultry houses with windows to prevent frozen eggs in cold weather. It advises including live earth for grit, dust baths, and a diet of meat scraps, bone, liver, vegetables, oyster shell, and milk. Regular morning feeding and varied meals like hot buckwheat cakes are recommended for healthier hens.
Top-working apples and other fruit trees gains favor to improve stocks and disease resistance. The article explains grafting and budding methods including whip grafting and shield budding, timing, tool use, wound wrapping, and care for new growth on young and old trees.
A running water system on a farm boosts comfort and sanitation, saves labor, and increases dairy and beef yields. Estimated setup can cost around 200 dollars including a windmill, pipe, cistern, and fittings, offset by annual savings and health benefits. Farmers with such systems report clear financial and practical advantages over leaving water access limited.
Instructional note urging farmers to sanitize hen houses and surrounding areas to improve laying. Advises using white wash, kerosene spray, and insect powder on pullets, with two workers handling birds to apply powder thoroughly. Recommends treating roosts and cracks to kill mites and lice.
Discussion on silage quality for sheep emphasizes sweet dry forage. Thickly planted corn cut early is poor for sheep. dent-stage corn harvested at dent yields healthful gains. Pairing clover hay with six-age silage allows cheap fattening. keep litter dry to prevent foul odor through constant chick movement and aeration.
A rectangular frame six feet wide ten feet high uses 4x inch material to form a feeder frame and track support for a feed carrier from the barn to the point marked T. The 16 inch high bin opening is six inches. Studding from 2x4 inch material placed four feet apart supports the bin sides. Experiments show jitter-fed chicks often gained more than hand fed birds given identical rations.
The article explains California and other states vast dried fruit production. It details labor by women and girls, sulfur fumigation to bleach and speed drying, salting trays, and transport to drying fields. It notes apricot and cherry crops, peach and prune processes, packing, sorting, washing, and box pressing before retailer sale.
Analyzes the farmer's costs and risks from production to delivery, arguing farmers bear capital and risk while distributors add margins. Notes limited farmer consumer direct buying, cites English cooperatives and scarce U.S. farmer buyer groups. Points to potatoes as a price example with farm prices far lower than city costs, suggesting consumer action is needed.
San Francisco boasts the nation’s biggest windmill at the western edge of Golden Gate Park near the Pacific coast. The 75 to 100 horsepower device pumps water to reservoirs around the park, its vanes span 206 feet when swinging, and its erection cost about $30,000. A Washington poultry farmer uses parrots guarding against hawks and rats, but their screeches frightened away the rats and saved his business.
About forty typhoid cases were traced to milk from a Worth Illinois dairy farm. The farm owner recently had four typhoid cases in his family, including a death. Chicago authorities barred the farm’s milk until corrective actions were taken.
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