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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1910
Page
4
A low cost farm device converts an old wheel axle into a water and barrel carrier. By bending the axle into a semicircle and adding a simple frame and hooks, a barrel can swing and be carried easily across the farm. The design uses two handles, two iron hooks, and a molasses barrel to lift, balance, and transport water or mash without horses or wagons.
Joseph Gray of Long Eaton England describes Pott queen cages for bee handling. He notes a half inch end candy hole a side center compartment and perforated metal covers with a hinge screw. The design prevents escape and clothing snag and allows easy queen transfer from nucleus to cage.
A noted gardener recommends a fertilizer mix for Biran berries including 600 pounds per acre of tankage or Peru guano, 1,600 pounds of fine ground bone, 400 pounds of low grade sulphate of potash, and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda, to be applied after plowing and before setting plants. Additional brood dried applications include 260 pounds per acre of dried brood, 600 pounds of slag and 1,900 pounds of nitrate of soda, with slag applied separately to avoid ammonia loss.
Thousands of dollars worth of weeds are imported yearly for medicine making. Wild mustard burdock jimpson dandelion and similar plants, nuisances to farmers, are sold to chemists in large quantities. A quarter of a million dollars was paid last year for 5,000,900 pounds of wild mustard.
Two unmarried women in New Jersey accumulated 460 in two years by buying buildings and breeding pigeons, but later quit their aquab taling job amid a failed venture.
A Missouri reader argues for mutual courtesy on public roads. Farmers should accept motor traffic as permanent and motorists should slow and aid frightened horses, with drivers walking horses past if needed. He urges gentleness to ease road tensions and notes motorists helped push better roads.
A collection of aphorisms on farming, weather, discipline, dairy efficiency, and humor. It offers advice on staying positive amid bad weather, selecting productive tasks, weeding out poor cows, managing finances, and balancing work with sense and wit. It also critiques attitudes toward work and education in agricultural colleges.
A practical guide on proper tile drain installation stressing outlet depth, bottom alignment, and careful laying techniques. It warns against shallow outlets, gaps, and stamping tiles, notes crawfish danger from unpatched holes, and recommends precise work, straight courses, and using flat stones to keep debris out.
Hog cholera begins with one or two sick hogs showing nondescript symptoms. As more hogs become ill, transmission rises and a herd can rapidly succumb. Acute cases feature fever, sluggishness, loss of appetite, eye inflammation, and sometimes diarrhea with purplish skin blotches. chronic cases mirror acute signs but with prolonged decline and emaciation. Post mortem confirmation is advised.
The Chicago Tribune reports 35 000 acres of Georgia farm lands purchased for a Jewish agricultural movement begun in 1880. The plan aims to recruit Jews unhappy with city life and offer a wholesome farming path. This marks the first concrete step to secure property for colonies to start operations, with financiers examining optimal methods and purchases seen as imminent. Young hogs can be fattened more profitably than older stock.
A tip notes that when sap or syrup flows slowly in cold weather a bent metal rod or glass tube inserted in the container above the equator helps draw the supply. The method halves the time needed to obtain the desired quantity.
Reading notes warn that feeding corn stalks to cattle requires care to avoid woody parts the pigs leave behind. Pigs enjoy chewing stalks for sweetness but the remaining fiber can cause impaction in cattle, especially young stock. Do not let cattle into yards where swine receive corn stalks. Occasional oats are relished by brood sows. easier digestion yields better gains.
The soybean, native to southeast Asia, is valued as a forage crop in the United States, especially south of the red clover region. It competes with cowpeas, adapts to warm cotton and corn belts, tolerates drought better than cowpeas, and requires suitable fencing to protect against rabbits in arid areas. It matures earlier varieties in the north, with high yields in warmer southern regions.
The article urges farm women to use new affordable inventions to ease cooking chores and avoid overburdening themselves. It notes that insufficient kitchen help is common on farms and that many housewives wear themselves out, losing energy and vitality.
Western stockmen outline a thorough weanling and early grower plan. Start in a roomy box stall with wheat straw bedding and fresh milk, gradually introducing grain and supplements. By six to eight weeks, milk is phased out, fats rise with middlings and oil meal, then oats and bran plus occasional corn. At one year, a draft colt may consume 2.5 to 3 gallons of feed daily.
The article lists six feed formulas for milk cows using ingredients like bran, middlings, gluten feed, corn meal, cottonseed meal, and malt sprouts. Each recipe gives proportions and a daily feed quantity in quarts, plus a note to keep pigeons’ lofts clear of bolts to prevent injuries.
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