Rice and Its By-Products in Southern Livestock Rations
Agricultural note describes how rice and by-products support livestock feeding in the southern states. It covers use of rough rice, rice bran, hulls, polish, and meals for horses, mules, steers, dairy cows, and hogs, noting price effects and milling yields and cautions about feed value when hulls and rancid bran are present.
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Rica
Rica Orion
Louisiana
Texas
Elswhere
South
Germany
Alaska Agriculture Prospects and Challenges in 1909
Alaska offers truck farming with strawberries selling 1.25 to 2 dollars per quart and cucumbers 2 to 5 dollars per dozen, but settlers should weigh high costs and climate. Government grain work at Rampart yields broad success, while Fairbanks farmers pursue market gardens and crops despite frost, wet summers, and extreme temperatures from 6% to 69 degrees below zero in winter.
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Alaska
Rampart Experiment Station
Eren
Fairbanks
Ram Port
Fulton River
Fort Egbert
Klondike
Coset Townaars
Sitka No Kodiak
Juneau
Barrel Handling and Farming Commentary
The passage describes making a movable barrel with two old shovel handles cut to length and angled to move it, plus a top-fastening with a large thread spool. It discusses keeping water in barrels covered and critiques farmers breeding scrub stock, questioning why feeding begn fails to pay profits.
Growing wood for fuel and forest value analysis
The document argues growing wood for household fuel while sustaining woodland growth. It advises removing dead wood, thinning for air and light, reseeding bare areas, and encouraging valuable species like oak, pine, hickory, and ash. It highlights forests' climate, air purification, and rising value of timber tracts.
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Valle
Dairy Records and Cow Care Proposals for Dairies
The piece argues dairy herd success hinges on proper feeding and record keeping. It envisions cow testing associations, annual production records, and organized dairying communities hiring a supervisor to manage the system. It predicts future dairymen will regret neglecting building cleanliness and cattle records.
A Clean Farm Dairy in Susquehanna County
A photograph shows the interior of a dairy room near a house in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania. Water from a spring feeds a trough where milk is placed in clean pails. walls are whitewashed and washed with hot water soda. The keeper emphasizes cleanliness and returning nutrients to the soil.
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Suesquehanna
Pennsylvania
Women Farm Hands Rise in Scottish Agriculture
Emigration to the United States and Canada shifts Scotland’s farm labor to women. Fruit and vegetable farms employ women and girls in planting, weeding, and harvesting with steady, contented work. Wages run 36 cents daily for full workers, harvest pay 60 to 72 cents for eight hours, while men do heavier tasks for 4.38 to 5.34 dollars per week with free housing. Alfalfa is praised as a profitable crop, and neat attire is linked to self respect.
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Scotland
United States
Canada
Homemade wagon jack plans described by Van Aken
A farm tool guide explains building a wagon jack from inch material two and a half feet long with a 2x3 inch lever. It details uprights, notches, bolts, mortises, and holes to enable lifting and lowering the front and hind wheels.
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Gylvanus van Aken
Ostrich Farming Emerges as Key South African Industry
The piece notes ostrich farming's rapid growth in Cape Colony and abroad, warning of possible plumes overproduction while high grade feathers promise expansion. It cites 1909 US imports of South African feathers at about 1.07 million dollars, and describes US and global involvement, California farms, and profits from hatching and plumage.
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Cape Colony
Europe
Madagascar
Argentine
New Zealand
California
Arizona
Florida
South Afric
United States
South Africa
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Los Angeles
Cawnton
Pacific Coast
Unhooking a Door From the Outside Technique
A described method uses a cord attached to a door hook passed through a door hole to outside the knob, allowing the hook to be removed and the door unable to be opened from outside. The text notes scattered frog farms in the United States with fenced ponds and roofed enclosures to protect small frogs from predators. There is growing demand in major markets for this delicacy.
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United States
Fall Seeding of Timothy and Giant Mexican Ranch
The article extols fall sowing of timothy to fit crop rotation and stabilize hay yields, noting timothy with fall wheat resists failure and aids clover, while mixed grasses improve hay quality. It also claims the world’s largest farm sits in Chi hauhuu Mexico, spanning 150 by 200 miles and 8 million acres with about a million cattle, 7000 sheep and 100000 horses.
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Chihauhuu
Mexico
Poultry Business Profitable in Sonora Mexico
Consul Alexander V. Dyes reports Sonora conditions favor poultry and egg ventures. Last year 119,089 dollars of US eggs entered Nogales and sold around 50 cents per dozen. mining towns paid higher inland. Chickens fetch 62 to 75 cents each, 3 to 4 pounds, with many mines raising their own stock. Dairymen overlook milk’s impact on consumption.
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Alexander V. Dyes
Novales
Sonora
United States
Nogales
Drainage System Planning and Tile Drainage Details
Drainage work guidance outlines when to replace or relay drains in Imany sojia with new schemes. It covers spacing depths soil types outfalls placement tile quality and pipe sizes for under drainage including two and three inch tiles and considerations for flood risk and maintenance.
The Use of Manure for Better Farm Returns
The article argues manure has value and should be valued at about two dollars per ton and better handled. Best method depends on housing. hauling daily to fields is preferred when cattle are in barns or sheds. Spreaders save labor, improve distribution, and often pay for themselves in a season.
Movable sheep hurdles from fencing lumber described
A description of portable sheep hurdles built from ordinary fencing lumber with panels 12 to 16 feet long and braces of the same material. The panels fit on uprights to prevent slipping, and the hurdles are moved to prevent sheep from overgrazing. It notes a 5 percent tax on gross proceeds from National Forests yielding $477,000 last year for schools and roads and ends with a farmer referencing inheritance.
Boll Weevil Awakens Louisiana Agriculture, Governor Says
Governor Sanders lauds the boll weevil in a Chicago address, crediting the pest with shifting Louisiana from only cotton to year round agriculture. He notes record bank deposits in 1910, rising corn and truck production, and the state’s climate enabling monthly harvests, transforming cotton from dominance to a smaller share.
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Gov. Sanders
Louisiana
Chicago
WHEN CAMPING OUT
When wishing to meet up a circulation of air try this simple plan. After closing the flaps insert a stick 18 inches long horizontally near the top and bottom between the flap. This spreads them apart and provides opening for ventilation. Sticks can be large or small and used as desired.
Farmer Reflects on Improvement in Farm Methods
An elderly Progressive farmer recalls starting with minimal wheat yield per acre and compares it to current gains. He stresses steady progress and urges farmers to fulfill their part, warning against breeding young stock to hasten maturity and noting fences and hogs as common discouragements.
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Acre
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J. M. Baltimore
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