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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
3
Pure bred poultry yields uniform products and higher profits with well managed brood coops, proper feed, clean water and ample exercise. For seed corn choose high yielding stalks, dry storage, and careful selection from best ears to improve future crops and farm efficiency.
Southern farmers seek winter crops for pasture and soil health and find advantages in Southern bur clover. It is a non true clover in the pea family, an annual that reseeds and tolerates diverse soils when inoculated, valuable as a winter cover to prevent erosion and add humus as roots decay in spring.
The article notes Western sheep from Western ranges dominate Chicago market receipts, with Merino characteristics evident in fleece and facial hair. Native sheep on Central Western Farms show less Merino blood, yet many natives now buy Western ewes, blurring breed lines. Lambs now constitute about eighty percent of receipts, with year round supply replacing the prior summer autumn peak, supporting steady consumption.
Instructions describe canning sweet corn beans peas and asparagus for winter use. Sterilize jars by boiling, fill with vegetables and water, loosely tighten lids, steam or boil in a water bath for hours across three days, with cold water rinses between.
A two year study details forage poisoning as the cause of a mysterious disease in horses, cattle, and mules. Moldy or damaged feed, damp seasons, and water spread the contagion. Prevention centers on removing moldy forage, drying stalls, and skimming damaged corn before feeding.
Men's ideas differ as to what will give their wives pleasure. One man buys a pipe for his wife’s birthday. If hauling a bushel of wheat a mile costs as much as 200 miles by rail, bad roads are an expensive luxury. A shed cost benefits farming tools. A wire fence isn’t a perfect wind barrier. While riding the sulky plow, think of wife at home washing overalls. Washing machines beat doctors’ bills.
A garden manure routine is poorly planned when left in a loose heap. Keep manure in a lided box or screened enclosure to prevent flies, spade it frequently so water drains evenly, and install a bottom spout leading to a sunken barrel to collect liquid manure for use with vegetables and flowers.
The red mite hides in hen houses and crawls to attack roosting fowls at night. Hundreds may prey on a single hen, then retreat to hiding places by day. They lie dormant in cracks, making detection by novices difficult.
The United States imported 3,779,041 trees and 15,040 pounds of tree seeds from Europe this year. Germany supplied the majority, with other sources including India, Japan, and Australia. The stock supports forestry, ornamental planting, and estate landscapes. Also noted are various fruit stocks and ornamental shrubs.
The Department of Agriculture dairy experts offer methods to keep milk cool without real ice. Use running water in a jar or pail, wrap bottles in damp cloths in shade, or build a simple ice box with sawdust, a wooden box, jar, or tin bucket, plus newspaper atop. Cracked corn may lightly aid cooling.
The changes to cattle scabies dips set new nicotine standards. The tobacco dip must contain at least seven hundredths of one percent nicotine. The earlier requirement of two percent flowers of sulphur is no longer mandatory with the new strength.
The United States grows fifteen leguminous field crops in varying importance, led by red clover alfalfa cowpeas alfalfa red crimson white Canada soy peanuts vetch velvet Japan bur clover and a few others less common such as sweet clover beggarweed and fenugreek. The piece notes experiments with many more and adds a water arithmetic example for wheat.
An old farm health note explains canker sore mouth in pigs, caused by bacillus necrophorus in nose and mouth scratches. It urges clean pens, fresh bedding, regular cleaning, and daily disinfectants. It covers nipping pig teeth at birth, treating lesions with caustic pencil, and twice daily permanganate swabs. Ensure eggs are fresh.
J B Van Metre describes moving a wire fence using wagon end alignment, a large iron pulley, bolt or crowbar anchored to ground, and a stake secured with rope. Steps include pulling the bottom wire, guiding the wire across roads or corners, and wetting the paste to ease pulling the posts.
An Effingham inventor proposes using airships to move Kanaas oil and wheat to market and has written to the secretary of state seeking support. The plan envisions airborne freight to revolutionize regional commerce and reduce ground transport costs.
A farmer notes neighbors who returned from Canada bemoaning government style and last year’s crop fluctuations in alfalfa and wheat. He says locals feel for the embattled migrants and suggests practical helps like watering pipes to homes even if distant, reflecting rural sentiment on farming life.
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