How to Fight the White Grub in Strawberries
A New England horticulturist outlines practical methods to control white grubs in strawberry beds. He recommends locating grubs at plant roots, removing affected plants, dusting tobacco dust at the roots, applying air-slaked lime, and thorough tillage. If land shows grubs, delay planting for two years and use hogs or poultry to aid cleaning, especially after plowing sod land.
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New England
Veal
Timothy
New England Authority
Rearing Young Pigs for Early Weaning and Health
Practical guidance on sow and litter management emphasizes early feeding, clean pens, limited rations, and avoiding old feed. Separate farrowing areas, provide space and exercise, and consider forage crops like alfalfa and clover for pasture. Proper hog pasture boosts soil fertility and winter root crops.
Uncle Sam's Big Ditches by C S Miller
The piece praises U S irrigation programs and Theodore Roosevelt for reclaiming arid lands. It notes federal funding, land sale proceeds funding projects, and limits on ownership to promote farming. It estimates 22 projects underway and aims to reclaim about 2 million acres worth around 50 million dollars.
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Congress
Arizona
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
California
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Montana
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Clover Farming Requires Careful Seed Bed and Sunlight
The piece argues clover stands suffer from rushed seeding and thick nurse crops. It warns soil humus loss dries soils, reducing clover success, and praises sowing clover on corn ground with light oats, thin seeding, and minimal tillage. It stresses returning nutrients to soil and avoiding shade over young clover.
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Wisconsin
Stacking Hay Methods Then and Now
A reader explains English hay and grain stacking methods to keep sweetness and dryness for years. Proper pillars, poles, and thatch shed shed a large roof, with hay packed from top to bottom, overlapping like shingles to shed water. The piece notes stacks sixty to eighty feet high are possible and that older English practice yields sweeter, longer preserved feed for animals.
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England
Yorkshire
Greenville
S.C
Set the Shade Trees Right by J. W. Griffin
J. W. Griffin advises selecting shade trees suited to soil and site. For large trees, dig a four by four by two foot hole, prep soil, plant with a center root mound, spread side roots, and mulch with straw. Avoid manure near roots. manure around trees nourishes while rotting straw acts as mulch. proper planting helps trees survive first summer.
Good Packages Help To Sell Food In Packaged Form
The article argues that placing food in attractive paper boxes raises appeal and value. It notes boxes protect items from dirt and pests, justify higher costs, and can boost returns by 10 to 25 percent for produce, eggs, and dairy. Packaging is presented as essential to modern marketing.
Hog Moving Crate Aids Farm Transport
A farmer describes a simple movable crate built from a shipping box and an old cultivator to move hogs. The design uses a raised arch to create a gentle slope, easy entry for hogs, and dual handles to wheel the animal to the desired spot. The California dairy report notes a butter output of 48,769,085 pounds for the year ending Sept 20, 1908.
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A. Homan
California State Dairy Bureau
Frame of a Shaped Hog House Assembly Details
The article lists lumber and measurements to build a portable A shaped hog house. It specifies nine 1x12s sixteen feet, eleven battens sixteen feet, five 1x12s fourteen feet, one 2x4 ten feet, two 2x8 ten feet, seven 1x4 sixteen feet, three 2x6 eight feet, and four 1x12 rough sixteen feet for flooring.
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G. Battens
Hens in Uncle Sam's Barnyard Prove Wealth in Six Months
The article asserts hens in Uncle Sam's barnyard generate as much wealth in six months as a tran minow yields in a year. It references a cow needing a full month or more to restore milk flow after exposure to cold rains in early spring.
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Uncle Sam
The History of the Potato and Its Global Spread
A compact historical overview tracing the potato's origins in the Americas, European adoption after the 16th century, early varieties in Britain, Ireland's reliance and famine blight in 1846 47, and post 1870 improvements that expanded cultivation worldwide. The piece notes related Solanum species and trade by Raleigh or Drake.
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Arizona
Ireland
Lightning Rods Prove Their Value in Preventing Farm Fires
A Nebraska State Insurance group reports no loss to rodded buildings in seven years of activity. Ohio fire marshal data show most 1906 barn fires lacked modern rods, with only older rods offering limited protection. Industry guidance suggests proper rodding cuts lightning risk, though B type strikes remain hard to stop.
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Nebraska State -Insurance Association
Ohio State
Oliver Lodge
Ohio
Ohio Mutual Organization
How to Care for the Horse in Hot Weather
A guide notes a horse needs protection such as a hat to guard the brain in heat and warns against ill fitting collars causing sore shoulders. It advises watering between rest periods, allows pasture time at night, and compares feeding timing and digestion to human habits. It also mentions colic risks when horses work hard on hot days and stresses humane care.
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W. H. Burke
Far West
C. S. Miller
Reclamation Service
Glover
Jean
Hed Pel Marie
J. W. Griffin
Peru
Central America
Mexico
Europe
Walter Raleigh
Francis Drake
Germany
Ire
Minnesota
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