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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1899
Page
8
A practical guide on planting young trees with pruning before planting, soil preparation, root handling, and staking. It explains depth, rooting bed, mulching, and post planting care. Fall planting favored for apples pears and plums, with peaches cherries and apricots best in spring.
The piece warns that neglect drains farms through labor and money, causing capital to erode as land values drift downward. It urges farmers to compare current costs with five to ten years past, noting that conscious attention to capital stock could improve both the farmer and the farm.
Oieia reports Star Pointer is slow recovering from the effect of his ace at New York where he was beaten by Joe Patchen. The update notes lingering fatigue and a cautious return to racing plans with Patchen’s recent win cited as context.
The article discusses Angora goats on rugged range with strong fencing, training to return home, and their meat and mohair value. It also covers butter cow breeds, proper crossbreeding strategies with Jerseys, Devon versus Guernsey hardiness, and historical dairy practices. It ends with founder horse treatment techniques, including foot care, physic, and liniment care.
The mare Polly G named for world record four miles in England will soon sail back to the United States and enter racing tabs. She is regarded as one of the era’s most famous ringers on record.
Me T F Jager secretary of the Water Fowl Club of America introduces a Blue Swedish duck claimed to originate in northern Europe from no cross with common farm ducks with Rouen and wild blue teal blood. The piece weighs breeding, color causes, hardiness, size, flesh quality and potential value to American water fowl.
The article argues that hens require input to yield eggs and highlights green cut bone as the top eye producing feed. It notes green bone supplies animal nutrients and minerals essential for egg formation, offering a cheap, easy source to boost winter egg farm output.
The article advises that pullets require frame-forming foods like wheat oats bran middlings before fattening foods. It warns against crowding young stock with corn, except in small quantities, and stresses free range. After frame formation, increase fattening feeds.
The article promotes charcoal for indigestion in fowls and chicks, noting its corrective and preventive value. It advises feeding charcoal every other day in small, corn-sized portions, and describes making corn charcoal by burning corn ears in the oven until black, stressing dryer older corn yields better results and feeding only what birds readily consume.
A historical note discusses legal potato weight in Ohio set at six pounds per bushel and argues for a legal bushel of potatoes to be eighty eight pounds. It links groceries, consumer expectations, and potential grocer profit from farmers. It then covers L Hansen of Logan Utah promoting hog feeding using dairy by products with grain to maximize returns and yardage of hog shipments. It concludes with a farming proverb about sticking to the farm.
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