Returns in 1923 Slightly Better
A census survey reports owner operators earned higher cash receipts and larger asset values in 1923, with total farm receipts around 8 860 while costs rose, average farm size about 800 acres, and inventories up for crops, live stock, machinery, and supplies. notes many farms rely on off farm income and loans, and offers haying and crop handling guidance.
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Practical notes on sweet clover handling and hay making
Farmers discuss methods for cutting and stacking sweet clover hay using a binder or mower. Advocates claim the practice saves leaves and labor, enabling high stubble, quicker handling, and easier curing, especially for those with limited corn or potato crops.
Preparation of Ground for Soy Beans
Preparation resembles corn farming with early plowing and weed control before planting. Use 66 to 90 pounds per acre with 1 to 3 inch drill depth. Inoculate first-time soybeans with commercial inoculant or soil from a soy field. Plant by early July. feed soy bean hay is rich and should be limited.
Sweet Clover Seed Cut for Hay and Pasture Use
Nebraska Agricultural College notes that second-sea son sweet clover should be clipped for hay or pastured early to avoid overly tall growth that is hard to handle. White bloomed variety especially can bind a binder if left to grow. For easier handling and reduced risk of killing the clover, pasture the second year’s crop in early spring, establishing good pasture by spring heat.
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Nebraoski Agricultural Collge
Carelessness Blamed for Foulbrood Spread in Apiaries
The article warns that carelessness causes foulbrood spread and advises destroying all combs from infected frames, avoiding transferring frames or honey between hives, and not opening robbed colonies. It also cautions against using combs or equipment from affected districts and to thoroughly sanitize hives with hot lye water to prevent bee infection.
No Good Reason For Farmer Neglecting His Garden Patch
A Clemson College horticulturist advises season garden improvements amid dry weather. He recommends successive planting, careful canning surplus, dusting cabbage and tomato worms with lead arsenate, nicotine sprays for tobacco, and clean-up methods for cucumbers and squash. Emphasizes Bordeaux mixture for tomatoes and melons, keeping vines covered, plus soil moisture, longer seasons, and shading with old paper to boost seedling stands.
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Clemgon College
Market price snippets and old notices from 1908 journal
Irregular commodities listings show Wheat No 1 and Corn No 3 prices, oats and barley figures, plus obsolete market terms. Various ad-like notes discuss cooling agents, solvent uses, and a Rome road description fragment. Also mentions Red Cross emblem misuse ban and a red-letter holiday note.
Qeloura Soothes Baby Rashes Ad in Seap Bur
Fragmentary OCR text references a product name Qeloura and soothing for baby rashes with scattered words like tech and bur. The readable portion is inconsistent and lacks a coherent narrative or verifiable details.
Interviewing gardeners opens with a tale of time
His Lucky Time Brown interviews candidates for a gardener position. The first applicant says he stayed one month at his last job, then three months at the previous one, boasting that before that there was no time due to a fine he got off with. The exchange carries a light moral about work history and honesty.
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Thermos bottle style building system patent idea
A western inventor patents a wall design using a double wall with vacuum spaces like a thermos bottle. The system aims to cut heating costs by about half and provides interior warmth in winter and coolness in summer. Claims include damp and sound proofing plus cheaper construction and upkeep.
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Crows Rely on Insects as Main Food Source
Nature Magazine notes that crows eat mainly insects, with about four-fifths of an adult crow’s annual food coming from the insect world. Ground-dwelling insect species make up the bulk of this diet.
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