Tag: farming

In the years just after World War I, milk was a daily necessity, especially for families with infants and young children. But in 1919, as…

In the early 1900s, ostrich farming was a booming and unusual industry in parts of the American Southwest.  The birds were valuable for their feathers,…

There are ordinary farm thefts, and then there are crimes so strange they sound as though they were lifted from the pages of a wartime…

In the early days of mechanized farming, corn pickers made harvest work faster, but they also brought terrible new dangers into the fields.  Moving rollers,…

In the summer of 1909, a Pennsylvania newspaper offered its readers a simple but clever solution to a very real problem: how to protect a…

The article below, originally published in 1916, gives sound advice on selecting the best ears of corn for next year’s seed. Careful Selection of Corn…