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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1915
Page
6
United States Department of Agriculture describes a simple seven foot nine inch long weaning trough for twenty pigs weighing about thirty-five pounds. It weighs forty-three pounds, is three inches deep, and features a ridgepole and partitions to prevent crowding and entry by feet. Counterscrub clean, it is durable and portable for one person to move.
Look out for weanlings and colts as cold weather approaches. Provide shelter or allow them to sleep in the pig house. There is ongoing demand for high class lambs and sheep. Good horses are in high demand and farmers should act. Keep the flock out of early fall rains to avoid winter illness. Do not let young sows become too fat as breeders. muscle development matters.
A Missouri correspondent urges good shelter and fresh water to save feed during winter. A warm shed reduces grain and hay needs. old sheds with holes invite wet fleeces and disease. The Cheviot wether shown adds a scenic appeal to estates where appearance matters.
Practical advice for storing squash carrots beets and corn and protecting raspberries grape vines and cabbages. Keep squashes in a single warm dry layer, cover root crops with dry sand, store cabbage in a cool cellar, air and shelve sweet corn, lay raspberries with earth, prune vines after frost, and clean garden debris while preparing next year’s plot.
The article describes fattening horses using boiled sugar beets as a base in the north and west. A nationwide breeder ration combines bran, cornmeal or cracked corn, barley, and sugar beets boiled into a soft mash. The mixing method uses a bushel of barley with 25 pounds of sugar beets, adding 3 pounds of the mash with 2 pounds of cornmeal and 3 pounds of bran, then hot water is added and fed warm, with a pint of linseed meal included.
A Kansas Farmer article explains beef breeding cows can stay in ideal condition by summer grazing and winter silage with alfalfa or clover hay, avoiding grain. In areas lacking alfalfa or clover, add one pound of cottonseed meal to a silage and straw ration to sustain cows through winter.
An Ohio farmer now in Virginia and raising Aberdeen Angus beef notes that scrub cattle eat as much as good beef cattle and says that when a farmer with enough feed sees the bigger checks for better cattle, the decision is clear.
Guidance on daily silage rations per 1000 pounds of animal for cattle horses and sheep. Cattle fed silage with grain at about 30 lb per 1000 lb animal. cattle on both silage and pasture 15 lb per 1000. horses 20 lb per 1000. sheep 2 lb per head.
The narrator shares winter rations for sheep using upland timothy hay and cowpeas when available, with vat straw as the main staple. Ground oats were fed in severe weather, while racks and dry floors with bedding kept fleeces clean and sheep comfortable, emphasizing ample water and protection from cold rains.
The article advises selective culling of ewes to remove barren, poor milking, or spoiled udders from the market. It warns against keeping a fat but unproductive ewe seen as a parasite, noting thin ewes may have raised good lambs and should be kept for breeding as the season nears.
Draft horses are described as generally lymphatic in temperament but not too sluggish. For work they must be steady and manageable yet perform willingly with snap and vigor.
A farmer muses on making the dairy profitable by using spare time between rain delays. He urges cleaning stables, whitewashing, clearing silos, inspecting stanchions, and tidying box stalls to be ready for a swift post weather rush. The Aberdeen Herald is recommended as the paper to buy.
Aberdeen resident Mrs. C F Johnson praises Doan's Kidney Pills for relieving lame back and weak kidneys. She notes repeated use for kidney colds and urges others to try the 50 cent remedy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Train schedules list routes east and west from Aberdeen via Dupont Point Defiance and other hubs. Timings cover arrivals and departures at Tacoma Seattle Portland and nearby towns, including special notes on occasional via MoClips.
The Owl Train from Aberdeen to Seattle and Portland departs Aberdeen at 10 45 p m with intermediate stops including Centralia Tacoma and Seattle reaching Portland at 6 45 a m The 41 Motor Car from Portland to Aberdeen departs 2 10 p m via Seattle and Tacoma with Centralia and arrives Aberdeen at 7 40 p m The 42 Motor Car from Aberdeen to Portland stops Centralia Tacoma Seattle and arrives Portland at 3 30 p m The timetable lists arrival times all along the route for both directions.
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