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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
3
A dairy expert argues that water content alone does not define a good feed for milk. Protein and carbohydrates are the key divisions, with clover and alfalfa highlighted as top milk producers when used at proper stages, though certain hay forms affect milk flavor.
Ida Marigold is praised as an excellent dairy breed example. She was champion and sweepstakes cow at the Chicago world’s fair. Her son Stoke Pogis of Prospect is the sire of 45 tested daughters. Buyers should study her large frame, intelligent head, and properly hung bag for reliable dairy cattle.
The article notes that top dairy producers gain from butter-fat skim milk calves and manure. Calves, often undervalued, can be used or sold for veal when fed skim milk. Pure-bred stock yields more calves for sale, and demand for promising heifers is strong. Finishing calves for veal can match or exceed gains from feeding skim milk to pigs.
The hand separator enables making the highest grade butter at home with properly handled cream and proper churning. It not only yields higher quality butter for a better price but also extracts more cream from milk, increasing butter output. Warm sweet milk becomes more valuable for human or animal feed, and with more than three or four cows the device will soon pay for itself.
The passage describes feeds for dairy production including milk full flow feeds such as milk, cottonseed, neal, flaxseed meal, shoots, bran. rough protein rich clover or alfalfa hay. corn for starch to produce heat energy and fat for milk. silage and green roots as water and appetite boosters. bran and flaxseed meals as bowel regulators.
A simple, cheap farm gate design from Farm er's Review uses a common panel hinged to a post eight feet high. The lower hinge is a strap of iron bolted to the post, while the upper hinge employs heavy wire woven through the panel with a one foot chain around the post. The chain winds as the gate opens, lifting the gate about two feet from the ground to clear snow, and the gate operates easily, even a child can open it.
The Cow Testing Association opens in Australia with headquarters on New South Wales coast near Sydney. Thirty one entries were received as testing starts daily, weighing morning and evening milk to determine butter value using Babcock testers. Each barn is visited monthly. herds are numbered to keep results confidential.
A Farm and Home writer describes a versatile milk rack built from high boards. End pieces measure eight to ten inches, pan rests are two inches wide set into notches, and overall dimensions can be chosen. A top wide board supports a curtain and creates a clean looking handy table.
The Kansas experiment station bulletin notes that mixed feeds have long been the main route for feeding-stuff frauds, using oil halts rice bran ground corncobs and other waste products of little value. Pure feeds allow some judgment, but mixed feeds evade reliable quality. The farm diet relies on low protein high carbohydrate fodder crops, stressing the protein problem in feeds.
A wealthy Canadian family bonds with a loyal pointer as ailing Baltyne’s son nears death. The dog’s steadfast vigil, shared meals, and quiet devotion anchor both father and mother through illness, culminating in a poignant reunion and the dog’s dogged endurance. The tale centers on loyalty, recovery, and sacrifice within a vast homestead setting.
An aged care advice piece promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative for seniors. It cites a Johnston City man whose six year stomach trouble improved, notes government purity backing, and offers a free trial bottle by mail from Dr W B Caldwell at Caldwell Building Monticello IL.
A wife complains to a butcher shop about unreceived orders. The delivery rider boasts he fulfilled the entire order, prompting a humorous exchange about bets. The scene shifts to theater seating gossip and a remark on the elasticity of American language, with a guarded note from Bohemian.
A Wisconsin reader recounts indigestion relief after four years of struggle. She credits Grape Nuts and Postum, replacing coffee and baked goods, with rapid health gains, weight increase, and clearer skin. The testimonial ends with a slogan and praise for the products.
Uncle Si Eggmann recounts across the crossroads store how western farms dwarf New England plots. He contrasts three to four thousand acres and five thousand cattle with twenty acre setups including graveyard plots and a few hens. The speaker highlights a “terrible difference” between eastern and western farming traditions.
A child quips that the word obedience comes from getting licked, prompting a brief classroom moment on language and learning. The exchange captures a humorous, blunt reaction to grammar and moral instruction.
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