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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
13
The article notes lice are worse in winter as hogs cluster in beds. It outlines four treatments including kerosene oil mixtures, crude oil, and staphisagria dust. It advises thorough spraying, cleaning pens, and biweekly treatment to prevent lice, emphasizing cost and practicality.
A Western Farmer writer describes convenient feed bins built under the floor of a hay drive. Grain drops through a spout into a catch box, reducing lifting and labor as the bin is filled through trap doors.
An experiment fed three lots of four yearling steers over 145 days with silage and varying byproducts. Average daily gains per head ranged from 2.17 to 4.95 pounds in the first period, with costs per pound of gain differing across groups.
Caution against overfeeding alfalfa to horses due to kidney risk. Suggest feeding one pound of hay per 100 pounds of horse weight to keep rations balanced and safe. Maintain careful measurement to prevent health issues.
Guidance on horse watering timing notes water given on an empty stomach acts quickly while after feeding it may move undigested feed through the system. For best digestion water should be given before meals.
An agrarian note promotes sowing Dwarf Exusex rape in cornfields to fatten sheep. It suggests early sheep purchase, grazing or feeding after final corn cultivation, and claims little corn damage. Rape alone supposedly yields profits with no grain foods, aided by old ewes and yearling wethers.
Ring worm appears mainly in cattle as a round bald patch on head and neck, but can affect older cattle and humans. It is caused by minute parasites under the skin and can be treated by daily scrubbing with soap and water, then applying a mixture of tincture of iodine and glacial acetic acid until healed.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston Mass lists Sunday School at 10 AM and 11 AM sermon, Wednesday 7 30 PM testimonial meeting. Reading Room open Wednesday and Saturday 2 to 4 PM. all are welcome.
A historic Holland dish, still made as the Spaniards prepared over campfires in October long ago when the land was breached by the Hollander. The stew resembles Mulligan soup and West Indies pepperpot, but adds crab meat and dumplings for the poor.
A continuation reports a mass meeting endorsing aggressive quarantine to curb disease spread. It urges counties to hire nurses, immediate physician reporting of communicable cases, medical inspections in schools, and sick employee protections. It calls suspending public gatherings and treating influenza as a quarantine issue.
The article outlines possible quarantine changes under state health board rules making influenza quarantinable. It details quarantine durations for contacts and patients, incubation and contagious periods, and infection sources. It also covers disinfection, exposure follow ups, and milk pasteurization as general measures.
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