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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1917
Page
6
Article extols alfalfa as ideal horse feed when used sanely, highlighting its high protein content and wide adoption among horse owners. Warns against overfeeding and notes alfalfa’s prominence in western towns and California for stage and draft animals. It claims alfalfa supports mature and growing horses and can act as a laxative in heavy work.
Farmers turn to sheep as a quick income by buying scrub native sheep from the West and Southwest in fall, raising a lamb and wool crop, and selling old ewes for mutton. With careful buying and culling, profits rise, and increasing good bloodlines boosts future returns.
An old method explains making cement piers for granaries and buildings using a galvanized iron cone mold. The mold is set in a two inch larger base, filled with cement either wet or dry mix, and removed by twisting as it hardens. Bolts can be embedded for sill anchors. long gate posts and porch columns use the same technique.
The text explains that a fenced hog fight equipped farm can sustain a few sheep and that sheep and lambs can live on farm waste with a short pasture period. After corn is laid by, they can be turned in to eat weeds, late grass, suckers, and corn blades, and then work through the stalks. Little or no corn is needed to raise sheep.
Farmers are urged to clean up any farm where hog cholera existed in the past two years. Older hogs may resist viruses due to immunity from earlier cleanups, while pigs from immune mothers lose immunity after weaning.
One of Lincoln’s popular lawmakers Col Jim Bulla of South Omaha recently celebrated his sixty second birthday with lunch at the Lincoln Commercial Club and an informal reception led by Lieutenant Governor Edgar Howard. Senator Doc Tanner recited a poem praising Jim and his town spirit.
Article reports midwest egg loss totaling 2.5 million dollars for Missouri due to heat. Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station urges farm practices to reduce spoilage by cooling eggs, weekly marketing, daily gathering, and storing in cool clean spaces away from pests and damp basements.
Experiments at Pennsylvania State College indicate excessive bone meal in asparagus trenches is not profitable. Annual applications of plant food are preferable for the crop.
Caution on feed quality notes corn and buckwheat are heating. Buckwheat should be eliminated from autumn feeding. only enough corn to balance with oats. Let stock have all the green fodder they will eat.
A five cent per pound drop in butterfat is said to equal losing a good cow annually for an average herd. The piece emphasizes protecting both market conditions and herd care as essential.
A public health note warns that uric acid from meat can clog kidneys causing sluggishness headaches and painful urination. The remedy advised is four ounces of Lake from a local pharmacy mixed with water before breakfast for several days and the famous Jad Salts to flush and stimulate kidney function.
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