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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1892
Page
5
Farm and Stock notes discuss dairy feeding myths pasture faults and the need for milk standards. Readers seek poultry coverage and editor James Wilson invites queries. References to Gov. Boles tax commission and New York Farmers club highlight dairy, feeding, weaning and season crops.
An Ames college dairy report notes grooms prize swirl marks on prize cattle as beauty and health signs. It discusses color, uniformity, and traveling issues, and outlines plans for a college creamery, cheese instruction, and regional dairy training programs.
The London Live Stock Journal urges British farmers to shift toward bacon hogs rather than lard hogs, citing cheap foreign grains and suggesting more pasture and legume feeds. It contrasts old and new farming generations, notes rising Iowa farm purchases, and emphasizes steady effort, frugality, and family labor as keys to profitable meat and dairy production.
The text notes that weaning is the most critical period in an animal's life. It cites nature's design for a perfect natural ration to ensure growth, health, and the appearance of young creatures as sleek and robust. It ends abruptly.
A local correspondent answers whether clover can mature two consecutive years from one sowing and notes varieties and conditions. He observes biennial behavior but warns that in the second year heavy harvesting reduces the next year's yield, while late sowing may vary. He cites Crimson annuals and red clover self seeding for long-term pasture use.
A reader praises dairy writing and asks about a cooperative Ames creamery schedule Sunday rest and milk testing. Reply argues the creamery should shut on Sunday with optional milk arrangements, testing methods, hauling pay rules, and applying common sense to relations among stockholders.
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