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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1929
Page
2
Practical guidance for calf care stresses early proper attention, milk intake, and clean stables. Fall and winter calves tend to become better cows, with whole milk first month and skim milk later as calves start grain and hay. Individual stanchions ensure ration control and prevent suckling. Ensure sun exposure and ample fresh water for best gains.
Calves one week old require whole milk for best start while some rear them on substitutes. The U S dairy bureau recommends a formula using corn meal linseed meal oats dried blood flour skim milk powder salt. Mix 50 lb corn meal 50 lb linseed meal 15 lb oats 10 lb dried blood flour 10 lb skim milk powder half lb salt. Dissolve half lb mix in four and a half pints boiling water feed to one month old calves twice daily.
Dairy notes advise balanced rations for cows and proper water for calves. Emphasizes thorough cleaning of separators after use and hand-massaging udders for slow milkers. Recommends a dedicated milkhouse away from stables and cites pumpkins as a valuable feed equal to hay or corn silage.
Several carloads of roses fruit trees and grape vines have been shipped from Niles to Mexico. In recent years Niles has become a leading U S supplier of horticultural products to Mexicans, says George C Reeding Jr president of the California Nursery.
University of California tests indicate green tomatoes lose vitamin A but ripen fully on or off the vine in various conditions. Even in darkness or under light exposure, in thymene gas rooms they develop an adequate amount of this essential food factor.
California farmers are reminded that improved wheat varieties boost profits and Escondido wheat stands out as earlier and more drought tolerant. As an improved strain of Defiance, it shows strong resistance and adaptation for planting season.
Those developing a small country place can plant a variety of good fruits. The Southland gardener has advantages over eastern peers with access to subtropicals and common fruits. Deciduous fruits thrive in the Southland, though not always as commercially productive as elsewhere in California, ensuring a steady personal supply.
Dates tracing from Nile and Euphrates gardens to California Coachella Valley show grafting is useless for true type fruit. Offshoots from a mother palm produce the crop, linking Riverside County palms to Mesopotamian trees long before Christ. The 1911 import of 2500 offshoots from Algiers began U.S. cultivation at Mecca Indio experimental garden. Also notes cow tuberculosis warnings and milk losses, plus beef cattle feed efficiency and carcass condemnation risks for consumers.
Senator Shortridge urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to boost California's Agricultural Department budget. He pressed for $30,000 more for the Berkeley forest experiment station, $20,000 for borax poisoning studies in citrus roots, $75,000 for Western pine beetle control, and $20,000 to combat a livestock liver disease epidemic.
University of Missouri guidance explains wrapping young fruit tree trunks to 18 20 inches with one inch mesh poultry wire or similar materials to prevent rabbit damage. Cylinder wraps are anchored, checked yearly, and left in place 8 10 years to avoid girdling while protecting trees through early growth.
The guide explains laying down raspberry canes in fall by gathering shoots in hill clusters, bending them over, and covering with soil. Treated fields yielded over 500 dollars per acre, while untreated canes were killed to the snow line. Next spring the canes are uncovered and lifted as frost recedes.
Fruit specialists urge buying apples by the bushel or barrel and knowing the variety. Light mulch using straw or pine needles is best for southern regions. Mice injury is common, but rabbits cause more tree damage, and wind direction informs pruning on the leeward side.
Winter poultry rations should include cod liver oil to sustain egg production and vitality. It supplies vitamins A and D, substitutes for sun exposure, and is most effective when fed at about 1 percent of the dry mash mix, equating to roughly one pint per 100 pounds of mash.
Wisconsin and other stations find laying flock rations must include yellow corn and leafy green feed or alfalfa. Vitamin A and D are crucial. winter sun or a glass substitute for UV rays helps. Prof Halpin advises cod liver oil in mash plus open shed and UV glass windows.
A farm flock keeper seeks a palatable dry mash for hens to ensure sufficient intake. Commercially mixed mashes include ingredients that boost egg production and taste. Use ground yellow corn generously and avoid excess oats and bran. corn gluten feed also enhances palatability per Illinois Experiment Station bulletin.
Guidance on feeding laying hens stresses oyster shells grit and ample water. Use egg mash with hard grain and green feed, plan to cull birds from crates, feed cycles mid afternoon, keep mash hopper open, and adjust winter rations to one and a half to two times more scratch grain while ensuring mash intake to produce eggs.
A classic Castoria advertisement touts the product as a trusted remedy for colic constipation and diarrhea in infants. It emphasizes daily use in households claiming five million homes stock Castoria and urges mothers to rely on this vegetable-based remedy for safe quick relief at any hour.
A fragmentary stage dialogue shows Otis claiming he felt no romance after being decorated by a French general. The exchange hints at wartime honor impacting personal relationships and romantic advances.
The ad asserts men can shake a cold in hours using Pape's Cold Compound tablets. It promotes easy daily use and asserts universal reliance by men and women, concluding with a sensational line about a woman and a cyclone who will go anywhere despite obstacles.
The ad recalls Dr Caldwell beginning practice in 1875 and offering Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in 1892. It frames the liquid laxative as a mild safe bowel stimulant for women children and the elderly, claiming it relieves biliousness flatulence indigestion loss of appetite and sleep problems and promoting its status as a best selling remedy with a free trial offer.
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