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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1921
Page
7
The United States Department of Agriculture settled a long contention over the term milch versus milk by ruling to use milk cow in place of milch cow. Proponents cited Scriptural and classical precedents for milk while opponents argued dairymen use milch widely. The decision aligns with American linguistic preference and patriotism.
The article warns dairy operators that cows are nervous and easily stressed. It advises quiet handling, avoiding shouting or dogs, and explains that kicks often result from hurt teats or fear. Kindness and prompt calm can prevent repeated kicking and improve profitability.
Guidance on feeding dairy cows stresses varying grain by milk output rather than uniform rations. It warns against excess protein and notes energy cannot replace protein in rations. A balanced ration is essential to prevent feed waste and maximize milk production efficiency.
The guide advises feeding calves small milk excess early on to avoid scours stunt and deaths. Weigh each calf milk portions, feed twice daily with warm fresh milk, and use clean boxes. Clean and scald buckets every morning and adjust milk amount to quality.
The weighing and testing of milk is not yet practiced by the general farmer. It will be, however, as soon as the farmer realizes that only in this way can be know the profitable cow to keep and whether his herd is improving or deteriorating.
Farmers should choose sows for breeding in fall from spring pig litters. Feed them differently from market hogs using oats, corn, shorts, middlings, and fish meal. Prioritize dam's nursing ability, good feet, rangy frame, gentle temper, and alert eyes to improve future litters.
A Fremont County Wyoming teacher requests and will receive from the U S Department of Agriculture approved photographs of horses cattle hogs sheep and poultry at cost. The aim is to display these images in the schoolroom to promote in locality the keeping and breeding of well bred stock.
The article urges removing ewes with bad udders or mouth injuries or those that failed to breed. It warns marking and early removal before breeding season, noting teat clipping and shearer oversights can hide faults until lambing. A vigilant shepherd should inspect closely to prevent losses.
For thin hogs on pasture, try these rations: equal parts of wheat middlings and corn. equal parts of ground rye and skim milk. equal parts of corn and ground oats. equal parts of corn and skimmed milk. equal parts of rye and ground oats. ten parts of corn or ground rye and one part tankage.
Guidance urges selecting a single breed, matching type to purpose, studying pedigrees, and maintaining healthy herds through disease control and careful feeding and management of breeding stock and young animals.
Dean Ellwood C. Perisho will present a lecture on the second afternoon of Chautauqua titled The Problems of Today. The address promises genuine interest and unusual importance in its examination of contemporary issues.
A reader from Birmingham Alabama recounts relief from biliousness and constipation using Chamberlain's Tablets. She notes prior failures of Pepsin and cathartics, saying the tablets relieve ill feeling quickly and restore natural digestion.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine is described as a constitutional remedy taken internally. It claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces, destroy the disease’s foundation, and improve general health with free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
In Vallego California Professor T J J Zee government astronomer says a meteor shower on the sun raises its radiation and surface temperature. He notes unusually warm summers recur about every decade and cites extensive research and a Friday night statement.
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