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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1929
Page
2
G L Stevenson of South Dakota State College urges sprouted oats as a feeding staple for laying hens. It is inexpensive but requires a warm room and simple homemade sprouting boxes. Soak oats overnight, add a few drops of formaldehyde to prevent mold, then spread in shallow boxes until sprouts reach two to three inches.
When broody hens crowd together in adjacent coops a cure is to tether each hen by a thin cord from a leg to her nest. This ensures she returns to her own nest after a spell off duty, preventing eggs from chilling by nesting on a neighbor's eggs.
The best roughage for milk cows in winter combines legume hay with succulent feeds like silage or roots. Alfalfa hay is top quality, with soy bean and related hays also yielding excellent results. If legume and succulent feeds are scarce, cane, Sudan, and millet hays work reasonably well. Nonlegume hays require higher protein in the grain mix using concentrates such as linseed meal or soy meal.
The article notes that Arabs know over 1,000 date varieties but only 10 to 15 have proven commercially profitable in the United States. It discusses market potential, consumer demand, and the practical adoption of select date cultivars in American commerce.
The American Magazine quotes a social guidance line advising that one should treat the worst woman in the group as if she were a lady and the worst man as if he were a brother. The remark emphasizes measured courtesy across social ranks.
Local items include railroad time tables for Ann Arbor South North and Pere Marquette, community notices, garden and floral ads, and class announcements. Reports cover church events, visits, trips, and social gatherings plus injuries, health notes, and a long list of residents’ updates across Clare and surrounding areas.
Ohio State University experiments show cane molasses can replace corn in poultry rations up to 10 percent with equal or better results. Laying hens on 5 percent molasses produced 16.93 percent more eggs and lower mortality. eight week chicks weighed 17.7 percent more with 5 percent molasses and had 7.82 percent mortality versus 12.39 percent with corn.
Extension Leaflet No 6 from Massachusetts Agricultural College recommends skim milk solids as core poultry rations. It details laying mash and grain formulas with specific weights for bran middlings yellow corn meals oats meat scrap powdered milk alfalfa meal salt and bone meal. For chicks it adds dry skim milk and chick grain, with milk solids in laying mash reaching about 40 percent and chick mash around forty percent.
The meeting stressed thorough inspection of Clare businesses and home fire safety. Speakers warned on furnace and flue upkeep, oil burner use, wiring, and clutter in basements while praising education campaigns that cut losses. The event highlighted fire protection gaps and urged better housekeeping and precautions.
The column stresses balanced rations and clean milking practices. It urges chill-free drinking water, thorough udder massage for slow cows, exclusive milkhouse use, proper separation cleaning, and avoiding unsterilized utensils to prevent sour milk and off flavors. Pumpkins recommended as a feed with stated feeding equivalences.
A brief line from the Atchison Globe mentions the idea of mental strength in stopping a tie and a talk about stopping a ball, with a market note for Jackson's Market and a price tag of 18e at 33t.
The record notes that Spanish moss typically grows on trees without causing harm, though some cases suggest it contributed to a tree's death where other factors were present.
An elephant demonstrates surprising aquatic ability, swimming confidently and treading water with ease while seemingly standing upright. The animal moves through the water more readily than it walks on land.
The Washington Star notes that current law may never fully curb hunting for nothing by a large portion of people chasing perceived gain through work. The piece questions effectiveness of game laws and suggests widespread behavior persists despite regulations.
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