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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1911
Page
7
Readers learn from Inter Ocean notes of Christmas visits and travels across North Dakota and Minnesota. Many names appear, including Miss Nellie McGraw Grand Forks and Miss Ida Nelson Fossenton Minn with relatives. Travel and schooling updates, births and a new baby, and farm loan offers by John W Maher fill the page.
A list of transfers filed with the Register of Deeds Hoghaug for the week ending December 27 shows multiple deeds and quit claims. Names include Peder and Olen to John Hemingway Smith, Margaret Olson to George Meiklejohn, Herman Kolliokoski to John Brake, Abel Idland to Joseph Mess, and others. Consideration ranges from $1.00 to $7,000 with various lot descriptions and parcel numbers.
A study from Michigan stations shows cows and young cattle fail to digest unmasticated whole grain. Whole corn and oats pass through with 10 to 26 percent unchewed, higher in cows than calves. Analysis indicates no nutritional benefit and suggests younger animals masticate better than older, making whole grain feeding a wasted and tasteless practice.
A Farm and Home writer notes the old practice of drying milk cans by turning them upside down in clean air outside the barn. The article recalls pegs in the ground for inversion and mentions chickens scratching around the setup.
A farmer recalls building a creered-in room near the barn door to store utensils after washing them. The space kept the items dry and protected by pegs, with the door often open and animals kept away. The narrator contemplates moving the cage out of the doorway in the future.
The note warns that separator milk, while useful as pig feed, is imperfect and can cause fermentation and fatal bloating if fed in thick slops with cornmeal mid dings or ground oats. Avoid medicated salt in drinks. instead mix salt with ashes and charcoal for the pig’s meal.
The text emphasizes breeding cows to match traits, strong bodies in Guernseys, and like begets like. It advises comfortable shelter, high quality feed like sugar beet pulp, avoiding poor butter, gentle handling after drying off, and preventing gouring while maintaining product quality through temperature control. It notes a strong cow should calve yearly and produce milk, stressing management and care.
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