Elgin News Briefs on Council, Fire Meeting and Illness
Ole Gleen returns to his shoe shop after illness as town council and Elgin Fire Department schedule discuss new items. February meeting set for next Monday eve ning. school pupils trek to classes amid poor roads. Durscher family travels from Kingfisher due to Mrs Durscher Sr illness, she remains in West Union hospital after flu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Gleen
Elgin Fire Department
Brid Nees
Elgin
John Durscher, Jr
Esther Durscher
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
John Durscher
West Union Hospital
Legume Hays Best for Cows in Feeding Efficiency
An agriculture official argues legume hays like alfalfa provide superior feeding for dairy cows. Legume hay offers richer protein and calcium, reducing need for costly concentrates. Farmers in north regions grow more nonlegume hay, missing potential milk-increasing nutrients.
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Billy
Legum
United States
North Central
North Atlantic States
Timothy
Sunlight for Winter Hens Very Important
Recent findings show calcium usage in hens hinges on vitamin D supplied by sunlight. Ultraviolet rays enable this vitamin. ordinary glass blocks UV, so hens need access to sunlight or UV-permitting housing. A new glass substitute, waterglass, allows light and UV to pass, aiding hen shell formation and passing experimental tests.
Agricultural Tips and Farming Observations
fragmentary notes cover poultry feeding and handling during winter, pig herd management by reducing farrowings, risks of Johnson grass seed spread through grazing, milk cream cooling and butter quality issues, and general farm preservation advice. The text reflects practical farm practices and cautions from a historical agricultural period.
Farm practices and livestock notes from 1929 era
Plan now to raise 1929 pigs and chickens and use manure wisely. New York and Ohio report corn borers rising. mulching and seed treatment discussed. Cattle feeding, legume hays, and grain protein levels outlined. boarders in dairy noted as unprofitable. tractor maintenance stressed amid cyclical beef prices.
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New York
Ohio
Save the Pigs to Prevent Spring Pig Losses
Plan to apply the Bureau of Animal Industry sanitation system. Before farrowing, clean quarters with boiling water, add one pound lye per 30 gallons, remove mud from sows, wash udders, then confine sows and pigs in clean pens for two weeks. Move to clean pasture by hauled transfer, not driven, and keep young pigs from the permanent pasture until at least four months old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Animal Industry
U. S. Department of Agriculture
A Youth’s Mustache as Pioneer of Instrument Plan
A brief note cites a youth in Louisville and a growing instrument plan described as a pioneer, with gradual weekly steps mentioned in a concise, period-style item.
Be Charitable to the Living Defer Not to Death
A compact moral exhortation urging generosity to the living over charitable acts postponed for the afterlife. The quotation contrasts lavish giving to others with risking one’s own substance, urging timely kindness over procrastination or misapplied piety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elinn
Open market hog purchases decline as direct buying rises
Week ending January 9 1926 direct buying packers in Chicago slaughtered 95000 hogs with 93.5 percent bought on open competitive market and an average price of 11.70 per cwt. In the corresponding week in 1929 slaughter rose to 100100 hogs with only 34.2 percent bought on the open Chicago market at 8.85 per cwt. The shift reduced Chicago market averages by 2.45 per cwt and lowered the national price by over 6.00 per head, marking Chicago as the price leasing market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Packers
Armour & Go
Swift & Co
Wilson & Co
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