Feeding of ewes with grain on pasture study outcome
A Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station circular reports ewes suckling lambs fed on rye and blue grass pasture. Four groups compare grain on rye, rye pasture only, grain on blue grass, and blue grass pasture only. Grain kept ewes in marketable condition and aided fattening when sold with lambs, with small differences between rye and blue grass pastures.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Missouri
Care Of Horses Hoofs In Built Up Hoof Care
Directions from Farm Journal adviser Dr A B Alexander on hoof care. Avoid black varnish and rasp marks. Use neatsfoot oil and lampblack mix or tallow lard beeswax to color. Compare to unshod two year old colt to keep feet proper. Monthly colt handling helps maintian trim and shape to prevent future hoof problems.
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Alexander
Farm Journal
The Poultry Yard and Care for Hens and Chicks
The passage advises clean well ventilated housing for laying, feeding hens sour milk and buttermilk for eye development, and applying grease to young chicks. It notes gape in chicks at ages nine to eight weeks and that older birds rarely gape, discusses May turkey egg sets turning into holiday carcasses, and comments on leg color lightening with age in heavy layers.
Clip Wings of Laying Queen for Swarm Control in Hives
If not done, clip wings of every laying queen in each colony to allow automatic swarming management without injuring the queen. Use bent manicure sets for this purpose. When comb tops of brom nests are capped with white wax, add surplus supers promptly. Place queen exclusion boards between brood nest and extracting body when extracting honey to avoid unsealed brood. Maintain clear paths for returning bees by keeping grass and weeds away from hives.
Hints For Poultry Beginners Barred Plymouth Male Bird Head Of Government Flock
Prepared by the United States department of agriculture to guide new poultry keepers. Emphasizes ensuring the head male is pure bred and lists major breed groups by region. States pure bred fowls yield greater profit than mongrels under consistent care and feeding.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The Horse's Shoulders and Harness Fit
A collar may fit at first work but loosen as the horse hardens, requiring readjustment to prevent rubbing the shoulder. Uneven tug lengths cause sore shoulders, so wash the shoulders each evening in cold water to cleanse and harden the skin.
Declaration of Independence Influenced World, 1776 to Today
A historical reflection celebrates the 4th of July, arguing the Declaration ignited a global wave of democracy. It traces liberty spreading from America to Europe and beyond, noting France, England, Germany, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and the Americas adopting republican or liberal systems as a result.
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Mberty
England
France
Germany
Hussia
Asia
Africa
Australia
North
South America
America
Europe
Italy
Russia
Turkey
Spain
Portugal
United States
Americas
Republica
Apparatus For Spraying In Orchards And Small Trees
For sprays on many trees a spraying apparatus is needed. A bucket or knap sack pump suits low trees and hedges. A barrel pump serves mid size orchards, a gaso line outfit for large commercial orchards. For few trees apply as a spray to limbs with brush. Fish oil soap at two pounds per gallon water makes an excellent insecticide.
Percheron Trade Proves Profitable, Farm Reporter Says
A correspondent for the Orange Judd Farmer notes ambitious horse hobbyists should invest in pure bred stock. He recalls buying two Percheron fillies in 1903 and the first two pure bred colts on his farm in 1905. He claims Percherons earned more than logs or cattle and says he would rather quit farming than give up Percherons.
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Orange Judd Farmer
Variety in poultry feed improves egg production
If you cannot balance a ration for poultry and cannot obtain all components for a college ration, provide your birds with as wide a variety of feeds as possible. Do not feed one thing exclusively regardless of quality. Variety is emphasized as crucial for better egg production.
World republic and liberty for all mankind
The text asserts that Japan, by embracing a new impulse, has inspired China to shed old bonds and become a republic. It notes South Africa’s freedom struggle and Australasia’s progressive governments as proof that the Declaration of Independence has begun its work. It envisions a future where liberty prevails globally.
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Japan
China
South Africa
Australasia
Uberty
Machines to Fight Typhus and Other Current Topics
A roundup of 1909 era notes includes Dr Leon L Watters announcing Serbia will disinfect personal belongings with his typhus fighting apparatus. Other items cover Frederick Davies estate provisions for a Naval Academy trust, a national Fourth of July hymn sing, Ambassador Sharp in Paris, midshipmen cruise to the Pacific, and various public-interest briefings from Washington and Philadelphia.
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New York
Setvia
Leon L. Watters
Low
Columbia University
College of Psydelans
Watters
Enel
Frederick Martin Davies
Stock Exchange
Davies, Thompson & Co
Eighty-second Street
Frederick M. Davies
United States Naval Academy
Naval Academy
Philadelphia
United States
Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Stone
Alaska
France
Washington
Paris
William G. Sharp
Mr. Sharp
Uncle Sam
Sharp
Myron T. Herrick
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Ambassador Sharp
Ohio
Elyria
Federal Volunteers Proposed by Adjutant General Stotesbury
Adjutant General Louis W. Stotesbury advocates a new body called Federal volunteers. This civilian corps would stay at work at regular jobs, be paid for service, and be drilled at night under regular army officers. He envisions a trained force up to 800,000 ready for federal control and rapid deployment. He notes volunteers alone do not make seasoned soldiers without standard enlistment.
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Federal Volunteers
New York
Louis W. Stotesbury
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University of Michigan
Pacific
Midshipmen
The
Naval
Annapolis
Fuller
Mixsouri
Ere
Wisconsin
Panama Canal
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Missouri
Tasitania
Senate
Ihs
Senator Stone
Kentucky
Missouri University
Tower House of Congress
United States Senate
Belgium
London
American Commission For Relief
Commission
Herbert Clark Hoover
Elizabeth
N. J. Dime Teha
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
M Dahoneer Wiman
Mertus
All Souls
der. Blackwell
Questinn
New Jersey
Mra. Blackwell
Oberlin Theological Seminary
Worcester
May
All Souls’ Church
Mackwell
Secretary of Agriculture
Houston
Department
Tata
David F. Houston
Department of Public Health and Charities
Format
Len
Eicyrocketa
American Press Association
Francs
Tarris & Ewing
William J. Stone
American Pres Association
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