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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1915
Page
2
A compact farm bulletin extols hogs as highly profitable livestock. It emphasizes easy maintenance, minimal demands, and protection from worms and lice with a good dip and home remedies. The piece argues hogs offer large returns for small farm owners.
A correspondent from the Iowa Homestead outlines practical methods for rearing young turkeys. It stresses selecting vigorous stock, placing poults with mothers in a dry coop, feeding shells and grit, and feeding rolled oats after hatch. The guide notes hens are powdered weekly and that young toms reach 24 to 27 pounds while hens reach 12 to 14 pounds.
Advice for dairy keepers stresses planning for bailding a shed, enjoying cattle care, and avoiding muddy, dirty calf feeding. Emphasizes calves should not be fed milk in a tub and notes calves drink at different rates. Encourages keeping a clean, productive cow lot with small expense and light work.
The text emphasizes proper feeding to maintain quality in beef cattle. It warns that undernourished herd bulls become thin and produce less responsive offspring, while overfeeding for show can impair breeding ability. It notes risks from high starch and fat in rations, especially corn-heavy feeds.
The Nat ional Stockman notes hogs fit for grass and clover fields and for feeding corn. Any standard breed works, and hogs thrive on cowpeas, soybeans, and peanuts. Good health depends on controlling worms and lice with dips or home remedies like mice ashes and copperas.
In National Stockman T. E. McNeely notes there is no best hog breed. All modern breeds can perform well with proper selection and good individuals. The key is choosing a breed well adapted to the local raising locality.
Prevention of poultry diseases rests on proper ventilation, sanitation, and constant vigilance. Fowls need fresh air without drafts, protection from vermin, good nutrition to satisfy appetite, and sufficient exercise to aid digestion.
A new speed indicator for cream separators helps producers run the machines at the optimal speed, reducing butter fat loss. Official observations show many farmers run too slowly, wasting 2 to 50 percent of butter fat. The indicator, similar to automobile gauges, keeps the machine at peak efficiency according to American Agriculturist.
The article urges liberal feeding of cows to maximize milk production and future calf value. It argues a well-fed cow converts feed to milk, increases body condition for resale, and notes young cows grow stronger with abundant feed, benefiting beef stock as well.
A Western Poultry Journal note explains eggs held before sitting should be kept at 40 to 100 degrees and covered to prevent albumen evaporation. It states chicks form from the egg white and rely on yolk. excessive evaporation weakens development, causing shell mortality before or during incubation.
The New York World argues that planetary and lunar positions do not affect Earth’s weather. Weather changes arise from temperature differences and atmospheric evaporation driven by heat. Observations show no consistent link between celestial alignments and local conditions, countering common beliefs.
A whimsical piece contrasts wise human and master rabbit in winter escapades. It mentions Jayin's mighty tow and Kaze, along with a note on how inked humans lack wisdom. The tale hints at following footsteps and covering tracks, set against references to Africa and North America with population density figures.
North Dakota experiment station reports seceding oats as a forage crop for growing pigs saves 1.1 cents per pound of pork. Foraging pigs require 3.2 pounds of grain per pound of gain versus 4.3 pounds in dry lot feeding. Rape may outperform oats for hog forage in gains and feed per acre.
The Farm and Fireside advises that dry silage in good condition is a useful succulent feed for milk, but should not be relied on to bring ewes to lambing. A dry ration of one half pound oats with bran and hay is recommended, with oats increasing to one pound. avoid feeding silage alone as it weakens stamina and reduces lamb crop. Maintain a moderate grain ration even when ewes and lambs graze.
There is probably no better treatment for garget than frequent bathing the udder with hot water and hand rubbing. Milk should be removed frequently, using a milking tube when needed. Hot water treatment with rubbing may cure, while stubborn cases respond to camphor gum and melted lard ointment applied with liberal rubbing. Kansas Farmer.
Guidance on feeding work horses outlines using alfalfa hay with corn as a base. A daily grain rate of one pound per hundred pounds of body weight, plus hay, supports good work. Example: 1000-pound horse needs 10 pounds grain daily and hay three times daily. 1600-pound horse needs about 16 pounds grain daily.
The passage advises leaving suckers or water sprouts after heavy pruning until the second year, as some will form well placed growth to fill vacancies in the tree’s lower zone. In two or three years bearing fruit may appear on budded or lightly grafted trees, and if not, grafting may be done.
A recent Ohio study of eighteen farm flocks shows wide variation in hen flock profitability. The top flock of 100 hens earned $247 in a year while the poorest cleared only $15, underscoring how management quality drives farm success.
The Prince of Wales pressed to join frontline duty in WWI with Earl Kitchener’s cautious approval while the heir apparent pledges duty. A separate note details $25,000 for a Crocker Land relief voyage aboard Glendale, plus July departure via Sydney and Nova Scotia. Federal agencies unite for labor placement across the United States, and Eskimo reindeer meat export pushes gain support from Secretary Lane.
Mrs Raymond Robbins of Chicago president of the National Women's Trade Union League travels to New York for the league's biennial convention June 7 to June 14. About seventy delegates will attend, representing 100000 working women with assistance from city women’s groups. The Young Women's Christian Association will house the delegates, the suffrage party will host a tea, and Lillian Ward invites them to a Neighborhood Playhouse visit.
The War Department prepares a five week training course for thousands of college and school students at camps in Chickamauga Park Ga Mattsburgh Barracks N Y Ludington Mich and the Presidio San Francisco. Camps run July 5 to Aug 4 in the east and June 25 to Aug 1 at the Presidio. Major General Wood leads the effort aiming to recruit 2000 to 3000 students for the eastern camps.
New York on May 31 the American Museum of Natural History will send out a relief party for the Donald B. MacMillan expedition. Dr MacMillan and his five companions have been stranded in the Greenland north for over two years, believed to be in winter quarters near Buth. The relief aims to reach them along the treacherous berg and ice flows.
May 31 Progressive Town Baldwin. Citizens say they deserve a better station than the Long Island rail road provides. Promises made, plans drawn, but the new station remains unseen. Some residents have erected a sign protesting the delay.
Baldwin on Long Island's south shore features a rail station and town amenities. It mentions high and public schools, churches, bus, water, electricity, sidewalks, and shoreline fronts as community details.
A conspicuously placed sign on the railroad informs all passersby. The notice aims to reach travelers and pedestrians with clear visibility at the roadway crossing.
Records show 28 268 foreigners volunteered for service in the French army from the war’s start to January 1 1015. Nationalities listed include Austrians Hungarians Germans Luxemburgers Spaniards and Americans. Also notes Alsace Lorraine natives and Americans among patrons. Chicago's New Head William Hale Thompson elected mayor of Chicago as Republican and native son with a varied early career and fortunes.
Akron Ohio May 31 The forward to the farm movement gains drive as a bill by Alex Licherman, urged to Senator Charles Wickline, outlines provisions. It requires farmers to hire one more worker than needed, bells on moving bulls, steam whistles and electric headlights, and heated cow sheds with canopies over fields used in winter and summer work.
Paris May 30 Roland Garros, famed aviator and celebrated foe in World War I skies, was captured by German forces ending a remarkable career. Known for bold aerial feats in the United States and at Sunirk, he died not, but marked a swift halt to his luminous wartime record. Born Cape Town 1888, son of French parents, Garros studied law in Paris and practiced before turning to flight.
Washington May 20 The Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage calls a San Francisco convention of women voters Sept 14 to 16 at the Panama Pacific exposition. Mrs O J P Belmont of New York chairs the committee to arrange the meeting the first political convention of women voters in U S history aims to chart unified plans to support a federal suffrage amendment and mobilize about 4 million women voters across suffrage states and national legislature bodies.
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