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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1909
Page
6
Long compilation of on farm tips covering feeding horses cattle and sheep care breeding and milking hygiene. Highlights include calf and hog rations green food in winter production of butter from Holstein cows, stud breedings, and the value of manure and modern milking equipment.
Practical guidance on farming practices including roomy animal housing, early hatching, lambs eating grain weeks before weaning, evaluating cow feed value, selecting strong mares, cement use for silos and buildings, encouraging children with livestock, protecting horses with blanketing, and spring machinery checks. It also notes poultry feed efficiency across week ranges.
A test by an experiment station ranks eggs by breed weight from Black Minorca to Buff Cochin. The note mentions Peggy the exhibition hen valued around 100000 dollars, then explains a soil testing method using blue litmus paper to indicate acidity and lime needs, with a multi-test approach advised.
Ke Carroll and Young Bravo to stand the season of 1909 at my barn four miles north of Libertyville. Breeding for $10 to insure living colt, Young Bravo at $12.50. For pedigree see posters or at my place, W G Allison, Prop.
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