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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
5
Practical dairy and farm care guidance covering milking habits, hay quality, pig and horse handling, barn cleanliness, harness upkeep, cold weather shelter, and the use of hand separators. Includes notes on grazing, calf costs, churn temperatures, and the Alaska wheat assessment by Dr. Galloway.
The article warns that sheet washing and gullying from rainfall rapidly ruin hilly fields. It outlines four preventive methods: cover crops and organic matter, careful tillage, and terraces with hillside ditches. It also details erosion-control practices using straw, grass sod, dams, and brush to stabilize draws and fill gullies over time.
The article explains broad milk receiving duties including selecting milk by senses, separating by quality, and keeping poor milk separate to protect butter quality. It describes marking milk as A or H on sheets, paying patrons by quality, and using this practice to reform dairy care on farms.
Advice urges painting after use to prevent rust on steel and rot on wood, extending tool life.
When pastures thin, cut fodder corn and feed it to the cows to sustain them.
Forced pullets produce larger eggs than retarded ones. The chores should be integrated into the day’s work if possible.
A fragment from a newspaper page discusses the fate of a seventeenth century violin maker Guarnerius and his criticized work while noting a famed violinist and Winston Churchill. It also mentions astral colored candies made in London by two women blending art and taste.
The celebrated foreigner is surrounded by a mob joking about body parts in a scene flavored with exaggerated accents. He quips in French humor, remarking that Americans are souvenir seekers and contemplates leaving to avoid further attention.
History notes ships of note with rich stories. Joy Gould’s yacht Atalanta, once bought for 140000, has been sold for 1750. The gun boat Presidente of Santo Domingo was plundered and abandoned in a southern harbor.
An illustration from Farm Poultry shows an old fattening apparatus for poultry to save labor. The revolving cage and movable attendant platform suggest an early model once shown in New York and France. The article also notes other farm devices and farmyard quips about pruning and tree care.
The article lists twenty one common errors in hog feeding and management. It emphasizes using farm suitable feeds, grazing behavior, clean housing, balanced nourishment, regular intervals, and avoiding over or under feeding to promote growth and profit.
A brief note discusses cow pea and alfalfa hay as a substitute in cattle feeding. The source describes their use as a potential replacement for weet Brel in catty feeding.
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