Local residents and visitors frequent Ferdinand events
Henry Beckmann and family travel to Chicago with Robert Beckmann falling ill and undergoing appendectomy. Numerous neighbors and relatives from Kentucky, Louisville, Cincinnati, Jasper, New Albany, and St Meinrad visit Ferdinand for gatherings, funerals, threshing, and social events. Church, farm, and business trips noted among residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Beckmann
Robert
Chicago
Lula
Laura Brandt
Newport
Ben Kippenbrock
Southern Adds Passenger Trains to French Lick and West Baden
Southern Railway announces Sunday January 5 1908 as the start of regular passenger service on the French Lick West Baden Extension. The health resorts will be easily reached with attractive round trip rates from all points and agents can provide rates and schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
French Lick
West Baden
West Baden Springs
Southern Railway Company
Wisconsin Experiment Station Finds Grinding Corn Profitable for Pigs and Calves
The Wisconsin Experiment Station reports a saving of 8 to 20 percent from grinding corn for pork production across four trials with 70 pigs. Feeding advice varies by animal stage and cost. grinding during the later feeding phase may benefit steers, while early stages favor whole corn or chopped ears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer's Tribune
Wisconsin
Selecting and Feeding Calves for Baby Beef
The Rural World advises calves chosen for baby beef to have strong constitutions and to stay with dams for six to seven months. From nursing to market they are treated as steers and should learn to eat shell corn oats bran oil meal and other foods. They must eat all they will and never be satiated, requiring a variety of foods and careful balance with local forage and markets.
The Sheep’s Stomach and Digestion Compared to Cattle
The text explains sheep have four stomachs with a capacious paunch enabling digestion of bulky food like hay. Eight to ten average sheep equal one two-year-old steer in consumption. It notes similar roughage to grain ratios for fattening as cattle, though sheep tolerate more hay, and that sheep grind food more thoroughly allowing grain to be fed without prior grinding or soaking.
Ratee Hoge for Profit on Farm Hog Ration
A farmer advises raising a few hogs next year to eat surplus meat, noting that waste occurs on farms. The plan involves turning the surplus into market meat for profit and suggests timing adjustments to maximize yield.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Math Olinger, Jr
Rosa and
Chas. Olinger
Maggie Schum
Anna Abbott
Joe Kiser
Covington, Ky
Friedmann
Jasper
Kraus
Louisville
John Altmann
John Dilger
Desk Co
Andy Renner
Huntingburg
Jacob Ruxer
St. Meinrad
Ferdinand
F. X. Rickelmann
Henry Meyer
Monte Casino
Ella
Cornelia Beckmann
Niagara Falla
New York
William Mullen
Mr. Hobbs
Adgeville
Maurice Durchholz
Laura
LaGrange
Wm. Ernet
Raymond
The
City
Frank Meyer
Frank Altmann
Ferdinand Klueh
Anna Bickwermert
Princeton
Ben Buehning
Frank Reckelhoff
Cincinnati
John H. Rickelhoff
Henry Remke
John Lemfert
Frank Seng
Katy Ernst
Fred Punch
St. Francis
Texas
Joe Durchholz
Thomas Kinney
St. Louis
John Havlik
Miss Roan
Clara Reutmann
Ben Bolte
Ben Weaver
St. Anthony
Otmar of
Town
Odiilo
Prof
Beiter
N. Ed Snyder
Ted Stallmann
Mariah Hill
Chas. Metager
Henry
Father Roman
Tell
Aloysius Flecher
Ed Ringemann
Misa Angela Schmit
Lizzie Schmitt
Evanaville
Minna Timmermann
Enos Bosler
Frank Person
Joe Welp
Evana
Theodore Peters
Lincoln City
Dr. Carter
Mr. Blickenstaff
Indianapolis
Joe Riegle
Englebert Dilger
Wm. Bergmann
Troy
John Hubers
Southern
Desians Corvrients &c
Tang Communications
Scientific American
York
M & Co
York Ce
F &T
Washington. D
Cole
Indiana
Joseph F. Kitten
Foundry and Machine Works
Cumberland
Jerdinand, Ind
Leppert’s Hotel
H. C. Knapp, M. D
Quante’s
Frank’s
Mary Senninger
Patera
Just
St.Louis
Peter
Wwe
NEW Farmer Store
JFL
Beckmann & Sauer
de Soto Ryo
Kentucky
Solinger
Afius Beers
Miso
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