Azoturia in Horses Aids Prevention by Rich-Food Control
A Wisconsin Agricultural College veterinary article explains azoturia in work horses. Overfeeding and idle periods trigger symptoms including hind leg weakness, muscle hardening, dark urine, and possible paralysis. Prevention centers on reducing grain during rest, increasing exercise, careful handling when symptoms appear, and consulting a veterinarian. Also discussed are stocking of the legs and the role of hygiene, sun exposure, and proper stable care in preventing related ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Alexander
Wisconsin Agricultural College
Practical Winter Farm Advice From The American Farm World
Readers are urged to mail for sample issues of the American Farm World. Farm tips cover manure management in frozen ground, preserving apples, sheltering tools and ice houses, chimney safety, protecting corn shocks, chicken house drafts, and winter beekeeping with a honey sugar cake for brood frames.
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American Farm World
Herman
Moon Blindness Known as Equine Eye Disease
Moon blindness, medically called equine recurrent uveitis, is a common eye ailment in horses causing episodic inflammation that can lead to vision loss. Veterinarians advise prompt treatment to manage pain and prevent scarring.
December Farm Tips From a Rural Chronicle
The piece offers practical winter advice for farmers and households. It urges spraying winter weather on trees, feeding horses with bran mashes, protecting sheep from wet conditions, and encouraging acts of charity. It also covers manure packing, coop care for mites, whitewash and kerosene use, trimming bad apples, banking rose bushes, and suggests making a local farmer directory.
Turkey Raising Admonitions and Dairy Quips
Anna Galigher urges readers to persevere in turkey farming after a tough year and shares practical notes on care and feeding. She discusses diseases from rye, attempts to confine turkeys, and remedies, plus comments on butter markets and dairy regulations including tail clipping and homogenized milk.
Turkey hens profitable until age fifteen
The article notes long lived turkey hens are productive into their 15th year. It also reports a Clear Lake farmer's peppermint trial earning 65 dollars per acre on four acres last year and other state agriculture figures.
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Iowa
Clear Lake
Colorado
South Dakota
Kansas
Nebraska
Arthur Coyler
East Bernard
Texas
Selecting and Raising Turkeys for Next Year
Advice on buying breeding stock, costs, and care for turkeys. The article compares breeds such as Mammoth Bronze White Holland Narragansett Bourbon Red and stresses buying from different breeders, avoiding inbreeding, keeping a single gobbler with up to six hens, and favoring mature birds for better hatch and vigor.
The Man and the Cow Dairying Yields Stable Income
A dairy owner keeps fifteen cows producing steady monthly income near one hundred dollars. The writer notes strong demand for good farm butter and highlights a neighboring farm wife who earns two cents above Elgin prices by selling butter. Emphasis is on cleanliness careful milking and efficient methods driving market prices.
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Elgin Creamery
International Live Stock Expo crowns diverse champions
The International Live Stock Exposition at Union Stock Yards concluded with top honors across multiple breeds. Ontario’s Roan King captured the Shorthorn grand championship, while Andy from Minnesota and Flint of Meadow Brook led key Angus classes. Carrot and fat barrow titles went to Iowa and Illinois exhibitors as Canadian shepherds dominated ribbons. An aim to form an international agriculture institute was announced amid the event.
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Union Stock Yards
Gene Grubb
Colorado
Andy
Flint
Meadow Brook
Nebraska College
Minnesota College
James Leask
Greenbank
Ontario
Canada
Durno
Leask
Krambeck
Iowa
Goodwine & Goodenough
Illinois
Hampshire
Ohio University
Poland
Iowa Agricultural College
States
George Drummond
S. H. Todd
Colonel Igo
Scotch Goods
Choice Goods
Bowen
Kansas City
Roberta
Bleshall
The Small Farm Pays By H H Shepard Opinion
A 13 acre farm proves more profitable per acre than larger holdings through close personal attention near the home. The author argues small farms cost less to fence and maintain, save time, reduce waste, and concentrate manure and by products for richer soil, claiming higher efficiency and personal control. He cautions distant farms waste time and crop value.
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H. H. Shepard
Funnel for the Kitchen Chute and Farm Divorce Suit
A notice describes a zinc kitchen chute design for waste disposal with a wall mount and rounded elbows. It also reports an Indiana farmer suing his wife for divorce over loaning a sitting hen, a judge dismissing the case, and government action halting patent medicine production. California citrus output is forecast at 27 500 carloads of oranges and 3 500 carloads of lemons, the largest citrus crop to date.
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Indiana
Evansville
California
Poultry writer M. K. Boyer Offers Reader Questions
The piece praises M. K. Boyer as a leading U S poultry writer and notes his articles benefit readers. It invites readers to send questions on general interest to Mr Boyer for answers.
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M. K. Boyer
United States
Boyer
Reasons for Drafting Ewes From the Breeding Flock
A reader explains why ewes with udder problems should be culled or marked to prevent milk supply issues next lambing. He cites garget teat injuries and a rotted teat forming a knot returning tissue that blocks milk flow, warning new gland tissue may not form properly and could cause garget.
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Jersey
W. R. Gilbert
Poultry Q A From Farm Press on Fowl Care and Breeding
A farm press Q A discusses feather pulling overcrowding turkey dressing yields nut preferences for turkeys beech nuts as a fattening agent quinine as a wash for swelled head gapes seasonality of moult and egg production advice on lameness feeding lime and oyster shell to prevent thin shelled eggs and adjustments to feeding quantities for fattening fowls.
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J. B
R. P
Farm Press
R. A
M. K. Boyer
United States
E. M
Feeding cotton seed and meal to dairy cattle
Professor A M Soule of the Virginia Experiment Station reports moderate use of cotton seed and cotton seed meal is safe for cattle and does not seriously harm butter or milk. He notes butter tends to be hard and tallowlike, but color can be achieved with coloring. hard butter ships better in warm climates. Optimal daily amounts vary by animal, with milch cows generally not exceeding five to six pounds of cotton seed daily, and up to one to three pounds of seed meal for many cows, preferably with roughage or other grains. Mixing seed with other grains or dampened hay is advised, and a blend can be preferable when cotton seed is cheap and other grains are costly.
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New York City
New York
A. M. Soule
Virginia Experiment Station
The Double Smoothing Narrow Harrow For Corn and Potatoes
This implement description outlines a 3x3 inch oak harrow used just before crop emergence and at the two to six inch tall stage. Teeth slant 45 degrees in a diamond pattern to strike the soil, with frame assembled before boring tooth holes. Painted and kept dry it will last fifteen years.
Notes on Sheep Folds and Prairie Fires
Notes discuss best practices for sheep farming including diet pasture care and breeding. It warns against cross breeding and urges specialization in pure breed or early lamb growing. It reports a Millbank South Carolina prairie fire that destroyed livestock buildings and crops and notes Alaska hay prices up to 200 to 300 per ton.
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Millbank
S. C
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Sweeney
Rose Come
Anna Galigher
Ohio
Nubbins
Farm News
N. A. Black
Salem
Chester White Boar
Virginia
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
Lower Brule
Qetobe
Michael K. Boyer
England
Alaska
Tom
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