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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1911
Page
5
Simple wooden stanchions help raise dairy calves by giving each animal a fair share of milk and preventing ear and udder injuries from fighting. The design can be built from waste lumber, with sections set in a barn or moved to fields, and uses specific lumber pieces and posts to create ten fitting units with two feet per calf.
An illustration describes a new device preventing cattle from straying onto railway tracks. A cow stepping on the platform shield is turned up to block further wandering, an idea noted as simple yet effective and said to have saved many cattle lives.
A New Jersey farmer explains a simple dairy venture selling cows after raising them on pasture. He describes costs, milk yield, and profits per day, noting herd management and feed efficiency influence earnings. The piece highlights the logic of buying, raising, and selling cattle for a steady income.
After cows have milked for several months, boosting milk flow is often wasteful. The best approach is to maintain a feeding system that prevents too rapid a decline in production once the milk flow is established.
Gy B J Lyon explains practical steps to dry and clean barn yards. Remove topsoil six inches, lay large broken rock two to five inches, tamp firmly, add smaller rock and fine crushed stone, then mix with cinders for a hard surface that sheds water.
An illustrated guide presents a knot that will not slip in the rope end when forming a long loop. The diagram clearly indicates the method and requires no further written description.
The article notes that attempts to boost milk flow in cows rely on feeding corn, straw, and bran, with some haylike feeds when clover alfalfa or cowpea hay is unavailable. It warns that seed meal must be purchased in sizable amounts to supply milk producing compounds.
The article notes that cows with larger bellies mouths and chests tend to produce more milk and butter fat. Experienced dairymen look for a wide chest and distended nostrils as signs of a cow's ability to eat large quantities, indicating greater production potential.
The dairy notes advise proper cow care and milking practices. It emphasizes treating each cow well and ensuring rest between freshening to protect health and yield. It warns against overmilking and notes some cows are persistent milkers making drying off difficult yet necessary for welfare.
The author travels from Tokyo to Sendai by first class train to Matsushima Bay famed as a beauty spot. A boat ride through pine islands leads to coastal villages, a Japanese hotel on a rocky point, and a temple visit with fishermen’s offerings.
Arthur F. Griffith known as The Marvelous Griffith a famed mental calculator died of apoplexy in a Springfield Massachusetts hotel at 31 en route to Bridgeport. He impressed Yale Harvard Chicago Indiana Northwestern scholars with feats of rapid arithmetic and memory. He was born near Milford July 1 1880 and valued his childhood skill as natural not genius.
Irregular institute attendance prompt action under county plan. Transportation delays blamed for tardiness. Boonville hog market notices and cholera scare stir Warrick county farmers. A circuit court case ends with a two month sentence and a plea compromise in Attica. Prosecution details include a teen witness and a wealthy farmer in a separate verdict context.
Carmel reports Barclay Henley found dead in barn with injuries and a bloody ax nearby. Coroner returns verdict of accidental death, family disputes finding and calls for thorough investigation. Also notes a separate $3,000 theft in Frankfort and a golden wedding in Crawfordsville.
A batch of short Indiana notices reports a 67th anniversary for Dr and Mrs James D Trwin in Corydon a stock barn fire in Evansville causing about 3000 in losses an 80th birthday and 59th lodge anniversary for James Armstrong in Newcastle a man’s death by suicide at the Madison Street bridge in Indianapolis two attempted suicides in Crawfordsville including Frank Breaks slashing his throat a Vanderburg county request for a 2000 appropriation denied in the Shuler McCormick case a $100 verdict in a Powers v Shoup suit a murder trial postponed in Newcastle a pension retirement at Western Union for Vo Dake in Evansville and various local court and tax items including payments due and a dramatic escape by Vin White from Kintzel and De puty Mekrill in Warsaw
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