Milk of High Grade Dairy Care and Feeding
The article emphasizes clean milk as the keynote, detailing milker attire and hygiene, sterilization of utensils, dust control, and cooling requirements. It notes wooden milk trays, avoidance of galvanized iron, minimal stable dust, and double vestibules for cooling rooms. It also covers cow selection, Jersey cows for richer milk, and a grain-based winter ration with adjustable portions.
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F. H. Stadmuller
American Agriculturist
Jerseys
House the Cows for Profit by Keeping Warmth Low
L W Lighty in The National Stockman argues cows use more feed to stay warm in cold weather and to digest that feed. Keep stable above freezing and keep cows indoors for most of the day to save feed and boost milk profits.
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L. W. Lighty
National Stockman
Resolve to be Helpful Elevates Self Improvement
Motivated by a strong resolve to avoid useless efforts and help others, the quote urges swift, delicate self improvement. It emphasizes honest intention and practical steps to become more useful to people. The message valorizes small, practical actions over grand claims.
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Jolo
Choosing a Dairy Cow for Quality and Conformation
The guide outlines key dairy cow traits such as supple skin, lack of coarse hair, and correct hind-leg placement. It emphasizes a broad level back, deep rib, long body, ample feeding capacity, and a slender neck and head, contrasting dairy form with beef type. It notes skin color as an imperfect milk quality indicator and warns against cow hocks and excessive thigh flesh.
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New Yorker
Economy of Sheltering the Cow for Winter
D N Otis notes in Kansas Farmer that high feed costs push shelter needs for dairy cows. A productive cow should be kept at peak milk output with economical shelter, while dry cows and young stock require less. A southward open shed in a woodlot aids hardy, efficient dairy cattle.
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D. N. Otis
Kansas
Pigs on Dairy Farm Says Swine Boosts Dairy Profit
A Minnesota dairyman argues in American Cultivator that pigs should accompany cows in the fields and be fed on skim milk. He claims skimmilk feeding increases profit, reduces waste, and avoids poor markets for milk, noting many quit dairying after yearly accounting shows little gain.
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Minnesota
Calf Rearing Methods Boost Profit On Dairies
Advice from W E Edwards in The American Cultivator argues calves should be separated after a few days, fed on skimmilk and grain, with gradual transition to hay and grain. Proper feeding aims to produce calves nearly as heavy as dam-raised ones while preserving milk for butter and cream.
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W. E. Edwards
Warming Cream for the Churn by H E Bullis
H E Bullis suggests warming cream to 62 64 degrees Fahrenheit before churning. He uses a water bath, stirs as the cream heats, and notes faster churning with little effort. He keeps 9 cows, ships butter to Minneapolis, and reports 28 cents per pound last winter and 20 cents in the previous summer.
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H. E. Bullis
American Agriculturist
Minneapolis
Left Handed Medicine
An Atchison druggist tells of tonsillitis in which he refused a doctor, claiming healing would come once the swelling broke. His wife urged medical help, and a physician arrived only to discover his left handed medicine for the left side throat swell.
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Atchison
Fatal Prosperity on Washington Street Lace Vendor
A street peddler selling shoe laces on a Washington Street corner died after his neck strings wound tight around him. He had a busy night selling up to four pairs of laces before his sudden illness led to pneumonia and death.
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Washbington
Stair Climbing Warns of Bent Figures in High-Rise Town
A doctor warns that residents who live on upper floors with no elevator are becoming bent and flattened from stairs. He cites the daily vertical mileage and urges proper posture to prevent future infirmities, noting many people now appear misshapen to casual observers.
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Terra Firma
Real Women Needed to Regulate Our Lives
In a Success editorial the call for balanced living cites King Alfred eight hours for work eight for sleep and eight for recreation. It argues six hours of real work six hours of genuine sleep and six hours of active play yield more than longer empty routines and urges women to be real professionals at work and home.
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Alfred
Feminine Ingenuity and Everyday Solutions
A humorous Leslie's Weekly note celebrates how women find vast uses for small objects like a toothbrush. It cites practical hacks from sealing window rattles to stirring medicine, loosening pot mold, driving tacks, and turning a caseknife into a screwdriver.
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Leslie's Weekly
Extra Supervision For Household Tidiness Suggested
A suggestion that a lady of the house impose a simple rule to oversee dining table setup and daily bedroom tidiness. Quick daily checks would prevent disturbances, ensure water jugs and bottles are clean and refilled, and keep soap and towels in place, saving much trouble later.
How High a Salmon Leaps Upstream
A Norwegian Fisheries director sought the salmon’s leap height over a waterfall. Measurements used placed mounds below the fall. Report states a fish can reach about 20 feet. One fish failed once, remained in the current, then sprang to clear the fall.
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Norwegian Fisheries
FARMER ORCHARD BUTTER MAKING PRACTICE GUIDE
An Ohio farmer's wife explains pure butter production methods emphasizing cleanliness of milk pails and seams, proper drying and sun exposure, and correct handling of cream and cans. She details cooling and ripening processes, temperature controls, and the use of sour milk to aid churning for high quality gilt edge butter.
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Ohio
National Stockman
Jersey
Prize Winning Jersey Bull Dewey of Marlborough Estate
The Jersey bull Dewey owned by the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Home Farm Woodstock England was carved Aug 2 1898. Bred by P F Abier Jersey, sire Reminder and dam Etna. He earned prizes from 1890 to 1901 including multiple first places at Bath and West, Wiltshire and Royal Counties shows. Dewey's sire Reminder also won Bath and West 2-year-old bull at Croydon as Perry Farm Reminder.
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Dewey
Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim
Woodstock
England
P. F. Abier
Jersey
Reminder
Etna
Tring
Oxfordshire
Oxford
Wiltshire
Devizes
Bath and
West
Bath
Royal Counties
Winchester
Royal
York
Norfolk
Downham Market
Gloucestershire
Gloucester
Thame
Bath and West
Croydon
Weymouth
Perry Farm
Clover Bloat Prevention and Home Treatment Tips
An expert notes clover bloat can be prevented by keeping cattle off wet clover. If bloated, the common fatal route is lung congestion from stomach pressure. Flesh may be darker but is not poisonous. The recommended remedy is a left flank opening with a knife or a hollow tube to release gas.
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Karrie
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