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Newspaper
Hamilton Evening Journal
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1912
Page
16
The notes discuss feeding for egg production and dairy efficiency, advising heavy feeding for heavy egg laying and dairy herd improvement. It stresses seed quality for clover and pastures, proper trap nests to reduce drones, and careful feed changes to maintain milk flow, highlighting palatability and healthful effects.
Practical notes on managing poultry, cattle, horses, and crops. Emphasizes sanitation, feeding, housing, and humane handling. warns on contagious diseases like tuberculosis. advises manure management, lime use, and breeding caution. Highlights winter planning, fodder, and the value of balanced dairy and beef production.
Ayrshire cows are noted for uniform milk composition rather than high butterfat, placing them between Jerseys, Guernseys, and Holsteins. An Ayrshire is ideal for consumers but may lack heavy production. Registry requires 6,000 pounds milk and 814 pounds butterfat at two years, rising with age.
Pennsylvania state experiment station compared soiling crops for dairy cows finding milk quantity correlated with feed palatability. Cows eating the most relished green forage yielded the highest milk, regardless of dry matter or protein content. Milk quality effects were indirect.
The writing stresses cow comfort in cold, damp weather with dry shelter as essential. It discusses milking foundation in year one, careful management rather than luck, and avoiding blind efforts. It notes feeding calves to eight or nine months, visiting well-fed herds to see success, and using pure termin to aid cream ripening in winter.
An instructionally tinged excerpt discusses fattening fowl before market. It notes buyers’ preferences for crute-fed birds and asserts fatting in proper quantities. The text includes methods for humane killing and processing, detailing brain stopping, hanging, and plucking before cooling.
Instructions describe how to prepare poultry by plucking, placing on a shaping board with weight to create a camouflaged appearance. It warns against leaving chicks hanging by the leg during plucking to avoid a thin and leggy look.
A pragmatic wartime style guide on poultry care. Emphasizes clean hen houses, strong shells, proper ventilation, and consistent feed. Advises ratio of ducks to drakes, pens per flock, mash feed with corn meal and skim milk, and thrice daily rations. Notes licensing in hatchery work and cautious use of incubators. Encourages conservative stock, careful handling of hogs, and grazing with rape seed forage.
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