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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
16
A dairy expert warns that heat harms butter quality and body, urging cold cream, early churning, and ample cooling. Steps include ice or cool water, a cement dairy with machinery, and frequent mixing and chilling of cream. Also advises hoof care for horses and shaded hog shelters.
Agricultural tips emphasize constant salt access for hogs especially sows. For fattening, more corn. for bacon, adjust accordingly. Long-bodied sows tend to breed best, though exceptions exist. Peanuts are valued for Smithfield hams and bacon. Spring and summer neglect harms growth and prices. Hogs can be kept from rooting with charcoal or pulverized coal and salt, not nose rings. Weaning is best to separate breeding stock from market hogs, with breeders needing a nitrogenous diet.
For brood sows use wheat bran shorts middlings ground oats and peas or any mix. Include skim milk and add roots or small potatoes with ample exercise before farrowing. After farrowing continue similar rations, increasing amount as pigs grow and adding corn or barley if the sow loses condition.
A Minnesota farmer reports his sow had twenty-one piglets but only twelve nipples available. One piglet died before nursing. The farmer's wife bottle-fed eight neglected piglets and all eight are thriving along with the rest.
Medical authorities praise goat milk as easily digested and nutritious. It is described as highly dependable for adipose tissue production, with growing consumer demand outstripping available supply.
An article extols goat milk as a superior nourishing dairy product, stating it digests readily and contains high butter fat. It cites strong demand, price of 25 cents for a 2 quart quantity, and claims benefits for infants, the elderly, and tuberculosis patients. It also touts goat milk as a money making home enterprise and notes physicians endorse it.
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