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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
3
The article urges home sheep production for meat and wool, noting many farms, especially in hills, could keep a few mutton sheep. It cites Boys and Girls clubs helping this effort and explains sheep graze across wide areas, clear weeds after cultivation, and prefer short fine grasses. If kept on brushy or sparse land, they may not yield good mutton or wool.
Early in life pigs can have tusks trimmed using nippers to prevent nipple injury to the sow and self-injury. Do not pull tusks. cut with sharp scissors near the gums. If a pig becomes overweight, it is warned for robbing litter mates. a knife may be used to cut its rooter to curb excess feeding.
Only about four to six percent of our stock is purebred and demand for better stock is growing. There are many profitable opportunities in breeding purebred livestock for capable men who love livestock and can devote time to care and management. Those lacking proper training or inclination to invest time should avoid entering the purebred business.
Practical tips for hog and ewe care, stressing cost efficiency and disease control. Highlights include hog fat production, hog louse prevention, sow feeding and exercise, lambing losses, brood sow uniformity, necrobacillosis signs, and sanitation measures for housing and feeders. Also mentions the value of knowledge and a local anecdotal quote.
Dairy experts ask farm people and extension workers to consider expanding boys and girls calf clubs into larger dairy clubs. The idea focuses on calves that become cows, tracking their development, keeping production records, and teaching dairy farming through school interpretations, sharing insights with older youth and even new tricks for experienced farmers. More discussion is expected.
The War Department unit in San Francisco seeks to help soldiers sailors and marines adjust accounts with the government. Veterans are urged to contact Capt H C Billings or the legion secretary with questions on discharge bonuses travel pay lost baggage Liberty Bonds allotments insurance disability medical care vocational education employment and Victory Buttons.
A blotter message on dairy welfare printed by a dairying agent for the United States Department of Agriculture and Utah Agricultural College outlines humane cow care practices and husbandry.
A call to dairy workers to prioritize cleanliness and gentle handling of cows horses hogs and sheep. The message links humane care to farm profits and personal peace of mind, urging proper milking practices and animal welfare.
The article stresses that dairy improvements come mainly from daughters of purebred bulls. It argues that increasing milk and butterfat in those daughters is more important than breed type gains, noting that purebred bulls tend to raise the milk yield of offspring even in scrub cow herds.
A dairy note explains that a superior cow greatly outperforms average cows and that raising good stock is the best path to quality animals. It notes roughage preferences, the value of a herd on the farm for profits, and the need to balance roughage and silage while maintaining herd health.
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