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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
7
Keep poultry yards clean using lime to sweeten and seasonally rotate pasture for chickens. When space is limited, divide and plow different halves to freshen land, aiming for new ground rather than continual reuse. Also ensure milk vessels are clean and shaded to prevent spoilage and toxin exposure.
A writer notes that hawks cause chick losses, recommending a dog, a gun, and a steel trap with a chain to deter hawks. Crows are trickier and often escape traps, while skunks can be trapped by setting a stake-anchored trap near the henhouse with entrances blocked.
The article cites American Cultivator noting that removing males from the flock is essential to guarantee eggs reach customers fresh. It warns eggs hatch with heat exposure and improper incubation degrade quality, and lists methods to start hatchings in summer and risks of maintaining males.
The guidance advises rest for the initial forty eight hours after a certain procedure. It emphasizes keeping the patient warm and refraining from food during the first two days.
Instruction to refill water fountains at least twice daily and scald them regularly to prevent scum. Recommend placing a fresh piece of coal in the water vessel weekly throughout the summer to keep the water clean.
Poultry Banendale urges poultry keepers to feed plenty of clean wholesome food and provide ample clean dry nests in a clean poultry house. The guidance stresses access to water and hygiene to promote healthy birds.
The report stresses the importance of lime value in solla growing clover and alfalfa, noting many growers fixate on acidity alone and overlook other essential factors, assuming crop health will improve once soll acidity is corrected.
Elizabeth Putnam advises selecting hens with proven maternal success for hatching and cautions against broody fatigue. She outlines nest preparation with ash and kerosene, feeding, dust baths, and timing. The piece notes day old chick shipping, brooder dangers, and the need to cull unruly birds while continually breeding for profit.
A Colorado Extension piece argues to stop keeping roosters with laying hens after breeding. Infertile eggs ship better and fetch higher prices, and need not be incubated. fertile eggs spoil quickly in heat, while infertile eggs endure two weeks in warm rooms.
Woodward of the Dairy Division in Farmers' Bulletin lists 12 arguments for farmers providing themselves a silo. Key points include storing more feed in silage, less waste, corn silage efficiency, wider harvest windows, sustaining more stock per acre, labor savings, palatability, digestion benefits, winter feeding, pasture supplementation, and field clearing for subsequent crops.
This guide states good cows require ample nourishing feed to maximize milk output. It warns against feeding only to maintain bodies and urges using rich concentrates like wheat bran and ground corn twice daily. If profits lag, the issue lies in poor cows or management, and the solution is to study and adjust practices to turn feed into milk.
Poultry Journal advises frightening thieves rather than harming them using home made electric alarms, searchlights, bells, or clocks. Methods include door alarms with a battery powered light, a railway gong timer, and the idea of bright lighting to deter intruders. The piece adds tips on hen feeding, suggesting more food improves hens’ output.
The Livingston Pride apple, recently seeded from Orange County and sent to the Geneva experiment station, is large with light yellow skin shaded and striped with carmine. It looks attractive when cooked and is of good quality, though not a dessert fruit. Season in the last of September and into October.
The text notes that beside protein carbohydrates and fat, the mineral or ash content of seeds is of great importance to animals, highlighting its role as a crucial dietary component.
A USDA survey states proper dog control could double sheep numbers on farms without displacing other stock. Dogs have driven many farmers from sheep farming, with sheep fitting a niche of their own.
A guidance note urges allowing both hens and chicks to range freely after the chicks are a few days old to gain nutrition from foraging. It also recommends a feeding plan at night to ensure they consume enough, aiming for faster growth and higher market weight or earlier sale.
Advice from TOL Haecker University dairy experts stresses regular feeding and careful timing. Feed twice daily with balanced grains and roughage, milk cows during the meal, and allow daytime stall rest with limited disturbance to maximize milk yield.
The Missouri Equal Suffrage association outlines an active campaign with Mrs Walter McNabb Miller directing. She will travel to Chicago on July 24 to consult national leaders, then tour the state to appoint county chairmen, schedule speakers, and arrange literature funding, aided by national and local organizers including Dr Anna Shaw Janet Thompson and Emily Newell Plate. Sacrifice Day is set for August 15, urging each suffragist to forgo something to fund the drive with contributions sent to Miss Mary E Bulkly.
In a statement from the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, leaders urge a peaceful push for enfranchisement with no conflict between genders. They emphasize evolution in progress, unity among reformers, and support from aligned states. The message, signed by Marie Taylor Upton, stresses cooperation and common purpose across states.
A speaker argues that pork production is profitable at bacon prices of 25 to 30 cents per pound. The key factor is producers not receiving those bacon prices for their hogs, affecting overall profitability and farming decisions.
A slatted rack for airing milk pans and utensils is described. A shelf 4 feet long holds several vessels. slats are one by two inches, four inches apart. The rack can be mounted on posts and inverted to catch air from underneath, as illustrated by T. L. Batley in Missouri Valley Farmer.
Instructions from the Colorado Experiment Station emphasize immediate postnatal care for mare foals. Ensure a roomy straw bed, standing within an hour, and first nourishment. Apply a naval bandage, protect the cord, dust with tannic and boracic powder, and use warm rectal injections or laxatives if needed.
Colorado Experiment Station notes hog raising offers higher returns than other livestock. Hogs gain 23 pounds per 100 feed units versus cattle 9 and sheep 11, making hogs nearly 2.5 times more efficient. Cholera remains the chief risk, controllable by vigilant sanitation and farmer cooperation. Continuous pen cleaning every Saturday helps keep hogs healthy.
Dairy leaders urge rapid industry-wide action to secure long term prosperity. A Davenport addresses three threats to dairying: inefficient cows, outdated sanitation, and public misperceptions of dairy product value. He calls for three education campaigns among dairymen and consumers to build a solid future 20 years ahead.
The article urges practical dairy farming, noting the burden of the work and stressing that the poorer half of the herd drags down profits. It recommends strict record keeping, weeding out bad cows, and giving attentive care to the rest to maximize milk output and overall efficiency. It warns against guessing at yields and claims unweighed milk estimates often exaggerate by 25 to 50 percent.
Analyzes dairy farming challenges of labor and feeding. Emphasizes cows as machines turning raw materials into milk, warnings about unbalanced feed and waste, notes on keeping silos properly sized and fed. Recommends removing at least two inches daily and avoiding excessive silo volume relative to herd.
W W Robbing explains that seed treatment cannot control corn smut. Spores overwinter in soil or manure, infection can occur anytime but often after two to three feet of growth. Rotate fields, remove and burn smutted masses, and favor old manure over fresh. Susceptibility varies with corn varieties and acclimation.
The Cow Test Association asserts their guidance can increase daily butter fat yield from dairy cows, even if milk production per cow remains unchanged, by following their recommendations.
The alfalfa weevil is described as a destructive pest across Great Salt Lake region reaching Utah Idaho and Wyoming. It damages alfalfa and seed production. The U S Department of Agriculture investigates prevention including mechanical destruction of larvae and adults and introducing European natural enemies to curb the pest.
Farmers should avoid burying seeds too deep as onions squash parsnips and lima beans tend to push against the shell and struggle to emerge when the soil is compacted by rain. Proper shallow covering aids germination and growth.
A farmer describes a V shaped gateway design that separates small stock from cattle at feeding time. The plan allows a milk pall to pass while cows cannot follow, with a small swinging gate to form a permanent enclosure for hogs chickens and sheep.
An Ohio State estimate says not more than one third of cows will yield 300 pounds of butter fat per year with proper feeding. If all cows reached this level, annual butter fat value could rise about 17 million dollars, matching the state’s current butter value. The same holds nationwide.
The article argues pure bred dairy cattle deliver profit on the farm as top producers require no extra space or effort. It emphasizes replacing indifferent, non producing stock with animals that yield handsome profits, asserting efficient herd management and diligent breeding as essential to farm profitability.
Chickens, like other animals, will eat salt if available but are generally satisfied and will not overeat unless salt is mixed with mash or soft feed. There is a risk they may consume too much in such mixes.
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