Calf Scours Help With Castor Oil And Twice Daily Feed
Guidance on preventing and treating calf scours emphasizes reducing milk to about half during illness and using castor oil or a bismuth and salicylate remedy. Best practice is to feed calves twice daily and provide warm sweet milk after milking, with Jersey or Guernsey calves needing eight to ten pounds daily in early weeks. If weighing milk is not possible, feed slightly more than half a gallon twice daily.
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Jersey
Guernsey
Saving Best Heifer Calves and Herd Improvement
G W Barnes of the Department of Agriculture advises that good cows come from keeping records of each cow’s production and saving heifer calves from large producers. Continuous weighing and testing milk, plus costing, build a first class herd as feed costs rise.
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G. W. Barnes
Department of Agrire Mae Niettamen
Keep Young Calves Thrifty Ration Idea
A practical calf feeding plan uses equal parts cracked corn whole oats bran and oil meal. When fed with clover hay this mix keeps calves healthy thriving. Cracked corn delivers carbohydrates and warmth while oats build bone muscle and stamina. Calves under a year digest unground corn and oats as well as ground forms and prefer them whole.
Regularity in Milking Habits Emphasized for Cattle
The text argues that consistent milking times are essential for cows. It notes summer milking at about five in the morning and seven to eight in winter, with evening milking shifted accordingly. Irregular intervals hurt milk quality, quantity, and the cow’s yearly milking period.
Weed Out Profitseeless Cows In Cow Testing
Cow testing associations grow nationwide and weed out unprofitable cows, replacing them with value paying cows. Milk flow declines when cows shrink due to short feed, making recovery costly or impossible until they are freshened.
Avoid Dangerous Practice In Milk Handling
A fragment urges that no person with a communicable condition should handle the top pail. It states the wet top milk pail is a necessity to produce clean milk and implies strict hygiene is essential.
Recipes From The Folks Pudding And Dinner Dishes
A collection of kitchen guidance detailing Pudding with caramel rice, Nut and Cheese Roast, Baked Celery With Cheese, Broiled Oysters a la Francaise, Partridge Fricassee, and a closing quoted poem about sharing earth’s bounty.
German Cookery Delicacies Include Almond Rings and Sauerkraut
A historic kitchen note outlines German dishes and methods. Almond rings mix butter sugar egg yolks and flour then fry in almonds and cinnamon. Sauer Braten stewed beef with vinegar lemon rind carrots leeks and thickened sauce. Beet fritters mash beets with eggs cream and lemon rind then fry. Roast goose with stuffing uses par boiling, onion, sage and a rich stuffing of almonds raisins bread crumbs liver and butter, served with gooseberry jelly.
Preserving Firefly Light Through Extracted Glands
The Popular Science Monthly reports a method to extract and dry firefly light producing organs without reducing bioluminescence. When oxygenated water is added to the powder, it glows gold. Uncle Eben quips on domestic life and bosses in boarding houses.
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Popular Science Monthly
Thanksgiving Reflections on Gratitude and Strength
A 12th century style meditation on Thanksgiving argues true thanks arise from hardship and resilience. It contrasts rich comfort with poverty, urges gratitude for strength to endure, and envisions a disciplined, sober nation born from trial as America observes Thanksgiving Week.
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Cnn
America
Thanksgiving Fable Shows Wise Turkey on Gluttony
An aged Turkey scènes a cautionary tale to a Grandson who gorges on food. The Wise Old Bird warns that Thanksgiving crowds bring danger and a feast soon ends, urging restraint to live long. Moral: avoid excess and risky eating to prosper.
Thanksgiving as an Institution Across Ancient Nations
The piece argues that Thanksgiving as an institution is not uniquely American. It notes that many ancient nations celebrated harvest feasts, including Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and various American Indian traditions, with feasting, processions, and homes decorated with fruits and flowers.
The Thankful Spirit Cultivate Gratitude Across Life
A reflection on cultivating a thankful spirit as a perpetual feast. The text stresses that mercies are abundant when one keeps a grateful heart, quoting moral standards from Christ as guiding for two worlds.
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Macduff
Christ
Thanksgiving Day Prayer for Peace and Charity
A fragmented Thanksgiving Day meditation asks for peace in cities and homes and thanks the Giver for safety. It pleads to avoid war and conquest, to help weaker nations, and to share abundance with those in need during hardship. The verse expresses pity for the suffering and a desire to heal the injured and support all humanity.
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Soula
The
Sunday Magazine
Sour milk boosts egg production in Leghorn pullets
A year long trial with three pens of White Leghorn pullets compared sour milk, beef scrap, and no animal protein. The sour milk pen produced 3,275 eggs with a $28,260 profit, far ahead of beef scrap and no-meat pens, showing sour milk as a cheaper, effective feed option for egg production.
Feast of the Tabernacles and Native Thanksgiving Traditions
The article links the Old Testament Feast of Tabernacles to a harvest celebration on the seventh month, likening it to November festivals in temples and street processions. It notes American Indian Thanksgiving customs centered on corn harvest dances and feasts, with many tribes fading yet some preserved on reservations in modified form.
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Tabernacles
America
Old World Harvest Home Day Heats Colonial Traditions
The passage notes Dutch bank days from 1600 to 1710 and English adoption of the feast in the Americas. It describes a rural harvest home with open estates, a barn dance after sunset, greensward sports, and a grand dinner. In 1830 New York's governor designated a yearly thanksgiving, followed by other northern governors.
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New York
Culling and Market Strategy for Cockerels
The article advises intensive culling of cockerels with only a small share fit for breeding. It urges conditioning surplus stock in confinement for two to three weeks, with crate feeding as a preferred method, then selling to a special trade at higher post holiday prices. Caporization could allow holding for even higher future prices.
Relatives or Boarders Cow Naming Debate Sparks Farm Talk
A farmer argues that cows labeled as boarders should be called relatives since boarders pay for their boards while relatives do not. The remark highlights label nuances in farm livelihoods and animal care.
A Helping Hand on Thanksgiving Day
A call to practical charity urges readers to help someone in need without expense. The author emphasizes gratitude, quiet reflection on Thanksgiving, and bringing practical cheer to a neighbor or friend who struggles alone, noting such acts spread contagious goodwill.
Colony Houses for Winter Hens a Comfort in Sheltered Stables
In ordinary winters hens may run at large and the colony house proves more convenient than a large permanent one. Buildings are moved to a sheltered spot, banked with meadow hay, straw or coarse horse manure, keeping hens warm and comfortable, with properly built stables providing sufficient warmth.
Cleaning Nesting Material Through Burning
Frequent dumping and burning of nesting materials to thin vermin is proposed. The plan suggests smoking out nest boxes over a fire to achieve control.
Plaster In Henhouse
A directive instructs to place a pile of old house plaster in the corner of the poultry house if any plaster exists anywhere on the premises. The note appears as a practical instruction for waste disposal or pest control in a farm setting.
Excellent Spray Mix for Poultry Houses
A crude carbelic acid spray combined with kerosene makes an effective deterrent for use in poultry houses. The mixture prompts caution due to chemical properties and handling requirements.
Road Building a Barometer of Real Estate Trust
A real estate buyer watches road construction as a barometer of regional progress. Good roads signal upward land value, justify road bonds as solid investments, and reflect a community’s willingness to spend for future growth. The piece notes Virginia and Iowa cases where road-led value rises accelerated prices and economic development.
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Ise Coe
Oklahoma
Farm, Progress
Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Iowa
Jand
Five Million For Federal Good Roads Allocations
Following the federal good roads bill, the Department of Agriculture is apportioning the initial 5 million dollars among states. The highway commission shows a clear intent to direct funds toward the main interstate routes this year.
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Department of Agriculture
Apple Trees on Highways and Dairy Misconceptions
On highways near new state roads in Topsham Maine wild apple trees outside old stone walls are grafted with summer apples for public use. Residents are urged to care for the trees while concerns arise about dairy practices as cows graze poorly, with milk output declining as a result.
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Topsham
Watch for Head Lice and Chick Remedies
A brief note instructs poultry caretakers to watch for head lice on chicks and rub the top of the head with unsalted lard if found. It also mentions leg weakness insurance with fresh dirt touted as protection for young birds against leg issues.
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