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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1923
Page
2
The Penfields host a barn party for Lettie and neighbors with songs by Lorene Chase and Crink’s treats. Gifts, laughter, and a shared sense of wealth lift the group as they anticipate Christmas day and a final roast duck feast.
Mrs Penfield faces a sudden town trip and dwindling income while Crink fails to pay for laundry as a cold week and New Year approach. Lettie and Thad ration cornbread and water, sharing a secret to feed the hungry dog and endure hardship. Rocked by hunger, the Penfields cling to plan and pride.
An essay-like reflection contrasts the enduring burden of a pledged word with physical restraints that can be broken. It argues that the promise or oath binds beyond walls or bars, remaining a heavier, more lasting fetter on a captive or person of honor.
The bulletin explains milk plant operations from prompt arrival to bottling and sanitation. It covers washing bottles, preventing bacteria, machine bottling, and cost comparisons. It discusses bottle losses, waste, and methods to track receipts and sales, pay drivers, producers, and handle surplus milk.
The article urges year round culling to improve flock production. It notes the middle mating period is best for culling and suggests this occurs around midsummer to early autumn. It warns poor layers stop laying in fall and winter, and that careful culling reduces feed costs without lowering egg output.
Poults should have free range once strong but avoid wet morning grass until dew dries. They cannot stand tight confinement, so use a foster mother either a common hen or a turkey hen. A common hen takes seven to nine poults, a turkey hen 15 to 18, with experts advising about ten for optimal care. Prepare an adopting hen ready to accept hatched poults.
A guide on initial and subsequent feed for poult development. start with ground dry bread and hard boiled egg, then switch to fine chick scratch grain. Turkeys are seed eaters and respond to milk to curb digestive issues and speed growth. Prevent mortality by avoiding overfeeding and keeping feed and feeding areas clean. If poults die, perform a post mortem and note liver and organ condition.
Farmers with a flowing spring can set up a spring house and water reservoir to cool milk cans. The article describes a concrete interior floor and tank, dense cement mix for waterproofing, monolithic walls, a four inch tank floor, and asphalt joints. Reinforcement bars at corners are recommended.
Agricultural expert G A Schmidt reports that broody hens delay laying. Placing a hen in a goody broody coop on the first day of broodiness speeds return to laying within ten days. delaying up to 21 days extends to 35 days. Release after four days, two extra days if she resumes setting.
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station at Ames reports the highest red clover yield from a fertilizer mix of manure lime and rock phosphate, producing 5 100 pounds of hay per acre. Other treatments include manure limestone bone meal at 4 500 pounds and manure lime with acid phosphate at 3 600 pounds. A complete 2 12 2 commercial fertilizer with manure and lime reached 8 760 pounds per acre.
Attention required by sow before farrowing outlines herd separation before farrow, placement in farrowing pen, daily exercise, and laxative diet with bran and offal meal to aid bowels. Record the breeding date and monitor closely for a smooth farrowing process.
A New York college guidance outlines calf growth strategies for dairymen. Emphasizes keeping calves fed and housed until weaned, delaying pasture until after weaning, and providing shade water and daily grain. Recommends a mixed concentrate regime and notes late season protein needs.
The USDA finds the average milking cow sold for slaughter at ten years old with price about half of milking cows. Uniform state averages range nine to eleven years, with eleven-year states Maryland West Virginia Florida Wisconsin Louisiana Utah Nevada and nine-year states New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut South Carolina Georgia Alabama. Early spring sale price for slaughter cows averaged $82 per head, about half the $63 for milking cows.
The wisest dairyman cannot judge a prepotent bull by looks or breeding. Progeny performance matters. heifers outperforming dams signal value, while equal or worse offspring mark a sire as worthless. An unknown mating may yield undesirable traits despite a pedigree.
Dairy notes emphasize starting cow feeding early with liberal roughage and six to ten pounds of grain during the dry period to boost next lactation production. Warm-water rinsing improves milk separator performance and silage is praised for its high nutritive value stimulating higher milk yield.
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