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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1914
Page
14
Historical note on a farmer who turned around a failing dairy business by strict cost tracking and pricing adjustments. The piece highlights financial discipline, daily profit awareness, and the shift to scientific farming as key to success.
A seven year old dairy cow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute is featured in Farm and Fireside for producing over ten tons of milk annually, about four times the average. The cow was milked entirely by students with frequent milker changes. despite many shifts, all milkers were skilled, and slow milking was avoided by keeping a steady pace at the stall.
In the Spreewald region south of Berlin the Wends hold funeral processions on frozen waterways. Coffin on a sledge is drawn by six mourners on skates, followed by relatives and friends. Women wear traditional dress and carry a Bible.
The Department of Agriculture released results from experiments on how oats corn and bran affect milk flavor. Fifty opinions showed no clear winner among oats corn and bran with half favoring corn and bran and half favoring oats or undecided. The department does not recommend bran and corn to improve flavor and notes other feeds can produce flavorful milk when fed in reasonable amounts, with feed prices guiding choices.
An Illinois inventor created a milking stool featuring a revolving gear for easy direction and a curved arm that supports the milk pail six to eight inches off the ground. The design keeps the pail clean and protects the milk from barnyard refuse, though it could be improved to prevent tipping over.
The text stresses clean cows, stables, and milker attire. It urges clean hands and clothes, neat milking methods, and sanitary utensils. It warns that poor milking shows through cow discomfort, with excessive force or rough handling harming udder health. It also highlights ample fresh air as vital to dairy health.
The notice warns that mites infestations spread quickly and require constant vigilance. It recommends dusting brood coops and nests, applying a mixture of coal oil and lard to kill mites on fowls, and cautions against greasing baby chicks except as a last resort, to be done late afternoon to avoid blistering from sun exposure.
Dairy cows kept for milk and fat production are judged by their records. The article notes that milk output depends on feed rich in milk-making qualities and that record keeping proves performance of dairy cattle.
The writer extols central and northern Wisconsin for meat production. Rich pastures and hay, well managed corn, and peas for hog finishing are cited as key advantages. The region is praised as offering cheaper meat production than elsewhere, emphasizing its industrial importance.
Loyal Tribune reports Herman Peglow a farmer and F Luther discussed pig farming. Peglow raised two brood sows born April 1913 and kept them for breeding. Last week he killed the sows weighing 557 lbs sold at 10c per lb for 55.70 and sold the piglets at 2.75 each for 44.00 total 99.70.
A Twentieth Century Farmer notes ongoing depletion of breeding stock as carloads of high quality yearling heifers are bought fattened for the baby beer market, shipped to packers, and returned for daughter production. The practice continues while prices stay profitable for feeders and downplays sentiment in the beef industry.
Department of Agriculture reports total penalties of 2450 dollars plus costs in multiple cases against railroads for violations of livestock quarantine and 28-hour laws. Atlantic Coast Line led with eight fines of 100 dollars each for quarantine breaches, while Mobile & Ohio totaled 500 dollars across five cases. Other railroads fined include Missouri Kansas Texas, Seaboard Air Line, Chicago Rock Island, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati New Orleans Texas Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago Great Western, and Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago St Louis, with varied costs. An additional 1250 dollars in six Pennsylvanian safe law cases brings further total costs to 29.70 dollars.
The southern Wisconsin region, once dominant in alfalfa, faces new competition from northern counties as farmers embrace the king of forage crops. Demonstrations prove suitable conditions, with alfalfa growing swiftly. associations form in Marathon and other counties as readiness to cut nears by late summer.
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