France Adopts Cash Grants to Combat Depopulation
Sterling Heilig reports from Paris on a burgeoning social program that funds new mothers to keep their babies. The piece highlights a wall hatch for babies at public charities, the role of shirt factories and day nurseries, and advocates including Senator Edme Piot and the Allaitement Maternel movement. The aim is to reduce infant mortality and encourage marriage, with cash payments proposed as a core incentive.
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Paris
Public Charities Establishment
Assistance Publique
Mairie
France
Monsieur
Gresse
Charlie Maternelle
Societe Des Creches
Mamma
Pars
Nancy
Alphonse Herrgott
Herrgott
Casimir- Perier
Piot
Academy of Medicine
Allaitement Maternel
Edme Piot
Pilot
Burgundy
Senate Committee
Prof. Herrgott
Piet
Sterling Heilig
New York Press
A Stock Salt Box Hinged Front for Self Service
A salt box with a hinged front allows animals to push in the door and access a peck of salt. Set low from the ground it stays dry, and the door swings shut automatically by its own weight as animals learn to operate it.
When a Friend Isn’t Wanted in Shopping
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote notes a saleswoman on Euclid Avenue saying women increasingly dislike shopping with friends. She recalls a customer who dislikes intimate friends accompanying her, believing familiarity with a friend already reveals enough about spending on outfits.
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Euclid Avenue
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Still Mourning and Insurance Delays Burden Bob Smith
Dialogue notes Bob Smith grieving his wife while lamenting slow health and life insurance settlements. The exchange hints at ongoing personal loss complicated by delayed payments from an insurer. No names beyond Bob Smith.
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Bob Smith
Brick silos prove durable and enduring in Wisconsin dairy regions
A Wisconsin dairy section survey highlights brick silos as long lasting with double brick walls and steel reinforcement every two feet. Builders favor 16 to 36 foot diameters, recommending two towers for larger capacities, and note issues with concrete walls not staying true leading to air spaces and mold risk.
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Dairy
Wisconsin
Northwestern Agriculturist
Millet seed feeding for cattle calves hogs and horses
A Kiowa reader asks if boiled millet seed suits cows calves hogs and other livestock. Prof. Shaw says boiled millet is acceptable for cows and calves when fed with bran or alfalfa, but ground or meal form is better. For pigs ground millet with skim milk or alfalfa supports growth. for horses millet equals oats for muscle, best with oats. Ground millet is recommended. unground seeds pass undigested except for sheep and fowls.
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Kiowa
Thomas Shaw
Orange Judd
Buying or raising cows in Elgin district dairy practices
An Illinois dairyman who previously bought top cows, milked them once, and sold for meat has switched to raising calves from his best cows. The change praises herd improvement and argues that to obtain good cows one must breed rather than continually buy and cull. Continuous raising of quality stock will steadily enhance the dairy herd year after year.
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Elgin
Illinois
Farmers’ Review
Take Good Care of It
Instruction stresses proper feeding of dairy cows as essential for wholesome milk. It warns against using tainted or spoiled feed, noting the cow functions as a machine transforming feed into milk and butter for the dairyman to consume.
Feed Dairy Cows Liberally
The dairyman should remember that about sixty percent of a cow’s intake is needed to sustain her body. Only after meeting this baseline can any returns be achieved from feeding.
Kansas Calf Feeder Described by Kansas Farmer Correspondent
A Kansas correspondent describes a calf feeding device for young calves. The apparatus uses a crock as a feeding cup set in a manger board with holes every one and a half feet, supported by a hinge and stanchion system and secured by strap iron pieces.
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Kansas
The
Kansas Farmer
Secrets of Producing Sweet Cream at the Dairy
The article outlines cream separation and low temperature churning, stressing clean utensils and separate cans for cold and warm cream. It notes seasonal price differences for butter fat, cites Nature's law of similarity, and urges careful milk production and dialogue with the creamery patron to ensure profitability.
A Good Cow A dairyman’s seven cent butter secret
A dairyman explains a good cow can produce butter for about seven cents per pound. All revenue above that is profit, compensating for milking caring for the milk and churning the butter.
To Ring a Bull Classic surgical note on ring insertion
A brief procedure explains using a trocar and cannula to ring a bull. Push instrument through remove trocar insert ring end into hollow cannula and pull the ring through. The instrument can be obtained for about scores.
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Pays Cast Fork Babiez
Babe
Algiers
Societe de la Charite Maternelle
B.ick Silos
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