Azoturia in Horses Warns Against Overfeeding and Idle Rest
A Wisconsin Agricultural College veterinarian describes azoturia in work horses. Overfeeding and long idle periods after heavy feeding can trigger sudden limpness, dark urine, and muscle rigidity. Prevention centers on reducing grain during rest, providing exercise, and prompt veterinary care if symptoms appear. Stockings of the legs and related issues arise from poor stable conditions. renew air and sunlight, groom daily, and maintain clean, well ventilated stables to protect limbs and overall health.
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A.S. Alexander
Wisconsin Agricultural College
Sweeney
Etter
Prize Chester White Boar From Virginia
Thieves have grown bold in South Dakota with 175000 head forming an association to fund a drive against the culprits. California expects record citrus shipments this season with 27500 cars of oranges and 3500 cars of lemons. Green rye offers winter forage for fowl, while fall planting provides year round green food. Now is the time to buy breeding stock for next year, with turkeys priced high but seen as a wise buy over eggs.
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South Dakota
California
Reasons for Drafting Ewes in Breeding Flocks
The piece argues for removing ewes with udder injuries or teat problems to protect milk supply. An example from the author’s district describes a ewe staked in the udder causing a dead teat and a black sore, kept dressed to prevent further issues.
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Jersey
Start with turkeys now by Anna Galigher
Ohio readers are urged to persevere in turkey farming despite a poor year. The writer notes turkeys are hard to raise but with proper care and feed a good hatch percentage is achievable. Trouble with neighbor rye fields caused illness. two birds recovered after epsom salts, while others died.
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Anna Galigher
Ohio
The Man and the Cow Dairying Lessons and Oddities
A short dairy note discusses fifteen cows yielding about a hundred pounds monthly for a careful owner. It praises clean milk methods, farmer butter demand, and raises critiquer remarks about New York tail clipping and homogenized milk. It ends urging cleanliness and gentle handling of cows and their hair.
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Elgin
New York City
New York
December farm notes urge winter care and general charity
Practical tips urge cold weather protection for horses, sheep, chickens, apples, and corn shocks. Advice covers banking rose roots, manure management, chimneys, cellar cooling, and winter fodder. A call invites readers to read American Farm World and a note on land allotment in the Lower Brule reservation.
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Yoour Fee House
American Farm World
Herman
The Small Farm Pays Its Way, With Close Personal Care
H H Shepard argues thirteen acres can yield as much as forty with close daily attention, noting tighter fencing, shorter travel, and near housing boost efficiency. He cites timely care, better manure distribution, and higher per acre profits from small, intensively managed farms.
Portrait of M. K. Boyer Poultry Writer Highlighted
The article praises M. K. Boyer as a leading U S poultry writer. It notes his columns have benefited readers and offers that questions of general interest will be answered by him.
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M. K. Boyer
United States
Funnel for the Kitchen Shows Simple Farm Waste Chute
This illustration presents a zinc kitchen disposal funnel seventeen inches by seventeen, wall mounted and connected to a five inch pipe with rounded elbows that interlock for easy cleaning. It notes that this is a big money year for farmers.
International Live Stock Expo crowns diverse champions
The International Live Stock Expo at Union Stock Yards crowned top animals from multiple circuits. Ontario’s Bean King captured the grand Shorthorn championship, earning 830 in winnings and the herdsman’s medal for James Leask. Other notable wins included Krambeck’s Angus 2-year-olds, the Ohie university Berkshires, and Sir George Drummond’s Southdown yearling sweep. Prairie fires near Millbank devastated farms, while Minnesota apple orchards produced a surplus shipped to markets amid strong prices.
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Union Stock Yards
Gene Grubb
Angus Sherthorn
Colorado
Andy
Flint
Meadow Brook
Nebraska College
Minnesota College
Bean King
James Leask
Greenbank
Ontario
Canada
Durno
Leask
Krambeck
Iewa
Barrow
Goodwine & Goodenough
Hliness
Hampshire
Barrows
Ohie University
Poland
Iowa Agricultural College
States
George Drummond
S. H. Todd
Colonel Igo
Iowa
Scotch Goods
Choice Goods
Bowen
Kansas City
Roberta’s
Whitehall Marshall
Millbank
S. C
Minnesota
Feeding cotton seed and meal for butter and milk quality
Professor A M Soule of the Virginia Experiment Station explains feeding cotton seed and meal to cattle. Moderate use improves butter color and texture, with hard butter aiding shipment in warm climates. ensure proper roughage and avoid overfeeding.
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A. M. Soule
Virginia Experiment Station
A Useful Farm Implement The Double Smoothing Harrow
A historical guide describes a double smoothing harrow for cultivating corn beans and potatoes just before emergence. It specifies a 3x3 inch frame made of oak, teeth bored after assembly, slanted at 45 degrees in a diamond pattern, and painted for longevity up to fifteen years.
Questions About Poultry Reveals Varied Hen and Gobbler Facts
A column lists opinions from multiple authors on poultry farming. Topics include profitability of turkey hens up to age five, dressing shrinkage of turkeys by about one third, beech nuts as turkey feed, Cornish Indian Game usefulness as table fowls, dosing quinine for fowls, census estimates of egg production, and breeding infertility factors.
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M. K. Boyer
E. M
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Tion
W. R. Gilbert
Chester White Boar
Virginia
Narragansett
Rose Come
Lower
Brule
H. H. Shepard
Michael K. Boyer
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