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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
6
The article explains horses need a mixed diet based on work, listing hay corn oats and other foods, noting oats build muscle and heat, corn is heating and hard to digest, and balancing with bran clover or alfalfa. It describes a nose or feed bag designed to reduce grain loss and ensure steady feeding.
A study of 100 pounds of average milk shows 87 pounds water, 4 pounds fat, and 5 pounds other components. The breakdown highlights the dominant water content and small fat portion in typical dairy composition.
An article notes the cost of feed to produce a pound of beef pork or chicken is similar. It highlights chicken selling for 12 to 20 cents per pound by the carcass while beef and pork bring 4 to 8 cents. It also observes poultry gains for farm use of otherwise waste material.
A Missouri advocate D. W. King describes a road implement called a leveler to smooth rough spots and pack surface soil. The design aims to aid farmers by improving clay roads and can also aid sandy soils though it cannot create a hard roadbed from them.
The passage explains milk content by breed, noting sugar and casein levels and minerals. It compares Jerseys and Guernseys producing rich milk with rapid cream rise to Durhams and Ayrshires yielding average richness with slower cream rise, and Holsteins giving large volume with low fat content.
A farm note describes making cheap chicken coops from empty barrels. Instructions include driving hoops and nails, dividing the barrel, placing ground stakes, and crafting doors from barrel heads or boards with lath slats.
Guidance on sheep feeding advises avoiding excessive corn. It recommends equal parts clover, hay, and corn by weight during fattening, and notes that corn is not suitable outside fattening periods.
The Agricultural Epitomist argues that waste and sects aside, poultry yields higher net returns per dollar invested than sheep or hogs. Labor costs per pound of product are higher, and crediting home egg output can complicate figures, but careful accounting shows poultry offers greater profit than other livestock.
A Pennsylvania farmer reportedly averages at most one ton of produce per two horses and must accompany each pair with one man. In contrast English and Scottish farmers load two tons on a single horse cart and pair two carts to one driver. The driver strings the second cart behind the first and walks beside the lead cart, so a foreign farmer uses one man and two horses to do the work that an American employs four men and eight horses for.
A Western stock breeder advises farmers to breed up stock rather than buy all pure-breds. He notes establishing a herd of pure-bred cattle is costly for farmers selling to packers or butchers. He says pure-bred females fetch high prices, but a single pure-bred bull can, in a few years, produce a herd of cows capable of marketing high-grade beeves.
London Illustrated News notes B G Putnam Weale and E K Scidmore on the Great Wall as an ancient marvel. It spans about 1800 miles built between 214 and 204 B C. Lowell’s experiments suggest long narrow lines may be visible from Mars if length greatly exceeds width.
A London Scriptural Museum display shows ancient instruments including a clay timbre and a distaff tied to biblical robes and Samuel’s cradle cloths. Querns or stone hand-mills used in Britain India Africa and the East illuminate grinding methods and biblical prophecies about two women at the mill.
A Grecian tale tells how Ancaeus of Samos boasted a wine prophecy. A slave warned him with the saying there is many a slip between cup and lip. A wild boar charged the vineyard, and Ancaeus perished before tasting the wine, fulfilling the slave’s prophecy.
The judge presses a noncommittal reply from a woman arrested for assault. The woman quotes a neighbor’s age clue, saying she is five years younger than the other woman who had her pinched. The exchange appears in the Philadelphia Press.
A collection notes Arctic flowers and widows in New York, turpentine and rosin production figures, a dockyard theft audit quote, medical rabbit experiments, a seven foot alligator at Pine street canal entertaining schoolchildren, Amsterdam cleanliness praised, Australia’s population and aboriginals, mummy coffin wood identification at Kew, Cattaro’s shifting rule history, island size debates on Borneo and New Guinea, and vast unexplored western New Guinea.
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