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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
3
William A. Radford outlines a 60 by 74 foot monitor barn for dairy cows horses and beef cattle stressing appearance economy practicality and sanitation. The design features full daylight ventilation planed storage with hay and straw handling chutes and a corner silo to ease feeding across stock wings.
A guide stresses balancing space and labor costs in barn planning, with emphasis on proper dimensions, ventilation, and sanitation. It notes large, durable barns with central hay storage, concrete foundations, and careful layout for feeding and cleaning to reduce costs and improve stock care. It also mentions growth rates of trees in New York forests and a French military honor system for gallantry.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines practical roughage based rations. Straw and stover form the core of winter diets for cattle sheep and horses with grain kept to a minimum. For breeding cows and dry dairy cows roughage heavy rations are advised, with limited grain. Various specific rations list straw stover silage cottonseed meal or linseed meal and other feeds for wintering breeding cows fattening steers dry cows bulls and heifers, along with maintenance and nightly work rations for 1000 pound horses and larger.
By R. W. Clark of Colorado Agricultural College Fort Collins the article urges saving feeder calves and hogs to raise more of them next year. It emphasizes growing pigs to 200 pounds by six months, veal values, milk prices, and feeding cows mares and lambs to maximize returns with prices noted for butter fat, colts and horses.
Liberal bedding with straw boosts soil manure value by reducing fertility losses. Using wheat straw at typical prices yields about $3 per ton and oat straw about $4 per ton in fertilizer value. current prices raise this, so conservation could save at least 7 percent. Livestock become more comfortable and productive when bedding improves.
A farming note highlights skim milk as an excellent poultry feed and promotes dairying alongside poultry. It warns that cows lose milk if not properly fed, states lambs should weigh about 60 pounds at 12 to 16 weeks, and suggests feeding skim milk and cracked corn to pigs. It notes pork growing offers quick cash without harming farm fertility and praises the spring pig as highly profitable.
A Popular Mechanics idea describes trapping excess engine heat to warm tire areas and improve passenger comfort. A boxlike muffler casing attached under the car floor channels heat through floor holes, with minimal weakening of the structure.
In the front compartment Aoor boards drilled to a sineike manner allow heat from the radiator and engine to warm the area. Tires are protected from the frozen roads by discarded casings serving as covers. This reduces road punishment and increases bearing surface to ease snow progress. Heads of casings removed. copper rivets secure them in place.
Instructions emphasize inspecting spare bicycle inner tubes for wear or grease as a weak spot. Replace with a gaspatch or tire putty covered patch. When storing a spare tube in a cart, place it in a bag or wrap it with cloth and block it to prevent chafing.
Electric cables that rub on sharp edges of battery box or other parts will soon wear through the insulation from vibration of the car, and a short circuit will occur that may be hard to locate. These parts should be well protected with adhesive tape and frequently inspected.
Automobile owner tips emphasize battery health. Buck urges distilled water every ten days, using a hydrometer to check charge, and warns against unsafe rain water. Regular tests prevent most starting and lighting troubles and protect the battery during critical winter or rush moments.
The article contrasts two chain methods for vehicles. It notes draping over the wheel as easier and explains laying in the ground and driving over is poorer due to steering difficulty and chain wear. It advises positioning chain cross links away from the tire to prevent cutting.
Officials report 6,250 cars in Hawaii with 3,465 on Oahu, 599 on Maui, 680 on Kauai, and 1,500 on Hawaii. The automobile sector shows rapid growth as imports rise. March 1917 brought 212 cars valued at $204,400, up from 177 cars worth $153,842 the prior March.
Women are becoming key contributors in the motor car industry. They cut and sew materials for tops and curtains and are increasingly entrusted with assembling primer and switch systems, inspecting pistons, operating drill presses, and handling other small parts in many factories.
A board led by Maj. R E Wyllie endorses a rolling culinary unit called the Goulash cannon that will join regular equipment. It feeds 250 men with a reserve for 250 more and can serve meals on the march or in camp while moving. The kitchen is mounted on an automobile chassis and operated by a chef van Work while the machine travels with the unit.
During the fiscal year ended June 30, New Mexico issued 11 500 motor car licenses. The state derived about 70 000 dollars in revenue from this source for the year.
An estimated five million people in the country enjoy motoring daily. Assuming about four persons per car, this conservative figure highlights the widespread leisure and utility of automobiles across the nation.
A short item notes that cars can save money yet cost more, with a comparison to a buggy. It mentions headlights and a novel device: half disks made of papier mache that attach easily without tools to dim automobile headlights.
Miscellaneous market notes list live stock and produce prices from Chicago Kansas City and New York markets. Cattle veal calves wethers and ewes are quoted with varied values, while produce supplies like potatoes poultry and butter show regional price ranges.
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