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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1902
Page
6
A 1901 column mixes dairy science with anecdotes from farmers. It discusses ideal udder structure and body conformation, notes profitability varies, and includes a letter from Enthusiastic Dairyman. It also features Daniel Linn Gooch of Kentucky praising farmer prosperity and a practical milking restraint device.
Instructions describe treatments for calf ailments including eye care, digestion, and blindness. Methods include warm water baths, topical applications with lard or lanolin, calcium acetate dosing, epsom salts with gin, and eye washes with copper sulfate. Also advises bran mash feed, oak bark decoctions, and careful dosage guidance.
Clemson College agriculture professor C M Conner argues the modern dairy cow is a specialized animal, shaped for milk and butter fat. He urges selecting dairy form over beef type, favoring practical cows over registered stock to steadily raise herd quality.
William B. Lippincott, a renowned Moorestown dairyman, maintains forty to forty five cows and supplies milk valued highly by Philadelphia dealers for quality and consistency.
A Connecticut farmer promotes Lippincott’s silo noting Jersey cattle and rich milk. He cools milk with water from a windmill through the icehouse to the milk coolers, using ice water rather than ice, and shows a one fourteen by thirty five foot silo.
An old dairy instruction stresses hygienic milking, noting the first streams are mostly water with bacteria and should be discarded. It warns milker's fingers must not touch milk, urging dry or washed hands after milking to prevent contamination and odor.
HOXIM proposes wide public discussion in agricultural press on a testing plan for dairy cows modeled after Ohio state plan. The scheme includes home testing by experiment station staff, three two week tests at set intervals, supervision day and night, weighing feed, and retesting. Prizes, exhibit, and costs outlined with a $5,000 appropriation suggested.
Yorkville New York notes that the ideal cream churn temperature cannot be fixed. Cream from different cows and feeds churn at varying temps. Location period and milk origin affect the result. The range 50 to 66 degrees is possible with best butter produced at the lower end. Texas Stockman cites practical guidance.
Morgan Keane notes shredded corn fodder saves feed and suggests ricking eight feet high with a 45 degree top for wind protection. Secure rails, face the wind, and ensure one length of fodder on a side for protection. Also mentions building silos for alfalfa and corn and using corn-hops and bran mix as a hay scent starter.
An advertisement features Mrs. Fred Unrath praising Wine of Cardus as strengthening after birth. It asserts a doctor recommended tonic failed, a husband urged a week of Wine of Cardus, and rapid recovery within a month. The text claims benefits for generation organs and menstrual regulation.
Turner Hall offers a range of youth and adult classes. Boys 6 to 11 meet Mondays and Thursdays 4 15 to 11 pm, and boys 0 to 1 years attend Mondays and Thursdays 6 to 8 pm. Girls 6 to 11 on Thursdays and Fridays 4 11 to 5 pm, and 11 to 15 on Thursdays and Fridays. Women and girls over 15 meet Wednesday 7 30 to 8 30 pm and Saturday 7 80 to 10 9 pm. ladies and junior classes run Thursday 7 45 to 9 pm and Monday 2 80 to 10 pm, with men 17 and over Tuesday and Friday 8 15 to 10 pm. New Uns Turnverern.
The State of Minnesota is served with a civil complaint in the Ninth Judicial District for Mille Lacs County New Aliniana City. Plaintiffs seek judgment for one hundred fifty dollars with interest and costs. Defendants must answer within the legally specified time or the court will enter judgment by default for the amount plus interest at seven percent from May 1 to November 1, plus additional six percent per annum on the principal since November 1, 1890. Attorneys for plaintiff: W.R. and C.D. Geades, Mankato Minnesota.
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