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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1901
Page
4
Practical guidance for horse keeping covering airy stables with dry firm floors and windows, proper stall width, and safe halter racks. Advice on exercise for farm teams, rest for lame horses, and risks of pasturing injured animals, plus breeding cautions and feeding oats versus corn for work horses. Emphasizes frog health, crossbreeding pitfalls, and dairy cow size considerations for milk vs butterfat yield.
A London Live Stock Journal discussion argues against discarding chestnut gray and roan Shire horses. The author cites profitable examples, urges breeders to select by body quality and soundness, not color, and notes famous sires Lincolnshire Lad II and Harold as proof color should not drive breeding decisions.
An account from Wool Markets and Sheep details the first annual banquet of the American Angora Goat Breeders association in Kansas City. It praises Angora dishes including fried Angora kid oysters and tomato sauce, notes Angora meat’s appeal to epicures, and discusses Angora goats’ role in land clearing and hair production. The piece argues Angoras won t harm the wool industry and cites Colonel Landrum s historic importation and island stock as a basis for the goats lucrative prospects.
The text outlines precise dairy testing procedures including mixing methods, avoiding shaking, careful transfer between vessels, preventing solids from forming, using a wire sleeve to detect samples, pipetting correctly, weighing cream over 25 percent fat, adding acid and mixing to dissolve casein, rotating bottles to stop fat splatter, whirl cleansing, and reading fat columns with dividers from bottom to top.
A Farm and Home column warns that cows held from milk by calves can resist milking all season. It advises early calf removal to encourage natural milk flow and recommends soothing measures and milking devices when resistance occurs.
Practical guidance urges proper barn design to ease winter care, keep stock healthy, and boost milk yields. It stresses ventilated, lighted stables, pens for versatile use, and tying calves for better feeding and quiet. It also notes cautious use of lightning rods and the need for diligent dairy husbandry for profits.
A standout Jersey named Pride's Olga 4th is praised for her exceptional size balance and udder. The animal produced record milk yields, including 24 24 pounds in a year and 6 359 pounds in 113 days, with high butterfat observed in certain rations. The report also discusses dairy grain values and feeding studies from New Jersey and Ohio stations.
The piece notes that many dairymen can compute milk yields butter fat percentages and herd averages and can calculate butter per hundred pounds of milk along with feed and production costs using only a scale Babcock test a pencil and some brains. It emphasizes practical dairy arithmetic with basic instruments.
Professor Otis states grain should vary with each cow's yield. A cow giving 35 to 40 pounds of milk daily needs 12 to 15 pounds of grain, while a cow producing 15 to 20 pounds may need 6 to 8 pounds. Feed according to milk output and let cows consume all they will eat at a profit.
A thrifty English theatrical manager amasses wealth through hard work. A head carpenter is told to cut a halfpenny candle to finish a trap repair in ten minutes. Emerson and other quotes follow, including an Irishman remark about global blindness.
The article surveys horse use in South Africa, detailing De Wet's raids on British remounts, the high cost and short life of remounts, and the broader brutality of war on horses. It compares historical campaigns, notes fatigue and disease, and argues for humane concern amid ongoing combat needs.
A humorous glimpse on valuing old chairs. The piece notes maple or apple wood, a sunken grain, and rushing in the seat. It contrasts the time worn charm of a chair with the need for repair to preserve its appeal. A brief dialogue from Harlem Life adds a comic aside about dreams and sleep.
A fragmented note from newspapers references a self made man frightened by a waiter and a line about pummis de ter rey amid business bustle. Detroit Tribune recalls the first straw paper made in this country, reflecting on early industrial craft.
A dense text reviewing Joseph story lessons from Genesis with golden texts and moral guidance. It links Joseph’s trials to Christ’s experiences, notes lessons on patience, forgiveness, and divine providence, and covers related biblical figures Moses and Israel in Egypt plus the Passover narrative.
In a clipped Chicago News style aside a speaker vents exasperation over transit fare rises and an annual press on exchanges. The dialogue highlights resolve as a motto for those facing debts.
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