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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1893
Page
3
A detailed review of the Langdon nonwarmer device from the U S Department of Agriculture bulletin. It explains placing the device at hive entrances to disrupt swarming, alternating supers between hives, and using a slide mechanism to guide bees, with a successful ten day process to prevent swarms.
An Ohio farmer describes a movable panel to confine chicks in a yard. He specifies using fence boards six inches wide and twelve to sixteen feet long cut lengthwise to create two strips, forming a practical brooder aid.
Instructions describe building chicken pens using two panels for the top and bottom frames, three 4 foot pickets, and braces. Pickets project above the frame by an inch to be sharpened for ground insertion. The frame is covered with mushn beene and tacks. A four-panel unit forms a 16 feet square pen for about 100 chicks for one to two weeks before roaming.
A plan for a chicken roost frame costs 25 cents, lasts years with care, and suspends about 10 inches above the dropping board. The article also covers grain variety tests at Ontario college stations, corn feeding differences, and notes on poultry and rural life including breed mentions and a closing peculiar quotation from Hawthorne.
Architectural notes describe a horse barn foundation of stone blocks, frame with posts and sills, joists and rafters, and a red painted body with white trim. Expense items total 3375 including boards, lumber, shingles, and incidental costs. followed by rural anecdotes about a farmer’s daughter raising twin lambs and various brief notes on horse disease and misc. topics.
The article urges gentler handling of mares with suckling foals to prevent injury and maintain milk supply. It discusses temperature and water effects on mares, humane treatment improving herd productivity, and feeding strategies with bran or oats for lactating mares. It also covers hog feeding experiments showing cooked or wet feed advantages depending on costs, and methods for winter lamb management via a bluegrass reserve field to sustain ewes and lamb crops.
Detailed instructions on milk reception and controlled heating to 86 degrees, rennet testing, curd cutting, whey management, and pressing. Emphasizes cleanliness, aeration, and strict examinations to detect tainted milk. Also covers milk flow, feeding, pasture, and record keeping for dairies and creameries.
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