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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1926
Page
3
A dairyman shares methods from Forest Grove farm on teaching heifers to milk. Key ideas include studying each animal’s disposition, starting gently, avoiding rush, using patience, and applying discipline to instill good behavior. Techniques such as restraining with the thigh and occasional kicking chains are noted.
Studies by dairy cattle feed specialists at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture show sunflowers yield about 50 percent more dry matter per acre than nearby silage corn. Sunflowers also supply more ash crude fiber and crude fat, but corn provides higher nitrogen free extract. Sunflowers remove more fertilizing elements. growth dynamics favor stalks and crude fiber early ensiling.
Historical farming guidance notes dairy cows consume about 5800 pounds silage 1900 pounds hay and 2800 pounds grain yearly with 5.5 months of pasture. Emphasizes year round roughage, legume hay and silage, alfalfa preferred. If unavailable use soy bean clover or cowpea hay. Suggest protein concentrate with farm grain like corn barley oats to improve ration.
Proper barn airflow is essential to keep drafts away while ensuring circulation. Cows require abundant pure air to digest feed and produce milk, as they exhale significant moisture and use large amounts of air.
Care before calving advises confinement of the cow at night in a clean warm shed or box stall while daytime is spent with the herd. Maintain normal conditions and provide light laxative feeds such as bran oats and oil meal with alfalfa hay as a suitable feed.
Farmers in the Canon City area report heavy losses from wild deer descending from the mountains. Lettuce growers suffer the heaviest damage as deer raid gardens repeatedly, returning when a path is found to the crops.
A Rural New Yorker article by A J Legg discusses the guinea fowl as effective insect destroyers, noting two breeds the pearl and white. It covers habits, egg production, best hatch timing, brooding needs, and guidance on keeping a small number of males to manage flocks.
Disease in poultry known as bronchitis or cold in the windpipe is reducing egg production and causing deaths. Dr. Kennard of the Ohio station notes overcrowding and tight housing as key factors and urges fresh air, space, clean litter, and Epsom salts as preventive steps.
The article advises supplying ducks with ample water during feeding and a dry roosting shed to prevent drowsiness and death from cold damp conditions. It recommends a feed mix including bran flour corn meal green feed vegetables beef scraps and bone meal, plus mineral and grain and ensuring water in deep pans at meals. Lamons ration for ducks suits breeders or laying stock.
Chicks kept in a small run show drooping wings and slow growth after eight to ten weeks. Plowing or spading the run helps reduce soil contamination that recurs year after year. Many cases of gapes stem from this same cause.
Glasgow Kentucky mother of seven describes relief from prolonged overwork and misery after using Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. A New Orleans reader reports regained strength, appetite, and ability to work after seven weeks of weakness. The ad-note cites decades of popularity for the product.
A fragment from the Oklahoma Whirlwind teases the fate of an unnamed prisoner, joking that the unicle will receive “a lot of rope” in a grim future, reflecting a satirical tone about prison liberty and punishment.
Demand Bayer aspirin only from packages or tablets bearing the Bayer name to ensure genuine, proven safe by millions and prescribed for 25 years. Say Bayer when you buy. imitators may be dangerous.
A brief exchange captures hotel service as a guest laments a lost over coat. A waiter promptly offers to locate a replacement, reflecting attentive staff behavior in a hospitality setting.
An advertisement claims Tanlac has helped over a hundred thousand users by restoring strength and health. It promises quick results, improved digestion and liver function, and even offers Tanlac Vegetable Pills for constipation.
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