22 Dec 1899
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
1
The article outlines dairy herd and milk handling standards emphasizing cleanliness in cattle housing and utensils, restricting disease exposure, proper milking timing, disease controls, feed quality, water, and sanitation. It notes regular veterinary exams, milk testing, and strict rejection of suspect milk, with attention to hygiene in milking, cooling, aerating, and storage. It ends with a market note on Wyoming range lamb prices.
The article argues idle or growing horses fare best kept on blue grass pasture with a shed, salt, and water, rather than stabled on corn. It notes green snow cover aids forage, warns against under feeding, and stresses ample grain for foals and early growth. It cites fifteen years of experience and warns stunting a colt early harms lifelong weight.
Brown Swiss cows yield a generous flow of milk with typical daily averages around ten quarts. Exceptional cows have produced up to ten thousand pounds in a year, with notable cows imported from Switzerland achieving remarkable butter fat records. One famed cow, 168, produced the largest butter fat daily total at a Chicago show, averaging 21 pounds of fat over three days while aged 11 and weighing about 1400 pounds.
The article urges farmers with small or medium plots to grow forage crops in addition to grass pastures to boost livestock production. It highlights how favorable conditions, soil type, and green manure can dramatically raise both quantity and quality of fodder, referencing the Minnesota University experiment farm where ten acres yielded over ten tons of cured fodder and ten tons of feeding hay, enabling extensive sheep grazing.
A Brazilian minister reports on Baron de Parana’s zebroid experiments in Rio Janeiro. Zebroids, crosses of zebra and horse, aim to produce larger, stronger, versatile hybrids for saddle and draft work. Breeding depends on dam and breed. prices range from $50 to $150.
A historical guide explains patient skilled horse medicine with a drench. It details powdering solid material, forming a paste, and how to position hands and jaw to keep the tongue in place while pouring liquid medicine through the mouth.
An article discusses dairy cows requiring substantial water for digestion and milk production, noting four pounds per pound of dry matter and near 100 pounds daily for dry matter feed. Water efficiency, silage reduces needs, and Kansas farmers are urged to store corn, with notes on high feed costs, regional corn surpluses, and a Philadelphia horsemen net funding a city speedway.
A historic look at winter egg profitability notes cold storage now stabilizes prices by lifting summer rates and capping winter gains. The shift moderates what had been sky high winter prices, as producers must adjust to new market realities and literature on the topic is renewed.
This item advises careful roof and window checks, whitewashing with carbolic acid, Koernsene roosts, and dusting nests with sand. It urges preparing winter supplies of dust or sand, coop mature birds for winter, and maintaining grit to prevent indigestion. It stresses safety and selective culling of poor specimens, keeping Dent and Lord male and female.
Instructions for thoroughly cleaning a poultry house to reduce parasites. Remove perches and nests, burn nests, scrub roosts with coal oil and carbolic acid, whitewash walls, fumigate if cracks exist, wash walls with carbolic wash, replace nesting material, and maintain dry earth for a dust bath to keep hens healthy through winter.
Instructions describe removing nests perches and items, burning sulphur in a metal can, sealing the house for hours, then painting roosts with coal tar and whitewashing inside and out. Use a spraying pump for lime wash and add carbolic acid. Regular lime washing helps prevent vermin reappearance.
The Mirror and Farmer discuss choosing poultry breeds by hardiness over prolificacy. The best breed under harsh winters endures cold conditions and fits the farmer’s climate and feed plan. Laying hens are not raised for market and fattening hens is not part of egg production strategy.
Salt for Poultry discusses varied breeder opinions on salt effects in birds. Some claim health and vigor benefits while others argue nature supplies sufficient chlorine and sodium through insects, grass, and grain. The article notes salt use is an acquired habit and that deficiencies are seen in salt-deprived diets.
Describing a new desiccation method, Eas. W. Stoddard Jr of Pure Food Co, Newark, tests a six week old sample noted for fine grain, dry color, and fresh smell. He claims indefinite shelf life with proper storage and potential to compete with refrigerator eggs, usable in all nondistinct applications except where whole eggs or separated whites and yolks are required.
Poultry merchants blame low prices on shipping the wrong sizes as many shippers send three to four pound chicks to markets. Broilers and Cochiels misaligned for market. roasters and canonized stock advised for better returns. Buff Leghorn breeds debut, offering light plumage and showy hue, with Bull Leghorn influences. Leghorn type described as light, plump, with arched neck and graceful tail.
An exchange recounts a tale of old bimnos kept in barrels by a reed wife. The birds slept through weather and ventilation, one blind hen hatched all eggs, yielding forty-seven chicks from six eggs as they began to pipe. The scene highlights stubborn, simple care and unexpected hatch outcomes.
The article outlines three key needs for winter egg production: a light kind of fowl, suitable housing, and adequate food and water. It notes that hens two years old by spring and fully moulted by November are reliable winter layers, and that birds hatched before May 16 should lay eggs in winter.
The article reflects on changing horse ideals from past decades. It notes heavy draft horses have grown by 300 to 600 pounds and roadsters must be faster by several seconds to be considered good. Breeders must aim for modern standards to reap rewards, as old ideals no longer suffice.
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