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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1930
Page
6
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture, the piece cites J O Williams on horse numbers. It notes 1928 farm horse counts hit a record low while market prices rose and breeders hesitated, warning of a looming shortage of good work animals with a push to replace aging stock.
At the University of California cross breeding with sheep tests identify top ram breeds. Southdown ram crosses produced 78.5 pound lambs with 43.75 percent choice and $10.03 average value. Romney Marsh and Romney rams showed strong weights and high choice percentages, while Suffolk and Rambouillet crosses varied in weight, value, and quality. Suffolk crosses yielded smaller numbers but heavier lambs. Southdown crosses led in value and choice rate.
The article explains that even healthy seeming sheep may suffer from liver flukes rather than stomach worms. Flukes inhabit the gall bladder and liver, sometimes the intestines, and the only known remedy is carbon tetrachloride, dosed specially as standard worm treatments do not work.
Farmers commonly feed calves on cornstalks straw timothy prairie hay and nonleguminous roughage. Such feeds lack sufficient protein and minerals needed for normal growth and thrifty condition. Often cheap roughage must be used for some purpose on the farm.
Advice to dairy makers on achieving a uniform cream sample for testing. Emphasizes stirring from the middle rather than bottom or top, using a broad stirrer to blend bottom and top cream, and cooling before shipping to improve test accuracy and profits.
The piece argues that dairy farms lose regular milking hours as workers shift from early morning routines to flexible schedules. It notes historically farmers started at five or six and stresses that late hours harm milk yield. It calls for maintaining consistent milking times while allowing reasonable leisure.
Guidance for dairy cattle approaching calving includes housing in the barn, feeding with oats bran and corn meal in last two weeks, and maintaining flesh. After calving provide water and green feed, with laxative grain. use beet pulp if pasture is scarce. Gradually increase grain, but feed sparingly until fever is gone.
A study of milk production costs on 48 Wisconsin farms by the U S Department of Agriculture and the University of Wisconsin found average labor per cow at 171 hours annually or 28 minutes daily. Milking feeding caring for utensils and barn cleaning were included. hauling manure delivering milk and young stock care were excluded. Some farmers spent 20 minutes while others 45 minutes per cow daily.
Small calves up to six months should have milk as the principal ingredient. Supplement with alfalfa or clover hay and grain mixture to ensure normal growth. At weaning or slightly before, silage may be introduced as bulk seeds decrease.
The late Thomas F. Ryan quoted at a Metropolitan Club luncheon that suspicion between capital and labor has died out, asserting most mistrust was based on error. He compared hostile rhetoric to a schoolboy’s attack on widows in the Black Hole of Calcutta joke, noting the absurdity of such misperceptions.
A dialog notes bells on cows with a playful answer that bells make cows contented. The line frames a classroom moment where a student questions the bells and a teacher offers a simple reasoning.
An advertising snippet lists alfalfa at 8 dollars per bushel and red clover at 8 dollars, sweet clover and timothy at 3.50 dollars per bushel, with Mulhall and Sioux City in Iowa as locations.
An old advertisement extols Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a perfect anti acid for sour stomachs. It claims medical endorsement and broad use by millions to prevent indigestion. The copy stresses the genuine Phillips brand tied to Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co since 1875.
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