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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1904
Page
7
A practical guide to preserving beef and pork by canning in glass jars. It covers selecting fresh meat, packing, cooking in its own juices, headroom in cans, boiling times for quarts and pints, can handling, and storage. Pork variations include grinding, slicing, and breakfast use, with cautions on fat and re heating.
S. Alexander offers guidance from Marmers' Review on preparing feed to prevent costiveness, choosing oats and bran over corn, using fresh silage, and spring grass for bowels. It covers stall preparation, disinfection, umbilical care, afterbirth handling, and stepwise obstetric assistance to ensure safe foaling and avoid injury to mare or foal.
The article argues that reducing production costs in pork farming hinges on cheap forage. It favors rape as a superior green feed, noting its rapid growth, winter hardiness, and suitability for rooting-free grazing, while also acknowledging benefits of bluegrass and clover. It provides sowing guidelines, intervals, and yields, recommending rape for land not otherwise paying.
Portable houses for hogs show wide separation of pens to reduce fire losses and disease spread. On breeding farms movable farrowing pens are advised. ideal sizes 6x6 to 8x8 feet with strong construction and, for young pigs, a board floor. Sunlight and ample paddocks improve health, while strong fencing protects boars. The piece also discusses pasture mixtures for dairy herds and blue grass viability across seasons.
A Wisconsin milk inspector cites potential 5 million dollar annual gains if milk is clean. Cattle amid muddy pastures spread dirt and bacteria into stalls and milking yards. draining holes, cleaning yards daily, and using clean bedding in stables are urged to reduce dust and dirt entering milk.
Best pasture combines varied land with mixed grasses. Include hills and low areas with fine and coarse grasses. Monitor herd grazing to see shifts in feeding from young to coarse to mid grasses. In prairie areas permanent pasture may still mix light and heavy soils.
A collection of aphorisms and quotes from Samuel Johnson George Eliot and Maeterlinck. It presents observations on kindness deeds happiness and character emphasizing ethical conduct.
About 10,000 carloads of potatoes were shipped from Greeley in Weld county during last fall and winter to all principal markets across the United States.
The article extols centrifugal cream separators for farms to save butter fat, reduce odors, and simplify handling, urging farmers with dairy herds to adopt separators. It also discusses strawberry bed timing, variety selection, row spacing, and planting practices in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, with practical tips for commercial and family use.
A fragment discusses early spring planting of strawberries. It notes advantages of early rains and less developed plants for better stand, contrasted with dormant plants.
Yields for wheat oats barley and flax across Manitoba Saskatchewan Assiniboia and Alberta are reported. Wheat 56,228,437 bushels oats 47,215,479 bushels barley 10,448,460 bushels flax 857,292 bushels. Tax area 1,383,434 acres. Estimated crop area this year 1,706,100 acres. Six year average yields per acre: wheat 19.42 oats 34.32 barley 25.36.
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