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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
14
Aimed at making pure-bred livestock standard across the United States through registered sires and females, with rigorous culling of inferior animals. The article argues pedigrees must prove individual quality, not just bloodline, and cites Europe as a model of strict breeding. It envisions pure-bred stock on every farm signaling high class farming in practice and theory.
In this era of efficiency, hogs can harvest corn by opening the field gate and letting them roam. Hogs reduce handling, improve waste, and spread manure. Broadcasting cowpeas or soybeans adds high protein feed, while rape boosts overall hog forage. Rotating hog access protects ground and maintains productivity.
Advice on keeping livestock healthy in heat emphasizes ample pure drinking water for horses cattle and hogs. Watering two to three times daily during peak heat prevents overheating and supports sweating cooling. Increasing tank space and water access prevents crowding and muddied water, ensuring all ages share adequately.
The lamb crop gets priority in culling as it yields the best return. Cull ewes with weak backs saddle backs long legs shallow bodies and weak constitutions. Remove sheep producing light or frenzied wool wool with low density or too much fiber variation.
A Minnesota experiment station bulletin argues for seed selection focusing on vigor over strict ear-type scoring. H. K. Hayes reports that selecting from vigorous, healthy stalks yields better results and cautions against overemphasis on ear type. Vigor should guide seed selection ahead of scorecard criteria.
Summer pasture crops are essential for milk and animal growth on dry lands and in irrigation. Sudan grass provides abundant, high quality feed, saves labor, and improves soil. Plant now for late summer and early fall pasture. seed should be pure with no cane. Dry lands use 4–10 lb per acre, irrigated 15–20 lb. start when five to six inches high and graze closely. Carrying capacity ranges three quarters to one head per acre dry and one and a half to two heads irrigated.
An advertisement extols a self-feeder for hogs, claiming it keeps the animal content by delivering continuous food and water. The copy argues contentment leads to steady eating, rest, and rapid growth, translating to financial gain for the farmer.
Farmers are urged to balance costs with market focus, valuing clover and alfalfa for soil building and hay. Sweet clover plowed under can boost next year’s corn by 15 to 25 bushels per acre, while cabbage root issues are noted. Turkeys help control pasture pests. regular sheep pasture rotation reduces stench worms.
William A Radford explains how a five room bungalow can blend individuality with practical design. The feature home shows a shaded approach, a full side porch, sun porch, and rear elements. interior highlights include a large sunlit living room, central dining area, two bedrooms with a shared bath, and built in kitchen and storage.
TheHints describe space efficient bathtubs, wire stretchers for quick screen setting, and durable laundry tubs carved from soapstone. Copper bronze and galvanized zinc wire cloths cover screens and other uses. Cardboard house models illustrate completed work to attract buyers.
Wood tiling is praised as a highly pleasing flooring feature that elevates room aesthetics and overall home value. It argues that appearance drives choice, often favoring wood tile over marble for artistic homes.
Simple guide for crafting window boxes shows home owners can boost home appearance by 100 percent. It covers sizing to fit window frames, depth and width, and notes a false bottom with rear drainage holes and using good soil for best growth.
The piece extols cork as an exemplary heat insulator noting its cork lined helmet used in the tropics. It suggests that what cork achieves for native workers will similarly benefit white men in the same environment.
Waldo Kidder, Extension Agronomist at Colorado Agricultural College, reports a dry seed treatment using fairly pure copper carbonate to prevent smut in wheat. The fine powder coats seeds without harming viability or storage, offering immunity at about two ounces per bushel and allowing open-air application with dust protection for the operator.
The summer brings chicken mites as a major problem in poultry houses. Regular weekly spraying prevents an outbreak. Effective sprays include sheep dips carbon oil and coal tar products. A stock solution mixed at 3 percent to 97 percent water keeps mites down, while 10 percent may be needed if an infestation starts.
The Rouen duck shows clear sexual dimorphism. Males and females look very different with the duck displaying a red brown body and black penciling, white and black wing stripes, and a green head on the drake.
Soy beans provide sufficient protein when pods are full without supplements. Permanent pasture lags behind rape rye or soy beans but outperforms no pasture. Lespedeza is a top clover pasture and excellent while it lasts. A pasture year round is possible and essential for economical pork production.
The article argues screening the barn to reduce flies boosts cow production and milking efficiency. If screening is not feasible, use affordable fly spray before milking, but avoid contamination of milk due to odor and taste.
Keep feeding utensils scrupulously clean and wash calf buckets daily to prevent souring and scours. After weaning continue grain feeding with three to four pounds of a good mix to keep the calf in good condition until a year old, then increase grain in the second year.
The guidance from H. R. Lascelles of the Colorado State Dairy Commission lays out a calf feeding plan starting with whole milk at body temperature for two weeks, then a gradual move to skim milk by four weeks. It stresses limited skim milk before four months, a high protein grain mix, alfalfa and ensilage, ample clean water, and clean dry housing to prevent pneumonia.
Purdue entomology study tests two fly sprays on Indiana dairy herds during 1924. Both mixtures cost about 2 dollars for a 90 day season for ten cows. Daily post milking application to all body areas reduced fly numbers and calmed cattle compared with unsprayed cows. Odorous formulas outperformed odorless ones, and sprayed herds grazed more peacefully.
Purdue expert Canan identifies dairy breeding improvement as the essential step to lower production costs in the industry. He notes that fewer than 3 percent of U S dairy cattle are registered with official organizations, highlighting registration gaps as a major issue.
Good pre and post freshening care for cows is essential. Calves should stay isolated ten days in clean bedding before joining others. Dairy markets may grow. twin births affect fertility, with a free martin heifer being sterile while twins can include fertile heifers and bulls. Proper digestible nutrients are key for cow feed.
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