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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1917
Page
12
OOC around the farm urges careful winter fertilization and manure spreading on side hills while frost departs. Early oats sowing reduces rust and improves yield. avoid overcutting timber to preserve future returns. Timoth y and clover performance through winter questioned. light manure application on thin or snow-free seedings advised for strong results.
A correspondent of the American Agriculturist advises selecting prospective brood sows from top animals with gentle, good milking mothers and high vitality. Look for smooth foreheads, deep chests, broad backs, and strong legs. long-bodied sows with vigor produce two litters yearly. Handle brood sows gently and avoid overrefinement. The mature sow with litter is pictured.
The Round World quotes a quip about a brother abroad as a long distance joke and a cartoonish argument about purchasing a gown. A line from Doing It Right features a debtor’s remark prompting a sharper retort about going in debt. Both excerpts showcase light satirical dialogue from period publications.
A Mexican inn scene near Durango, during Diaz era, ends with a brave interruption. The narrator, sketching in Mexico, defends himself when a masked man tries to shoot him, aided by a woman who restrains the assailant’s arm and keeps him from killing the narrator. The gun is recovered and the attacker curses gringos.
A quote from M. W. Alexander in Industrial Management advises steering men with weak hearts or nerves away from high‑surprise, risky work. It promotes directing them toward calm, remunerative tasks and learning methods to remedy or manage their weakness to avoid deterioration.
A Boston Transcript cartoon caption shows a father scolding his son for disrespect to his mother while the son rebukes him, noting he would not dare speak ill of his mother either. The dialogue highlights traditional family authority and respect within a domestic setting.
The article advises careful protein intake before farrowing with nitrogenous seeds and a shift to bulky foods days prior to farrowing to prevent constipation. It recommends a constant supply of charcoal salt and ashes, sparing post farrowing feeding, starting with thin slop then skim milk and bran mix, and a full ration by two weeks. A good breeding sow should remain in the herd for six to eight years if she proves useful.
Cowpox is highly infectious and can spread to humans through wounds. Regular smallpox vaccination may protect. bathe udders in warm creolin solution, apply carbolated vaseline, and wash hands after handling. Separate diseased animals from healthy ones and milk them last to prevent transmission.
To give the calf and its mother a felt chance a cow should be carefully dried off six weeks before the date of calving. This allows her to feed well her unborn calf and to vet ready for her period of milk production. Wisconsin Agricultural College advises on humane drying off and preparing for the freshening period.
Advice on selecting sires for pigs and keeping livestock healthy and productive. Emphasis on pure bred stock, careful feeding for ewes and horses, preventing crowding through narrow doors, and gentle remedies like oil meal for coughing pigs and colts kept clean and well bedded.
Feeding roughage reduces concentrate costs. Penn State’s F. S. Putney advises 2.5 to 3.5 lb silage per 100 lb live weight, most cows around 3 lb, plus 0.5 to 0.8 lb hay per 100 lb weight. About 0.6 lb hay per 100 lb with one lb grain per three pounds milk. quality and cost drive profitability.
Breeders seek strong bones to cut losses and extend breeding life. Ohio Station studies show cereals alone stunt bone growth. corn with soy yields little bone. Best bone comes from corn with tankage and skim milk. For mature breeding hogs alfalfa and clover hay help. spring green legumes work too. Lime, corncob charcoal, bone flour and wood ashes advised with grains, in salt-mmixed self feeders.
Starting with about a hundred ewes is advised, or one ewe per two acres per the University of Illinois. Early small flocks managed as weed and waste feed sources often suffer disease and neglect, risking low profits in the farm business.
Experiments in Minnesota during 1914 and 1915 show average potato yields per acre rising by fifty six bushels in sixteen fields through seed selection and disinfection. Spraying trials over seven years yield an average annual gain of sixty three bushels per acre for early potatoes sprayed thrice with Bordeaux mixture or late potatoes sprayed four times.
The soy bean may be grown throughout humid and semihumid sections of the south and in the southern portion of the corn belt. It is a valuable forage crop and promises usefulness as a cash crop and oil seed source for mills in boll weevil regions.
Dairy experts estimate a cow’s period of usefulness at six years. Dairymen should annually raise enough heifer calves to replace aged or rejected cows, or at least equal to one sixth of the herd size.
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