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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1914
Page
4
The Sioux County Herald issued weekly in Orange City Iowa offers cash in advance pricing with one year at $1.50, six months, and three months options. Orders should be sent to Isaac Hospers.
This article outlines easy at home ice cream making using a wooden bucket or crock, salt and ice, and a freezing mixture. It describes methods to prepare vanilla, saffron colored vanilla, Pratt style ice cream, and preserved fruit versions with simple steps for cooling, mixing, and freezing.
Farmers and wardens are urged to use ash waste to fertilize fields and improve tree health. Coal and wood ashes help drain foundations, enrich soil, and boost blossom color, with ash and water treatments protecting trunks from frost damage. Rosy results are cited from orchard cases and general farm practice.
An article explains cows must be well fed to maximize milk production and notes that feed quality and quantity affect yield. It highlights Jerseys as efficient producers, citing a record of 33,763 pounds of milk in a year and 1 pound pounds of butter, and says Jerseys mature early and convert feed efficiently.
The article argues scarce feed makes a good cow essential as she must first support herself, then convert feed into milk efficiently. It contends Kansas has faced many events but proves the need for better livestock to maximize returns in lean and abundant years, with dairy breeds offering the highest feed efficiency.
The article emphasizes dry sleeping space and good ventilation, noting materials like slate and iron are too cold. It recommends a foot thick of wheat straw for warmth, regular exercise after weaning, accessible coal or ashes and water, weekly sulfur, and strict feeding discipline with cleanliness.
This notice warns farmers about a seasonal sheep illness similar to a cold. It advises keeping sheep in dry ventilated quarters away from drafts and using tar fumes or tar on red hot coals to treat inhaled symptoms. Prevention includes protecting flocks from harsh weather and drafts.
Instructions emphasize keeping the calf clean and dry, washing with antiseptic solution, and using aseptic techniques to treat the navel incision. It notes infections may arise from contaminated sources and advises trimming and snipping the navel as needed.
Recipes describe steaming as a gentler method than boiling, using a kitchen steamer. Dishes include Steamed Apple Pudding, Steamed Fruit Pudding, Steamed Bread Pudding, and Steamed Chocolate Pudding with detailed ingredients and steam times. The method emphasizes tender results, extended cooking, and custard accompaniments.
The text outlines several sweet potato dishes including baked with cheese, creamed with milk and cream, scalloped with butter and sugar, and cold potato cakes. It details steps for layering, simmering, mashing, and baking with spices, butter, and milk.
Partial OCR text discusses work hours and tire sales with references to Bers and STOEL meeting points. Mentions keeping best covered and avoiding duplicates. Connections to storage, shopping, and seasonal timing appear, but content is garbled and hard to parse.
The article argues farmers can profit by fattening calves on farm with proper feeding. It cites W. Nomeki and outlines practical methods using bran, corn, cottonseed meal, and salt, plus warm shelters and straw bedding. It stresses avoiding underfeeding and aiming for steers weighing 1000 to 1200 pounds at purchase for profitability.
The article explains that sweeny, the wasting of shoulder muscles, stems from sprains during plowing or pulling. It notes foot disease such as navicular, chronic cramps, or bone issues as possible causes, and advises diagnosis, rest if lame, rubbing, magical tonics, and blistering with cerate or cantharides as remedies with intervals of two to three weeks.
The brood sows should be handled regularly with farrowing around April 1 in a stall in the barn. Farrowing timing can be predicted exactly as the milk appears four to six hours before. Do not feed the sow for twenty four hours after farrowing but provide warm water and then a small amount of food. begin piglet grain feed like growed ont at five weeks or older.
A faulty text provides a collection of beef salads and dressings. It lists methods for Beef Salad, Putin Beef Salad, Vinusiretra of Deef, a French Salad, and Spiced Beef Salad with various dressings, seasonings, and serving ideas, including use of tomatoes, potatoes, and pickles.
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