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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
7
The Breeder's Gazette lauds two Ayrahires as perhaps the show’s best exhibit. Pansy of Woodroffe freshened just before opening and impressed with dramatic patrimony and style, though milking capacity is debated. From New York herd of George Willian Ballou.
A program urges young dairymen to attend dairy school then work in a creamery and private dairy. Two years of training build education and hands on skill for managing a dairy farm or buying a farm on long time. Emphasizes cleanliness and steady hygiene in dairying and proper butter making. Also notes forage crops and supplemental feeding for dairy operations and a dairy training train by Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas with lectures and exhibitors.
Discussion details how dairy cows should receive grain based on milk production. Two fifths of daily milk yield is suggested as grain amount, with variations for fresh cows. Notes include using scales, types of grain, and fertilizer ideas like cottonseed meat passing through cows. Also brief tips on warming cream.
A Detroit dairy notes cows receive four ounces of salt per day mixed with their feed to improve appetite and milk yield. The system uses three meals daily with salt divided among them, favoring finer salt. The balanced rations cycle includes succulent forage, dry hay, and concentrates like bran and meat scraps, adjusted to milk flow and manure consistency. Mangels and twice-daily feeding are discussed, plus caution about over-milling feed.
The New York Herald describes Mulberry Street families on the east side preparing New Year gifts for children. Relatives distribute money and small presents on January 1, with greetings like Buon capo and Lo stesso a vol per cento. Festive foods such as vermicelli and fish accompany the celebration while adults reminisce of distant lands and await remittances to cover the holiday.
A collage of New Year practices from Japan and beyond. In Japan the Mikado leads a dawn festival with a palace procession and early temple prayers, a ceremonial breakfast, and luck-struck paper strips on doors. Across the Ganges people test fate with a candle on water, while other nations mark the year with vigils, offerings, and festive theater as old year gives way to the new.
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