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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1915
Page
7
The advertisement urges readers not to ignore stomach and liver ailments and warns against unnecessary surgery. It claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cures catarrhal stomach conditions, reduces inflammation, and supports the entire digestive tract. It touts endorsements from professionals and promises a money back guarantee if one bottle fails to satisfy.
A dairyman urges cow owners to always raise their calves noting it is profitable and never too expensive. He emphasizes calves provide a large percentage of farm profits and should be grown thoroughly for long term returns.
Miss Annie L Glidden of DeKalb Illinois demonstrates a thirty acre farm model blending alfalfa pasture with diversified crops and poultry. Her system yields around 90 dollars per acre from alfalfa and aims for steady cash demand through rotating crops and vegetables, seeking a sustainable small-farm income.
The frinetjal cones for poul try diveases are poor houses dominees ith and improper Feeday. Common poultry diseases include catarrh rong apes mint leg weakness and overfat debilitation. Well fed pullets lay early if not fed on too fattening rations. Avoid harsh handling when breaking a broodiness as it can cripple the hen. Constipation stems from too much concentrated food.
A discussion from American Cultivator explains that keeping no male birds can improve egg storage and fertility varies with flock size. Suggested practices include rotating cocks among pens, using one cock per 10-20 hens depending on breed, and keeping larger hen groups for stronger chicks.
A vintage poultry note urges providing a dust bath on cement or board floors to keep hens healthy. It describes a shallow dust area filled with dust and ashes, warns against plain sand and suggests a few drops of crude carbolic acid for quicker results. It also notes the incubator as essential for early chick success.
Live stock husbandry notes a bright outlook for pure bred draft horses says Jobo Mason in the National Stockman. War disrupts imports from Belgium and France, boosting demand for sturdy native horses and sound pure bred sires. A University of Wisconsin scene shows students judging a horse.
The article urges buyers to act soon as demand and prices for Percheron mares and work horses may rise. It cautions eastern farmers to purchase early, before spring, to secure favorable prices and avoid the looming inflation in horse costs.
Rural New Yorker notes slow pig growth often stems from rapid eating when pigs are fed together. Test eating capacity separately and feed by individual rate, then tailor rations. Also explains beef cattle valuation by conformation and expected meat yield.
The notice advises gradual changes in feed for sheep during winter to keep digestion steady. It notes water and dry forage harden in cold, straw can aid appetite and improve straw utilization. Highlighted are hogs suffering from cold who cannot utilize grains well. Recommend box stalls for colts with clean, well littered bedding.
A rural New Yorker correspondent outlines beef cattle options with Hereford Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn as popular British-origin breeds. It notes each breed's strengths in pasture or confinement, warns about milk fever on western ranches, and emphasizes crossbreeding to balance traits while advising proper sire influence and technical notes on foundational concrete work.
The passage notes the ideal beef bull differs in shape from the dairy sire. It praises the beef animal for a rectangular or parallelogram conformation with evenly distributed flesh and meat to produce a symmetrical carcass, while dairy stock is described as too angular and less attractive.
The Rural New Yorker argues a strong beef sire should have muscular hind quarters good length and proportion. It questions using lean hammed sires and notes judging by limbs reveals which bull yields more meat on steak and loins.
The Percheran Society of America now charges $1 per transfer presented at the office within ninety days of sale and $4 per transfer after that date. The fee increase is said to be necessary due to a large rise in business volume caused by the halt of oil imports from Europe.
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