Farm Advice and Cattle Dairy Tips From Old May Farm Notes
This fragment highlights practical farming guidance on poultry, dairy cows, hogs, and crops. It covers feeding young chicks with grit and appropriate rations, best practices for lambs and horses, hedgerows and weed control, hay caps for clover and alfalfa, and the need for clean water and proper housing. It warns against hasty planting, emphasizes farm diversification, and notes disease prevention and safe use of remedies. The tone reflects period agricultural instruction aimed at improving yields and livestock care.
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New England
Making Fight on the Lice in Poultry Houses
In cold shelter periods poultry houses risk a lice outbreak that harms chicken sleep and work. Regular sprayings using kerosene and carbolic acid are advised, as a single treatment often fails but repeated use can curb the pest for a time.
Problem of Feeding in Poultry Keeping
Advice on feeding poultry to prevent gorging and encourage exercise. Keep feed inside to make fowls work for it or scatter on dry ground outdoors. Avoid moisture or sour, soggy mixed feed, especially for older birds.
Next Year’s Roosters Eggs Offer Savings
A reader note urges buying eggs now to secure next year’s roosters. It compares prices, says setting eggs is cheaper than full-grown roosters, and advises not to balk at reasonable costs.
Breeding and Care of Turkeys and Poultry Houskeeping
A mid century guide discusses turkey origins and wild traits, advises range over confinement, and highlights care for nests roosts and settings. It notes bronze turkeys descend from wild stock, weights up to 45 pounds, and stresses clean, lime-filled housing to prevent disease and improve chick survival.
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Spain
America
England
Old World
Tropics
Turkey
Hints for the duck raiser and feeding young ducks
Hints advise not overcrowding a flock of twenty ducklings as they are tender and prone to injury. A fat duckling may lie on its back and die if unable to turn over. A ration includes bread soaked in milk, bran, and middlings, with green food or access to tender grass if possible.
Electric Egg Tester Patented for Egg Quality
A compact electric egg tester uses a light box to shine through egg shells, revealing quality in daylight. The device sits in a black felt covered case with a white lined interior and two beveled top slots allowing inspection of contents.
Demand for Feathers Market Surges for Dry Feathers
There is a good market for all kinds of feathers. Pick fowls dry and soft feathers, the coarse from the feather can easily be preserved until we are collected to take to mare.
Supplement Nature's Food for Chickens in Rearing
The note describes feeding practices for chicks including nature providing food for the first 46 hours of life. It mentions supplementing with fine grit and access to fresh water for poultry keepers.
Breeding Sound Horses Guards Against Hidden Flaws
Farmers warned that traits like unsound limbs trace to foals and a stallion’s soundness matters. Market prices favor well bred stock, while a famous stallion can pass defects to many foals. Emphasizes avoiding unsound horses and choosing sound lineage for future horse generations.
Treatment of Young Foals
Foals should not follow mares when mares work. They fare better in a roomy clean ventilated stable or paddock with mare presence at night and feeding times. Allow more frequent suckling in early weeks, avoid nursing when mares are very warm to prevent digestive trouble.
Sunlight Key to Clean Shelters and Warmth
Sunlight is praised as a cheap disinfectant and energy saver for animal shelters. It is advised to design barns with maximum south facing windows and use light curtains to reduce summer heat while aiding cold weather warmth. Direct sunlight is said to kill many disease germs, according to repeated experiments.
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Barna
Sheep Ruin Meadow By Smothered Green Graze
A flock of sheep on a lender meadow will quickly ruin it by their sharp hoofs and eagerness to get all the green grass. The report notes damage caused as the flock browses, reducing turf and pasture quality for nearby use.
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