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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
2
Practical tips on pigs, poultry, cattle, and crops from soil to feeding. Topics include weed control, pasture management, manure use, brood care, and water handling. Emphasizes early training, moisture control, sanitation, and careful pruning for orchard and garden productivity.
A guide on profitable dairy farming stresses that cows require more than mere bulk in feed. Nutritive value matters, with concentrated foods like wheat bran and ground corn essential twice daily. If profits fall, check cow quality and management. increase milk output through proper nutrition and planning.
The article stresses disciplined dairy farming with careful recordkeeping. Cull unprofitable cows and focus on feeding and tending cows at capacity to boost return. It warns against guessing milk yield by appearance and notes actual measurement can reduce overestimation by up to sixty percent.
Practical guidance for new poultry keepers. Encourages diversifying income, integrating beekeeping and gardening, and using poultry to control insects. Advises starting with reliable stock, choosing varieties by purpose, and using netting for protection and hatching needs.
The article advises that guinea fowl raise best from mid June to early August with hatching delayed to improve marketability by Christmas. It warns against confinement, suggests free range with shelter at roosting time, and notes the hen guides and protects her brood while remaining vigilant for danger.
A fragment warns that glass fragments and sharp grit found in feed can injure poultry. It cautions that commercial grit is cheap and may be harder and sharper than broken dishes, risking punctures to the crop and intestines during ingestion.
A garbled note discusses grease affecting a hen and eggs, mentioning smothered chickens and potential cloning ideas in unclear terms. No coherent event or entities are identifiable from the text.
Practical advice from H L M Bennington on duck pens and ground rotation. Maintain exercise, plant green crops, feed and water together, and avoid excess excitement for young ducks. Keep predators away, provide night lighting, ensure deep water troughs for diving, and target market readiness at ten weeks. Do not incubate eggs under a duck. foster with a large hen.
An Ohio station estimate says not over one third of cows can yield 300 pounds of butter fat per year with proper feeding. Researchers note even if all cows reached this level, annual butter fat value would rise about 17 million dollars, matching the current national output. The finding is said to apply nationally.
The Hamburge and Spanish breeds are not as popular now due to small eggs. Leghorns are small but hardy, with Brown Leghorn noted as superior to white. Minorcas and Rhode Island Reds praised for good eggs and meat, Buff Orpingtons and Brown Leghorns also kept. Rhode Island Reds urged as ideal general poultry for farmers. Rose Comb varieties tolerate cold best.
The author discusses Leghorn and Orpington crossbreeding, noting good setters and layers and the practicality of mixing flocks. They compare crosses to Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks, and Buff varieties, warn about misidentification, and advise sending for poultry catalogs for more information.
The notice advises quarantining sick birds and treating them away from the flock. It prescribes a nitrate of bismuth and cinchona bark regimen for three days to control diarrhea, followed by a good poultry ration. The same remedy should be fed to the flock, with a turkey wick accompanying the treatment.
The Woot Virginis experiment compared board floors and natural earth floors in barn housing and found clean earth floors superior. It also promotes raising more ducks, noting strong prices for their weight and value as a productive farm enterprise.
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