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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
5
An experimental station compared sour milk, beef scrap, and meat or fish meal in feeding White Leghorn pullets for a year. Sour milk produced 2.275 eggs with $25.20 profit, beef scrap yielded 20 eggs with $1078 profit, and the third pen showed 1375 eggs subject to feed quality.
The article urges sending cockerels to market only after enhancing their quality. It notes Bow and Ae Be, stresses keeping a small percent for breeding, and warns against surplus sales without two to three weeks of close crate feeding and conditioning. It suggests offering to a special trade and holding for higher postholiday prices.
A brief note on using small colony houses for hens during winter. The guide claims such houses are easier to shelter, well banked with hay or manure, and can keep hens warmer and more comfortable than large permanent buildings.
Clemson College Bulletin notes careful gathering and grading of eggs to obtain top prices. It advises two grades for mixed quality and cautions against shipping to Newark. emphasizes cartons for soda fountains and local grocers to build premium demand.
Poultry experts advise a two week fattening program in a small pen using a 6 percent corn meal 20 percent bran and 20 percent middlings mix with old milk to form a mush. Starve 12 hours before feeding to sharpen appetite and prevent stunting. Preventive care and proper housing reduce stunted chicks. avoid mixing broods and maintain strong stock with ample water and nourishment.
A circular from the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture urges farmers to plant rape for winter pasture to feed pigs locally. The adage asks farmers to grow feed where possible and notes Arkansas buys much pork despite cheaper homegrown pork potential.
The article advises culling a chicken flock by removing unproductive birds and keeping only well matured, husky mates. It recommends sending the rest to market and housing them in fattening coops to finish for sale.
The article notes cabbage as a readily available feed for chickens and suggests sprouting oats as a supplementary source. It advises simple, improvised racks for sprouting, emphasizing practicality for small operations.
Reads detail concerns about low value poultry feeds sold cheaply and spoilage in grain, noting the hidden expense from feeding son lower quality diets results in higher overall costs for poultry producers.
The article notes lice survive cold by staying dormant in cracks and crevices, then become active when warmed. Lice feed on hens for nourishment, especially if earth boxes are not provided. It advises thorough powdering of fowls, streaming blood and oil muck, and applying powder before chick hatching.
A historic note describes a lice powder made from airstaked time, carbolic used dust, and lobicon or boron dust with a dry clean mix. It claims common poll and varharic acid improve effectiveness. The text stresses keeping the mixture moist and lasting exposure to kill mites and lice.
Feeding milk to young chicks shows a favorable influence on growth and survival. Proper, extended feeding reduces deaths from diarrhea and other causes.
Overgrown fowls are no better than normal stock. Breeding and care aimed at larger size should instead focus on improving quality and characteristics through selective development.
Experiments at the Ohio Experiment Station show green forage crops lowering pork production costs. Alfalfa clover timothy soybeans and bluegrass adapted to bog pasturage. An 11 week midsummer trial found clover pasture performing well.
The report notes 71 pounds of corn replacements per 100 pounds gained when rape and soybeans are added to hog diets. Hogs fed rape and beans show better gains than grain only, with rape providing abundant green feed for about ten weeks and beans grazed from July 1. Bine grass offers value in spring but is drought susceptible.
A convenient fastening for the feeding door of a manger is illustrated. The door presses against a beveled latch end, fits in a cross piece slot? wall fastener, and drops into place when pushed. The mechanism allows closing with a fork or any handy tool and secures the door with a falling latch.
A damaged snippet mentions a dropped door and a thin front to every horse. Anger and mating terms appear alongside Kelys and a need to keep the stable warm.
The article notes most beef cattle breeders breed heifers around twenty four months old. Some start as early as twelve to eighteen months, and many fall between eighteen and twenty four months. Several arguments support the different practices. If heifers are well grown, eighteen to twenty months may be suitable.
The article explains a basic practice of feeding pumpkins to hogs. It notes that pumpkins should form a small part of the hogs diet and describes simple methods to open and prepare pumpkins, including cutting larger pumpkins to access the flesh.
The article outlines practical ways to reuse stale bread: croutons for soups, dried crumbs for stuffing and meat frying, bread custard pudding, toast to stretch meals, bread jelly for invalids, and dried crumbs for infants. It stresses storage in waxed paper, a stone jar, or Mason jars to keep for up to a week and suggests using crumbs in hot drippings, soups, milk, and fruit juices.
A vintage instruction details making peach dumplings with jelly, baking powder, salt, mager, lard, and cold water. The dough covers preserved peaches and is baked quickly, served with hard sauce and syrup from the peaches.
A fragmented recipe lists ingredients like sour apples mild onion peppers lemon ginger cayenne salt and cider vinegar. The directions mention prepping apples adding vinegar simmering for an hour with constant stirring and storing the finished chutney.
A recipe instructs trimming six kidneys removing fat and center, soaking in cold water, then stewing with salt and pepper. Dredge in flour and saute in butter, brown in a pan with more butter and stock, season with salt pepper and sauce, then pour over kidneys.
The text describes a milk based custard method: heat gradually, boil briefly, stir in four well beaten yolks, then fold in two sets of well beaten whites. Finish and serve the next day with cream. Contains several misspellings and odd phrases.
A soft rag soaked with a salution of egn parts of a pirate camphor is advised as a handy household item. It loosens the filter and keeps wood elastic, reducing cracking through temperature changes.
A garbled note describes picking up broken glass and fish fins with wet cloths, then destroying waste by burial. It emphasizes careful handling and disposal procedures without clear context or attribution.
The article argues that Maine shows lower prison rates and insanity levels than other New England states, countering anti prohibition claims. It cites census data on paupers, prisoners per 200 000, and Maine’s favorable figures versus Massachusetts and New Hampshire, while condemning Bangor’s lax enforcement.
A note attributed to Dr. S H Burgen of Toledo argues beer drinkers lack elasticity compared to whisky drinkers and warns that whisky can cause delirium tremens while beer drinkers often show slower, less dramatic reactions. The writer cites years of experience and references tying and dead instances to support his view.
A fragmented clipping notes beverage brands facing market shifts with 24 drinks cited. It mentions a 0.22 to 0.5 percent alcohol range and a single product at 4 percent. The text references a ban influenced by industry, medicine, and war, affecting alcohol sales.
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