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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
2
Practical tips for rearing chicks with emphasis on feeding schedules and cleanliness. Use dry bread or milk substitutes, provide grit, ensure fresh water, and supplement with green forage. Avoid crowding and protect feed from contamination. regular sour milk and insect powder help health.
The article urges farmers to consider enlarging hen flocks but stresses need for adequate feed, shelter, and records. It notes women often manage flocks and warns against keeping poor layers, suggesting selling old or unproductive hens to protect the flock’s profitability.
Advice urges dusting fowls with insect powder to control mites and lice. Keep houses clean and ventilated, bed and perches dry, and use oil or kerosene on perches to reduce pests in dark places.
The text describes decayed flesh and poison affecting the brain and nerves. It mentions timberwork and a line about muselon of the rock and body, with the neck becoming timbered. The fragmentary source lacks clear persons, places, or events.
A series of poultry trials report fertility and incubation outcomes. Findings cover mating strategies, peak fertility timelines, and comparisons between pullet and old hen pens. Additional tests assess egg cooling methods, incubator efficiency, and duck hatched profitability. Feed tests show buckwheat and wild weeds as feeds with varying palatability and profitability. mustard family plants stimulated digestion rather than poisoning.
A 19th century farming note extols chopped straw as ideal litter for poultry houses. It praises absorbent, warm litter that can be changed weekly to keep coops sweet and clean, aiding fowls in winter and encouraging scratching for grain.
Farmers note that freezing conditions affect hens and fertility in wildlife. Advice covers protecting combs and feet, preventing frost damage, and using water dipping or packing with ash, with glycerin as a healing aid for damaged areas.
The article advises that young Runner ducks can lay eggs in winter if properly fed. It recommends a daily mush of cracked corn, vegetables, and bran with beet scrap. Do not rely on corn alone. provide adequate water, feed, and sustained care to encourage winter laying.
The document notes nine tenths of farmers neglect enough food for chicks. Once chicks reach a self feeding stage they are often forced to forage, slowing growth and causing poor flesh. It argues two regular feeds of gedin will markedly improve flock vigor and encourage feeding consistency.
Mouldy and decaying food causes illness and deaths among both young and old. The article notes food waste and economic strain as families lose valuable chickens and other stock. It warns of poisonous effects and the broader impact on households facing scarce supplies.
The article advises stockmen on feeding stored roots like turnips and angels to livestock. Roots are mostly water and should be heated before feeding, with reduced quantities in extreme cold. Do not feed roots from cold storage. warm them 12 to 24 hours and feed after milking in morning.
The Indiana station highlighted silo value in cattle fattening. Experiments used a ration of 2.6 lb cottonseed meal 44 lb clover hay WA lb shelled corn 27.7 lb corn silage. Feeding silage reduced feed costs by about half a cent per pound and increased profits by $3 to $3 per head.
Cottonseed meal produced firmer flesh with silage and outperformed oil meal. It aids economical feeding when abundant erasing is limited and helps utilize coarse feeds. The practice can quickly offset silo costs and replace unavailable green pasture.
The Nebraska College of Agriculture veterinary department endorses hog oilers as the cheapest and most effective way to rid pigs of lice. Oil is applied via various devices including sprayers and brushes, with scrubbing if skin conditions exist. Proper use improves skin condition and overall appearance.
A farmer expanded a cattle stable to face south and admitted wall sunlight. He observed cattle in sunlight gained weight, appetite, and vigor, while those without direct sun suffered poorer health and disease recovery. The results, via repeated trials, suggest sunshine aids wellbeing and recovery.
A Chicago letter extols a modern dish washing system that uses hot suds, rinsing, and a drainer to dry dishes quickly. It describes soaking tools, scrubbing, and airing to prevent wet hands, and promises a glossy finish with less effort and greater temper conservation for housewives.
Practical domestic tips cover preserving meat in a bag, tile coloring with lemon salt, cleaning photos with bread and water, removing stains with linen glycerine, using India rubber gloves, keeping sand for oil lamp fires, and pricking suet dumplings to prevent sticking. The tone is instructional and dated.
Instructions describe splitting a young chicken, frying in hot butter for forty minutes total, turning and steaming. Finish with pan gravy using fat, flour, water, sugar to make a brown sauce to serve over the chicken.
Fragmentary recipe lists ingredients for a vegetable roast using boiled evi canned or cut meat? half cupful baked beans mashed rice strained tomatoes minced onion melted butter milk salt pepper and breadcrumbs to form dough then bake and serve with tomato sauce
A historical recipe describes a cornmeal mush made with about one quart of water malted with one teaspoon, then one cup yellow cornmeal added and cooked for about an hour in a double boiler. After cooking, stir in one to one and a half cups chopped cold meat, mold, chill, slice when cold, and fry in bacon drippings or butter.
A historic recipe lists ingredients for beet relish and cabbage mix. It calls for one quart cooked beets, one quart chopped cabbage, one cup chopped onions, one cup sugar, a tablespoon of butter, and pepper. The mixture is added to boiling vinegar.
If you have never fostered the habit of washing cereals before cooking try soaking them in a basin with old water. You will find the grains rise to the top and it is better to strain this off.
A recipe for Cream Pudding style desserts with steps to prepare and bake a milk custard like cake and a steam pudd ing. It includes sugar eggs cream lemon rind and custard sauce instructions.
A Woman's Home Companion idea suggests mounting a budget cabinet over the sink to store scouring powders brushes and cleaning items while a small mirror inside aids quick checks before answering doors. A rubber hose device for faucet protection is also proposed to prevent nicking or breaking metal taps.
The Mousewife should survey small repairs around the house as winter sets in. A repair day could fix window panes cupboard doors and drawers. Worn back stops propped by bricks may be repaired to reduce danger and improve comfort and convenience.
A detailed method for preparing olives of veal involving cutlets rolled with bacon and a mushroom filling. Each piece is seasoned, dipped in egg and crumbs, wrapped in paper, skewered, baked, and served with tomato sauce for a tempting dish.
Fish from La Wynne Hout uses two pounds codflak with bones removed and minced. Season with salt and pepper, add anchory essence WUKKOE tirragon vine olive oil, then fold in grated Edam cheese. Serve on a wheel dish with watercress and cucumbers, chill before serving with thin mayonnaise.
A handwritten style recipe lists ingredients and tips for a chocolate cake including brown sugar butter coffee and sour cream. It notes using sour milk to enrich flavor and suggests thick layers with marshmallow frosting and white sugar as an optional finish.
A fragmented cooking note describes making curry sauce with clarified fat, a two ounce measure of spices, a teaspoon of salt, and a quarter cup of vegetable stock. Simmer for fifty minutes then strain and use.
A scrambled note explains making altered egg recipes by using yolks when a recipe calls for whites. It suggests options like using yolk substitutes and storing the extra yolks for future cake batters, noting long keeping time.
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