Cow Stalls Improve Cleanliness at University Dairy
An illustrated guide from the University of Minnesota details cow stall design to keep cattle clean and healthy. It notes stalls seven feet long, three and a half feet wide, four foot gates, and rear posts angled for milker space, with adjustable mangers to prevent dirt. It cites Jersey Holstein Guernsey breeds and comparisons between fixed and movable mangers.
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Dairy Barn
University of Minnesota
Jersey
Guernsey
University Farm
Belle
Cylene
Letta
Profitable to Winter Swine
J M Dunlap argues that wintering swine is best done with cheap feeds and home-grown forages such as seeds, clover, alfalfa, and ensilage to minimize grain use. He notes many farms waste feed and pigs, but wintering lets producers finish them for a stronger summer market and higher returns than off-season sales.
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J. M. Dunlap
Cowpeas Boost Soil and Stock Nutrition
Cowpeas are noted as a valuable enriching crop and superior forage for five head of stock. The hay produced is high in protein, making strong dairy feed and suitable for young stock and work horses when fed in limited amounts.
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North Carolina
Pure Bred Stock Standards at Risk of Downgrade
Purebred stock have reached a high standard through right mating, proper care and liberal feeding. If these practices stop, the standard will not rise or even be retained, risking a slide to pure bred scrub.
Hollow concrete fence post construction method
Instructions describe making hollow reinforced concrete fence posts using a modified four by four inch mold. A wooden core and a galvanized iron core are used to create a central hollow channel, with fittings, holes, and paper wrapping to enable core removal after the concrete sets. The process includes aligning gates, clamps, dowels, and timing for core withdrawal.
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G. A. Cook
Confection Tips and Christmas Treat Making Guide
A column on nuts fruits and nougat with steps for candy making. Recipes cover boiling sugar water fondant dipping nuts and creating colored nougat. Includes methods for packing and chilling and a South Carolina buckwheat cake preparation with yeast and baking powder.
Practical American Dishes On Meat Substitutes And Puddings
Household guidance on affordable meat options uses cuts like porterhouse remnants for hamburger steaks with tomato sauce. Instructions cover pan broiling and casseroles, plus a Maltine Hotel Butter seasoning and a flank steak method with parsley and lemon juice. Indian Pudding recipe uses corn meal and milk with nutmeg and molasses as options.
Remedy Tips and Fruit Salad Dressing From An Old Page
A reader note suggests loosening a stubborn glass stopper with olive oil or Vaseline and rubbing a glue bottle cork with Vaseline before insertion. A simple fruit salad dressing uses orange juice lemon juice sugar and flour and butter cooked until smooth served over apples peanuts and bananas.
Nut Brittle Cookies from a 19th Century Recipe
A vintage recipe combines one pound pecan meats with one pound of sugar and a quarter cup flour. Beat six egg whites until stiff then fold in the nut mixture with a teaspoon of vanilla. Drop onto buttered paper and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Fragmented Verse Fragment. Repeated Lines
A garbled passage presents archaic style lines about HERG as many paths of title and idle pleasure. It repeats phrases on tricher fat than a jeweled crown and miner's treasure. Names appear as M. A. Kidd or similar fragments, with references to a child, mother’s prayers, and a beggar’s gratitude for water.
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M. A. Kidd
German Chocolate Cookies Instructions
Two erga one cup brown su gar two squares of chocolate grated one fourth of a teaspoon of cinnamon one half teaspoon of walt grated ring of half a lemon one and one three cups of blanched almonds chopped one cup of flour gifted with one tea spoon of baking powder Drop fron A spoon on a buttered sheet and bake j in a moderate oven.
Chestnut Dainties and Chocolate Creams in Home Candy Making
A kitchen note describes chestnut dishes for roasts soups and desserts and offers a chestnut preparation with gravy as an add to meals. It then outlines chocolate creams using fondant dipping options vanilla peppermint or other flavors and explains fondant and candy base recipe with sugar glucone water and cooling steps.
Household Tips For Food Prep And Home Care
Practical kitchen and home hacks cover soaking raisins in cold water before chopping to prevent sticking and using a thimble over a sash curtain rod when hanging curtains. It also advises cooling scorched fruit in cold water and not stirring to avoid further scorching.
Brown Tail Moth War Rages Across New England Yet Again
New England fights a renewed browntail moth invasion. Massachusetts reports millions spent battling the pest as caterpillars defoliate orchards and forests across Massachusetts New Hampshire and Connecticut. The lifecycle includes eggs hatching in August then caterpillars feeding on leaves and spinning winter webs.
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New England
Massachusetts
New Himpshire
Connecticut
Holland
France
Somerville
Mass
Cambridge
Europe
Mediterranean
Sweden
Brown Tall
New Tongland
Lower
White Mountains
Brown ‘Tull
Keep Off Vermin and Cedar Poles for Roasts
A brief on deterrents to protect livestock and stored goods. Mentions Cedar or sassafras poles to keep vermin away and notes Tottanco smoke as effective for killing pests.
Horsepower from a Mowing Machine Tackle
Instructions describe converting a mowing machine into a makeshift power source by removing a drive wheel and mounting the unit between heavy planks with a timber and lead rope setup. The system, bolted to stakes, uses a gas pipe as a tumbler rod connected to the pitman, leaving the ratchet in place. Seen in coal districts around Mo and Pittsburg Kun for pumping water from trip pits.
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Pittsburg
Kun
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Man” . Gage
South Carolina
FDA
Artle
Gilad
Lucy Larcom
EB Bangster
Pui
New Hampershire
Maine
States
Rhode Island
Ray
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