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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
6
An old agricultural note warns farmers against allowing bulls to mix with dairy cows during breeding. It advocates secure tethering with a wire linked nose ring, ample exercise, water and bone rich feed, and stresses gentle handling. Training calves to lead is advised.
By W A M'KERROW Minnesota Experiment Station the article urges farmers to test dairy cows for quantity and quality of product using scales and a Hathcock tester. It argues cow testing helps eliminate unprofitable cows, protects worthy cattle from slaughter, promotes good feeding and care, and builds a productive herd.
A cautionary note on handling bulls urges strict discipline and prompt obedience to prevent sudden attacks. It warns that a cowed bull may appear harmless but can lash out if teased or provoked, endangering both students and bystanders.
An article tracing duck breeding, feeding, and housing practices. It contrasts Pekin varieties, notes growth comparisons with chickens, and details care for ducklings from hatching to market age. It covers housing, greens, grain mixes, water needs, grit, and fattening for market at fourteen weeks.
Practical guidance to sex goslings and manage incubator lamps. Larger males, deeper bodies, shriller calls indicate a gander. Separate flocks for sexing, avoid curled feather marks, and inspect lamp operation to prevent failures.
The fragment urges practical pest control in poultry, noting sayings like a diligent approach saves issues in time. It references lice and the idea that removing pests prevents larger losses in farming. The text hints at a traditional farmer’s maxim about prompt action reducing future costs.
An old columnist piece muses that there is little profit in treating a sick hen. It argues that if she recovers she will consume the earnings before regaining vigor, noting the room she occupies as a minor detail in a fragmentary scene.
Guidance on summer poultry care emphasizes ample clean water grit and charcoal, cool well ventilated housing, one daily feed of wholesome grains, and avoidance of musty feeds. It advises preventing feather pecking with proper nutrition, selling market birds before moulting, and using nitro venous feeds followed by stimulating seeds and linseed oil for glossy plumage.
Watch the little turkeys at first for they follow any moving thing in the brood. If left to wander they stray toward pigs and roosters and may not return unless called back. Early feeding by the mother may fail, so place a few chicks to teach them to peck food. To tame them, toss small seeds or bread near them. soon they will seek you out when they see or hear you across the yard.
Chicks will eat whatever is set before them and will ingest items that spread disease or cause death. Young chicks are worse as they may fill their crop with sand or sawdust which can kill. Excessive lime or improper bedding can burn a chick's crop and harm the brood. Band and time matter, but avoid bedding too thickly to attract a chick's attention.
Breen recommends feeding two week old ducks with daily green food. The guidance emphasizes consistent dietary greens after the ducks reach two weeks.
A tip instructs how to maintain a stovetop range with paraffin wax and a hot mitten for a glossy finish. Scrub with hot soap, dry, apply paraffin, rub in with a mitten, then dust with powdered blacking for a durable shine. Repeat occasionally, using old underwear if no mitten is available.
Vinegar serves as an inexpensive cleaner beyond cooking. It can remove shoe polish, specks from glass and woodwork, and acts as a skin tonic after washing. Heat vinegar to boil, dip a paintbrush, then wash with soap. It softens brushes and cleans walls and smoke stains, applied with a flannel and rinsed in clear water.
A recipe for oatmeal bread describes mixing two cupfuls oats with salt molasses and shortening, pouring boiling water over the mixture and letting it stand to warm. Dissolve one half yeast cake in water then add two quarts flour and optional add-ins to make a heartier luncheon bread.
A preserved recipe fragment describes cooking two tablespoons butter with two tablespoons flour for three minutes, adding half a cup barley, cooking two minutes, then stirring in two cups boiling water and milk. Simmer an hour, rub through a sieve, add three cups veal stock, season, thicken with cornstarch, bring to boil, strain and serve with imperial attrisha.
A recipe instructs to simmer chicken until tender, cool and skin and debone. Layer in cups with butter, ham, salt and pepper, cover with ground crackers, add chicken liquor and heavy cream, bake until brown, and garnish with radishes.
A recipe instructs to hollow large tomatoes and mix the centers with celery onion almonds and salt. Fill the shells with the mixture, top with mayonnaise, and serve on fresh lettuce leaves immediately.
Instructions describe preparing beefsteak with a bread crumb onion dressing and a binding egg mixture. Fry browned butter, place dressing atop the steak, add parsley if available, and serve promptly.
Steamed Graham Loaf combines two cups graham flour one cup flour and one half cup molasses plus one teaspoon soda with nourishing milk to adjust. Steam for hours or more, yielding a dense sweet loaf.
The Colorado Experiment Station offers methods to deter flies from livestock. It cites coal tar dips for animals, diluted sprays, and pine tar as protective. A DIY mixture using synthetic turpentine, neat foot oil, and petroleum is suggested, as is a tar and carbide blend. Emphasis is placed on preventing manure accumulation to reduce breeding.
Feed lot profitability hinges on cattle with strong frames. Look for a wide back, large heart girth, and ample room for vital organs to endure feeding pens. A wide head, short legs, heavy hindquarters, arched ribs, and thick soft skin with a heavy coat signal good feeding traits.
The article discusses how wool and mutton prices influence flock size, noting farmers shrink flocks when prices fall and expand when prices rise. It suggests that purebred flocks are smaller, workload, equipment needs, and ram to ewe ratios affect flock planning, and stresses keeping flocks healthy over sheer size.
Guidance on training young horses emphasizes teaching one task thoroughly before introducing another. It cautions against rushing, noting the gradual build in power and speed, and stresses disciplined progression in training plans.
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