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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1914
Page
2
Agricultural notes emphasize clean dairying and good feed. Topics cover sheep, poultry, chicks, calves, horses, silage, and hay management, with guidance on housing, ventilation, nesting, fencing, and pasture care. Emphasis on practical husbandry to improve milk, meat, and profits.
Veterinary notes describe infectious sore eyes in cattle rising in summer, spread within herds, with tears, light sensitivity, eyelid swelling, pus, and a white speck on the eyeball leading to temporary blindness. Treatment is inexpensive. confine animals to darkened quarters and use zinc borate eye drops and laxatives to prevent spread.
The flock owner who breeds ewes to lamb in late winter and spring should provide well lit, dry and ventilated sheep barns with ample space and partitions. Maintain on hand enough feed rooms and a light feeder at each pen, and offer regular grain along with good roughage such as clover or alfalfa to sustain ewes and nourishing newborn lambs.
The sheep farm is notable for its weed absence, the condition of the fences, and the neat appearance. Sheep improve soil fertility, offer two income sources from wool and mutton, and are tied to efficient farming systems. More farmers should raise them.
Prof J G Halpin of the Wisconsin Agricultural College advises culling the poultry flock in summer to exploit firmer prices. Remove hens over two or three years old, small hens, misshapen birds, overfat layers, and poor layers. After the cull, mark the remaining hens to distinguish them for future handling.
Brooding is the vital early life stage from hatch to feathering. Natural brooding relies on a hen and coop, while artificial brooders use heated hovers and nurseries. Proper temperature and cleanliness determine chick health, with 90 degrees first week then easing to 80. Large colonies use coal oil stoves or fireless brooders for efficiency.
A farmer explains that fattening poultry need not differ from standard care. With liberty and access to cracked corn, green food, grit, and a three to one mash of cornmeal, wheat bran, and beef scraps, birds fatten rapidly. If appetite wanes, return to range until they eat well again.
Provide ample roosting places for growing young stock and beware crowding. Nothing invites colds like overheating in crowded quarters, so ensure good ventilation and space to reduce disease risk.
A simple self feeder for fowls can be made from barnyard materials. Feed is loaded from the back and only a measured amount drops into the trough to minimize waste while keeping a steady supply. The pictured device stands about two feet high.
James G. Halpin of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture warns overcrowded ground coops harm young chickens. He urges early use of high flat perches, two by fours edged, with proper ventilation. If mixing with older birds, use a screen until chicks are strong enough to roost.
A reader from Snyder Oklahoma describes a mite control scheme using framed roosts on legs placed in tin cans with coal oil to keep mites away from hens. The next box sits on four legs in cans of coal oil, avoiding contact with walls, an approach aimed at sitting hens and noted as helpful but not a complete solution.
A fragment notes hens avoiding mites by frequent scalding and dusting near their quarters. It mentions ashes on doors and hens taking dust baths in the roosting area as a protective habit.
A home remedy suggests adding grains of permanganate of potash to a couple of quarts of water to kill disease germs. The water will redden as a sign of solution. It is claimed to be suitable for soup or cool drinks and to destroy slime and green scum on the bottom of drinking vessels.
A notice warns caretakers to keep the old hen and her brood away from older fowls in the poultry yard and confined to a clean, barren plot of earth away from the main coop.
Read guidance warns against using cornmeal as a steady diet for chicks. It can aid growth when used sparingly but causes overheating and constipation if fed too often.
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