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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
2
Practical guidance for a mixed farm emphasizing feeding, housing, and management. Topics cover poultry care from brooding to laying, grain quality, seed selection, pasture, hogs, horses, cattle, fruit trees, manure distribution, and general barn hygiene. Includes cautions on moldy grain and stressed need for water, exercise, and clean equipment.
Advice on keeping a family cow including breed choices like Guernsey or Ayrshire, benefits of milk quality, and necessity of tuberculosis testing. Details on feeding regimes with hay, oats, bran, molasses, water needs, and daily rations, plus lactation timing and rest period to sustain milk production.
A Popular Mechanics read describes a door jamb locking device for milk bottles aimed at stopping doorstep theft. The mechanism locks the bottle to the door frame, releasing only when the resident opens the door, deterring casual pilfering by neighbors and passersby.
Open air poultry houses gain support for efficiency and health. Cornell expert Prof James E. Rie notes cloth and glass fronts balance air quality and warmth, with cloth windows yielding drier, purer air and strong hens. He argues pure air trumps warmth when choices exist, urging combined cloth and glass fronts.
Practical poultry guidance for farmers covering breed choice, laying lifespan, hatchery methods, housing, feeding, and labor efficiency. Emphasizes single-breed focus, healthy housing, greens, water, lime, and a colony and hopper feeding system to boost egg production and profitability.
A historic poultry guide advises painting the henhouse interior and roosts to kill mites, then venting the house with sulfur burn. It recommends driving birds outdoors after treatment, burning contaminated litter, and repeating a week later. Incubators require careful operation and patient care. Chicks should roost outside brooders and be kept on clean litter. avoid dust. Feedings are delayed for 24 to 48 hours after hatch with tepid water available to chicks.
Breeders seek to keep turkeys near home with confinement and weather protection. April hatched pullets can lay by late fall and early winter, maximizing returns as the best winter layers. Batch as many as possible for poultry profits.
Care for brooder chicks outlines heating needs for chicks, compares natural hen warmth with artificial brooders, and classifies indoor and outdoor brooding devices. It recommends indoor lamp heated brooders for small keepers and warns against fireless types for amateurs due to heat variability and safety concerns.
A brief note advises keeping very young ducklings dry and avoiding splashy water. It describes a dry feeding arrangement using a galvanized wire cloth cage on a wooden frame placed on the ground to control splashing and aid drainage in gravelly or sandy soils.
A two foot deep water fountain for ducklings sits over the wire screen with small stones and a frame, keeping the fountain stable and dry. The design provides good drainage for spilled water and prevents ducks from standing in mud pools on the screen.
In France they rear a turkey hen to incubate eggs for chickens. A box is prepared for the hen to stand upright with hay near the top. The hen is fed grain and eggs, then moved daily. After four days she is said to be ready to adopt the nest and hatchlings.
Proposes locating all roosts back near the north wall of the bullring to shield fowls from drafts from open front windows. The plan emphasizes stable shelter and reduced wind exposure for poultry housed within the arena area.
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