Milk House Needsoutline for Dairy Farms
A Kansas Agricultural College expert outlines a sanitary milk house plan to ease hot weather dairy care. A 10 by 12 foot cement floored building with proper drainage should be near the dairy barn. Equipment includes a 30 by 20 inch refrigerating tank for four cans, a cooler, center, wash and separator, plus a windmill to pump well water through the tank for cooling. Overflow water feeds a trough for stock watering.
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B. Reed
The
Kansas Agricultural College
Are Your Cows Efficient
Farmers assess dairy efficiency using the Babcock tester and milk scales to measure feed versus milk yield. The test reveals cows that seem poor producers but may deliver high butterfat, while others eat more than their output. Cow testing helps optimize feed use and justify the Babcock tester and milk scale investment.
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Bata
Beat
The Dairy Note on Feeding and Milk Handling
Notes emphasize feeding regularity and proper maternity in dairy cows. The article warns poor cows that underperform despite low costs and stresses that grain and feed marketed through butter and cream channels fetch top prices regardless of broader grain markets.
Pigeon Rearing Best Practiced With Caution For Profit
The article advises cautious entry into pigeon raising, noting it is a specialty requiring training. It warns about sexing birds, proper mating, avoiding overcrowding, and ensuring ventilation and weather protection. Pigeons need daily water baths, clean housing, and careful care to prevent disease, recommending starting with a small flock and a year of experimentation before full commitment.
Good Reasons for Poultry on Farms
James C. Halyin urges farmers to keep poultry to supply fresh eggs and meat for home use especially for families with children. He notes the man’s role in clean, well-maintained coops, feeding, and caring for flocks, and argues poultry on general farms boosts egg production, insect control, and overall farm efficiency, with hens thriving when treated as productive assets.
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James C. Halyin
Wireonatn Poultry Association
Ege
Alwart
Pen the Hens to Get Eggs
An article by George H. Pellard argues for keeping hens confined from maturity to market rather than free range. Dry, ample feeding in small flocks yields higher, more reliable egg production and profit, with trap nesting as a questionable method for large flocks.
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George H. Pellard
GIVING OIL FOR INDIGESTION IN TURKEYS
A reader reports a remedy for turkey indigestion using linseed oil instead of purgatives. After administering a teaspoonful doses when birds appear dejected, turkeys recover by the next day, improving appetite and vigor. The note cautions green or immature corn as a common indigestion trigger.
Growth Spurts in Duckling Between Weeks Three and Four
Growth of duckling shows its most notable increase between weeks three and four, when its weight doubles. This rapid growth highlights early development and the species’ growth pattern during the first month.
Gas Cookery Without Oven in a Barnyard Kitchen
An improvised gas cooking method uses an iron plate on a barnyard table, a pot of potatoes covered by a deep inverted pan, and a tented setup to speed cooking. Apples, water, and sugar bake alongside, followed by spaghetti under a second pan then briefly under the gas flame for a rich brown finish.
Service for Afternoon Tea
An easy method for serving tea with a 9 48 cup on a matching plate. Place a folded tea napkin a spoon and a fork on the plate, then add sandwiches or cakes to be eaten daintily. Using a separate plate under the cup is useless as the saucer is the proper base.
Lemon Buns Recipe from a Historic Page
A historic baking recipe lists ingredients and steps for lemon buns. Ingredients include sugar butter milk currants flour egg yeast lemon rind and juice nutmeg salt and water. Instructions cover creaming, mixing, yeast activation, dough kneading rising cutting shaping baking and finishing with white glaze and sugar.
Choice of Vegetables for Dinner Menu
Selection of vegetables for dinner hinges on variety and contrast. Avoid similar pairs such as squash and sweet potatoes or parsnips with pumpkins. Do not use multiple items needing the same dressing like creamed cabbage with creamed carrot or cabbage with beet and spinach.
Virginia Watties Cornmeal Cakes Recipe
A home recipe instructs cooking cornmeal by combining a cupful with boiling water for 15 minutes, then stirring in milk flour baking powder salt eggs melted butter sugar and other ingredients before baking hot. It notes cornmeal griddle cakes follow the same method with slightly thinner batter.
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Virginia Watties
Cream Toast Recipe From a Stale Page
A recipe describes making a creamy toast sauce by boiling a rankized mixture, thickening, and rubbing with butter. It instructs to dip each toast slice in the sauce, arrange in a dish, pour over the sauce, then serve hot.
Chicken Pie Recipe Instructions
Cooking method outlines boiling two fat chickens until tender, then placing pieces in a pie dish. Make a gravy to cover the chicken, prepare mashed potatoes with cream and butter, spread over the top, and bake until golden.
Epgless Loaf Cake Recipe Card
Simple loaf cake recipe with sugar, shortening, milk, baking powder, flour, nutmeg, lemon extract, and oil. Mix, bake in a medium oven for a basic dessert.
Characteristics Of A Mule In Breeding And Market Demand
Mule breeders differ on whether mule traits come more from the jack or the mare. Most agree the jack sets the external form while the mare governs endurance and vigor, with the mare selection crucial for a good male mule. Larger farm mares bred to sizable jacks produce the type buyers seek, as big mules replace smaller ones in the market demand due to heavier farm machinery.
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Howe
Alway
South
Plan for Weaning the Pigs
A practical guide describes early weaning of pigs. It advises separating sows from piglets after a shared day, restricting sow feed to induce drying, then moving piglets to a pasture with a nutritious ration and milk. Sows regain condition on short pasture before a full ration for breeding or market.
Many Stallions in Indiana Registered in State Transfers
Over five hundred registered Percheron stallions were moved to Indiana owners per the Percheron Society of America. The rise follows new stallion registration rules requiring public breeding disclosure. Farmers have bred to horses of presumed purebred lineage, with Inola leading in numbers with 1,207 purchases.
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Indiana
Percheron Society of America
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