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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
2
A historical note suggests using calf stanchions to separate calves at common troughs. The plan allows adjustable feeding, reduces competition and injuries, and can be cost effective. It cites prior incidents where calves injured others and emphasizes orderly, individual feeding to improve outcomes.
The article outlines keeping calves in clean well lit ventilated stations with ample space. Each calf should have a separate pen or stanchion three by five by three feet, suitable for four to six months old. Benefits include preventing cross-sucking and easier individual attention and treatment for scours.
Professor W L Kent of Oregon Agricultural College outlines dairy farming benefits in the Oregon Dairyman student magazine. He cites improved soil productivity, steady cash income, better labor distribution on farms, and supplying a consistently high grade market product.
Instructions describe wrapping a wet cloth around an open milk can to keep milk cool when ice or water is scarce. The cloth absorbs sun heat, evaporates moisture to lower temperature, and protects the milk while remaining wet, though effectiveness drops as the cloth dries.
A miscellany of farm guidance covering pig and poultry feeding, silage, water needs, breeding, and manure. Advises on calf and heifer care, horse handling, crop fertility, and humane fowl treatment, with emphasis on fertility maintenance and profitable farming practices.
A Farm Journal style note outlines a practical method for growing stock using food test wires. It refers to an outdoor fending device and a bopper that can be built in various sizes to keep pests away and protect meat stocks. The piece emphasizes a simple, comprehensible design for feeding and preserving poultry.
Poultryman Py Ck Brown states North Gee Corn is the most fed grain in the United States for chickens and laying hens. A balanced ration should include 30 to 35 percent corn, which is valuable though fowls may reject thick bulls. Soaking or sprouting can improve palatability. Barley is an excellent feed, especially when cracked for young chicks. Buckwheat and millet add value in moderate amounts to a whole grain mix.
The article explains that two thirds of bad eggs start spoilage at the farm and that improper storage in grocers and butchers worsens losses. It advocates careful handling by producers, separating hens and roosters, gathering eggs several times daily, storing in cool dark places, and marketing within a few days. It notes eggs can be stored cold and remain wholesome if properly managed. It stresses freshness, uniformity, and careful candle icing for fancy wares. It describes free range farming with grass, insects, and daily feed plus ample water and grit.
A 600d comfortable nest may not induce laying if the hen is not laying but when it is laying it should deposit eggs in a nest where they can be found.
A guide praising Pekin ducks for size and market value notes plumage influenced by feed, compares to Indian Runner ducks for eggs and feeding. It covers hatching timing, incubation temperatures, brooder setup, ventilation, need for fresh air, litter choice, and feeding precautions for young ducks and goslings, plus cautions on housing and grain types.
Gapes is a decreeless term for a poultry disease affecting Dirda fowls and especially 1 to 4 week old chicks caused by the gape worm in the windpipe. Symptoms include gaping sneezing coughing mucus discharge and drooping wings with worms visible in dead birds. Contamination spreads via runs feed and water. Remedies include isolating infected birds treating drinking water with potassium permanganate burning carcasses and moving chicks to clean ground. Ground cultivation can eradicate worms in three years. Individual cases may be treated by boxed confinement with lime to loosen the worm by sneezing it out or by stripping a feather and introducing turpentine into the windpipe with care to avoid injury. Two horsehair method and gape worm extractors are offered as options.
Instructions emphasize a round fat market carcass and healthy ducks. Emphasize clean bedding and housing, with ducks not taught to lay in nest boxes and preferring droppings anywhere, especially at night. Ducks fatten quickly but overfattening risks death. maintain separate double yards and rotate to a green crop to disinfect and sustain flocks.
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