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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
3
Instructions on gently handling a dairy heifer to develop a calm udder, teaching her to stand for milking, and preventing kicking through early, kind, and careful training. Emphasizes gradual work, avoiding punishment, and building trust to ensure a quiet cow after calving.
After churning butter, rinse with warm water to remove milk and whey, then wash with very hot water. Avoid soap powders inside the churn. dairy washing powder with water is acceptable. A small amount of lime in water helps keep odor free. Clean equipment prevents taints in butter.
An Oregon Agricultural College plan advises locating a silo near the enlmate to simplify feeding. Indoors is discouraged due to room and odor issues, while the silo should be easily refilled without moving the facility. The article notes twelve cows require about a quarter ton of forage daily, with forty pounds per cow per day.
Builders of pit dhon should be care ful about the cement plastering. Make the plaster at one part Kood wand and 2% parts Vortland cement in two Poalk, each about three-quarters of ap Inch tick. Let the first wet slightly before putting on the second. Keep wet for a week. If the earth walls are dry to plaster on, wet them before plastering. Keep the plaster dhaded for several ayn.
A guide to locating and using a combined hatching and brooding coop. It covers yarding, crop rotation, and advantages of cultivating soil under poultry, plus a detailed design for a four-hen coop with sections, doors, and ventilation rules. It notes movable, ratproof features and cost-saving feed considerations on Missouri farms.
Practical notes urge green feed for laying hens and silage as a strong greenfeed source, especially with legumes. An 1848 experiment tested eight incubator trays cooling at five, ten, fifteen, and twenty minute periods, finding five to fifteen minutes best. prolonged cooling harmed results. Also notes on building a simple single pitch roof for poultry houses improves sun exposure and rainwater runoff.
The method describes creating shallow boxes with drainage holes to sprout greens. Vats are hawked for four hours and sprouts are spread in the boxes. Night and morning sprinkling, plus feeding when sprouts reach two or three inches, yields ten towels worth of greens.
Keep hens clean nests and frequent egg gathering to suit weather. Market clean eggs only, 24 to 26 ounces a dozen, avoid washing, store cool, and sell within a week. Separate broods, limit roosters, prevent odor contamination, and provide wholesome feed and pure water. Do not expose eggs to sun heat or dust or vermin.
Instructions urge thorough cleaning of chicken coop including roosts and walls with a disinfectant to prevent fire. If unavailable, clean the coop and kerosene the roonte wall with a rag on a stick and take similar precautions with the nests.
Care should be taken to avoid heat producing foods while maintaining breeding animals in vigorous form. A ration of clean wholesome blood bone and muscle forming foods is recommended.
Miners and farmers report profitable returns from guineas as the birds endure rain and cold easily. They are noted for their easy care and provide a viable fowl meat option for households and local markets.
A fragmented guide describes creaming butter with sugar and eggs, folding in sifted flour and baking powder, and beating whites separately for cake texture. It also covers boiling dried green peas with beef, adding soda to water, simmering until tender, and finishing with salt pepper and butter.
Recipe excerpt describes cutting scraped salinity into inch pieces, soaking in vinegar or lemon juice, then boiling in salted water until soft. Sauce made from the liquor with milk, butter and flour, seasoned with salt pepper and lemon juice. Dish assembled in a fireproof shell or puff paste case and browned.
A Victorian style recipe describes mixing three ounces of butter into half a pound of wholemeal breadcrumbs with parsley, onion, herbs, nutmeg, and lemon peel. Bind with egg and milk, shape into balls, fry in hot fat, and serve with white sauce, brown sauce, and red currant jelly.
A recipe from Wowan's Home Companion details making a green lemon drink. It instructs boiling four eupfuss of water with two cupfuls of sugar, cooling, adding lemon juice, coloring, freezing, and serving with creme de menthe and chopped nuts in equal portions.
A rustic recipe notes melting butter then adding flour and seasonings with milk or stock to boil for five minutes. It mentions using lard or kerosene with starch while hot to prevent sticking to clothes, a curious old tip.
The renewed interest in sheep farming draws farmers from cattle to small capital ventures. Regions with bluegrass offer natural pasturage, reducing winter feeds and costs. In Missouri Illinois Kentucky Indiana and Ohio sheep thrive where grazing is available, cutting feeding needs and easing farm labor as sheep self sustain through spring and fall.
An experiment at the Nebraska experiment station fed 28 lambs for 40 days using a self feeder. They averaged 0.5 pounds gain daily with total gain costing 7.44 dollars per head. Net profit per lamb was 1.45 dollars. Lambs were fed cracked peas, prairie hay, corn, and oil meal with corn rising to about two pounds daily. Hay intake averaged 0.5 pound per lamb daily. Prices used: corn 69 cents per bushel, oil meal 40 dollars a ton, prairie hay 9 dollars a ton.
Discussion on profitability in livestock farming emphasizes manure management and efficient use of silage and roughage. It argues that saving all manure boosts profit, and that feeding practices including weeds and seeds can impact outcomes, noting that roughage reduces waste and supports cheaper pork production.
Fragmented OCR text mentions prosperity on a farm, livestock and wool notes, and a few garbled phrases about care and lambs. The readable terms suggest an agricultural notice or local interest item about farming improvements and livestock quality.
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