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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
2
Notes cover prune grapevines improve poultry and dairy profits. Emphasizes soil terms, calf care, hog and horse management, free range chicks, and pasture use. Advises on feed, milking practices, fruit thinning, crop timing, and disease control in orchards.
Instructional piece on raising a dairy calf from birth to maturity. Emphasizes costs, breeding influence, and balanced feeding. Recommends starter feed, skim milk transition, hay or alfalfa, silage as replacement for one hay feed, and gradual grain enrichment to about two pounds daily. Cautions against overfeeding and fattening before eighteen months.
Nebraska Partner outlines a device to stop cows from self-sucking using a wood pole and chain, adjusted to cow size, with a strap idea to improve the setup. It also notes churn temperature guidance, recommending 60 to 68 degrees for best butter grain and flavor given favorable conditions.
A cryptic note compares governance to milk and cream, asserting that equal measures yield different results and that the churn decides the outcome. The passage frames Tua police in whimsical terms, emphasizing final authority and measurement as determinants.
A February fragment discusses breeding habits of ducks and geese. Ducks lay earlier and yield a full crop in about seven months, hens brood slowly, and drakes mate with several partners. Geese require about three years to show fertility, can breed long term, and ducks tolerate limited green food with grazing.
A reader notes distinguishing features between a duck and a goose including tail curl, weight differences, and temper. The piece discusses breeding season behavior and states that geese are not profitable to hatch and rear artificially, while incubators and brooders have transformed the duck business. geese require different housing than yarded ducks.
Advice on egg handling for market including clean dry nest materials, daily collection before noon or at noon and dusk, and twice daily during broodiness. Do not mix eggs found in nests with market eggs, discard dirty or unsuitable eggs, avoid washing, keep eggs dry and protect from moisture, reserve small eggs for home, pack best eggs separately.
A comic dialogue shows a novelist and neighbor debating why copper wired chicks starve. The farmer asserts he does not feed them, while the neighbor asks what they are fed. The novelist finally guesses the old hen has milk for ten young, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding in farming knowledge.
An old note states that improper handling and storage of eggs intended for hatching leads to frequent spoilage. It warns against keeping eggs in damp or fluctuating temperatures and stresses keeping them cool and clean prior to incubation.
Feeding chickens in one pot contaminates soil and spreads disease. Frequent changes of feeding places and lime adjustments, using oyster shells, are advised to maintain poultry health and prevent disease spread.
Advice on poultry care urges separating an old hen from broods, ensuring laying, and supplying grit and constant green feed. It recommends a steady quart of grit per fifty fowls three times weekly and suggests planting lettuce beets and radishes in the yard for fresh greens as plants grow.
Advice warns farmers to manage chicks by season and future planning. Early chicks fetch higher prices, but long-range strategy is needed for winter profits. Keep poultry houses clean and ventilated to prevent roosting in trees and exposure to freezing weather.
Instructions for making a dry mash for laying hens using cornmeal wheat bran and ground grains with optional alfalfa or clover and beef scrap bone meal. Recommend proportions feeding in a hopper or shallow box with a wire cover to prevent waste and maintain egg yield guidance.
After reviewing your male birds, buy fond male birds of the same breed with desired points if you see no predominating traits. If your flock is inbred, purchase males from another flock. For show birds, closer inbreeding is favored. for utility birds, less so. Breeding success depends on study and careful mating selection.
Breeding stock quality hinges on vigor to ensure strong hens and robust offspring. Choose fowls noted for vitality as they tend to be good producers and durable layer birds. Maintain health through proper nutrition and clean housing to sustain vigor.
The article warns against watering skim milk fed to hogs, noting digestive troubles from excessive dilution. It recommends mixing about one third water, diluting feed to reduce stomach load, and using corrective additives like charcoal. Alfalfa, cured but not dry, is advised with salt to boost digestibility and production, especially on a 20 cow dairy where alfalfa feeding increases hog output.
A Missouri writer in Farm Progress extols mules as a superior farm asset. Mules fetch rising prices toward spring planting and sell well from age two to eight or ten. Sucking mules are in high demand and the sturdy beasts outlast horses, with weight and teeth noted as factors in lasting work output.
The text states silage can be produced with safe profit and fed to sheep and cattle. It notes proper curing and use of well matured core. It claims no other farm animal matches its value for feed, and warns to start carefully if never used before.
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