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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1914
Page
2
Poultry farming experts urge sanitation and soil management to prevent disease. Good air and sun in houses, clean surroundings, and rotating crops protect flocks. Ground condition determines success, with poor soil fostering disease and lower yields.
Long list of household farming tips covers feeding fattening cycles for chickens pigs and calves. Includes brood care milk feeding timing, calf nursing, breed selection, shelter and air, pest control, hay quality, and disease prevention with emphasis on practical daily management and profitability.
An agricultural note discusses dehorning calves to reduce aggression in bulls. A farmer favors keeping horns on some bulls until they mature, then deborn, claiming it yields a calmer disposition and less damage potential. Deborning before horns form is also mentioned.
The article explains that bacteria cause souring of milk in warm weather. It advises washing the udder, milker’s hands, and pail. cleaning. using a cover. straining milk through cheesecloth. and cooling immediately to keep milk sweet longer.
Farmers are advised to raise good heifer calves to capitalize on strong demand and high prices for well bred stock. The piece notes that market demand exceeds supply for both grade and pure bred calves and explains how raising calves can offset feed costs while yielding a profitable future price at two years.
Advice on dairy cow purchasing favors cows around four years old. At that age a cow’s true milk production ability is established, with peak yields developing in the subsequent years. Four-year-olds are more reliable than younger stock for long term dairy performance.
The text explains that cows decline milk yield when pastures are short or dry in late summer and early fall. It notes this frequent error among dairymen is insufficient feed, making recovery of milk production difficult even with later feeding.
A dry farming guide urges deep cultivation and surface mulch to retain moisture. It emphasizes well rotted manure, deep plowing, disk harrowing, and continuous cultivation to warm soil, followed by dust mulch to suppress weeds and improve yields.
By PK BLINN Colorado Experiment Station notes a very limited supply of Grimm s alfalfa seed due to scarce genuine stock from Minnesota, unreliable seed growing methods, high seed prices, costly threshing, and strong hay tests driving demand. The station urges more growers to produce improved alfalfa seed as funds allow.
Mulches help retain soil moisture and suppress weeds. Lawn mowings make a good mulch when allowed to dry before use. If applied while too fresh they rot quickly and require replacement. A well dried mulch resists rot and reduces hoe work by shading and allowing rain while keeping light out.
The article explains pig nutrition, contrasting growing and mature breeding pigs. It advises using rough feed plus concentrated feeds, and warns against overreliance on forage. It notes legume crops like alfalfa and clover, carbonaceous and protein feeds, and suggests finishing with corn in the final months. It emphasizes pasture plus protein feeds when needed and finishing on corn last.
Dr Alexander of the Wisconsin experiment station urges home production of purebred stallions to replace grade and mixed horses. He emphasizes sound, purebred mares and foals, proper feeding, and regular stallion work. Community associations can promote horse breeding, with county fairs offering prizes for purebred stallions, mares, and colts.
A reader warning notes that sudden feed changes in lamb fattening cause digestive issues and deaths. Gradual transition from green pasture to alfalfa corn barley and other feeds is essential to prevent disease and losses in lambs, horses, and sheep.
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