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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
6
The article argues that successful dairymen achieve progress through intelligent forethought and understanding the cow. It stresses location climate and judgment as essential factors and warns that ignorance hinders dairy success. It cites the saying the first step of knowledge is to know that we are ignorant and urges mind and practice to guide advancement.
Guidance on hygienic milking practices to ensure clean milk. Emphasizes clean barns and ventilation, manure-free yards, brushing cows before milking, using damp cloths to remove dust, keeping hands dry, and milking promptly with cooled cream separation after milking.
A historic guide describes making effective fly repellents from common ingredients. It recommends mixing lard and tar with crude carbene to form a creamy prep applied to cow backs with a cloth or spray pump, yielding several days of protection. The recipe notes low cost and USDA endorsement.
A discussion on selecting the correct bull for dairy stock emphasizes the importance of breed accuracy over mere numbers. Emphasizes long term herd quality and production potential when choosing sires.
An article outlines building a curtain front poultry house with a central platform car system for feeding, cleaning, and ventilation. It details frame dimensions, roosts, nest placement, doors, curtains, and a central track for moving equipment, promoting healthier birds and easier maintenance.
A farmer advises providing poultry with a bulky nutritious grain mix to balance their feed. He notes fowls thrive on a varied ration, including vegetables, roots, and protein, promoting healthy eggs and birds.
A fragmentary notice warns against using diseased fowl in breeding pens. It mentions contamination from infected birds and concerns about frozen comba and related health risks.
The article prescribes liberal sulphur dusting after the hen has laid or set eggs to control mites and lice. Apply a sulphur dusting to nest, straw, and hens a week to ten days after clutch, then dust hatchlings once or twice. A cupful suffices for both applications.
Fowls deprived of shade in heat suffer sunstroke and diarrhea from overheating. Provide shade with vines, tall plants, or slatted crates for Castor beans, branches, or roof coverings. Ensure ventilation and outlets away from direct sun to improve health and vigor.
Geese need ample green food from growing pastures and water pools in summer. At over four weeks old they require no feeding if haying is done. A daily moistened meat feed speeds growth, but in areas with fresh herbage they can feed themselves with water available for swimming.
Instructions describe making gooseberry jam with seven pounds of berries and sugar, plus bottling in prepared bottles. Also outlines Gooseberries in Mattrin batter, Gooseberry Souffle, and Gooseberry Jelly with ingredients, steps, and cooking times. Includes methods for boiling, bottling, steaming, and sugar ratios for various gooseberry preparations.
Pears baked without dividing, filled centers with brown sugar and water, bake until tender. Serve with sweet cream. Alternate method uses molasses or sugar, paring optional. Bake two hours in a covered dish with minimal water.
The article notes the shift from heavy iron kettles to light enamelware for soup prep. It praises enamel kettles for cleanliness and sanitation with hot soda and rinsing, and mentions enamelware colanders as ideal for straining soup.
Readable text describes a dessert and plum dish. Rice is cooked until tender and dry, salted halfway. Plums are prepared with sugar, set in a mold, turned out to serve with rich stewed plums and cream. Stones removed, kernels simmered in syrup ten minutes, then folded with fruit.
Instructions describe pruning excess to form one built pint pour through colander add four tablespoons sugar and stir in four beaten egg whites turn into baking dish dust with powdered sugar and bake ten minutes at moderate heat.
A vintage note outlines lemon cookies with butter and sugar creamed together, then eggs, lemon juice, and enough flour to form dough. Roll thin, cut shapes, and bake to finish, reflecting a practical home baking guide.
A note suggests using several tablespoons of peanut butter creamed with shortening to add a new and delicious flavor to cookies or any dark cake.
C H Patridge of Valley county Nebraska describes a handmade live pork wagon built from an old buggy and two 1 by 6 inch boards six feet long. He notes strong neighbor demand for the device and its convenience for moving hogs.
The article details a wagon bed trap system using 2 by 2s and Sinch strips for the top and front, rough lumber end supports to bear heavy hogs, and two heavy straps and catches to secure the gate. It explains loading technique, ground clearance, and turning clearance with a drop axle in the rear, claiming superiority for hauling Duroc hogs.
The article urges proactive hog care with clean quarters clean water and wholesome food. It stresses frequent disinfection, fresh water, and sanitation especially in warm weather to prevent hog cholera. It warns against keeping hogs in filth and promotes prevention over cure with proper treatment and clean troughs and barrels.
During severe storms cattle killed by lightning. advised method uses ground fence wire No 9 to create a grounding path. Stake down the wire across fence strands and extend three feet into soil with a small above ground projection to divert strikes.
The notes advise indoor housing for young pigs during rain, selecting best ewe lambs, early grain feeding at two weeks, and maintaining cleanliness to prevent hog cholera. It mentions concrete hog wallows, pasture ideas with shade and water, and using pure bred draft mares for intelligent farm management and exercise for pregnant mares.
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