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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1914
Page
7
Dairy guidance on shaping a calm, persistent milker through early management. Emphasizes delaying calving, careful handling of the udder, and keeping the calf with the cow to prevent stress and kicking. Describes Danish method aspects and aims to produce gentle cows by gradual training.
A dairy article describes a simple cream skimming device using a universal separa tor made for kitchen use. The tool consists of a tube with a bottom valve controlled by a wire linkage. When inserted into a milk bottle the valve opens and allows cream to flow into a collection area.
The article discusses pasture as main feed in spring and early summer but warns against relying on it alone. It notes cows may meet needs for a few weeks, but pasture quality declines as drought sets in. To maintain condition and milk, cows should receive green forage or silage as a supplemental feed.
The text warns buyers to choose a cutter with adequate capacity to avoid frequent stoppages. It notes many buy too small a machine, causing slow quenching and hindering the continuous work of the workforce.
Advices for poultry farmers on letting fowls roam during favorable weather, stressing healthy development from exercise and natural brooding. Highlights range benefits, proper feeding, water, housing design, and culling to improve profits. Includes tips on green feed, charcoal aids, milk, and drainage. Encourage marketing and uniform equipment.
Miller text details methods for raising and fattening White Holland turkeys for market. It covers brood care, feeding schedules from hatching to eight months, diet changes, coop placement, and vermin control, with an emphasis on mothering by turkey hens, daily yard foraging, and optimal weights for toms and hens.
A Persian insect powder is described as a remedy for lice on hens. The treatment involves applying the powder over the fowls and their nest to eradicate the pest and guard the poultry.
The Cayuga is claimed as the only duck breed that can lay claim to being strictly American though it remains unpopular with poultrymen. It is the smallest market duck, matures early, and yields fine meat, but black pin feathers reduce its appeal. Objections also affect Rouen and Aurentury white ducks, which lack advantages over Pekin.
The note urges poultry keepers to prepare ahead as summer ends and winter nears. It stresses starting now to leverage favorable conditions so the poultry house is ready when winter arrives, preventing unprepared losses.
A fragment describes ground conditions as crucial for hens to pat and feed, noting green, bony ground minimizes spotting opportunities and is considered a top feed condition for a weapon in the year.
In farm breeding guidance by J L Torme, the ideal beef animal is a steer with a large girth, straight strong back, broad rib, and wide head indicating good feeder capacity. Emphasis on head, neck, shoulders, rump, and coupling guides selection for heavy, sustained gains and high prime beef yield.
You hatch chicks by the hundred and should use a reliable incubator kept in good condition. Avoid cheap units, ensure the machine runs a full day, and rely on fresh eggs from trusted neighbors to ensure vitality. Use proper cleaning, ventilation, and careful packing to prevent chilling and transit damage.
A farmer family chase describes making a long-handled net from a barrel hoop and a webbed net fashioned from an old hammock to capture a chicken. The text outlines an improvised method to trap the fowl around the yard and garden.
A historical snippet describes a chicken catching trick using a net buried two feet deep. Lay the net flat, place corn on top, let the bird approach, then lift and tilt the net to trap the fowl. Experts may trap the net down over the bird to secure it.
A report explains milk and milk byproducts as valuable additions to poultry feed. Adding a gill of rumen meal to a pint of milk enhances nutrition when mixed with ground grain, nearly doubling efficiency versus grain alone. Proper dairy byproducts support laying hens, improve profits, and reduce waste compared to feeding to pigs.
In Trenton New Jersey two young women Miss May Sullivan and Miss Neilie O'Brien escaped an assault by Victor D E Cloedt who attacked them while he escorted them home. The incident occurred near Witburthe while the man served as feeder of the Delaware and Raritan canal.
A Philadelphia Ledger reader describes using a Greena cooker as a washing station. She fits a large can into a barrel, covers it with a cushion, fills the space with insulating material, fills the can with boiling water and soap powder, then soaks clothes overnight for thorough cleansing.
Apricot jam flavor enhanced by adding a tit and lemon Julee. Whip cream by heating two minutes then rapidly whisking. Bake beetroots in oven for richer flavor. Soak bacon before frying to stop excess fat. Leftover vinegar can harden alkales, better than ordinary wear dressing. Clean gold embroidery with a brush dipped in burned and pulverized rock alum. Dry saucepans by warming them before fire to prevent interior rusting.
Directions from the Boston Globe describe making grape wine by fermenting four quarts of grapes with three pounds of brown sugar in a jug, letting it sit until March, drawing off and bottling, then adding water and sugar for a second drawing. The process advises not crushing the grapes and aging the wine longer improves it.
A recipe describes combining coarse cracker crumbs milk and hot akilet butter with flaked salmon. The mixture is seasoned with pepper salt cayenne and dry mustard stirred into the salmon oil then heated through until thick and served. It notes suitability for hurried meals and hungry appetites.
A historic pandowdy recipe describes making an earthen pudding with a thick pie crust. It instructs slicing Mill of apples, sweetening with molasses and brown sugar, spicing with allspice, adding water and a pinch of salt, then baking under a crust until done and serving hot.
The recipe directs soaking two pounds of sweetbreads in lukewarm water for an hour, boiling in fresh water for another hour, draining, and cooling before baking in a hot oven. They are basted with the drippings from the sweetbreads until evenly browned, noted as a very nice and economical dish.
A vintage recipe fragment instructs mixing grape juice sugar lemon juice and orange juice chill fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and freeze to a mush. The brief guide mentions adding juice from citrus and whipping egg whites before freezing.
Fragmentary instructions describe washing in a tub and wringing clothes, mentioning placing the tub in a barrel and holding the savour room steady while wringing. The text is northern in tone and lacks complete context or names.
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