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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
2
Practical farm guidance covers soil enrichment with sweet clover and alfalfa, crop thinning, and feeding mixes. Emphasizes balanced rations, clean housing, pest avoidance, and careful veterinary attention. Highlights manure spreading, pasture management, and breeding practices to boost yields and animal welfare.
The Big Black pig breed draws attention for rapid growth and high meat yield. European and Canadian experts praise its fecundity and temper, noting successful crosses with Poland China, Duroc, and Berkshire. A prominent breeder and Mrs Marriner showcase its suitability for bacon production and mothering ability.
Agricultural guidance outlines summer poultry care focusing on ration adjustments for hens and growing chicks, with emphasis on infertile eggs, moult management, and proper housing. It covers feed composition, wet and dry mash practices, range access, water, green feed, and shelter, plus house sanitation to curb mites and lice and nest and egg handling for summer markets.
The article advises farmers to provide abundant range for chickens with access to green food and insects. It suggests rotating ground by plowing and cropping between seasons, or dividing large lots to freshen sections, to maintain sweet healthy conditions even if space is limited.
Keep Vesssia Clean. Use clean vessels for skim milk and wet out each time milk is given. Wooden troughs are unfit for milk in summer. Milk is an irritant in digestion, linked to ptomaine poisoning and fetal malady. Always set milk vessels in the shade.
Wisconsin Agriculture outlines a 24 by 8 foot poultry house designed to house about 60 hens. Features include south facing sunlight, 2x4 framing, hemlock boards, layered roofing, two hinged 9 by 12 inch windows, movable curtains for cold weather, roosts, drawers style nests, grit and oyster shell hoppers, and a cost of roughly sixty dollars for materials.
A brief note emphasizes poultry care, urging ample clean food and water. It highlights the need for a clean dry poultry house to maintain healthy birds and prevent disease. The message underscores hygiene and proper housing as core husbandry practices.
Cleaning the drinking pans for poultry is important to keep the birds healthy. The text emphasizes hygiene and proper care for fowls, including maintaining clean water containers.
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