Novelty Calf Harness Trains A Maine Girl’s Pet Heifer
In Greenwood Maine Miss Della M Noyes trains a little heifer calf to harness with reins and bit. She drives the calf driven to a small sled along country roads and uses the rig to gather sap in maple sugar orchards. The feat, noted as a pride of a young girl, shows what may be done with animals and mirrors the farming context of New England children.
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Maine
New England
Greenwood
Old Oxford County
Della M. Noyes
Della Noyes
Augustus Noyes
Keep the Sheep Tame and Healthy
The Farm and Home advice urges careful flock management to maximize lamb yield. Keep sheep calm through gates, provide exercise and nourishing food, and maintain close supervision after 20 weeks. Handle twins, separate unreconciled ewes, and feed oats roots potatoes and clover hay for milk. Measures share how one-third more lambs were produced with tame, watched flocks.
Pasturage of Sheep Limits by Land Quality and Rainfall
The number of sheep per acre depends on land quality and other livestock. British farmers often keep four sheep per acre when pasture is pure. In western US ranges two sheep per acre is typical on good land, three on poorer ranges, with rainfall under 15 inches. With rainfall over 30 inches, two to four sheep may be kept. Some farmers stock weedy pastures to eat weeds and brush.
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British Islands
United States
Great Ranges
Sheep Disease Erysipelas Treated By Ear Care Advised
A field note explains swelling of sheep ears due to erysipelas and prescribes washing with warm water and soap, then wrapping with soft cloth kept moist with hyposulfite of soda or zinc sulfate. Experts warn briars cause injuries leading to such trouble if neglected.
Calf meals eyed for milk substitute value in farming
The Pennsylvania Experiment Station warns farmers to slow use of calf meals sold as milk substitutes. They cost 76 to 100 dollars per ton and have not proven reliable as complete substitutes. Hay tea and home mixtures are discussed, with England's widespread use and varying results.
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Pennsylvania Experiment Station
Stewart
England
Pennsylvania Station
Agricultural Colleges of
False floor for pens in hog housing
False floors for hog pens are suggested to combine feeding and sleeping areas. When concrete floors exist, a two by four inch wooden false floor can be constructed to improve pen design and sanitation. This compact tip reflects practical farm construction guidance from period discussions.
Pen with false floor for sleeping area in cattle pens
The description shows a two section false floor for cattle pens to rest on cleats at the bottom, mitigating rheumatism from concrete floors. The design is used at Michigan Agricultural College and detailed in Farmers Bulletin No. 205.
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Michigan Agricultural College
Farmers’ Bulletin
Animals On The Farm Advice For Safe Gentle Handling
Practical farm guidance warns: feed bran mash to horses twice weekly, consider wool as profit from sheep, use light as a germicide in stables, avoid teasing animals, keep stables clean to prevent fumes, ensure strong restraints on bulls, observe adult bulls carefully as even gentle ones can be dangerous, and always treat bulls with caution.
The Feeder and the Animal Keeper’s Dedication
A reflection on feeders showing success comes not from quantity fed but from a keeper whose life centers on the animals. It emphasizes sacrificing comfort and convenience for animal welfare and consistent oversight of every aspect related to them.
Bad SCARE promotes Dr King's New Life Pink cure
An ad emphasizes a health tonic claimed to cure bowel and stomach ailments including pain headaches and biliousness. It also advertises Great Northern rail ticket sales for the Modern Woodmen of America biennial meeting in Milwaukee with one fare plus 50 cents round trip. Tickets valid for certain June dates with final return June 27.
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Dr. King
Woodmen of America and Auxiliary Societies
Milwaukee
Wis
Great Northern
St. Paul
Sioux City
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Endorsed For Sore Eyes And Sores
D L Gregory of Hope Texas says Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cures cuts burns boils fever sores and sore eyes quickly. Also notes Mrs Cotton’s private boarding house on Main Street offers twenty one meals for 4 50, calling it the best place in the city.
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O. K
D. L. Gregory
Hope
Tex
Main Street
For Sale and Rent Notices in Bottineau Area
On May 25 a black horse branded QJ left hind white half up to knee was seen with James H. Bacon in Bottineau. For sale: 160 acres mountainside land, Ntg NW 4 11 ml 83 ¢ SW 4 9 162 75, bargain price, inquire J N Griener Bottineau. For rent: 160 acres mountain land NHJg Sec 83 Twp 164 Age 75, inquire Bowen Bottineau.
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J. N. Griener
Bottineau
N. D
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Brlyer & CO
Court House
Geo. F. Lescault
Bottineau, N. Dak
J. A. Painter
R. Gleabon
Painter & Gleasor
Bottineau County
N. Dak
Peyton & Beery
First Mortgage Farm Loans
Fire Insurance Best Companies
North Dakota
Carlotte L. Miller
St. Pan
Mason's
Marchese Technica
Bottineau, North Dakota
Modern Woodmen OF America Convention
James H. Bacon
Bottineau, N. D
Bowen
Antecds Hotel
Sheldon
Gaar
A. Goorsonth
Stane
Aptitt
Sawyer’s
James Jackson
WM. Jackson
J.s.mackay & Company
Mnagle Bay
Star
Euniscot
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