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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
5
A column of poultry lore touches on advertising ethics with a humorous Jack Horner verse, debates thick eggshell theories, and details pigeon pox causes and care. It covers quarantine, treatment steps, nest renewal, and iodine application, plus notes on feathers, eggshells, and incubator paradoxes with local color and practical warnings.
The article explains dairy form as key to cow value, tied to milk production via anatomy. It outlines points of dairy cattle, from muzzle and neck to udder and mammary veins, and presents a scale of points for judging general appearance, head, neck, shoulders, back, hindquarters, and udder. It emphasizes learning dairy form to manage cows for milk yield.
In Illinois sheep farming dominates profit with Shropshires and a few Cot n wolds and Hampshires. A detailed barn layout shows pens, gates, grain troughs, and movable sections for lambing and milk production. Dairy notes emphasize blood, large stomachs, and Diploma's Brown Lassie as a model cow.
Poultrymen aim to market surplus old birds before heat slows egg production. Early breeders fetch prices while room and feed shift to pullets, preserving winter profits. Do not neglect water, disinfect vessels, or expose stock to storms. beware of thieves and wildcats, and watch the clerk mixing egg soda.
A Breeder Gazette style guide notes a farm mare can work after foaling if handled by a skilled man. Moderate hours, proper feeding with oats and bran aids milk and recovery. Do not overfeed or overheat. Do not force the foal to follow the mare during field work. keep the foal with others in cool, shaded boxes.
The piece discusses horse care during wet weather with advice on preventing scratches and on breaking and training foals, emphasizing cleanliness, dry bedding, and gradual handling. It then lists numerous real estate transfers across Caldwell, Nampa, Payette, and Emmett with buyer, seller, property details, and specified consideration amounts.
The piece explains true meas in wool, noting diameter should stay constant from root to tip. It ties fiber fineness to the sheep's condition, saying health changes cause a weak joint in the fiber that breaks with only a slight pull.
Report notes peanut hay yields range from about one to nearly three tons per acre as a byproduct of harvesting peanuts for market.
A farmer, H. B. Fullerton, argues that poultry and orchard work in perfect harmony. Poultry provides money and pest control, while orchard profits grow from the synergy as both crops support each other. The arrangement can favor the orchard as the main focus or remain secondary depending on preference.
The guidance advises shaping fencepost tops slantingly, preferably with an ax, to prevent standing rain. When cut with a saw the pitch must be greater, notably where spring and summer wood differ in hardness, to ensure drainage.
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