Ensilage Proves Best Fattening Feed for Sheep and Lambs
Michigan sheep grower Mr Reynolds writes to the Drovers Journal praising ensilage as the most economical succulent feed. He notes an acre of corn silage can yield about 15 tons and support around 15 sheep for a 200 day winter, with careful feeding to avoid overfeeding and sour troughs. He urges clean troughs and thorough rack sweeping before feeding fattening lambs.
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Michigan
Reynolds
The
Drovers’ Journal
Bolting Feed How to Make a Self-Feeder for Horses
A local tip describes building a simple self feeder for a horse to slow eating. Using inch boards, fit a trough-like hopper on the feed box with a slanted bottom to ensure grain dispenses in small portions only. This method aims to curb bolting by limiting intake rate.
Livestock Note and Horse Training Tips
A livestock note advises selecting best breeds Poland China Berkshire Duroc Jersey or Tamworth. It emphasizes sound halters for horses and individual feed boxes for weaned colts. It cautions that viciousness in horses often stems from training or association and notes riding as a pleasure sport waning. It also claims pork output rises with cattle age.
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Poland
China
Berkshire
Duroc Jersey
Tamworth
Increasing the Winter Visit by the Dairyman
The dairyman comments on seasonal milk flow during cold weather and predicts a variation in January and February yields. He argues a possible 60 percent rise in winter output over current levels, tempered by uncertainty and effort to maintain throughput.
Pig producers plan gradual annual market from two to twenty
A cautious approach outlines marketing two to twenty mature profile pigs yearly from a stable herd. The proposal stresses controlled growth and steady output to avoid market disruption.
Modern scarecrows fade as farmers adopt new defenses
The article notes that farmers now rely on barbed wire, shotguns, and poisons to protect crops and livestock from birds and predators. It mentions the decline of scarecrows in many areas and hints at employing electricity as part of new methods, reflecting growing wartime or agricultural vigilance.
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Portland
Scarecrow Saga From Farm to Theater and Town
A long reader of rural lore traces the scarecrow from practical farm aid to cultural icon. Crows, farmers, and city folk react as scarecrows become museum pieces, with legends of inventors and famous stage copies, culminating in a prairie portrait of a Hickory-tinged American institution.
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