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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1896
Page
8
Old guidance emphasizes cleaning and structure for fowl health. It advises burning old nests, preserving leaves for winter scratch pens, avoiding crowded roosts, using dusting places, raising houses on a mound, avoiding filth, storing gravel and road dust, and maintaining clean drinking water to prevent disease. It also notes the importance of vigilant observation by a coop keeper.
An analysis from Poultry Keeper explains green foods boost laying hens by supplying minerals, nitrogen, and renewal of body elements. It notes clover hay yields lime, greens supplement grain needs, and salt allowances around one ounce daily for 100 hens after a period of acclimation.
The article warns against overfeeding fattening hens or underfeeding weak layers. It stresses digestible rations, varied foods including corn at night, and lime sources such as ground bone and crushed shells. It advises cautious use of condiments and salt, to avoid egg-eating and salt toxicity.
Correspondent profiles Charles L. Mallory a five mile farmer keeping fifteen cows at Maple View Farm. He uses a portable creamer y with four 11 gallon cans and ships cream to J N Hancock in town, where ice cream can be made. Mallory milks fifteen cows this season and plans to milk twenty next season, earning 60 cents a gallon for his cream.
A notice from the Sydney Stock and Station Journal reports the Indian buffalo as a superior butter maker with higher solids content than the English cow. Eleven pounds of buffalo milk yield a pound of butter versus seventeen for cow milk, and Poona analyses show buffalo milk with 79 butter fat against 3.7 for cow. The breed could improve dairy crossing and warrants import for testing in this country.
The Progressive Farmer reports 1896 Liverpool sheep arrivals driven by English mutton demand with high quality carcasses and price parity to English stock. It discusses scab risks, breed preferences, and cautions on fat tailed stock. then critiques horse breeding, urging carriage horse traits and warning against trotting-focused lines. It also covers meadow stone clearing, four corn feeding methods for milch cows, and steer and pig feeding experiences.
An essay argues against breeding work mares to trotting stallions as misguided. It warns that trotters, bred for racing speed and instinct, are unsuitable as carriage or draft horses due to nervousness and hard disposition. The piece urges concentrating on proper driver horses with defined records.
A Missouri correspondent urges Populists to reunite after fusion with Democrats. He condemns free silver alliance, warns of division, and calls for reorganization to prevent collapse ahead of 1900. Signed Joseph Miller.
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