Babcock test discussions at Wisconsin Farmers Institute
The dairy segment reports on Babcock test adoption, farmer testing milk quality, and price of the test. Gov Hoard notes creameries’ average milk test around 44, with members discussing weighing milk and warning against creamery sharks. Dr Henry cites widespread use abroad, urging farmers to test and verify their milk.
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Wisconsin Farmers’ Institute
Mr. Hill
Tapere
Babcock
Mr. Remington
Professor Henry
Mr. Carlyle
Governor Ho
Tubbs
Professor Babcock
Our Agricultural College
Henry
New Zaland
Babcock Test. Three Weeks Ago Doctor Baacock
London
Australia
Dr. Babcock
Doctor Babcock
New Zealand
Milking and Care of Milk
H B Gurler argues milking is a trade requiring kindness, cleanliness, and regularity. Cattle must be well treated, fed, and water kept clean. avoid fear of milker, promote steady routines, and eliminate promiscuous milking. Proper udders washing and dedicated pails are urged to ensure high quality milk.
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Gurler
Backhus
Berlin
DeKalb
Hints About Horses and Livestock Practices
A Dakota Field and Farm digest summarizing horse care and breeding, sheep health myths, and feeding tips. It warns kind handling prevents bad temper in horses, argues feeding after roughage improves digestion, and advises selling at good prices. It discusses starting fright in breeding, market prospects for mares, and the value of shared ownership to boost stallion use. It debunks moon-based shearing myths and stresses clean well water to prevent parasites.
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New York
Mark Comstock
Tims
Dakota Field
Purdue Station Warns of Hog Cholera Losses in Indiana
The Purdue University Experiment Station through veterinarian A W Betting warns Indiana suffered 580,260 hog deaths last year from cholera and swine plague with property losses around 3.25 million dollars. Losses ranged by township percentages, and officials urge preventive shelter, dry quarters, clean water, ventilation, reduced crowding, and weekly removal of bedding to curb relapses. The station solicits reports on disease presence and successful control methods.
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Purdue University
la Fayette
Indiana
A. W. Betting
Creamery Sharks and the Creamery Stock Scam
The Progressive Farmer exposes organizers who form dairy stock companies to build public creameries with idle plants. They overprice plants, mislead investors, and use local influence by gifting stock to key community figures to secure early investors.
Milking Cadence and Cleanliness Advice from a Veteran
A longtime dairy writer asserts discipline in milking routine. He warns against distractions, stresses dry hands, and prefers consistent two daily milking at twelve hour intervals. He notes managing fifteen to twenty cows regularly and thirty five on occasion to justify his guidance.
Errors About Sheep Scab and Disease Beliefs
The text argues that sheep scab is caused by contagion from diseased stock, not by exposure or ill treatment. A flock without prior infection cannot develop it from exposure, while introduction via unseen diseased sheep triggers visible symptoms. Scab results from a living skin mite and cannot be produced by care, with implied cures discussed.
Virginia's Ice Mine A Great Natural Wonder
A vast ice ledge lies under Stone Mountain in Scott County Virginia. Discovered by Danridge hunters around 1830, it remained secret until 1893 when herb diggers rediscovered the ice mine. The ice forms a vein like layer four feet thick, melting only in moss cover during midsummer. Some visit for study say it resembles an Ice Age remnant, others hint at a hidden subterranean laboratory sustaining continuous freezing.
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United States
Scott County
Virginia
Stone Mountain
Stony Creek
Danridge
Louis Republic
Poultry Yard Egg Packing for Storage
Recommendations on packing eggs for late summer and early fall to preserve value. Salt packing in cool storage is advised, with careful spacing to prevent touching, periodic turning, and maintaining steady cool temperatures for best results.
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F. W. Mosgey
Clinton
Iowa
Creamery Sharks
Virginia’s
Piatti Th
Sossist Drug CO
Raleigh
Len
Brabster
WEST
Angel of Liberty
Grover Cleveland
White House
Oklahoma City
Grover
Cleveland
Watchman
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
Kahy
Jackie
Wabash
Chicago
Barnes Bros
N. C
Denmark
Progressive Farmer
North Carolina
Mississippi
New Hampshire
Alvania
Cy Lita
Sa. Va Preel
Salem
Toffer
Cumberland
Ts. i
Raeford
Adrian
T.S. Hubbard CO
Fredunia
The
Carolinas
Georgia
Seaboard
Air Line
Sothern States
Happy Homes
Rhodes
Seaboard Air Line
Portsmouth
H. W. B. Glover
T. J. Anderson
Main Street
Norfolk
South Bos
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