Cautionary notes on buying horses and market notes from Kansas
A skeptical guide warns buyers about horse trading practices and honesty in sales. It explains methods to test horse health and behavior, including gait, wind, hoofs, and fitness, while noting the risk of deception. The piece also covers Kansas Swine Breeders in Wichita, with Dold urging market adjustments toward bacon-type hogs and questions whether lard hog demand and prices will shift.
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Wichita
Dold
Demands of the hog market and market caprice
The article notes that market fashion affects prices as producers aim to meet consumer whims. Solid color cattle fetch premiums, brown eggs vary by city, and hog buyers now favor leaner hogs, with packers pushing growers toward higher lean percentages as premiums rise.
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The
Live Stock Journal
New York
Boston
Selecting a Hog Type for Best Market Quality
American Corn and Hog Journal argues farmers seek fast growing hogs with ample flesh at any age to maximize top market prices. Buyers at registered hog sales favor the type with uniform meat, sturdy build, and fewer defects, avoiding slow growth traits and poor conformation.
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American Corn and Hog Journal
A Successful Hog Raising
Quiet gentle sows should be kept as mothers and hogs handled calmly. Do not chill sows during farrowing. ensure warm, dry quarters in winter and provide ample water, shade, and pasture. Feed a balanced mix of milk, bran, oats, vegetables, grass, and some corn. fatten gradually and sell when ready without overexerting resources.
Ensilage fed to horses in five year trial
A reader confirms ensilage can be safely fed daily to horses. He reports five years of feeding a driving horse and two mules about two seeds per day when silage lasts, sometimes three times daily with a grain ration, and notes cow pea vines reduce relish.
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Country Gentleman
Feeding Horses and Mules on En Silage at North Carolina State
Frank E Emery of the North Carolina Experiment Station reports five years of feeding horses and mules with ensilage. The stock thrive on the diet, but looseness of bowels can occur if portions are too large. Two feeds daily are preferred with hay or straw for the evening meal. Only rare digestive issues have appeared and no medicines were needed, suggesting good physiological effects and toughness of the stock.
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Frank E Emery
N. C
St Ation
American Horses in France Spark Farmer Worries
French horse growers fear American imports as prairie-raised horses sell for far less than French stock. A six year old American horse reportedly brought 450 francs to a dealer and 1800 francs to an officer, a price far above Normandy market levels. The Soleil du Midi notes intensified competition hurts many small farmers and wonders if glanders tests could counter the trend.
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Soleil du Midi
Normandy
Great Britain
The Dairy Claims For Centrifugal Separators Questioned
Correspondent F W Moseiery argues dairy farmers should scrutinize claims for centrifugal separators. He cites the Swedish cream raising method as equally or more effective and notes manufacturers admit no butter-fat gains beyond proper Swedish practice. He asks editors to publish proven benefits if true to guide farmers. Clinton, Iowa.
Poultry Yard A Simple Test
A Dakota farmer asks for a reliable method to tell fresh eggs from tainted ones. The reply notes fresh eggs have a rough granulated shell while older eggs shine smoother. By scratching the shell with a fingernail, a grating surface means freshness, a smooth nail slide indicates age. practice makes the test sure.
A Chicken Story From a Philadelphia Suburbs Town
A local tale from a suburb near Philadelphia claims a hen incubated eggs for six weeks before chicks hatched along with the renewal of the hen. The owner, noticing the chicks’ plight, placed a newborn pup in a makeshift coop to shelter them, and the pup and chicks have since formed a close bond according to the Philadelphia Call.
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Philadelphia
Feeding fowls dry food to reduce bowel disease
Texas Farm and Ranch notes advise feeding fowls mostly dry mixed grain and seeds to prevent bowel disease and indigestion. Water should be available separately in troughs, as birds prefer dry food and use water only to wash bills. Chicks receive corn meal moistened sparingly to avoid excess moisture.
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Texas
Oni Raneb
Poultry Keeping for Profit Bulletin Seeks Readers
An Experiment Station publication by F. E. Hege describes poultry raising, housing, equipment, incubation, feeding, disease care, artificial hatching, and breeding for profit. It covers breeds, brooder houses, incuba tion changes in egg, and shipping poultry to market. Free upon request to Dr. H. B. Battle.
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F. E. Hege
H. B. Battle
Poultry Raising Shown as Profitable Industry
Raleigh NC bulletin from the Experiment Station outlines how poultry raising can be highly profitable with proper care. It urges farmers and their wives to study the division's guidance to maximize returns and efficiency.
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Raleigh
N. C
Vigor in moulting informs egg production in fowls
The U S Farmers Bulletin argues that rapid moulting with continued laying signals strong vitality, while prolonged moulting implies weaker digestion and fewer eggs. For egg production, select long deep bodied hens with straight underlines and larger overall size, as egg breeds tend to be bigger than show stock.
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Farmers’ Bulletin
Butter and Eggs Equal in Market Prices Across Years
The article notes butter and eggs trade at nearly the same price, with wholesales showing butter dropping from 32 to 19 cents and eggs holding around 15 to 17 cents. It contrasts past and present quotes from Oct 1 1896 and earlier years, questioning when dairy dominance may yield to the hen.
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Ohio
Osio
Pennsylvania
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Clinton
Iowa
F. W. Moseiery
Bobbitt
Zoological Clearing House
Page Woven Wire Fence CO
Adrian, Mich
D. H. Tuttle
N. D
Charles J. I
Ily
Jc Gish
Rabizh
Dri
Wilson
Hasan
Carolinas
Georgia
Seaboards
Suthern States
Hove
Happy Homes
Geo. L. Rhodes
Seaboard Air Line
Portsmouth
John
H. W. B. Glover
T. J. Anderson
Real Estatte
Mainstret
Norfolk
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