Dairy Cattle Tests and Milk Cooling Practices in 1895
Details from the Ninth Annual Convention of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations discuss expressing dairy test results in butter fat terms and using a conversion factor. The article also covers Jersey cow performance in 1893 tests, milk yield and butter output, and best practices for cleaning, cooling, and transporting milk to maintain purity and quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
Denver
Jersey
Sheba Rex
Exne
Isa
Merry Maiden
Hugo Countess
Signal Queen
Jerseys
Guernseys
Valanceys Fuller
Cleanliness in milking and can sanitation urged
Dr Lee of the Pennsylvania Board of Health stresses scrupulous cleanliness in milking includes rinsing, washing, scalding or steaming, and sun drying of containers. He warns against using dirty cold water and notes urban shipping losses due to dirty milk cans returned to farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Pennsylvania Board of Health
Advice Against Oil Meal in Live Stock Feeding
A subscriber asks whether to buy oil meal for stock feed. The adviser says normally no, as farmers already have sufficient feed like bran middlings and other foods. Oil meal may only be needed if those feeds are not used and animals are underconditioned, but even then it should be last resort to save costs and study feed effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Law Review
Athens
Trans-Mississippi
Union
Central Pacific
Solon
N. K. Fairbank Company
ST. Louis
Chic Aggy Momen
Management of Young P G5 in Farrowing Pigs
Instructional excerpt on prefarrowing feeding and postfarrowing care for sows and litter. Describes housing, feeding progression from water and shorts to solid feed, and individual pig handling. Notes separate penning for each piglet, belly bathing, and oil with carbolic acid to prevent sour mouths, plus appetite stimulation.
Pigs raise on farm to show value and timing
A farmer outlines a staged feeding and rearing schedule for pigs from birth through six months, detailing increasing dry corn, soaked grains, and slops. The piece notes actions at three, five, and eight to nine weeks, with eventual separation of sexes, castration of substandard males, and aims to exhibit at fairs, targeting 200 to 250 pounds in Chicago by February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
W. Roberts
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Aid for Shoe Factory Stock Drive in Cary
A letter from Kinston dated Sept 7 requests Progressive Farmer to raise funds for a shoe factory effort. It urges 600 sisters to contribute and describes Frost approaching, predicting all families will want twenty five dollars worth of shoes. The note praises Cary and its people, calls for sisters to help, and ends with a jovial quote from Chicago Inter Ocean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinston
N. C
Progressive Farmer
Cary
Frost
Farmers’ Alliance
J. M. Mewborne
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H. H. Goov
China Executive Committee
Ambherst
Mass
Apg Akke
Young P G5
Farmers Alliance
Alliance
Progressine Farmer
Ita Columna
Tim
Allance
North Carolna
J. M. Mew
Allind
Ace
National Alliance
Raleigh
Mewborne
Allia
Inter Ocean
Vacuum Oil Company
Rochester, N.Y
Pat Lana
DI. Fort & CO
Salem
Lem
McSherry
Southern Farm Implement CO
Meeting Street
As. c
Morris Nurseries
West Chevler
Rees
Startown Nursery
M. A. Thorneburg & Co
Newton, Catawba, Co
Ravzion
Malcom J. Wood
Wake County
North Carolina
Malcom J
Ohpage
Powell & Clement CO
Bain
Farquhar
A. B. Farquhar Co., Ltd
York
W. Brewer
Raleigh, N. C
Richmond Agricultors Implemat Co
Richmond
Cubator
Quincy
Speory One
MQ. Eley & Pritchard Manupara Co
Southrn Real Estate Gazette
Main Street
Norfolk
Raeigh
Wake Superior Court
Elizabeth A. Yates
A B. Yates
F. Yates
Hillsboro and
Academy Streets
Messrs. &. P. Waldo
RE. D
Halifax County
Cyrus Thompson
NC. Farmers’ State
Albany
Enfield
Mullen’s
Sty Neck
New ST
Sjet
New St. Louis
National Watchman
Washington, D
Southern Railroad
Congo Richmond and
Danville
Northline
Durham
Oxford
Ben M. Son
Buffalo
Lithia Springs
Grbaro
Winston-Salem
Sally Hickory
Asheville
Pointes
Florida
Adaulsmingham
Memphis
Washington
Bale
Breenshoro
Selma
Goldsboro
Faye Wilmington
Morehead Citerne
Ily
Taily
Passemi
Wilconsboro
Eastern Carolina
Greensboro
Charlotte
M. Denaily
Halesghotte
Atlanta
Eigh
Fhompson
Ryder
Sryote
Green
Coin’s Financial School
Ola Ute
Inancial
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