Plan to Make Good Butter Improved By Standard Methods
United States Department of Agriculture outlines steps to produce high quality farm butter. Key actions include clean milk and cream, immediate chilling, sterilized utensils, precise souring temperatures, controlled churning between 52 and 66 degrees, careful washing, and proper salting and packaging. Emphasis on thermometer use, gas release, and thorough cleanliness for consistent granular butter.
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United States
NEAT PACKAGES FOR BUTTER ON THE FARM
The article discusses butter storage in glazed earthenware crocks and their sanitary drawbacks when glazing is imperfect. It advocates rectangular form designs or country roll shapes, which fit in cartons to protect butter and improve appearance, with wrapping removed after pressing and packaging.
Cheese Rich Dishes and Sauces From Old Cookbook
A collection of vintage guidance on cooking with cheese including methods for finishing dishes with cheese, making cheese pudding, scalloped cabbage with cheese, cheese sauces, cottage cheese loaf, and rabbit curry with rice. Also includes Malabar Rice and a note on serving cheese with crackers.
WIND_BREAK AND LUMBER PROVISION FROM WOODLOT PLANTATIONS
The USDA explains how windbreak plantings on plains farms also yield firewood posts and limited lumber. It notes pruning fuel benefits, post supply, and the need to select suitable species for Northern and Southern regions, with recommended lists and a reference to Farmers Bulletin 888.
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Plains
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Increase Supply of Chickens and Eggs
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture. The guide urges breeders, farmers, and backyard poultry raisers to improve poultry quality, select healthy breeders, hatch early, preserve eggs, produce infertile eggs for table use, cull unprofitable flocks, maintain small backyard flocks, grow poultry feed, and eat more poultry and eggs to conserve meat supply.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Preserve Eggs for Winter Duty of Farmers Encouraged
Preserve eggs for winter use and urge neighbors to save eggs for next fall. Cultivation Made Easy A wheel hoe simplifies garden work and speeds up cultivation.
Flax Crop Boost Efforts Support Seed Stock Drive
The Department of Agriculture aided seed stock locations for flax in Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Montana. Through cooperative agencies and extension workers growers were urged to expand flax production with guidance on culture and dissemination of posters for farmers. Early spring sowing allowed timely planting and a strong start for the crop.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Department
Combining Milk And Beef Breeds For Dual Purposes
The article explains the transfer of dairy and beef traits proves difficult, noting no breed yet offers superior merit for both. It also estimates backyard poultry yields, predicting about ten dozen eggs per hen yearly, and encourages better feed and care for confined hens, while noting hens prefer freedom.
New Pleurisy Treatment Warns of Platinum Compound
Doctor Auld reports in the British Medical Journal a chill and fever resembling malaria induced by a platinum compound. The illness subsided after treatment, highlighting a potential side effect and the need for cautious use of the chemical agent.
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Doctor Auld
British Medical Journal
Farm animals forage crop guide for pork production
United States Department of Agriculture outlines essential forage crops and permanent pastures to support economical pork production. Recommends one acre of permanent pasture per brood sow, grain supplementation for rapid gains, and regional forage mixes including Bermuda and clover in the Cotton Belt, bluegrass in the Mid Atlantic, bluegrass or redtop in the North, and alfalfa with hogged down corn in the West.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bermuda
Central
Middle Atlantic States
Shipping swine in summer tment of Agriculture
A wartime guidance note urges humane hot weather hog transit practices to cut losses. It highlights avoiding cold water on hot hogs, bedding cars with wetted sand, night shipping, and using ice to cool cars while preventing crowding. It also advises minimal corn feed during transit and favors oats if feeding is needed.
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United States
Need of Wool and Mutton in Old Farming Areas
The note highlights the rising demand and value of meat and wool, urging increased sheep production in traditional farming regions. It also stresses that cleanliness in feeding dairy calves yields health benefits and larger dividends for farmers.
Uses for different fowls by the agriculture department
The guide explains how hens need help from turkeys, guineas, geese, and ducks to maximize white meat and eggs. It notes that each farm must decide which poultry to keep alongside 100 hens, considering streams, ponds, waste, and forage. Turkeys eat field insects and acorns to fatten, while guineas thrive on waste with little feeding. Geese graze grasses and use wasted grain. pigeons offer limited farm value but fit urban poultry schemes.
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United States Department of Agricultura
Turkey
Marking Chicks Made Easy for Early Breeding Tracking
Toe punch or mark all the chickens before transfer to the brooder or brood coop to readily determine age and breeding status.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Sixteen Methods of Chicken Maturation Identified
An article notes methods to tell age of fowls after maturity. Farmers often keep old hens and kill younger hens and pullets, unable to distinguish them once pullets mature. The piece discusses practical practices on distinguishing ages and managing flocks.
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Ian
Satine
Geta
Ramee
E. B. Browning
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