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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
10
The article explains keeping the dry cow ration similar to typical feeding, using hominy to replace corn to cut fat producing elements. Bran and oats supply minerals for the unborn calf, and a high protein diet should be followed by a ration change to rest digestion. Near calving a laxative feed like oilmeal is used in small amounts to reduce milk fever risk, with eight to ten pounds of hay or corn stover to provide roughage and aid digestion.
The calf should stay with the dam for one or two days to obtain colostrum which clears its digestive system. If the milk is very rich, dilute with lower butterfat milk. Teach the calf to drink by feeding the attendant’s finger, then progress to a milk pail. Patience is essential for the feeder.
Bulletin 267 from the Ohio experiment station lists home mixtures to deter flies on cattle. One formula uses 100 parts fish oil 50 parts tar oil and one part crude carbolic acid, another for half gallon tar oil half gallon cottonseed oil and half pint carbolic acid. These mixtures repel flies for a time when sprayed on cattle.
The article warns that feeding alone does little without thorough milking. It notes many cows are not milked nightly, causing losses in milk output and butterfat. Emphasizes the importance of both good milking and feeding practices for dairy yield.
Article advises selecting a purebred bull to efficiently build a dairy herd. Emphasizes that the bull’s pedigree quality directly influences offspring dairy characteristics and long term breeding success.
On dairy and stock farms a well selected building for a hospital is always useful. It is essential for acute sickness retention of afterbirth abortion or any symptoms of contagious diseases. An arrangement similar to the Illinois experiment sta is suggested as a model.
The article explains squeeze gates as a humane method to hold cattle for treatment. It notes that chasing and roping can injure animals and handlers, especially with young cattle and abortion cases. Squeeze gates use feed to guide animals into a stanchion and, with ratcheted props, restrain movement for proper antiseptic care.
Veterinary guidance from W C Fair in Ohio Farmer outlines steps for farm wound care. Examine for foreign bodies, control bleeding, clean with antiseptic, ensure drainage, and consider stitching only when essential. Apply iodine tincture or zinc boric powder. use peroxide on head and neck wounds before stitching if needed.
A careful record at the Ontario agricultural college shows sheep and swine on the experiment station farm returning a 12 percent profit after all costs. The dairy herd of 90 head left $2,787 for labor and use of buildings on a $14,000 investment. Milk cost per 100 pounds ranged from 6 1/2 to 1.25 cents for feed. Figures cover the year 4916.
The colt's upbringing in its first summer and fall shapes its future work efficiency. Early care during the first summer is crucial as scours are most costly then. Prompt treatment can prevent serious outcomes, up to potential fatal results if ignored.
Experiments by department specialists show tobacco wilt is highly destructive and spreads via drainage, fertilization, and infected implements. Crop rotation remains the best control, with five-year intervals and careful seed-bed management to prevent reinfection.
Lambs gain cheapest on corn or kafir with silage and alfalfa versus corn and alfalfa alone. Three rations are suggested including corn or kafir with alfalfa silage and cottonseed meal, kafir with alfalfa silage, and cottonseed meal, and corn or kafir with alfalfa and cottonseed meal.
A gardening and farming note urges sturdy fencing to endure winter months and warns of trouble without repairs. It discusses draft mares as farm labor, noting that income from selling costs each year lowers labor costs compared with geldings.
There is more profit in working the garden than fishing and equal pleasure for a gardener. The variation between two trees of the same kind arises from gradual divergence in different locales. Save high priced feed by hog pastures and labor by self feeder with crops to be hogged off.
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