Successful Managers of Live Stock
The most successful stock managers love animals and watch each animal’s condition to regulate feed and maintain trust. Quiet firm handling keeps nervous stock calm, while kindness builds confidence. Early training of calves and colts prevents bad habits, and teaching children to handle stock helps raise calmer cattle and horses, reducing costly accidents.
Best arrangement of the beehives
Beekeeping note argues spacing hives affects hive health and queen survival. Closer hives draw more bee deaths as swarms enter, risk foul brood spread, and misdirected young queens during mating flights. Authors advise wider north facing setups and careful entrance placement.
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Wisconsin Agriculturist
Good Farm Notes For Late Summer
Good farm advice for late summer covers feeding precautions to prevent cattle bloat from dew soaked corn, sheep shelter and water, poultry moulting and crowding risks, moving roosts to sheds, inspecting bee colonies for healthy seed, preparing wheat seed with a fanning mill and agate, stopping orchard cultivation to allow tree nap to go down, and using birds to control caterpillars.
Top Dressing for Timothy Meadows
Timely top dressing after harvest boosts timothy and mixed grass meadow growth. Use diluted manure, well-made composts of wood ash earth and stable manure, lime, and mulch. Avoid fresh stable manure. apply six loads per acre of rotted manure to thicken sod and curb weeds. avoid overgrazing. collect poultry manure for fertilizer with rock or acid phosphates to improve uptake.
On Road to Success for Dairyman Studying Productive Cows
A dairyman pursues economic herd improvement by selecting cows that yield abundant milk. The focus is on identifying lead cows to maximize profitability and long term herd productivity.
Make Good Butter From Clean Milk and Healthy Cows
The piece urges producing good butter only from clean milk and healthy cows as milk from unhealthy cows is unsafe for food even if it appears clean. It also advises keeping the poultry door open to allow air and sunshine in.
Produce Good Milk From Comfortable Dairy Barns
To produce good milk cows must be comfortable in roomy clean dry and well ventilated barns. Adequate lighting and ventilation help ensure health and productivity, with tidy spaces reducing disease risk and promoting steady milk flow.
Isolate Fowls to Stop Spread of Disease
When disease is found among fowls, isolate promptly all birds showing any sign of sickness to prevent wider infection and protect the rest of the flock.
OHED-ROOF FORM POULTRY HOUSE FEATURES
William A. Radford describes a shed roof poultry house designed for sunlit roosts, lime flooring, and concrete underpinning. The two compartments hold about forty hens each for winter laying, emphasizing airtight ends, curtain fronts, lime ground cover, and concrete walls to deter pests.
Poultry Housing Plans and Ventilation in Old Farms
The article discusses hinged sash to regulate ventilation in poultry houses and notes New York climate prevents full closure of openings. It reviews discarded ventilation methods, recommends 3 to 5 square feet of floor area per five square feet per room for flock capacity, and outlines fall stock targets of around one hundred one year olds, often reduced to eighty to ninety before Christmas. It also states two year olds are unprofitable and suggests leg bands to mark two year old hens as candidates for culling.
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Poultry Associatn
New York State
Modern poultry house wins praise for winter ventilation
The design described as the best method for winter ventilation features a low rear roof and a shallow north side, with front height around seven feet. It prioritizes the birds’ needs over attendant convenience and is presented as a near perfect poultry housing plan improving comfort and airflow.
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Poultry House
Bee Triggers Wreck in Allentown Car Chase
George G. Sykes of Allentown loses his touring car after a bee lands first on the chauffeur, then on a passenger. The driver swats the insect causing loss of control and a collision with a bridge abutment. Mrs. Sykes and guests escape injury. Edward Rube and chauffeur Charles Schultz suffer cuts and were hospitalized.
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Allentown
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There is an unpleasant suggestion your friend the surgeon
On the Safe Side comic dialogue notes a joke about kissing being hygienically unsafe and humor around a surgeon friend in professional garb. Harold laughs at the idea of safety to numbers while discussing a cutaway wet garb.
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Harold
Secrets of efficient housework from a famed keeper
The writer recalls a famed housekeeper sharing that she never irons with an old iron and uses clean towels on her apron belt to save time. She advises careful prep to reduce steps, noting how many extra minutes such habits save in daily cooking.
Self Shampooing With Cuticura Soap In Skin Care
A mixed ad and humor fragment describes Cuticura products for skin, scalp, hair and nails with a free sample offer by mail. Mentions postal address Cuticura Dept XY Boston and a brief political quip about women voting. Including transportation plans for Calcutta and a light joke about jealousy and butter.
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Dept. XY
Boston
Desert Auto Tragedy After Desert Crossing
A trio from Los Angeles, James S. Roche, John Hf. Welsh, and James G. Clarke, left for El Centro in a car. The radiator ran dry in the desert sand causing dehydration. Roche survived but Welsh died. Clarke was revived after collapsing.
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Salton Sea
Clarke
Mineral Springs
Philadelphia
Obscene Exchange Sparks Debate on School Policy
A fragmentary dialogue shows one speaker claiming the gay person system is obsolete in schools, with another replying it remains in effect, highlighting tension over LGBTQ policies in education.
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