Breeding Pigs A Guide to Sows and Litter Size
The article details selecting sows with strong milk, large litters, and calm temperaments. It covers growth, feeding with pasture and grain, breeding ages, gestation, postweaning care, and notes on sow longevity and productivity. Data from the US Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin station illustrate expected litter sizes by age. It warns against selling off older sows and highlights the value of proven dams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin Experiment Station
Save All of Good Breeding Animals and Prevent Smut Loss
An editor urges farmers to preserve breeding stock including pigs sheep calves and colts to strengthen neighboring herds and national wealth. Emphasizes culling undesirable animals, advertising quality stock, and using registered status cautiously. Also offers a formalin seed treatment method to prevent serious smut losses with practical application steps.
Ventilation and Light in Stables
The article urges ample light and ventilation for stables. It suggests adding glassed windows, increasing from one to two or three, with three square feet of sash per ten feet of siding. Windows can slide or hinge at the bottom and be secured to provide crude but better ventilation.
Visit Sheepfold At Night A Hidden Rural Treat
Readers are urged to visit the sheepfold at night to observe lamb health and dog presence. The piece extols near-judging the ponds and warns that a frightened ewe can cause losses, noting that even a bed scare can trigger a dangerous bite risk to lambs.
Sheep Parasites A Detriment To Farm Livestock
Paragraphs warn that internal parasites threaten the sheep industry next to dogs. Repeated pasturing worsens the issue. prevention by rotating pastures is advised. Scrawny lambs show worms when feed is adequate. A veterinary practical treatment with gasoline and milk is described before and after a 18 hour fast, with warnings to avoid inhalation.
Young pigs need a growing ration for healthy development
The hog grower of the future in pork production must recognize that young pigs up to six months require a growing, not a fattening, ration. Feeding should be tempered with judgment to promote proper development rather than treating pigs merely as scavengers in the feed lot.
Trouble With Peaches and the Fruits Trade
A brief editorial note on peach farming highlighting shipping and marketing issues. It argues the core problem is delivering fruit to the right markets, leaving many people without a fair share despite peaches being valuable crops.
Old Fashioned Dishes and Palate Pleasers From Grandmothers
Recipes and notes on preserving family dishes including rivels in milk soup, Apple Bread with dried apples and spices, Dutch Cabbage with pork and vinegar, Steak With Olives, Jenny cake, sour milk corn bread, cornmeal mush, steamed corn bread, cornmeal crisp, dumplings, Combination Salad, Oatmeal Sausage, Mock Chicken, Pohomac, and layered macaroni and ham bake, highlighting traditional methods and seasonings.
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New England
Sesson
More Good Dishes From Old Cookery Fragments
A collection of recipe notes includes fried calf liver with bacon and vermicelli, corn on the cob cooking tips, cornmeal pancakes with baking powder and sugar, currant mint sauce for lamb, and cornmeal mash fried into slices. Practical kitchen guidance on timing and flavoring appears throughout.
Steel Railroad Ties and Coast Defense Gun Notes
Short cuts by walking the tracks end when steel rail ties replace wood. Sharp edges make walking uncomfortable and trespassers deterred. Oklahoma reports lower costs and practical value. A new American coast defense car reportedly could lob shells beyond 31 miles at 43 degrees, though the carriage is unbuilt. The U S already owns high grade mortars with 12 inch guns reaching 19 000 yards.
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Oklahoma
Leslie’s Weekly
Parable of Love and Absurd Tales From a Fragmented Text
A disjointed excerpt blends Emerson quotes on love as a force for world change with a stray joke about a lemonade barrel. The passage mingles lofty reflections on universal love, critical of state power, with a rustic anecdote about a gardener and a servant, ending with a hurried note about a daughter and a planned outing. The fragmentary text suggests a faded, unfinished newspaper snippet with varied voices and eras.
Time Has Made a Difference in Wartime London
A London clubman recalls Sylvia Pankhurst and suffragette scenes before WWI. He notes police detentions at Vine Street station and militant shrieks. The piece contrasts bleak East End meals with wartime mood and critiques shifts in labor and foundry work.
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Sylvia Pankhart
London
Vine Street
Poplar Way
Use Aeroplanes to Hunt Seats
MiMculry shows seal hunting strain in the north with owners turning to aeroplanes to cut costs and save time. Some vessels are being considered as feasible for next season as flying craft are seen as a cheaper option carrying out hunting tasks.
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MiMculry
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