Spraying for Flies Increases Milk Flow for Dairies
Purdue University dairymen recommend fly control to reduce milk loss during hot weather and poor pastures. The article describes sanitation, shading, and spraying cow herds with a home made mixture of fish oil tar oil crude carbolic acid and other components to protect cattle for a day. Applications should occur after milking and before turning cows to pasture, with epoxy mixing and spraying methods noted.
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Purdue University
Cholera Contagious Among Flocks Says Poultry Expert
The Oklahoma college poultry head, Harry Emblem, warns fowl cholera is highly fatal and contagious. Birds may die suddenly without symptoms or show thirst fever and loss of appetite. discharges are greenish yellow. If detected, clean, disinfect, plow ground, and kill and burn all affected birds.
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Harry Emblem
Okahoma College
Suggested Treatment for Calf Scours
To treat a case of scours, cut the feed to half or less until the calf is hungry. A dose of one to three ounces of castor oil or paraffin oil will help to clean out the animal. Three parts formalin in water added to milk at a teaspoonful per pound may relieve the trouble. Four to five drops of fluid extract of gelasium in about one ounce of paraffin or castor oil can be given before each milking. Reduce milk to half or a third and split into two to four feedings daily.
Attention to Brood Care Boosts Chicks Development
Best development of young chicks comes from close attention to the brood coops cleanliness proper feed and water shade and free range. Keep a good mash before them. Watch for lice and mites they multiply rapidly during the warm weather. Clean and spray houses and coops.
Declared Production Adjustment Urged To Meet Demand
Farmers warned of falling prices as Secretary Wallace urges adjustments in production to align with market demand.
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Wallace
Grant County Lady Wins Free Trip to State Fair
Grant County Farm Bureau will select one or two young women 16 to 25, a home economics contest entrant must bake a white cake and can a quart of Grant County fruit, with judging at the Farm Bureau rooms on July 28. Winner earns a trip to the State Fair in Indianapolis and access to events and demonstrations.
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Grant County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
State Fair Grounds
Indianapolis
Indiana Board of Agriculture
Grant Co Farm Bureau
Grant County
Grant County Farm Bureau Rooms
Marion
Ind
Spray Rings Aid Low Cost Potato Pest Control
R C Rose of the University of Minnesota advocates forming spray rings among farmers to share a spraying machine at light expense. The system aims to maintain 150 pounds pressure and thoroughly cover potato vines while permitting collective purchase of materials for better prices.
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R. C. Rose
University of Minnesota
Rose
Effective Spraying Must Be Done at Right Time
Timeliness in farming drives profits by avoiding repeat treatments and disease spread. Doing spraying at the precise right moment reduces labor and anxiety, forming the cornerstone of an efficient farm system.
Doan’s Kidney Pills Prove Effective Says Mrs Lee
Mrs B Lee of S First St testifies that Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved her weak inactive kidneys and backache after using several boxes. She notes the kidneys remained healthy since treatment with the product, and the statement dates reflect 1919 and 1923. Each box costs 60 cents at dealers, Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo manufactures.
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van Buren
Cleaning Farm Machinery Parts With Strong Lye Solution
A 0 gallon barrel of strong cleansing solution costs one third of kerosene and removes oil and grease quickly. The strong lye formula proves economical, non volatile, and fire safe, ideal for auto cleaning and stripping paint or enamel from parts before repainting.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine advertised cure for nasal catarrh
An old advertisement claims gold in the head from Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It describes a treatment with a local ointment and a blood-acting tonic said to reduce susceptibility to colds. Sold by druggists for over 40 years, J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
The Best Way to Feel at Home
A concise reflection argues that true comfort comes from staying put and embracing one’s familiar space. The piece emphasizes personal ease, stability, and the sense of belonging found within one’s own dwelling.
How to Combat Cutworms in Crops and Gardens
Advice notes that cutworms ruin crops and offers a home remedy using bran paris green and molasses mix. Apply along plant rows or at the base of each plant and keep chickens away from the poison. If paris green is unavailable, use lead arsenate or calcium arsenate as alternatives.
County Agent Seeks Farms for Poultry Culling Demonstrations
County Agent H. E. Schroeder asks farmers in each township with representative chicken flocks to volunteer their farms as culling demonstration sites in August. Demonstrations will be held in every township, with farms centrally located for accessibility.
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H. E. Schroeder
Benefits From Cow Testing
Cow testing raises herd output by removing low producers and selecting foundation animals based on performance, boosting average milk yield through data driven culling and genetic selection.
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LaFayette Indiana
Arthur H. Nye
Borderland Coal
James Wily
van Buren, Ind
Cholerine
Limberneck
van Buren Produce Co
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