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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1913
Page
2
A New York Press piece outlines Mexico's goat as a vital meat and drink staple, detailing market prices for hoof, tallow, skins, and hides. It also notes the Zodiacal Light appearing after sunset in late winter and spring, a phenomenon few observers in our latitudes have seen.
Harper's Weekly reports a French expedition in the Satara interior studying desert air under a partially clouded sun. A vast triangular light, described as three times brighter than the Milky Way, rose high in the sky and remains scientifically unexplained, possibly an appendage of the sun.
A London Chronicle quotation extols hedgehog as food, claiming it surpasses frogs and other native wild meats. The piece notes hedgehog can be stewed spitchcocked toasted or roasted baked in clay, yielding white tender flesh and a delicate flavor, though the dish is little eaten.
Town Agricultural Experiment Station reports an Ames study on silage versus legume hay for pregnant ewes. It finds silage as part of the ration reduces birth-costs and improves lamb size, with seven to ten times lower lamb costs when silage is used. The text compares costs for lambs at birth under clover and alfalfa versus silage based diets.
In an Iowa State College report, forty eight ewes divided into four rations show corn and corn silage produce heavier birth lambs with strong vigor. Lot 4 fed corn silage yielded lighter numbers but heavier lambs. overall feed cost per lamb dropped with silage. A suggested upgrade adds cottonseed or oil meal to cut costs and improve lamb health.
A quoted assertion from Beeches argues that for social life and eminent moral reasons a horse should be bred trained and cared for with scrupulous attention. The remark emphasizes ethical responsibility toward equine welfare in breeding and handling practices.
Practical winter care for draft stallions stressing roomy sanitary stables, regular exercise, and judicious feeding. Emphasizes harness work or walks, paddock setup, grooming, clean bedding, and balanced rations of oats bran corn with hay. Warns against drugs, and notes Iowa’s large draft-horse use and a January meeting of the Draft Horse Breeders’ Association in Ames.
Elijah of Clarice Iowa turned off cattle on 80 acres to graze through spring summer and fall, earning about 1500 from 80 acres this year. For nine years he has managed 40 acres with 30 head, gaining 1.5 to 2 pounds daily per steer. Seven Hereford bred steers gained 296 pounds each in 156 days. He avoids idle land, feeding only grass salt shade and water.
Rex Beresford a cattle specialist from Iowa State College offers practical guidance on profitable beef production. He argues that grower land in Iowa yields more beef per acre than western or Canadian land, emphasizes using good bloodlines and a high quality bull, stresses continuous calving, markets calves early, and advocates silage feeding to maximize year round production and efficiency.
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