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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
7
Mrs J T Stevenson departed for her home at Rockwell Iowa this morning. Mrs Oren Helwick accompanied her as far as West Liberty.
Miss Helen Work and her younger brother James traveled to Burlington this morning and will stay for several days visiting until next Monday.
Havre resident J. M. Dillinger was out part of the day today after several months of rheumatism. Miss Nettie Bell of Winfield visited at the Oscar George home since last Saturday and returned to her home this morning.
A dairyman details his prize winning butter method noting cow health, pre milking rest, exclusive wheat bran feed, separate milking for starters, no ice, controlled cream ripening, and gentle churning. He explains results, preservation during transit, modest flavor, and uses for skim milk.
A breeder explains a two inch plank hog scalding tub six feet long and three and a half feet wide with a two and half foot depth. It uses a HOG SCALDING TANE and trace chains to turn hogs over a furnace trench with wood pieces beneath to prevent direct iron contact. Temperature for effective scalding is 180 to 190 degrees.
Nebraska station experiments on fattening pigs show corn with alfalfa pasture skim milk or tankage as economical feed. Pigs fed with corn 25 percent and skim milk 75 percent, or 90 percent corn and 10 percent tankage. Daily corn intake ranged 5.8 to 6.2 pounds with supplements, or 34 pounds with alfalfa pasture.
A dairyman reports a home treatment for cows that refuse to eat and show digestive issues. The regimen starts with a pint of raw linseed oil, followed by a mixture of tincture of opium, tincture of ginger, tincture of rhubarb, two ounces each, and one ounce tincture of capsicum. The dose is given in a pint of limewater three times daily.
Drainage of the feed lot and hog pens is essential for sanitary and economic reasons. Natural drainage may fail if the hog house location does not favor it, making artificial drainage systems a worthwhile investment that pays back many times.
A study at the Ohio station compared corn and oats as feed for work horses. Results show that when mature geldings receive a mix of clover and timothy hay with ear corn, it is nearly as efficient as oats for general farm work. Neither corn nor oats increased vigor or endurance.
A Wisconsin man writes that ten years of eczema and failed treatments by sixteen doctors were cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The ad touts this salve for skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds cuts and piles and notes availability at J. E. Lemmons for 25 cents.
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