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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1912
Page
3
An old-style guide describes proper fattening of market chickens with crate feeding preferred for tenderness and even fat distribution. It covers feeding ratios, humane killing, packing in white paper lined boxes, crate advantages, and cost considerations for rations and fodder.
Practical notes cover building a clothes line elevator with sturdy posts and lever, plus hog farming guidance. Describes hogs’ profit links to space, clean water, sow farrowing pens, feeding mixtures, and exercise. Mentions graded potatoes fetching premium prices and shipping from irrigated regions.
The piece urges improved egg handling and marketing to fetch top prices for premium eggs. It covers uniform size and quality, clean nests, freshness, storage, and weekly to thrice weekly marketing, plus selling directly to consumers or through grocers, hotels, or restaurants. Notes on branding and carton costs accompany practical guidance.
Farmers can store leaves by stacking in rainproof spots using cheap sacks gunny cloth bags or bed sheets laid flat on the ground. Gather leaves with a rake pile on sheets or in sacks, then lift four corners to roll or dump when needed. Many uses for stored forest leaves are noted.
The passage highlights stored leaves as economical storage pit material and bedding for dairy barns hog houses and horse stalls. It notes they can become fertilizer after use. A Catholic pastor in Kansas City warns that Canadian aggressiveness is drawing homeseekers from the U S and urges government action. Mack County Agricultural School in Wisconsin receives $4 000 yearly state support.
At the State Fair, autos attract more interest than other exhibits with nearly one hundred makes displayed and prices from 400 to 3,000 dollars. Dealers report tripled sales over last year, noting runabout models for families and farm use, while buyers anticipate faster highway improvements driven by automobile use and the Good Roads movement.
A farm note extols manure spreaders over fork labor. It highlights even distribution, saving effort and ground coverage, with backloading under stables and quick field distribution. It mentions two horse spreaders, three horse setups, and the possibility of a double team for larger work.
A farmer outlines methods for raising many calves each year to offset dairy losses. He advocates early breeding of heifers, starting with September or October calves, using skim milk and rich feed to ensure vigor. He describes milking young heifers, handling methods, and the goal of producing milk efficiently while fostering growth.
A guide on handling young horses notes most vicious horses are spoiled by trainers in youth. For a prize colt at the fair, give a box stall alone. Many colts are injured by feeding with older horses and should be housed separately.
An illustration describes a device to form a temporary double harness from a single harness. It adds an extra front attachment that links to the yoke, guiding the horse to hold back the load. The setup allows a stable team in single harness to function as a double rig.
The old fashioned shaving horse is a handy farm tool though rarely seen now. It is easily built and performs its intended task well. Before storing vegetables, finish the cellar and dry it thoroughly perhaps with a temporary sieve. Whitewash the dairy barn, stalls, and all surfaces, then apply the same to chicken and hog houses to keep them in good condition.
A historical field study compares barley with corn for fattening hogs. North Dakota and Wisconsin experiments show barley yields leaner pork and similar profits when corn prices and barley quality are weighed. barley can outperform corn for bacon markets, despite corn’s stronger weight gain.
The text mentions European potatoes arriving in New York and sometimes reaching Chicago, notes on feeding corn to hogs, and describes dredge mining as a costly yet highly profitable method tied to a gold mine in Hammonton Yuba County. It also warns that a vicious old horse in a pasture may injure others, suggesting hobbling or isolation.
The passage discusses proper Holstein dairy management focusing on cow conditioning for long-term use, cleanliness, and milking technique. It cautions against bad habits such as wetting hands during milking and warns against feeding cabbage or turnips which can affect milk flavor or odor. It emphasizes rapid milking and keeping hands dry and clipped hair to prevent dirt contamination.
In Nevada county California a large porcupine battled a huge Golden Eagle in a dramatic duel witnessed by a rancher. The eagle sustained quill injuries while the porcupine fought back hard, eventually killing the bird. such confrontations are rare according to M Baltimore Cal.
A simple guide to building a sheep feeding trough using 2x4 corner posts set 2 feet apart and a trough 4 feet long. Construct with twelve 2-inch boards for the bottom and 6-inch fencing boards as slats spaced 4.5 inches apart, providing 4 inches of feeding space per sheep and capacity for about thirty sheep on a 16-foot trough. Roughage feeds well from this trough.
A herd of ten cows found sun warmed apple mash at a cider mill path near Rockford NJ. They lapped it quickly then stampeded fences and ran in circles tails aloft before each cow collapsed sleeping for five hours. The feature ends with advice on feeding care and winter cleanup guidance.
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