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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1911
Page
10
Gasoline brooders suit large scale poultry where one house serves 200 chicks instead of 60. The A type colony house features 6 ft 6 in high ceilings, runners, and an adjustable gasoline burner with a cone flame for better combustion. Careful installation and strict safety steps prevent leaks and fires during fueling and lighting.
In winter feeding, two pounds of grain per cow daily plus ensilage and clover hay sustain cows through the cold season. Clover hay is the best single forage, balanced by corn ensilage for palatability and digestion. The silo saves labor and space, storing four tons of ensilage where two tons of hay might fit.
The Wisconsin horticultural guidance explains spraying to control two insect classes, chewing and sucking, and to prevent fungal diseases. It covers Bordeaux mixture with copper sulfate and lime, adds Paris green or arsenate of lead for broader effect, and emphasizes prevention as key to fungous disease control.
Advice on cultivating growth in chicks using dry high quality feeds in hoppers. Emphasizes meat scraps, sprouted oats, bread soaked in milk, and balanced rations with water. Warns against moldy or cheap feeds and poor housing.
The text stresses strict regularity in barn routines to keep the cow's milking flow steady. Delays in feeding or milking interrupt milk elaboration and reduce yield. It urges consistent, semi-daily milking to maximize satisfaction, and notes that poor training causes vicious horse habits.
Laying ducks should be fed cornmeal forty five percent bran twenty percent cooked vegetables fifteen percent beef scraps fifteen percent and sand five percent mixed with milk and given twice daily. Do not feed fish to market ducks as it imparts a strong flavor. Supply ample fresh water and feed only as much as ducks will eat. The South African government employs a veterinarian to study ostrich diseases.
Eight head of antelope from Yellowstone Park arrived at the Wichita Game Refuge in Oklahoma funded by Boone and Crockett Club members. The move aims to create a breeding population in a near natural setting, joining a small buffalo herd donated in 1908. Officials note the species faces possible extinction without protection and that the Wichita Refuge acts as a national reserve for breeding wild plains creatures.
An old advice piece urges kindness to broody hens, noting instinct drives brooding and cruelty is useless. It suggests humane methods such as a moderately sized coop with a slatted front for stimulation, sparing feed while maintaining nutrition, and treating all hens alike due to individual differences.
Use caladium borders to hide unsightly rear views and separate kitchen gardens from lawns. Plant tubers early in spring in rich soil with leaf mold and manure, plus bone meal for growth and color. Choose green-predominant varieties for outdoor planting as highly colored kinds may underperform.
The article explains guinea hens can be nearly as profitable as common chicken breeds if properly cared for. Eggs may be hard to sell due to taste and color, though bakers value them for cake making. Confinement aids incubation, while free-ranging guineas nest in brush and may abandon nests, and young birds are vulnerable to mites and lice without strict cleanliness and care.
The article describes Russian peasants settling in western Canada and farming cooperatively. When horses are scarce, women pull plows, attached by a rope with wooden sticks pressed against the body to aid in pulling, a common sight in village fields.
Miss M. Watson of the Ontario Agricultural College reports on biscuit quality under different fat mixing methods. When shortening is rubbed into flour or melted and mixed in, outward appearance and rise are similar, but biscuits with melted butter show inferior texture and toughness. Butter rubbed into dough yields a better, spongier, sturdier texture.
Two toms in a flock should be alternated if they disagree. For poults first weeks, feed any good brand of grain chick feed from the market. Honey is purest and least harmful sweet. Bees help fertilize fruit trees and cloves.
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