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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1904
Page
7
An article by T D Gayle in Farm and Home compares fixed grain feeders with adjustable self feeders. It explains that self feeders placed before cattle reduce waste and improve intake, with detailed ground plans showing troughs, a wagon driveway, and bin-fed supply.
Prairie Farmer notes a rising co operative movement among grain raisers in the Midwest led by shrewd business men. About 75 elevators across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska are listed, with eight percent dividends and profits higher than regular elevators. Producers must sell to the association or pay one cent per bushel, ensuring the plan survives competition and earns railroad privileges.
A simple sledge and scythe blade device lets a farmer cut corn between rows. Built from a sledge three and a half feet long and 20 inches wide with a 45 degree brace, it can harvest six to seven acres daily with a steady horse.
Sept 13 20 and 27 Oct 4 and 18 1904 travel to Arkansas Indian Territory Louisiana and Texas offered at very low one way and round trip rates. For more information write to 8 G Warner G P T A K Cs Ry Kansas City Mo. Also mentions a sea captain stilled a revolution in Baga locefa loca balleriquita for 20 dollars in gold according to the Syracuse Herald.
A Paris note reports sugar and molasses feeding in Europe as tax exempt for livestock. The Omnibus Co. in Paris owns 10,000 horses with about 700 broken legs yearly. 1901 trials switching sour mash to alkaline molasses reduced fractures to 79 in 1902, suggesting minerals in rations prevent fragility. Heavy sugar intake may aid bone healing, with hospitals giving 150 grams daily to fracture patients.
Practical pig care tips outline feeding to prevent scours using crushed oat and barley slop screened for hulls. It covers weaning at two months, pen grouping, winter vs summer care, starter milk feeding, and supplementing feed with oil meal and ash salt mix.
A farmer method uses a five foot rope with a ring and a snap to align corn rows. By looping around two adjacent stalks and snapping to the ring, the technique guides shocks as they are built. Once the shock fills, pulling the rope tightens the arrangement for easier husking and neater standing stalks.
Farmers warned against overfeeding corn as it fattens livestock but reduces vigor and breeding quality. Excess corn can harm vitality and reproductive performance in animals.
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