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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1912
Page
6
The article explains how hens gain fat as winter approaches and how poultrymen regulate fat by balancing carbohydrates and protein. It covers housing, heat retention, exercise, and proper ventilation to keep hens healthy and laying in cold weather.
An 19th century poultry note warns farmers about canker in turkeys especially young birds. It describes symptoms such as white mouth patches and breathing difficulty from a windpipe plug, and urges clean, well ventilated housing and peroxide treatments.
The article argues against keeping poultry in cold storage during winter. It notes higher feed costs with colder houses and warns that open fronts in northern climates waste feed as hens burn calories to stay warm. It cautions against hoarding inferior birds for breeding and highlights egg decline in very cold winters.
The speaker rails at a politician and rival party with sharp metaphors on deception and venom. The poem contrasts traitor rhetoric with rats and "philydelphia wholesome cake" and notes rats worth their weight in gold, then mentions New York and Chicago vulgar uses. Signed Cc. M. Barnitz.
Report on a 1400 mile pigeon flight from Denver to Pittsburgh establishing a world record in 6 days 7 hours 46 minutes 8 seconds. Discusses poultry care, starvation methods discouraged, convicts caring for a Kansas penitentiary poultry plant, and farm questions about lighting and feeding in poultry houses. Includes notes on smutty corn dangers, a Kentucky bourbon quip, and Miss May Irwin entering Black Orpingtons business.
A collection of aphorisms about revenge miracles equality work leisure happiness opinion and knowledge. It cites Voltaire and reflects on greatness service to humanity and the paradox of growing knowledge provoking doubt. The excerpt blends moral reflection with observations on society and individual action.
Readable segments note a formal notice involving Fadm Achard with restrictions on reprinting without special permission. The fragment implies a legal or administrative communication not fully disclosed in the excerpt.
A long-winded column covers turkey losses corn husking records and butter rules. It notes hay curing, safety around meat processing, home candy making, rat traps, grafted plants, pear ripening in storage, and a lampoon on potato venting. It cites railroads hiring bird dogs to deter quail theft and recalls a typhoid-era wish to play. It ends with egg laying contest results at Storrs Agricultural College and praise for careful poultry care.
Seventeen birds died in the year across open-front houses signaling good health from ample air and care. First prize goes to F. G. Yost’s White Leghorns of Pennsylvania with 1,071 eggs, earning two $100 silver cups and a $50 prize. Beulah Farm Ontario’s White Wyandottes close second with 1,060 eggs. Marwood Farm White Leghorns reach 1,042 eggs.
Wisconsin dairy farmers could increase the value of 105 million pounds of butter by one cent per pound with better cream and milk quality. Professor Benkendorf shows the gain would be about one million dollars more annually, illustrating the old principle that small improvements add up.
In Egypt wheat work remains largely manual with crook-shaped plows and hand sickles. Modern advances arrive with triple gas tractor outfits that till fifty four foot-wide furrows and harvest hundreds of acres daily, moving grain by camel to thrashing sites.
A reader sent a sample of Cuban Queen field corn showing yellow dent kernels coarser than Reid's Yellow Dent. Ears measure 8.5 to 9 inches long with about 8 inch circumference. Cob is large and ears taper at the tip. In one case yield reached 70 bushels per acre on land recently stripped. The variety matures well at latitude 43 degrees.
Agnes Repplier surveys condescension among borrowers in Americans and Others. Leigh Hunt and William Godwin feature prominently, with Shelley and Byron each shown giving or withholding aid. The piece notes Byron’s later withdrawal and the moral implications of these financial entanglements.
The excerpt recalls Crabb Robinson introducing Godwin to Rough as a possible £50 loan source. Johnson, more scrupulous, lent smaller sums and even on his deathbed asked forgiveness for a trifling loan. A book borrowing dispute with Garrick strained their friendship.
Official reports describe Alaska coast as rainy with mild coastal warmth and Sitka winter no colder than Washington. Valdez snow reaches fifty feet and Sitka rainfall totals 111 inches in a season. Yukon basin shows continental climate with very cold winters and rare rainfall, summer highs near 90F, and permafrost soil beneath a thin thawing surface each summer.
The article explains that the atom is no longer seen as indivisible but a system with a positively charged nucleus and electrons orbiting it. It notes electrons are very small and part of electricity while having properties of matter such as mass and momentum. It suggests much remains to learn about the electron.
In Costa Rica beggars are privileged on Tuesday allowed to beg from shop to shop. Businesses prepare for their weekly visit and hand over small coins or articles of little value. Sometimes merchandise is given and beggars sell it in poorer quarters to earn a few cents.
Two tramps discuss bad roads and the wonders of science as they imagine a future railway that could shuttle people by grabbing a momentary hold while the land slides by. The exchange mixes weariness with a wry wish for faster travel.
A witty quip from the New York Sun questions if Knicker-Is Jones has the intellect to ignite a fire on the river. The remark notes that Becker-NO lacks such drive yet avoids personally starting the blaze.
A playful remark about an appendicitis operation being no joke with a pun about a side splitting moment. The line, though joking, centers on medical surgery in a lighthearted, whimsical tone.
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