Utility of various breeds Wyandotte is early maturing
The USDA outlines three poultry classes laying meat and general purpose. Laying breeds include Leghorn Minorca Andalusian Ancona Campine. meat breeds Brahma Dorking Cornish. general purpose Plymouth Rock Wyandotte Rhode Island Red Orpington. Wyandotte matures early and fattening ease varies by breed.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Minorca
Ancona
Campine
Plymouth Rock
Wyandotte
Rhode Island
Orpington
Scratching Litter Needs Frequent Renewal in Poultry Hous
Straw and similar litter absorb moisture and become limp and useless for fowls to scratch for grain. Scratching litter is essential in the poultry house, but it must be cleaned out and renewed often to maintain proper scratching material.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Best Pullets to Keep for Early Laying
Keep pullets that mature quickly and begin laying around 200 days old or sooner. Prioritize those with excellent care history as the best layers.
Incubators and brooders essential for large poultry flocks
It is generally admitted that the incubator and brooder are necessities where large flocks of poultry are kept. The piece argues these tools improve hatching success and chick raising efficiency for farmers managing many birds.
Fruit Flies Are Beautiful and Threaten U S Agriculture
Officials warn that more than half of annual losses to U S fruits and vegetables could be prevented with stricter quarantine. The federal plant quarantine act shields imports, Hawaii inspections prevent fruit-fly spread, and travelers must sign affidavits denying fruit in baggage to avoid costly infestations.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Federal Horticultural Board
Department of Agriculture
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii
Pacific
Fruit Fly Spread Tied to Ship Routes Since Civil War
The Mediterranean fruit fly likely reached Bermuda after a Civil War era ship bound for New York from the Mediterranean region unloaded infested fruit at St George. Later, steamships and cold storage spread the pest from eastern Australia to Perth Sydney and then to Hawaii. Inspectors in California and the United States intercept infested fruit on ships from Honolulu and Hilo arriving at San Francisco and San Pedro.
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Bermudas
New York
Mediterranean
St George
Australia
Perth
Sydney
Hawaii
Honolulu
State of California
United States
San Francisco
San Pedro
Hilo
Fertilizers From Wastes Highlights US 1916 Study
A United States Department of Agriculture publication reports that fertilizers from industrial wastes supplied about 40 percent of potash 8 percent of phosphoric acid and 85 percent of nitrogen used in 1916. Potash came from tobacco stems cottonseed hulls hardwood ashes wool washings blast furnace flue dust cement flue dust and sugar residues. Phosphoric acid derived from bones shells fish scrap basic slag and other materials. Nitrogen came from wastes in castor linseed and fish oils animal wastes blood hair horns hoofs hides leather wool coke and many other substances.
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United States Department of Agriculture Publiation
Mating Guinea Fowls and Pairing Tendencies
Guinea fowls often mate in pairs, but a single male can successfully pair with three or four females depending on conditions.
Insurance Men Say No to Drink in Life Risk View
A New York paper polled major life insurers on whether habitual drinkers are as safe as abstainers. They uniformly said no citing health risks and shorter life expectancy. The piece, humorously framed with anti liquor verses by Walt Mason, notes a town with no bars and a crackdown on alcohol.
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New York
Aetna Life
Bankers’ Life
Berkshire Life
Fidelity Mutual Life Association
Hartford
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mutual
Pacific Mutual Life
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Security Mutual
Union Central Life
United States
Walt Mason
Chickens broken glass and liquor arrests in Eugene 1917
In Eugene Oregon 1917 the number of arrests for chicken running at large and for throwing broken glass outnumbered drunkenness arrests. Drunkenness yielded eight arrests all year while chicken and glass offenses totaled ten. The city with 12000 residents notes fewer total offenses than on days with saloons or Springfield liquor traffic.
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Eugene
Morning Oregonian
Springfield
Doors Closing to Drinking Employees Statement
Edison cites a view that alcohol lowers worker output and capability, estimating one glass of beer daily reduces productivity to 14 abstainers. Anna A Gordon notes scientific findings claim drinkers perform worse across temperature, senses, lifting, distance, and endurance. The piece urges mutual interests of workers and employers to end drinking in the workplace.
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United States
Edison
Anna A. Gordon
The Primitive Versus the Developed Human Debate
A short exchange argues that ability to carry liquor signals a weak brain not strength. It suggests the caveman and Edison would fare differently, implying alcohol tolerance reflects atavism and intelligence varies with development.
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Thomas Edison
Saloon Shame Faces Its Best Customers
A local saloon drew public ire as patrons described as the establishment’s best customers faced scrutiny for behavior that brought disrepute to the venue. Community leaders called for accountability and better conduct during nightly events.
Fragmented Humorous Notes and War Contingents
A mixed page item set includes jokes about rain umbrellas and marble halls, a correction noting a war correspondent’s remark on German retreating troops and a mistaken goose step, a weather-unsafe bowel medicine ad, a quip about an Englishman and a Foch trot, and a Tacoma steamer Fransland oilers note.
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Raymond Adie
Locre
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White Wyandotte
Special Information Service
America
Orn Prance Des Arere
National Svemen's Christian Temperance Union
Libby
M‘sneill & Libby
Chicago
Church
Flatbush
Gotham
Louisville Courier-Journal
Chitas Mien
Fransland
Tacoma
Wash
France
Maurot
Echo de Paris
Swift & Company
U.S.A
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