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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1928
Page
3
Poultry specialists at the state college in Ithaca urge farmers to avoid overloading early laying pullets after summer. Maintain weight with balanced feeding, use milk or wet mash, provide artificial light at the right time, and feed hard grain at night to sustain winter production. A pint of cod liver oil per hundred pounds of mash supports flock health.
Discussion on poultry worm losses to the industry notes difficulty estimating damage and the need for solutions. It describes signs of wormy birds, various remedies for long round worms and tape worms, and the value of treating birds during culling along with ground sanitation to prevent reinfection.
The article notes no hen lays an egg every day for a year. Ohio State University poultry department sets 160 eggs in 865 days while the state average is about 70. Some hens exceed 300 eggs in 865 days, but they are uncommon. Production dips in November to five eggs, then rises to 21 by April before falling again.
The notice warns that flies can carry tapeworm eggs from infested bird droppings. It advises frequent cleaning of dropping boards, keeping young stock housing clean, and preventing range of young stock with older birds. It cautions against pullets entering worm-infested laying houses due to low profits.
Sap on vitality affects both old and young fowls during hot sultry weather. The old fowls are nearing decline while the young stock must stay growing and in good condition for early shows or profitable winter laying.
The best season for raising young guineas is the hotter part of summer. Guineas struggle in cold or rainy weather and require careful care. A foster hen can cover 18 to 20 eggs, and after hatching the young guineas should be kept in a closed coop until they learn the mother's call.
A USDA floor plan shows a compact oblong kitchen with a pass closet in the wall between dining room and kitchen. Two door access in each room and sliding panels permit serving dishes through to the sink and keep work centers from crossing paths. The layout emphasizes sink placement, drainboard extension, and two way passage for efficiency.
A light dessert should follow a heavy meal and a heavy dessert a light meal. The rule guides the balance of the human ration and meal planning.
Entomologists from the USDA note roaches prey on bedbugs but advise against using roaches to eradicate them. Prevention relies on sanitation, sealed food storage, and removing attractants. Control methods include poisons, repellents, fumigants, and traps, with sodium fluoride as an effective dust.
A bureau of home economics recipe suggests a thin bread flavored with orange peel. Prepare the peel by simmering two thick oranges in water, make a sugar syrup, mix with dry ingredients, then bake in a greased pan for about one hour at 325 degrees.
Warm weather meals emphasize light options with cold dishes at each meal. Use crisp uncooked vegetables and fresh fruits, little fat, and cool fruit drinks or tea infusions. Avoid large cold drinks when tired or overheated and choose easily digested foods. Skip pastries rich sauces and heavy desserts.
A bureau of home economics guide presents stuffed eggplant served in its skin with a crumb topping. Prepare by hollowing the fruit, mixing pulp with cabbage and other ingredients, filling shells, and baking until the top is golden and heated through.
A. Galbraith of Ash Grove Kansas sold a bedroom suite to Mrs. L D Metcalf. After delivery she showed a box containing 6700 cents saved over four years. The coins, rolled in units of fifty, weighed eighty four pounds.
A Louisville Courier Journal piece quotes a city man asking how people in a big city lie and explains people live on each other. He notes that occasionally a stranger arrives to help out, highlighting urban generosity amid urban challenges.
A right sort of minister acts as an expert condenser of human kindness, shaping and guiding mercy with practiced skill and steady judgment.
Cleveland Ohio woman reports strong recovery after ten bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saying it cured weakness and nervousness. She urges others in similar condition to try the medicine and notes continued use until full strength returns.
Sun dried adobe bricks once common to Franciscan missions are making a comeback in modern homes and ranch houses. After years of ruins and tourism focus on adobe relics, new houses and small ranches reemploy the traditional sun baked material for walls and cellars.
A Hastings Nebraska trap caught a rat wearing what looked like a girdle. The rat had crawled into a marrow bone and could not remove it as it grew, giving the rat a waist like a wasp through an inch wide bone hole.
An accountant declares a difficult task to correct Anatecild and repeats that they cannot rule him out. The accountant's wife agrees the correction will be hard yet necessary, implying ongoing effort within a household or organization.
In England a simple steel house frame was erected recently in three hours as homes are built using iron and steel.
A physician observed 47 years of constipation results and promoted near natural care. He advised against drastic purges and endorsed Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe non habit forming remedy. He urged daily bowel movements and to obtain a free trial bottle by writing Syrup Pepsin to Monticello, Minnesota.
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