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Newspaper
Arcadia News
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1938
Page
3
Turkey poults and chicks advertised with weekly booking, featuring baby chicks and leading breeds. Custom hatching poultry equipment and branding, with hatchers, feeders, waterers, and tees of stock from Jennings Hatchery at 1822 Valley Blvd Rosemead IA.
Temple City Hatchery promotes quality poultry including Barred Plymouth Rocks Rhode Island Reds and New Hampshire Reds as well as Bronze Turkeys. Located at 1810 Las Turas Drive Temple City contact Atlantic 2 1293 for details.
A regional ad promotes 1000s of bargains at Ole's Bargain House 1103 EF Valley Blvd Rosemead offering pipe and plumbing supplies and new and used hardware at greatly reduced prices.
A lunch spot offering sandwiches and soda lunches is advertised at Wayne's Fountain Lunch located in the Douglas Drug Store on 34 East Huntington Drive Arcadia. The notice promotes mid day meals for ranchers and shoppers alike.
A local shop offers avocado budding and related surgical work. Call Atlan tic 2 3058 between 8 30 and 5 for appointments and inquiries.
B P Ruley offers cash for dead and old stock at 1 to 6 dollars per item. Located at 2525 Gidley Street El Monte, contact Budlong 8 6661 for details.
Classified notice selling 100 four and a half month old New Hampshire Red and Buff Orpington pullets. Contact 1115 South 1st Avenue Arcadia for details.
A private party seeks to rent or buy an acre or more in Arcadia or nearby. Address given is 1115 South 1st Avenue Arcadia. Also offered are baby chicks from high producing blood tested stock distinct from regular hatchery chicks from K Ranch located at 852 West Covina Boulevard Baldwin Park.
A compact sale lists a 7'2x13 stake bed with oak and iron frame for 45 dollars a 4 wheel trailer chassis with tire for 10 dollars a complete rebuilt Model T engine for 5 dollars an Auburn 29 parts and a Franklin trailer axle for 2 dollars Sold at 3937 Milton Street Pasadena in a single line notice.
Milk goats offered this week at 3537 Milton St East Pasadena after 5 pm. One Toggenburg yields 4 to 6 quarts daily while a young Saanen from good stock makes 7 quarts. Price 40 dollars or best offer. Buyer needs shade and pasture.
A new occupation grows in California as hatcheries sort day old chicks by sex with 90 percent accuracy. The job, learned from Japanese and Chinese origins, demands keen sight and nerves. Training costs about 500 dollars, retirement age around 25, pay about 0.5 cents per chick, potential weekly earnings near 100 dollars, and performance rests on 95 correct selections per 100.
In Sabbatus Maine a resident couple found their martin birdhouse emptied by a mother squirrel who carried off her offspring one by one. The unusual scene was observed by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Holden.
Julius Jurkowski, a Cleveland grocer, paid 750 for 18 dyed rabbit pelts believing they were Hudson Seal furs. Two men promised him a $10 profit per skin if he kept them, but they vanished and never returned.
The Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, opening September 16 for 17 days, is the nation’s fourth largest fair. It features a self contained city with its own services, extensive exhibits from all states and foreign countries, and plans for next year already underway. Prominent department heads include John T. Ashcroft and Charles Gage in poultry, A M Fawkes in pigeons, R W Farr in rabbits, and Jack Bradshaw in dogs.
Plans finalize for the 1938 Utility Type Turkey Show to be held in Hemet California from November 10 to 13. The event offers 10175 in cash prizes and expects 1500 or more entries with participants from distant farms such as O E Tuttle Turkey Farms New Hampshire. The Farrar Loomis building will provide 66000 square feet under one roof with modern refrigeration for dressed turkey displays. Judge H P Griffin Northwestern Turkey Growers accepts judging duties. New features include live cooking roasting and processing demonstrations for commercial use along with special awards for 4 H clubs and Future Farmers exhibits.
The new deadline for all ads in the Rancher's Market is Tuesday at 5 p m. This pushes back the submission time to allow longer notice and ensures inclusion in the next edition.
H R Page of West Pomona street Monrovia hosted the S G V P A meeting on Sunday August 14. Page a noted breeder exhibited White Rocks from Kentucky and White Silkies. The Santa Anita Show is growing and promises surprises and a full house for exhibitors.
Recent government reports consider the egg market and predict favorable prices with more than a seasonal rise through early 1939. The outlook for meat birds is not as strong, with results less optimistic.
Ohio Experimental Station reports that chickens prefer coarsely ground mash. The report cites five specific observations supporting this preference.
The Rancher's Market advertises as the Valley's only of its kind and the best medium for ranch products. A 25 cent ad placement covers the Arcadia Tribune The San Gabriel Valley Topics and the Arcadia News.
South Dakota barnyard poultry now yields about 13 million dollars annually for farmers. State college figures show poultry ranks third in farm income after cattle and corn, with 1934 notes citing gains from coarse mash and improved egg production.
Preliminary figures from the Biennial Census of Manufactures indicate a 22 percent rise in cigarette production in 1937 compared with 1935. The data come from the U S Census Bureau and reflect manufacturing activity across the period.
Riverside reports on the development of resistance to hydrocyanic acid in scale insect pests attacking California citrus. Dr H J Quayle notes resistance in red, black, and citricula scales since 1912 to 1925, but outside resistant areas fumigation remains the chief effective treatment.
H Embleton head of the University of Arizona poultry department reports the seventeenth annual Egg Laying Test is fully reserved with 250 birds. The roster includes 150 White Leghorns 25 Australorps 75 Rhode Island Reds and 25 New Hampshires.
The San Gabriel Valley Poultry Association met at H. R. Page’s Monrovia home on Sunday August 14 for an informal picnic. Plans will be finalized at a special board meeting Wednesday night at A. N. Hartwell’s Monrovia home. President Don Strawn said an official statement will follow.
Apple farmers in Fredericton New Brunswick inject boron into corky bore afflicted trees. The chemical is claimed to be nearly 100 percent effective in controlling the disease.
The San Fernando Valley will debut its exhibit at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona marking the region’s first participation in the renowned event. Officials said the display will showcase local industry, culture, and community projects.
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