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Newspaper
Arcadia News
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1938
Page
4
Kerry Blue male with 2 percent minting registration eligible. Bred for championship lineage from imported bloodlines. Championship stock guaranteed for AKC registration. Offered by A. K. C. at 1020 W Duarte Rd Arcadia.
Auctioneer John Kilcoin will conduct a sale for J E Gordon at 2709 San Gabriel Boulevard Gal way on Saturday September 3 at 11 o clock. Atlantic 2 2837.
Readable ad lists Lovely Silver Persian kittens for sale from 10 dollars and offers related items including antiques quilting labor and a Pekingese dog and Bantams. Contact 1326 North San Gabriel Blvd Atlantic 1-6418 for details and pricing.
A brief call to action inviting rapid sales for rancher products. Encourages calling Arcadia 2131 or mailing in an advertisement. States 25 cents reaches 40 000 homes.
A Baldwin Park outlet advertises high producing outdoor baby chicks distinct from regular hatchery stock. The seller is K Ranch located at 852 West Covina Boulevard.
The Ss. G. V. P. A. show committee works on its Santa Anita catalogue to be ready for Pomona Fair distribution. J. A. Orth notes upcoming Silver meets at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield and at the Los Angeles Poultry Industries Exposition. The piece recalls Curtis Bros. duck breeding methods and Mammoth White Pekin stock, plus egg-laying milestones in San Gabriel.
Arcadia reports a new industry with Hen Specs a duralumin device for hens that obstructs forward vision over the beak while preserving normal feeding and behavior. Inventor J Clayton Cridlebaugh cites safer, quieter birds. Marvel Co's improved hold fast pin aided market uptake and University of Hawaii praise. The invention gained national notice via a coast to coast radio feature and Farm and Home hour.
George Hagopian, a 48-year-old Perkins School for the Blind graduate, operates the world’s largest chicken hatchery in Wrentham Massachusetts. He directs 50 workers across 300 acres for 1,500,000 chicks and 40,000 eggs daily, with 225 buildings and 16 incubators, all controlled personally by him to maintain precise temperatures.
A. G. Abell of the Federal State Market News Service reports firm live poultry trading in Los Angeles with limited broiler offers. Receipts included two mixed carloads from Idaho and Nebraska clearing at firm prices, easing nearby shortages. Demand for box packed poultry rises, pay prices and rabbits edge up on solid demand, while eggs stay steady with small extras down a half cent.
The Arcadia community honors Robert B. Moore retiring after 25 years with Southern California Gas and entering the poultry business. Temple City 4-H members Ray Bannister and Charles Potter will represent at the State Fair in Sacramento. Readers praise local poultry and rabbit enthusiasts and advertisers, with a new column heading introduced.
Rutland Vermont on September 1 1950s news notes the city must pay 1.50 under an old statute after three hens were killed by a dog. Dr Arthur W Farnsworth owner of the dog denied responsibility proving hairs at the scene did not come from his dog which was confined at the time.
The Santa Rosa plant was purchased by the Poultry Producers of Central California. Arrivals included four cars from Washington Oregon and Nebraska. Receipts totaled 4 493 cases. Reverend A Hinton 56 of Quebec is noted for a 700 mile bicycle preaching journey.
Federal-State Market Service notes California egg production declined again with packing-plant receipts down 3.93 percent for the week and 12.36 percent below last year. Northwest output rose 2.87 percent but remained 19.49 percent below a year ago as 63 Pacific plants reported a 1.16 percent weekend drop and a 15.53 percent yearly decline.
California plans to supply a pen of Cornish chickens for the world poultry congress, reflecting the state's strong poultry industry in the event.
The University of Arizona in Tucson will host a two day poultry short course on September 6 and 7. Experts from the college and industry will present on breeding nutrition and disease control for poultry breeders and producers.
San Francisco August 25 1937 reports indicate small cooperative groups for low income farmers are boosting demand for services. Region Nine Utah Nevada Arizona California had 141 groups on July 30 1937. Fiscal year ending June 30 1937 saw 311 new groups bringing total to 452 with 1848 members. Additional 2723 farmers joined to use and pay for services totaling 4571 directly benefited families.
Pueblo police urged local poultry growers to adopt Laura M. Smith's suggestion to lift roosts near the ceiling to stop cocks from crowing. When birds raise their heads to crow they would hit the ceiling and be silenced, preventing noise until they are on the ground.
Betty Lou, a Dallas ranch chicken, faced a chicken snake in the street. The brief encounter ended with Betty Lou prevailing and eating the reptile, in a curious rural Texas moment.
Cleburne Texas sept 1 up cat fanciers report Cecilia a tabby owned by Miss Edna Earl Moore has three kittens of her own and also adopts one young rat two baby rabbits and two baby ground squirrels. Cecilia gives equal care to both litters.
Entomologist F E Whitehead of Oklahoma A and M College reports chickens quickly learned to avoid poisoned grasshoppers. When unpoisoned hoppers were fed later the birds ate them, proving some discernment in fowl about tainted feed.
In Columbia Tennessee on September 1 a high school teacher C. C. Morrow exhibited an egg inside an egg. The outer shell was turkey-sized and hard, enclosing a normal hen egg with a soft shell. when broken the inner shell held the white and yolk of a regular egg.
The notice states the new deadline for all ads in the Rancher's Market is Tuesday at 5 p.m. Readers must place ads by the specified time to ensure publication.
The rabbit industry is rising from obscurity toward major meat and tar production in California, signaling growing significance for regional agriculture and related markets.
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