Feeding Poultry for Winter Eggs
Practical guide on selecting healthy birds and preparing poultry for winter egg production. Emphasizes culling unsuitable stock, ensuring vigor, and feeding to support a winter feathering cycle and laying performance.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
6
Practical guide on selecting healthy birds and preparing poultry for winter egg production. Emphasizes culling unsuitable stock, ensuring vigor, and feeding to support a winter feathering cycle and laying performance.
An article describes digestive discomfort signs like uneasiness after meals headaches and belching. It notes stomach fatigue and poor digestion with varying stomach types and seasonal effects. The piece references Land ecaily in summer and mentions Hind Hound siner and EB Thewmax.
A farmer describes methods for keeping hens productive in cold weather. He covers housing design, feeding regimes, warmth management, and water needs, stressing small, frequent feedings, mash with root vegetables, oyster shell, and clean water. He emphasizes free range when possible and the hen as a reliable contributor even in winter.
A well dressed man attempted a petty scam at an Athens store by asking for a twenty five cent cellar and later a toy tire engine. He paid with a ten dollar bill and attempted to keep a quarter as change, leaving the shop with a worthless toy after the exchange.
An advertisement touts The New York Tribune Farmer as a premier illustrated agricultural weekly and offers a two-paper package with The Messenger and Herald for 21.25 a year. It urges farmers to subscribe through The New York Tribune Farmer in New York City and promises a specimen copy by mail.
A local case challenges the view that Bright's Disease is incurable. Lon Manley, formerly diagnosed with Brights Disease, Kidney and liver troubles, credits Dodds Kidney Pills after doctors reportedly gave him up. He describes four years of illness and recovery after starting the remedy. Postscript notes government militia training and dubious wellness claims amid public notices.
There is no such thing and a harmless cough is described as a warning of a conscience that deteriorates if not remedied immediately. It promotes opium-laden medicine as a division and references Allen's Lung Balm, claiming it clears respiratory issues by freeing air passages.
Special train Sandac from Middleport Gallipolis and Point Pleasant with intermediate stops. Tickets sold at low rates via the Central Linea returnable on the same date. See agents for hand bills with train times and details.
A group of farmers publicly forbids hunting and trapping on their lands to protect stock and property. They pledge to arrest and present anyone trespassing or hunting without written permission, listing numerous local signatories and families.
Notice announces the regular session of the Board of County Commissioners of Athens County Ohio on December 1862. A petition seeks to organize a village in Duce township named Village One Chauncey with Edwin D Sayre as agent. Description and demographics listed. hearing set for February 1 at 1 pm in Athens.
CG L Poston is appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Sfarri A Crippen, a deceased resident of Athens County Ohio. Notice dated December 7.
Notice states the undersigned was appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of J. M. Noble deceased in Athens County Ohio. Dated December 4. A. Div 106 AL AL Neass. Hee IF to 31-59.
Agents of Ohio Central Lines announce fall fares for Homeseeker’s and Colonists. Tickets go on sale on the first and third pay days of each month.
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