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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1925
Page
3
Practical tips urge protection from sun for young stock and clean disinfected houses for laying hens. Encourage cooperative pooling of interests for a common cause. Suggest broad house floors of fine gravel or sand with alfalfa or clover leaves scattered if available.
Ducks can supplement farm revenue with simple housing and minimal equipment. Avoid intensive confinement, dust hens with insecticide before setting eggs, and mimic natural omnivorous forage. Ducklings grow fast, require more feed, and respond well to grain-based rations on free range.
The article warns that emaciated or tubercular fowls are usually worthless and should be killed and burned to protect the flock. Contagious diseases like tuberculosis or coccidiosis threaten healthy birds, and neglect can devastate entire flocks in future years.
Milwaukee Journal notes relate eye strain to crime and ponders if green hose could help. An advert blares Cuticura products for baby skin care and scented dusting powder as essential toiletries. A quirky aside mentions an alligator envy.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children and babies. It emphasizes pleasant taste and that a teaspoonful cleans the liver and bowels, urging mothers to use genuine Syrup with printed directions. It warns to insist on the California name to avoid imitation products.
Cure touted for eczema tetter itch ringworm and other skin troubles with money back guarantee. Hoopers Tetter Rem offered in 75 cents and 1 50 sizes by Bucaline Medicine Co Dallas Texas and via druggists or mail.
Old column offers practical recipes to repurpose leftover fish into baked chowder spiced flak with white sauce and fish cocktail. Also includes Kadjores with eggs and rice, codfish scallop with rice and eggs, and varied potato salads with French dressing.
A Norfolk Virginia reader Mrs J A Jones details dramatic health recovery after four medicines and a hospital operation. She credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring health during menopause and Change of Life.
A Parla couple celebrated their 25th anniversary while recently divorced for five years. The ex-wife had not seen her husband when he arrived with flowers, triggering laughter and a plan to reunite. Prairie dogs’ grazing habits resemble cattle, making them serious food robbers on western Brazing lands.
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