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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1920
Page
8
The article notes egg marketing affects flock profits and stresses regular gathering and prompt market delivery. It warns against spoiled eggs and explains infertile eggs prevent embryo development by separating males from females after breeding season.
The article advises poultrymen to remove unproductive hens. It labels birds as slackers if too old or lazy to repay feed costs or finished with their year’s egg production. Cull promptly, then eat, can, or sell them to maintain overall flock productivity.
The advice stresses sticking to a feeding method that works for one flock. It notes conditions like flock status, surroundings, and climate vary, so a poultry raiser should study their own setup before adopting other raisers' methods.
Gather twice daily and keep in a cool place. Market eggs twice a week and protect them from sun during transit. Feed oyster shell to strengthen shells. Do not market eggs from stolen nests.
To exercise laying hens feed them oxise wheat and barley in litter. A six inch straw floor is used with scattered feed. Straw is refreshed as it becomes fouled by droppings to reduce disease spread from droppings.
A government guide advises Pekin ducks and Indian Runner ducks to be fed green feed and mash for fattening and year round laying. It suggests a three part corn meal mix with beef scrap and oyster shell, plus greens, with boiled fish as a substitute for beef scrap before killing.
The excerpt offers practical notes on dairy testing with the Babcock method two days monthly. balanced rations require Triumvirate Line components and constant clean water in hot weather. colony houses can rear young stock in spring and summer then house winter layers. Ozarks goats promoted for brush clearing with rental income. portable elevators cut grain unloading time by about 75 percent amid rising demand for light weight cattle.
A quoted exchange questions Dolblay's income with an estimate that he spends about a third of his earnings each year. The speaker notes Dolblay sustains this lifestyle as long as his wealthy wife believes he is too pampered to work.
The note instructs not to streak or rain the matariain and dye, and references Inaiat on Diamond Dyes with direction in the package. It reads as a terse warning or guidance about application and labeling for the Diamond Dyes product.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless relief for hard and soft corns and corn between toes. A tiny bottle is sold by druggists for a few cents and claims easy removal without soreness or irritation.
The speaker notes a scrap of paper in a melancholy gaze, describing it as a diploma from the school of experience. It is a canceled note he recently paid for another man who urged him to endorse it.
An old newspaper ad touts 99 OUT OF 100 as a summer cold cure and itch relief with a call for agents in areas with none. It includes a bold motto about facing Satan and notes B. W. Vacher, Inc in New Orleans, Louisiana and an advisory line about taking no chances.
An old advertisement claims Dr Peery offers a potion named Dosa hot that uniquely cleans worms with a single dose. The text adds moralizing lines about doing good and warns against trying to retaliate with a physician’s call.
A jumble of phrases about high words low thoughts theft and thunder. The text mentions two heads of a family and an ant bearing weight with sage reflections. It reads as a fragmented quotation collection without a clear single event or person.
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