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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
8
A guide on profitable fattening of poultry stresses proper facilities and varied food. Use fat meat residues corn meal potatoes rice cow's milk oatmeal with milk as a base, and prefer oats or corn meal for fat, feeding thrice daily. Confinement in dark, quilted coverings, boiled potatoes with seasonings, pumpkin substitutions, fresh bedding, and cleanliness are emphasized for rapid fattening.
A poultry house features a 2 inch iron main pipe running the length of the building with T joints and 2 inch drinking cups at each roosting room. Water inflow is regulated by a float valve tied to a hot water heater, preventing waste, while a gate at the west end flushes the system and an overflow pipe stops flooding.
The farmer argues poultry are better as boarders or business, noting that a chick kept chilled yields poor quality. Avoid overfeeding grown fowls, estimate costs with one bushel grain per laying hen per year, keep hens active, select strong pullets for maturity, and brooding pullets for broilers. yearling hens lay more eggs than two year olds.
A historical note discusses underfed hens fed mainly table scraps and potatoes. It warns that stomach fullness does not prove adequate nutrition for egg production. Salt helps appetite but fails to provide essential proteins and nitrogen for albumen formation.
Turn the seed grain clean now using a good mill with all attachments. Do not use old rusted mills and avoid weed seed contamination. A well equipped mill is cheap today and worth installing to ensure clean grain handling.
A poultry keeper in Farmers' Mail and Breeze shares a home built outdoor chick brooder. Using sheet iron, wood frames, lath racks, and a lamp, the device keeps chicks safe from dew rain and predators with a simple conical setup. The maker emphasizes low cost about $1.50 including the lamp.
W R Graham of Ontario notes that some hens lay eggs nearly always hatchable, while others produce fertile eggs that fail to hatch under hens or incubators. Some eggs develop only to day eighteen, yielding dead shells, termed fertile but unhatchable. A minority hens lay eggs hatchable under most conditions, surviving thermic and handling stress to produce thrifty chicks.
A Bee Culture correspondent describes a practical hive scraper made from a wagon spring and sharpened tool ends, plus poultry observations on hen to rooster ratios and hatching outcomes. He notes success with 26 to 30 Leghorn hens and a small breeding pen, plus a Citrus claim that light seed yields light grain and stunts young plants.
Agricultural guidance urges double-disk the corn stubble before sowing. Use disk with cross harrow to improve soil readiness, ensuring thorough preparation and reducing concerns over seedbed quality.
Reports from St. Paul dated February 9 1908 indicate a surge in U S settlers heading to the Canadian Northwest. Rail rates from the east and south match those to the southwest, drawing homeseekers with excellent opportunities. Alberta weather has been mild, with a promising early spring for winter wheat. yields from Magrath and surrounding areas show strong per-acre production and value, while local ads note fur trade and other regional business reach.
A playful exchange where a couple comments on a busy night at work. The dialogue features a flirtatious tone with a joking line about someone named Dickums working hard and staying late.
A Brooklyn woman discovers her servant Nora, a model in all ways except honesty. The mistress pleads for truthfulness, but Nora smiles and reveals she was never lacking in the power of deceit as she asks, Sure now mum, and not do ye suppose the power of deceivin was given us for?
Short, quippy items and advertisements for Cocoanut Custard Pie mix Our Pie kits at 19 cents for two pies Garfield Tea laxative samples offered from Brooklyn New York Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children soothes teething and reduces pain at 2 cents a bottle Dental students urged to take drawing lessons
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