Successful Poultry Housing Makes Health and Profit
A comprehensive guide to locating and building poultry houses with proper drainage, soil choice, and sun exposure. It covers roost design for various breeds, nest construction, dirt floors versus boards, and emphasizes ventilation, drafts, and cleanliness for healthy hens. The Arkansas experiment station plan is described with a 10 by 12 foot example, elevation, and foundation notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas Experiment Station
Better Methods That Would Make For Better Roads
A discussion urging economical, results driven road work. It argues for prudent use of funds, cautions against late year and fall earth road work, promotes split log road drags, and highlights public roads education and federal assistance through the Public Roads Office led by L. W. Page in Washington.
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Illinois
Public Roads Office
Department of Agriculture
L. W. Page
Washington, D. C
Go After the Profits in Poultry
Editorial urging practical poultry farming aims at investors and aspiring hen producers. It cautions against dabbling and stresses focused effort to build profitable poultry ventures.
The Clover Leaf Weevil Threat and Poultry Shade Advice
The clover leaf weevil shows first in March with small round holes on clover leaves. Green grubs hide under rubbish by night and damage plants, turning into beetles in June and stripping leaves. Moist weather can wipe it out. if grubs are numerous in spring cut or pasture early, or clip back in May or June. Poultry suffer on hot days without shade and clean water.
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United States
Insect Life
Canada
Oshawa
Ont
America
Handle Incubator Right
An incubator often bears blame that belongs to the operator. Regulation errors cause machine failure. Hoggish Hens warns of hogs among hens and urges getting them out to protect slower eaters from being robbed.
Oyster Shell for Ducks Trough Always In Duck Yard
A trough of cracked oyster shells should be kept in the duck yard at all times to ensure ducks have access to a constant supply of calcium rich grit for digestion and shell health.
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Duck Yard
The Horn Fly a Great Pest to Dairy Cattle
A historical explainer describes the horn fly as a European-insect pest affecting cattle since 1877. It details life stages, feeding behavior, and false myths about horn penetration, then offers prevention and remedies including kerosene emulsion as a key treatment.
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United States
New Jersey
Bulletin 62
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Fragmented dialogue snippets from Philadelphia Ledger
Excerpt shows a tense exchange between a manager and an actor about marriage support and smoking. The text includes lines about living in trashy novels and a dismissive reply from the actor, reflecting a theatrical setting in a Philadelphia Ledger excerpt.
Parlous Times and the Fine Line After Hours
A wry exchange notes that staying ten minutes after office hours may impress, while fifteen minutes risks arousing suspicion of skirting duties. The quip reflects cautious social expectations in work culture.
In Black and White Election Quip Sparks Debate
A fragment suggests dialogue about Bryan and being fooled by friends. It mentions a subscriptionist to the Commoner in ambiguous context, hinting at campaign rhetoric and press commentary. The terse exchange reflects partisan viewpoints and media influence in a historical moment.
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Bryan
Improving Pastures Through Continuous Stocking and Seeding
Pastures gain fertility by keeping stock on the land day and night and feeding grain. If animals are removed at night with no extra feed, land fertility declines, notably phosphorus. Control weeds, maintain grass, use white clover to sustain nitrogen, and sow bluegrass, orchard grass, and white clover on poor spots in early spring.
Caesar calendar reform as political tact in class
In a classroom discussion the students debate Julius Caesar's calendar reform. The class answers in unison that his action shows he was a capable politician who focused on harmless issues.
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Julius Caesar
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W. S. Jacobs
Arkansas
H. H. Gross
Good Roads League
J. L. Pelham
Fort Hays
Western Normal School
Hays
Prof
J. T. Folsom
Messrs
Riley and
Howard
Virginia
Hoard
Philadelphia Ledger
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