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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
5
Guidance for backyard poultry shows separation of sexes in small breeds, proper housing, and consistent feeding after weaning. It advises avoiding moves, keeping groups together, and providing green feed, grit, oyster shells, and ample shade. It notes wartime push for poultry and egg production with extension agents and 15,000 youth in clubs.
The article stresses proper ventilation to keep coops comfortable at night and emphasizes preventing lice and flies on chickens. It notes the utmost importance of clean conditions to maintain poultry health.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes two main causes for higher poultry needs in 1918. War demands require larger poultry stocks, and a decline in flock numbers due to rising feed costs and transport issues reduced production. Some regions kept flocks steady or grew slightly despite shortages.
A USDA Special Information Service program titled The Housewife and the War aims to guide home front efforts through wartime meal planning, nutrition tips, and thrift strategies, emphasizing practical homemaking under wartime shortages.
The United States Department of Agriculture offers economical potato based meals to prevent waste as huge potato stocks accumulate. Recipes cover breakfast to dinner including Potato Omelet Potato and Corn Chowder Browned Potatoes With Roast Beef Potato Cakes Potato Soup and baked stuffed potatoes with tips to reuse leftovers. The advice encourages daily potato use as a duty and pleasure amid global food shortages.
A wartime urging to embrace potatoes as energy stores. Encourages eating plenty of potatoes to fuel work and patriotism and suggests writing the Agriculture Department for new potato recipes.
The article urges wider use of substitutes for sugar including sorghum corn and cane syrup maple sugar and syrup and honey. It notes maple syrup and sugar are produced in ten states with output over 14 million pounds of sugar and 4 million gallons of syrup and calls for expansion. It mentions sorghum syrup production rose in 1917 and could be produced in most states to aid sugar conservation for soldiers. It also suggests recipes like succotash with dried lima beans and corn and rice pudding sweetened with honey.
A Chicago News column argues during wartime children would abandon store bought toys and invent handmade ones. It says necessity spurs invention and Nature would assist, leading to simpler, more imaginative play as supply wanes and children grow bored with expensive gadgets.
In Olympia Washington a Yakima chief Samskin and fellow Indians protest state game laws forbidding fishing during the closed season. The 27 year old treaty allowing fishing anywhere is cited, but the district attorney cannot alter the law. The 90 year old leader, nearly blind, speaks with dignified resolve, expressing respect for white authority while challenging the infringement.
Mrs. John Baker of Downsville attempted to clean a concrete pavement with hot water and a broom during a cold snap. She found her feet frozen to the pavement and screamed for help before her husband freed her by a strong jerk, bringing her indoors to warm.
The piece describes nose flute players among Filipinos who can perform standard tunes but find fast ragtime too difficult. It notes the spectacle of such players and compares it to a negro playing harmonica with his nostrils.
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