Buckeye Reds Breed Improves Winter Poultry Flock
From St. Louis Farm Progress comes a note on Buckeye Reds as a versatile addition to a poultry department. The breed yields good meat quality, strong egg layers, and good mothering traits. Pullets lay well from January to June, with several cock erels reaching five pounds at twenty four months on ordinary rations. Buckeye Reds are darker red than Rhode Island Reds with a small pea comb.
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Saya
Sayne
Rhode Island
St. Louis
The Value Of The Hen Production In The United States
A historic brief notes the economic impact of poultry and eggs, claiming hens and other domestic fowls produce over 250 million dollars in eggs annually plus substantial poultry market value. It contrasts poultry with dairy, listing dairy at 650 million dollars yearly and hints at broader rural production including small-town flocks.
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Adoda
Ih 4
Pure Breeds Pay Best in Egg Laying Contests
The article argues purebred hens outperform crossbred flocks in egg laying, noting breeds such as Leghorns Wyandottes Plymouth Rocks Orpingtons Langshens Brahmas and Minorcas have won egg-laying contests at times, while no cross-bred flock has claimed honors.
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Plymouth Rocks
Clean warm quarters for winter chicken care
Guidance on keeping hens healthy in cold weather. Emphasizes clean, draft-free coop, frequent cleaning, dirt or gravel floors, dusting boxes, bone meal ground finely for laying, and storing dry leaves for litter. Advises on feeding hens to stay active and avoid rubbish that attracts lice and disease.
Leghorns Outperform Mongrels In Egg Output And Profit
A Virginia experiment compared Pitty White Leghorns with Titty mongrels over a year. Leghorns produced 116.5 eggs valued at $2.25 each against mongrels 96.1 eggs at $1.78, with Leghorns earning a higher profit despite input costs. When weight gain is considered, Leghorns still lead by 40 cents per hen.
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Weat
Virginia Experiment Station
Poultry Breeding Care From Feeds To Housing
A practical poultry guide advises skim milk for richness and whiteness, and notes constant care improves laying. It stresses purposeful mating, breed separation, and clean housing, with tips on sealing cracks using lime cement and keeping a dry bran box fresh for fowls and chicks.
Egg quality hints for fresh versus stale eggs
The article explains that stale eggs have glassy smooth shells while fresh eggs show a linen like surface. Long stored eggs smell musty and taste off. thin shells come from hens lacking gravel and lime. A clean golden yolk is good when held to light but darkness or spots indicate a bad egg.
Plans to Upend Roosevelt Insurgents Capture South
A Washington Times report from New York outlines an insurgent bid to block President Roosevelt from controlling the 1908 Republican National Convention. Old guard efforts to capture key Southern states and block Roosevelt influence aim to install Taft or another preferred successor. The piece traces organize alliances in Alabama Mississippi Tennessee Virginia Florida and beyond, noting postmaster resignations and state conventions as tactics.
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New York
Times’ Washington
Hooseyett
Taft
Himaesf
Janusty
Old Guard
Foraker
Brownsville
Roosevelt
South
Hanna Guard
Washington
Repub
Aldrich Scott
Elkins
Harriman
Cox
Cincinnati
Blythe
Town
Congress
House
White House
Scotty
West Virginia
Hanna
Capitol
Hun
Pirot
Hitchcock
Alabama
Olf Hanna Guard
Mississippi
Tennessee
H. Clay Evans
Arkansas
Powell Clayton
Shaw
Virginia
Florida
Slemp
Towa
Yerkes
I Revénna
Kentucky
Carolinas
Georgia
Texas
Cecil Lyon
Jorn
Ohio
Fairbanks
Todiana
Canton
Miinois
State Committee
Chicago
Cortelyou
Foraker Anda
Woosevelt
Casey Finds Relief with Dean's Ointment Cure
A fragment notes a patient named Casey relieved and finally cured after using Dean's Ointment. Mention of bleeding protrusion and banding pliers suggests earlier distress. Drogglets all settled as treatment progressed, leaving outcome positive.
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Dean
Casey
Mexican Carnegie of Don Pedro Alvarado in Mexico
Don Pedro Alvarado, a Mexican mine owner, vows to die poor despite a mine yielding potential profits of 12 million dollars a year. He plans to give 10 million to Mexico’s poor via the government, funding farms homes schools and churches, benefiting up to 20,000 people. He operates modestly, helping relatives, traveling with a charity train, and doing much of his own work and cooking.
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Chicago Chronicle
Don Pedro Alvarado
Don Pedro
Mexico
United States
Parral
Chicago
New York
Lavieh Coat Ride
Don Peiro
Wholesale Produce and Meat Prices List
A historical price column shows wholesale rates for produce and meats. Items include potatoes, apples, bananas, celery, grapes, lemons, onions, currants, dates, lard, bacon, beef and pork cuts, flour and meal. Prices are given per unit such as per bushel, per barrel, per dozen, per pound, and per sack, with several misread spellings and OCR errors.
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Ben Davis
Prices for Clover and Farm Seeds from Local Dealers
Field seed price list from cat seed and grain dealers shows Clover Red Clover at stores 7 50 to 9 00 per unit, Timothy 2 25, Blue Grass and Red Top varieties, Orchard Grass 1 75 to 1 85. Stock Peas 1 45 to wagon. Barley 50 to 60 cents. Rye 75 cents.
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Lambia Mills
Brom Mills
Alwyke
Timothy
Prices for eggs produce poultry and related goods
List of prices for eggs and poultry items including eggs at 7 cents per dozen hens at 7 cents chickens turkeys and ducks at 10 cents butter at 20 cents a pound feathers at 35 cents and other farm products such as wool honey beeswax ginseng hides and related items with assorted unit prices.
Peculiar Buyer Targets Alms Then Bargains Across Town
A messy OCR snippet describes a man with unusual spending habits and a charitable beggar motive, mentioning a sewing machine maker and Don Pedro’s purchase of ten units. It suggests a peculiar pattern of buying and offering labor in return, with references to grape harvests and Varado.
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Mt Can
Don Pedro
Tuto
Parra
Varado
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