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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
9
A broad compendium of farm guidance covers feeding hogs, silage use for sheep, and mineral mixes for fruit trees. It emphasizes soil care, timely pruning, stock selection, and air circulation in barns, with practical tips on grazing, nesting hens, and hay rations for horses.
A long experience guides the writer in Farm and Fireside who shares how careful breeding, proper flock management, and disciplined feeding raise profits. He details yearly lessons, from avoiding overbreeding to using thoroughbred stock, early eggs, and humane handling. He stresses clean pens, weather awareness, and precise feeding to reduce losses and boost poult health.
The Leghorn hen is described as a superior mother, often sitting on eggs and hatching them successfully. A writer notes a Leghorn incubating 20 eggs and hatching 19, with nests placed in baskets and careful parental behavior. The birds are light weight, gentle with chicks, and fiercely protective against intruders.
The text discusses flock health and management for poultry. It notes that failures in poultry life are not solely hens faults, first duck eggs are rarely fertile, avoid starving growing chicks, blood spots can appear in eggs, ducklings begin laying around five months, chicks need warmth but not excessive heat, and that chick deformities can occur in crowded coops. Poultry breeding is a labor of love.
The lesson centers on Jesus reading from Isaiah in the Nazareth synagogue and declaring that the scripture is fulfilled. Despite initial wonder, villagers take offense at a local carpenter's son claiming Messianic authority, illustrating public worship, scriptural knowledge, and the Spirit upon him.
A satirical piece mocks the man vain character who flaunts pride and petty behaviors. It contrasts his self backslapping with imagined warmth and social missteps from penny games to courting public notice. The verse warns against reading too deeply into hot weather temptations.
A sub-chief questions serving the fallen leader at the banquet. The cannibal chief recalls a poetry book from a previous meal that claims the bravest are the tenderest, explaining his stance in a terse exchange.
In a sharp domestic quarrel a guardian scolds Harold for associating with a boy from a lower social class. The admonition cites a costly purchase, a $900 car, implying snobbery and class prejudice within the household. The speaker warns of further social slippage if behavior continues.
In the exchange, Alice-So Maud is said to be divorced with a remark implying a hasty marriage led to lasting regret. Kate notes Maud receives $200 a month, suggesting alimony or support arrangements referenced in the dialogue.
Jack asks if microbes exist in kisses and Gwen responds with a playful invitation to search for herself.
During the first dance he asks her to say something to him to know he has her in his arms. She asks why and he replies because she is so light. The line is delivered in a playful Princeton Tiger tone.
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