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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1915
Page
7
Prices for dressed beef and veal, calves and sheep noted with variations. Hog prices shown for light and country dressed hogs, plus spot wheat and flour values and hay and tobacco prices in the latest market recap.
Mrs. C G Lane outlines methods to identify top layers by housing them separately with one rooster per twelve hens, feeding well, and using their eggs for setting. She argues pure-bred stock improves profitability, uniformity, and appearance, and offers steps to start with utility stock, exchange with neighbors, or raise pure-bred chicks while culling mongrels.
The article outlines key factors for successful incubation: fertility from the male, egg condition, and a well fed hen. It stresses fresh air cleanliness exercise and a balanced ration over exclusive feeds, noting that outdoor exercise improves egg fertility and hatch quality.
Practical guidance on a single coop to house a male during feeding in breeding pens. Useful for ensuring adequate feed when one male breeds with two or three females. Suggests limiting the male’s access each day to a short period.
Readers are advised a head of cabbage or a piece of meat hung on a string above chicks’ heads can occupy them for a long period, providing a simple kitchen garden trick to keep young fowl entertained.
A natural home for hens is outside, not a house. To winter eggs, provide fresh air with a cloth covered window on the south side of the poultry house. Use a hinged frame to open the window wide and avoid drafts, keep it open most of the time, and close only during storms or the coldest nights.
Guidance warns animals must be kept out of the hen yard to avoid frightening the fowl. Keeping dogs, cats and other animals away helps maintain calm, gentle hens and better results in egg production.
The article warns against overcrowding young stock as it raises heat and illness risk. It recommends open housing at night to prevent chicks from overheating and catching cold, arguing betterroasting heat outdoors than confinement.
Instructions describe covering holes in the poultry house to ventilate while preventing drafts. The aim is to improve air flow using coarse material placed over openings to regulate drafts and maintain ventilation.
The Green Forest residents worry as Farmer Brown's son vanishes for days. Hooty the Owl says the boy quarreled with Jimmy Skunk and is hiding until the trouble passes. Kansas City Star report notes the rumor mill.
A vintage notice touts Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a simple, natural way to darken gray hair. It claims the product restores color, stops dandruff and hair loss, and makes hair look thicker and glossier after a few applications.
A speaker contrasts a Gordon breed setter with a Plymouth Rock hen in a light poultry conversation. The exchange highlights differences between dog and fowl breeds and their distinct origins.
Bulgaria reports a floating debt totaling 113 650 000 dollars. The nation’s population is around 4 900 000 people.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Br. Space of 390 Maple Street Marlboro Mass say they have great faith in Father Johns Medicine. They note they take it for colds and recommend it to friends.
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