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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
3
Dr Edwardes recalls past failures from free wards to a lost case and contemplates quitting. Max Wilson, wounded and conflicted, questions love and duty while Sidney confronts whether their bond can survive. Christine weighs marriage and moving on as K faces a looming departure and a fragile future on the Street.
The Street buzzed with change as asphalt replaced cobblestones. Mr Le Moyne inflamed the scene by declaring outrageous gas office statements, adding to the period’s brisk, unsettled mood.
A Chicago World tale recalls a grateful passerby who brings Jim a gift of old whisky bottles from a Van Buren street proprietor. One bottle breaks during the trek, prompting a rueful mutter of poor Jim.
Pennsylvania experiment station reports four years of data on Leghorn pullets. Findings include 1.83 eggs set per chick hatched, hatching cost 2.1 cents per chick, total 3.7 cents per chick. Feeding 12 weeks uses 5.69 lb grain and mash, 3.07 lb milk costing 1404 cents. one pound gain costs 8.4 cents. Mortality averaged 17 percent from 999 chicks. Net cost per pullet 38.1 cents after deducting cockerel profits.
Fowls kept in pens or yards needing protein should be fed meat meals scraps or tinkage. Meat blends should be mixed with wheat bran rice bran or corn meal and kept moist but not sloppy. Day old and young chickens benefit from occasional meat feed and some feeders offer one or two mash feedings weekly.
A double brood coop design by G Th Magee of Arno Maine described in Farmers' Mail and Breeze uses a Winch board 16 feet long and scraps from fruit boxes for lumber. A mid coop slat partition doubles the space and ventilated gable ends. End doors with bottom hinges and top latches are used. no floors, though floor options to prevent rats are suggested.
Farmers advised to keep the poultry house as clean as the dairy barn remove droppings at least twice weekly and sprinkle dry garden soil or sifted ashes after nightly droppings to absorb liquids reduce odor and prevent dampness daily cleaning not required with this method.
Analysis lists protein, carbohydrate and fat content for multiple poultry feeds. Entries include Corn 10.4 P 70.3 C 5.0 F, Cracked Corn 9.6 P 73.4 C 3.9 F, Cornmeal 9.2 P 65.7 C 3.8 F, Gluten Meal 20.4 P 62.4 C 6.3 F, Wheat 11.9 P 71.9 C 2.1 F. Oats 11 P 59.7 C 3.0 F, Buckwheat 10.0 P 64.5 C 2.2 F.
Dry mash should be freely available for laying hens at all times alongside morning and night grain rations. Hens will eat about half as much mash as grain, and ground mash aids digestion. Noon feeding of mash with milk in long troughs boosts egg output, with scraps and vegetables mixed in. A touch of red pepper can act as a mild stimulant.
Chickens kept in confined yards should receive green feed like lettuce oats alfalfa or clover but optimal production comes from a good range where no extra green feed is needed.
Young chickens should be fed only what they need to satisfy appetites and stay lively, except at the evening meal when they should be offered all they will eat.
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