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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
7
Agricultural tips cover sheep feeding and care, dairy cow management, pasture improvement, silage and alfalfa use, bird husbandry, and farm maintenance. Emphasis on breeding choices, fencing, watering, lime and soil health, pest control, and market outlook for hogs and corn.
Missouri article explains gapes a common chick disease in damp weather caused by worms in the windpipe. It suggests using crushed Jeruselam oak leaves or seeds mixed with feed or water as a preventive vermifuge to stop the ailment.
An automatic poultry feeder shown in the illustration is simple in design and practical. It hangs from a support and uses a grain container with a bottom discharge, a scoop beneath, and a pendulum ball at its end. pecking by chickens makes the pendulum swing, tilting the scoop to release grain onto the ground.
Do not keep laying hens or raise young chicks without this essential article. Place coops near shade and scatter coarse strawy manure about three inches deep to moisten and attract earthworms. Watch the chicks flourish as they forage. Currant brush is a good location.
Advice on starting with six hens and growing a flock focuses on profit per hen, fresh egg selection, and feeding. Milk aids chicks and all fowl, while summer care is easy with proper conditions. Diarrhea is the common intestinal issue, and roosting in trees may reduce vermin exposure. Food shortages kill many, and fair customer treatment mirrors breeding quality. Skim milk harms more than helps. body heat can stress a flock and reduce usefulness.
In Denmark a trend toward social mobility appears as Anny Berntsen, daughter of Prime Minister Klaus Berntsen, apprenticed to a cabinet maker and performing daily tasks of a male apprentice under Katrine Horschol. The premier supports her pursuit of skilled work to match his political leadership.
Berlin inventors patent using marble instead of glass to illuminate lamps. A semi transparent marble sheet behind the light yields daylight-like brightness, surpassing prior tinted glass efforts. Lights are mounted on a room cornice showing remarkable natural illumination.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a Lakewood mother reading a story to her son about a father who dies and leaves him to support the family. The boy questions if they can eat the house as the mother jokes about gaining another husband, ending with a humorous, sharp rebuke.
A Kansas City Star item recalls Ezra Toombs the undertaker brooding on dwindling business. The tale frames a strife with a doctor over Judge Feebles now supposedly near death but alive, while Toombs watches a tramp painter gild the church weather vane and contemplates leaving the town.
A quirky collection features a sharp line about Mrs Cooke and her husband followed by an ad for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming teething relief at 25 cents a bottle. The page also touts Woolford's Sanitary Lotion for various itchy conditions and a general remark on opinions.
An advertisement features Mrs Ollie Woodall of Morton's Gap Kentucky praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing years of backache and female disorders. The text urges readers to write for confidential advice to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass and promises a woman answer.
New York waiter Robert Schweizer, unemployed, killed himself with gas after a Canfield solitaire session. He arranged the table and cards to show thirteen failed attempts, with a penciled tally and the note I lose My time has come R. S. near the scene.
A robber on Chicago the south side demanded kisses from Mrs. W. C. Laidey as she crossed Drexel Avenue after a Cottage Grove avenue car ride. He grabbed her bag containing a small amount of money but fled after she screamed.
Police chase Tony Tasseldo an eight year old boy through city streets after he dives into the city hall park fountain wearing only a tan coat. A quick pursuit ends with the child being caught.
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