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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1916
Page
6
The article urges early turkey production to meet peak Thanksgiving demand and better prices. It advises continuous feeding, high quality feed, and range grazing. It notes English practices of fattening on oats corn and milk with soft table scraps, feeding three times daily during fattening and using ground mash at noon. It claims extra grain boosts flesh efficiently.
The article explains how molt timing affects egg production and broodiness in hens. Late molting hens tend to be heavier producers and resume laying sooner after molt. It discusses seasonal molt patterns, weight loss, and management tips for keeping late-molting hens healthy and productive. It also notes difficulty in determining chick sex except in some color-marked varieties and mentions Chinese poultry practices in sexing via touch.
The author urges backyard poultry without roosters and spring chick purchases to maintain laying stock and raise fryers. He notes thousands follow this plan and stresses poultry need sun, advising against basements or shaded backyards and warning against attempting to raise poultry without adequate sunlight.
California experiment station advises using blue ointment for body lice on mature chickens applied below the vent in pea sized amounts. Do not apply to young birds. Ointment also effective for schlylog.
Proper care of poultry droppings yields rich fertilizer and aids flock health. A dry airy box or house preserves them. coal ashes or sawdust aid drying. Daily or weekly examination of droppings can indicate diet or disease, with blood indicating meat overfeed, soft unshaped droppings signaling too wet mash, and yellow or green waste suggesting bowel trouble. white kidney excretion indicates health.
Advice on feeding newly hatched goslings with bread softened in milk and added charcoal. After two to three days switch to a mixture of one part corn meal and two parts bran, gradually replacing bread.
The guide advises frequent but sparing feeding for young chicks. Feed four to five times daily in the first week, taper to fewer meals by week two. Provide cracked grain three times daily and keep dry mash available after week two. Avoid sloppy wet foods.
United Motors buys Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co Newark. Maple Shade to gain a modern gymnasium. Williamstown Church installs a new organ. Recorder Haines seeks re election as Justice of the Peace Pitman. Camden evangelistic campaign slated. Gloucester church hosts campaign stop. Merchantville M E to dedicate church addition with church leaders speaking. Cape May County to continue vocational training. Summit Silk Mill weavers lose 11000 in wages. owner Geril defends pay. Montclair Animal Warden cleans stray cats. 633 culled since Oct 1915. Farm death as bull gore hits Farrow in Bernardsville. Bride Florence Lindabury dies. husband under autopsy. Woodbury moves toward commission government after election. Landis Township poultry protection urged as dogs kill stock. Dr. Knight named assistant epidemiologist in Trenton. Egg Harbor City politicians seek re election. Democratic petitions none filed. Gloucester County farm demand rising at high prices. Burlington Home for Aged Women guests cruise on steamboat. Gloucester M C A plans Putman Alcyon Lake camp Oct 1 1916. Woodbury speeding fines yield over $100. Burlington Pet owner arrests rise. several dog cases. Bridgeport water tank boosts supply. Woodbury contractors push project after material delays. Twelfth Regiment NJ veterans hold annual reunion with wives.
A Maine tennis lawn incident ends with a butcher injured by a horse driven wagon, then a health pamphlet warns sunlight and sanitation make better babies. The surgeon general says 1,200,000 Americans die yearly from diseases. heart disease pneumonia and tuberculosis are top killers. He urges scrupulous fly control as flies lay 120 eggs per cycle.
Miss Cayenne argues that a man who changes his opinions too often needn't have troubled himself to have any in the first place. The snippet notes Russia maintaining at Moscow an experiment station for flax cultivation and manufacture.
A dialogue on politics and personal image contrasts a man’s disposition with the need to appear pleasant for campaign publicity. Miss Cayenne remarks that a man often must look agreeable to have his portrait used in campaigns.
A fragment from a dialogue between a father and son, noting nature’s wastefulness and a humorous line about a cow with two horns unable to play. The exchange ends with a quip about a human phonograph.
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