Poultry Marketing Tips From USDA
The notice advises growers to avoid overcrowding and select only strong vigorous birds for sale. Cockerels large enough should be sent to market while retaining high quality specimens for breeding or other purposes.
12 Jun 1919
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
1
The notice advises growers to avoid overcrowding and select only strong vigorous birds for sale. Cockerels large enough should be sent to market while retaining high quality specimens for breeding or other purposes.
An illustrated Farmers' Bulletin 1040 explains poultry production fundamentals with pictures showing popular breeds in each class and their economic use. It highlights how the bulletin links to additional department publications for deeper details and notes they can be obtained on request.
The article stresses providing shade for chicks during hot days and maintaining clean fresh water in vessels. It warns against overcrowding and recommends proper housing such as a coop, brooder, or colony to ensure healthy growth.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges farmers to plan next winter's wood fuel. Many households still burn cordwood stored in log heaps after clearing land. Thousands must provide wood, with neighbors or community buildings often benefiting if forethought is used and waste wood is postponed.
The note urges giving young chickens ample range with grass grit and insects. Chickens fail to thrive if confined to coops away from green food and outdoor foraging opportunities.
The soybean cut at proper growth and cured well yields a nutritious hay rivaling or exceeding other legumes. It provides on farm protein reducing the need for expensive seeds, usable from seed setting to leaf yellowing. Early cuts raise protein but lower yield, while late cuts reduce leaves and feeding value due to woody stems.
The article advises housing chicks with ample space for growth and separating underperforming birds. It stresses selecting strong specimens as breeders, using fine bone meal mash, and ensuring constant access to feed and green seeds. Monitor for vermin and separate cockerels from pullets in Leghorn herds.
Advice on keeping poultry clean and healthy through summer and early fall. Emphasizes ensuring cleanliness, proper light, and protection for fowls while advising farmers to remember summer needs.
When chicks reach three to four weeks they should be moved to the orchard or allowed ample free range with abundant green footing where feasible to promote growth and health.
In pastures lacking natural water sources it is advisable to provide water for summer to ensure livestock stay hydrated and productive. Establish additional troughs or access points and monitor supply during dry periods for cattle and other stock.
Farm cost notes show tool sheds not rising as fast as machinery. Poultry savings on farm expenses cited. Guiding tips emphasize raising more stock and feed to balance budgets.
Revival of outdoor sports follows soldiers’ return with golf tennis and archery reemerging. Commentator notes sport clothes shift from tailored to active styles like sport waists and colorful sweaters. Describes net smocks and square patchwork knits as fresh departures from past season’s conservatism.
An attractive white chiffon dress features layered flounces edged in rose taf feta. Described as charming for the little amiga, the garment highlights delicate styling and feminine charm.
A fashion writer extols silk and taffeta aprons as informal yet stylish for afternoons and house wear. It details gray Quakery designs with shirred waistbands, patch pockets, and a decorative flower-fruit motif on the left pocket, plus tips to recycle old silk into new aprons.
The article explains veils as essential to bridal fashion, detailing types from abbreviated to lace mantels. It notes French practice with careful adjustment, and describes shapes like square octagonal mesh veils and Bo-Peep styles, advising widespread try-ons to find a flattering veil.
The article showcases elaborate bonnets and hats for young girls in sheer organdie with valenciennes lace inserts. Silk flowers pink or blue ribbons rosettes and streamers beautify the pieces, offering both ornate and simpler styles for careful craftsmanship.
A Brooklyn manufacturer sold fraudulent aspirin tablets made mainly of talcum powder. Genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin are American made and branded Bayer with proper packaging and directions. Also includes a quip from the Birmingham Age-Herald about a suitor’s progress with a daughter.
Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge laments altered social behavior due to Prohibition era bone dry laws. He recalls seven fights per dance in former times and worries the trend has spread fights thin across events.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap remedy for corns and hard skin on feet. It claims a few drops lift away corns and calluses, leaving pink healthy skin that is never sore or irritated.
In a lively classroom memory Johnny recalls Gideon’s quick victory over the Midnights. The tale thrills the school as the teacher explains the celebrated bout and its dramatic outcome.
A fragmented OCR snippet shows a girl speaking of a Kansas outing with phrases about a cabaret and a purchase by someone named Johnny. The garbled text includes stray quotes and mispunctuated words, making the exact event unclear.
Afragmentary OCR note hints at changes across a newspaper page, mentioning river and liver terms amid garbled text. Readers may struggle to extract a clear event, but clues point to a transcription issue within a historic issue.
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