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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1910
Page
3
Practical farm notes cover feeding clean feed for poultry and hogs, fence quality, and pasture. Advice highlights sound potatoes, proper forage, millet as safe hay, incubation times, and breeding with pure stock. Emphasizes efficient equipment, hedges, shade, and careful egg and poultry management for steady farm income growth.
A described low wheeled wagon adapts standard farm wagons by lowering the axle and deck height to reduce effort loading hay and other crops. Modifications include a nine and a half foot axle, undercarriage timbers, a reinforced front reach, and a wide deck with removable rear supports. It allows use for hay, silage, corn, manure, root crops, and other loads with less tipping danger and easier handling.
A large brooder house on Henry D Smith’s Plymouth county Massachusetts farm uses an open pipe system for heating. Pipes remain warm from a boiler at one end and chicks cluster under them for warmth. Early on a cloth screen covers pipes to trap more heat. Smith, a leading New England poultry raiser, calls the system satisfactory as chicks move toward cooler areas and eventually outdoors to colony houses.
Turkeys offer high profits to successful producers as they forage for bugs grasshoppers and waste grain from six weeks old through winter. Early spring hatches reach 44 to 20 pounds by Thanksgiving week. Six standard varieties exist with Bronze Narragansett Buff Slate White Black and non standard Bourbon Reds.
Danger signals warn of kidney distress with frequent urination backache headache and dizziness. Doan's Kidney Pills are advertised as a cure with a testimonial from M. A. Gamblin of Russellville Arkansas describing dramatic improvement after two boxes. Sold by all dealers 60 cents per box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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