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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
6
A rear platform scene aboard a car features four men smoking. An unusual cigar odor draws attention as one man notes another’s cigar band has burned down past the end. The complacent smoker replies he is not saving them, brushing off the incident.
A golf club secretary of small stature endures a summer round as a long driver keeps dropping balls near him. Frustrated, the secretary remonstrates with the visitor but is told by the driver that if the grass were cut the secretary would be visible.
An exchange features tall women, a playful tease toward Miss Flossie, and a bitter heiress lamenting a broken word. Baron Fucash, a foreigner, admits his English slips. A diplomat is defined as one who dodges refusals by clever phrasing.
Guidance on breeding and managing flocks, culling, nesting, and feeding for steady egg production. Includes male to female ratios, keeping flocks uniform, kerosene in drinking water to prevent disease, and the benefits of onions as a poultry tonic. Recommends separating main flocks, avoiding mixing sexes, and careful fattening practices for market birds.
The piece explains trap nests used to record individual hens egg laying, noting two types: one traps on entry, the other after the egg is laid. It compares trap nests to the Babcock test for dairymen, outlines benefits for selecting laying hens, and describes a simple nest design with a light door and wire mechanism.
A request for shade and cooling for chicks, ensuring they have shelter from heat. The plan calls for any available coverage, even a temporary board roof, to provide shade and a cool breeze when temperatures rise.
W M Kelly argues for dual purpose breeds suited for laying and brooding, favoring American breeds like Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Wyandottes over Asiatic types. He highlights White Rocks for easy color breeding, strong growth, and market appeal, noting favorable cockerel and hen weights and the rising demand for dressed poultry.
Instructions outline obtaining charcoal from poultry supplies dealers at about one dollar per 100 pounds. It explains a pit burning method with an iron cover to produce charcoal, then grinding the charcoal into powder to mix with soft feed.
The passage outlines dry picking as the standard method in markets, noting that expertise comes from study and practice. It advises removing feathers while the bird is bleeding to keep skin intact and avoid chilling the carcass, and suggests killing by quick throat method through the roof of the mouth.
The white china geese are thought by many to be the best layers of all geese. A good breeding geese two years old or older with good care will lay from 36 to 60 eggs in a season. Breed ing geese should not be too fat, as the eggs from fat geese never hatch. In the summer, when they can get plenty of grass, they do not need a single kernel of grain and they will thrive and keep in fine condition with out it.
A letter describes a elderly woman with eczema on the head losing hair. After trial of two doctors, a niece suggested Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Within six months the itching and hair loss stopped and hair began to grow. A separate note mentions feet eczema improving after using Cuticura products for years. An Irish policeman story ends with a folk joke about a driver going very fast.
Caution against using catarrh ointments with mercury as they harm smell and the system. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A humorous scene unfolds as a mother lectures Bobby while counting chewed clams. Tommy interruption triggers a quarrel about whether the count reached 256 or 356, highlighting a light domestic moment.
Do you know the place Muskoka The Beautiful promises a pleasant visit. The Grand Trunk Railway issues a folder with a large map, views, and facts. Inquiries to W. B. Cookson 917 Merchants Loan Trust Building Chicago.
A playful exchange frames a dispute over the name of a range of hills. The Scot intrudes with blunt humor, and the sketch captures the light banter over language and spelling borders.
An old newspaper ad promotes Murine Eye Salve and Asept ic tubes as a trial size product for treating red itching eyelids cysts styes and general eye care, urging readers to ask their druggist or write Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago.
A fragment notes disappointment with Venice citing romantic lagoons and canals yet complains there was no place to shoot the chutes, hinting at missing amusement options in the city.
A cautionary line warns readers that pretending to be an earthly angel may invite scrutiny or suspicion rather than trust. The remark suggests skepticism toward covert pieties and urges authenticity in appearances.
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