Early Friers Bring Fancy Prices For Mrs Murdock
Mrs. George Murdock of C.9 Springs Arkansas says early friers are fastest money on the farm. She hatched December 20 raised 160 friers and sold seventy at market for 42 cents a pound averaging two and a half pounds. She uses Plymouth Rocks with 1000-chick coal hover brooder houses 8 by 12 feet with sunny south exposure and fenced exercise runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Murdock
Springs
Arkansas
Murdock
Plymouth Rocks
Effects of Sulphur on Poultry
Mrs. Irvin Pickle shares twenty years of experience feeding poultry pure powdered sulphur. She argues it strengthens disease resistance, aids growth, reduces forehead disease, repels insects, and is inexpensive compared to poultry tonics. A tablespoonful per gallon of feed is suggested with no harm from overuse.
Hints on worming pigs from Boyd county Nebraska
George Filsinger of Boyd County Nebraska warns hog raisers that withholding feed for 48 hours before worm medicine improves results. He keeps pigs confined for several days after treatment and then cleans out the pens barely.
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George Filsinger
Boyd County
Nebraska
How I Feed Hogs by Daniel Provant
The author argues young hogs should be pushed to market age at 3 to 4 weeks to avoid unprofitable growth. Hogs need bone and muscle building feeds and ample exercise. Grains ground from farm crops provide many necessary nutrients when fed dry or as slop, though further details follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Provant
Local buyers say Fredericksburg cotton fetches more on streets
Fredericksburg and Gillespie County business leaders dispute Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association figures. They report daily street prices averaging 23.28 per pound for ten thousand bales, versus 22.75 in county receipts for Farm Bureau members, implying about 4 337.90 extra could have been earned by selling locally. The letter urges farmers to compare selling to home buyers versus the state association.
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Fredericksburg
Radio Post
Texas Farm Bureau Cottons Association of Texas
Statistical Department of the Association
Commissioner of Agriculture
State of
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Gillespie County
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association
Farm Bureau
Wm. Schneider
A. J. Hahne & Co
R. M. Lewis Juenke & Schoenewolf
Robert Blum
John Knopp
Louis Herbert
How I Limit Swarming in Bees With Extra Supers
The author details methods to prevent swarming by expanding hive space. They use large hives and overseer techniques, noting an 11-frame jumbo deep colony that has not swarmed in two years and success with two 10-frame hives for brood last year. Extra supers are added to provide abundant room.
Moonshiner with Leprosy Faces New Orleans Colony Move
San Antonio reports its top illicit distiller has leprosy and will be sent to a New Orleans leper colony if the U S health department approves. He was seized with a full distillery and high quality whiskey after arrest last Thursday. Authorities say the alien man has lived in the city over 20 years and is held in isolation at Bexar County Jail while the case proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
New Orleans
United States Public Health Department
D. Berry
Bexar County
Railroads Agree to 50 Percent Feed Freight Cut in Texas
In a Monday meeting in Texas, representatives from ten rail lines and railroad officials agreed to reduce freight rates on livestock feed by 50 percent for shipments into the drought affected Central Texas region. The move, urged by a conference committee, seeks immediate relief and was approved after a nine member report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
F. 5
Leland
Southwestern Traffic Bureau
St. Louis
Committee of Nine
Railroad Commission
Drouth
Aerial Acrobat Killed in St. Louis Stunt Flight
A defective safety belt caused the death of 24 year old aerial acrobat John B. Neukum during a stunt beneath a speeding airplane promoting a North St. Louis subdivision. Neukum had recently performed exhibitions in California.
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St. Louis
John B. Neukum
Neukum
California
Wool Clip Larger In U S This Year
The department of agriculture estimates this year wool clip at 249,885,000 pounds, up 11,350,000 from last year. Sheep slaughter in the first six months of 1925 exceeds 1924, signaling a small rise in pulled wool production to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Honesty Rewarded as Messenger Returns Lost Funds
Dallas July 27 Donald Ball an 18 year old messenger for Western Union Telegraph found a bank book with 3600 in currency and 1600 in checks today during a call He promptly returned the money to a produce firm whose employee had misplaced it while depositing He was given a token reward of 1 dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Donald Ball
Western Union Telegraph Company
Ile
Ferguson Grants 3 Full Pardons In Texas
Gov Miriam A Ferguson announced Tuesday three full pardons and 12 conditional pardons bringing July total to 134 and overall to 475 since taking office. Additional pardons expected Wednesday. Recipients described as unfortunate and penniless convicts who served substantial terms. Pardons include F B Wheeler and S A Bluett among others, with various counties cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam A. Ferguson
F. B. Wheeler
White Dallas
Felix Robertson
S. A. Bluett
R. R. Bowles
McCombs
Fred Pabst
Claude Sageser
Roy Ogletree
White
Kerr
N. T. Stubbs
Mexia
Gillespie, Kerr
Real
Youth Slain One Shot Near Sutherland Springs
Clarence Smith age 19 was killed and Clyde Underwood seriously wounded when shot as they walked on a highway five miles southwest of Sutherland Springs Texas Sunday night. A man was arrested nearby and held for preliminary trial. A shotgun was used. The youths had been forbidden by the man in paying attention to his daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutherland Springs
Texas
Clarence Smith
Clyde Underwood
Here
Probate of Will Notice in Gillespie County Texas
The State of Texas commands publication of notice of application for probate of the last will and testament of Phebe A. Sageser deceased filed in Gillespie County Court. D. W. Sageser seeks letters testamentary to be heard at the September 1925 term in Fredericksburg. Parties may appear to contest and depositions will be taken from Wm H Price and Geo E Wright as evidence.
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Gillespie County
Gillespie
Texas
State OF Texas
Phebe A. Sageser
D. W. Sageser
Fredericksburg
Wm. H. Price
Geo. E. Wright
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Mrs
Irvin Pickle
Ono
Juenke & Schoenewolf
Felix W. Mater
Sy L. H. Cobb
P. Stammer
A. D
Albert E. Klett
Couty Court
Priess Bldg
J. W. Yancey
F.o.b. Detroit
Tudor Sedan
O. B
Detroit
FORD
Ford Motor
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