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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
5
A 19th century note describes issues with automatic poultry drinking fountains under warm weather and proposes a simple pan and board setup. Water is kept clean by a shallow box pan with a board cover and lath strips, allowing fowls to drink while minimizing contamination. The design can be expanded with an additional hot-water dish to ease cleaning and maintenance.
A distorted OCR fragment references a rural scene with unclear names and terms. The legible items hint at a farm setting and a tense moment involving poultry, though key details and participants remain unreadable in this fragment.
The article gives practical guidance on duckling care including coop design with a low front, strong roof, and strong netting. It advises moving the coop, keeping it clean and dry, offering green food daily, water in a small cup, and a varied feed with onion rope and taters. It warns against exposure to sun and predators and stresses shelter to prevent duckling deaths from exposure.
The narrator extols the Brown Leghorn breed as highly desirable for poultry markets, praising its brightness, activity, and early laying. The passion for breeding and selling eggs is linked to profitable outcomes and competitive success in fairs or markets.
The text describes cleaning and managing a poultry yard, warning against keeping too many chicken varieties and mentioning hens, eggs, ducks, and breading. The fragmentary notes imply selecting mature birds and careful breeding practices, but the passage is unclear and garbled.
Local notes recount visits and relatives in Colfax and nearby towns. Annarsin, Tana Qunderson, and families travel from Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Illinois to Wellington and Asthvivile for gatherings. A reported fall fractured a collar bone while visiting Uhrng Anderson's home.
A fragmented local item notes Inula Iverson is out of danger and school activity returns in district No 2 on Monday. Mentions Mrs Myanit Suctivid at home, Gjerda and Nelson drilling a well, and visitors including Miss O W Wiot and Mrs Nace amid community notes and names.
Fragmentary OCR shows a note about a schoolhouse gathering on Santis day at noon September first. Mentions a group or club and a person named Osbor, with unclear context and several garbled phrases.
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