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Newspaper
Indiana County Agent
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
5
Practical advice on feeding chickens using kitchen scraps such as parings, cabbage, and root vegetables. Includes tips on mash with wheat bran, feeding milk in a separate trough, heating water in cold weather, and maintaining a dust box in the henhouse.
Chinese geese are noted for high egg production and hardiness but their smaller size keeps them from large scale flocks preferred by big producers. In contrast, breeders with modest numbers find them valuable for reliable outputs and resilience.
The text praises Chinese geese for practicality and high production, averaging 50 to 60 eggs annually. It notes their size, fattening ease, and superior flesh quality, plus graceful appearance and hardiness. Two varieties are identified as Brown and White with distinct head and beak features.
A Farmers Mail and Breeze item by Mrs. Leo H. Johnson of Langsville Ohio describes a versatile dry mash hopper with a slanting top to prevent roosting, adjustable size, and optional partitions. It covers chick feeding from a 48 hour old start to early growth, and gives a sample daily ration of mash and mixed grains along with a standard dry mash recipe and sour milk availability.
Profitable feeding is essential for farmers and poultrymen to develop vigorous chicks into standard mature birds. The toughest period for feeding begins with baby chicks.
The Scamander is praised as a remarkable stream with a source at a yawning chasm in Mount Gargarus. It is shaded by enormous plane trees and flanked by high cliffs from which the river dashes forth in the splendor of a divine origin as told in ancient fable.
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