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Newspaper
Indiana County Agent
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1916
Page
5
The page discusses turkey feathering as an indicator of quality, its value for appearance and breeding, and which traits matter most like hardness, vigor, disease immunity, growth, and tameness. It also notes feed tips with potatoes, clover, and alfalfa, and ends with a renewal offer for Woman's World.
The article advises giving hens green feed like cabbage hung for pecking, mangels or beets on nails, and chopped onions twice weekly. It warns against green-food deprivation lowering egg yield and notes avoiding onions before slaughter to prevent off flavors in meat.
Aimed at aspiring poultry entrepreneurs the article urges learning from ahead of you not copying old methods. It frames hens as egg making machines, stresses proper care and feed, and notes young stock commands the market while older birds lose profitability.
A historic tips note on laying hens advises light morning feeding to encourage activity and winter egg production. It recommends feeding the first meal in deep litter, using scratch grain of equal parts wheat and cracked corn, and offering a noon wet mash with bran middlings cornmeal cut clover beef scrap oats. Any leftover mash goes to hogs, then hens receive full crops before roosting with constant access to grit charcoal and oyster shell.
In court the constable testified the car was traveling at least forty miles an hour and that he barely avoided being hit. The defendant challenged the claim, arguing no such speed would have allowed him to be struck.
A Louisville Courier Journal line notes that some women simply disappear briefly for a change of outfits. The remark hints at light social gossip or fashion practice reflected in the era.
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