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Newspaper
Indiana County Agent
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1916
Page
5
Goose eggs hatch in about 30 days with hatchlings emerging in clutches of four to ten. Feed goslings a damp mash of bran cornmeal and ground grains, with rolled oats for initial days, and provide ample exercise to prevent leg weakness. At two months, introduce whole grain. those for table use should be confined two weeks prior to slaughter and cornmeal kept moist.
Fowls badly affected with roup should be culled or isolated. Heads of especially valuable birds may be dipped in a potassium permanganate solution made by quarter teaspoonful of the commercial mixture to two quarts hot water, repeated three times. Preventive use of KMnO4 in drinking water may turn it cherry red.
Some experiment stations place a value on poultry manure from five to eight dollars per ton. The average farmer is cited as realizing substantial value from poultry manure as a soil amendment according to early agricultural studies.
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