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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1913
Page
6
Skim milk is a valuable food for poultry, improving digestion and growth in chicks and aiding laying hens. Using milk with small amounts of ginger and soda prevents bowel troubles, while milk in mash aids fattening and moisture. Young ducks need milk and curds from sour milk, though water remains essential.
Guide on winter green food for chickens. It suggests sprouting oats rye wheat or barley in small spaces or even in a soil filled box. If feed is needed quickly use seedlings in a sand filled box. cold weather can reuse a kitchen area. It also notes hanging vegetables on wall nails to encourage activity while feeding.
A Missouri Valley Farmer writer suggests roosts designed to prevent crowding. Bore holes three feet apart and insert upright pieces about 12 inches high like broom handles. Include a dropping board underneath to catch droppings.
Eggs must be kept cool to stay fresh. In summer eggs must be under three days old, while in winter they should be about a week old. Heat quickly degrades eggs, and crates left in the sun for hours alter their condition rapidlly.
The article advises buyers to prefer hens and medium-sized carcasses. Market turkeys should have shorter legs and necks, a full breast, a compact body, and be meaty and fat rather than large and coarse in structure.
An article explains hens need a varied diet for tissue repair warmth and egg production. A daily 6 ounce intake per hen is suggested with two thirds grains (wheat, cracked corn, oats plus sunflower seed) and one third mash (bran alfalfa meal oats corn meal beef scrap salt pepper). Include grit lime oyster shells and provide a dry mash in a large mixed bowl.
J Manson Lewis as Executor of Henry Smith deceased files final settlement. The Fountain Circuit Court set April 28 1913 to examine accounts and vouchers. Heirs creditors or legates must appear and show cause why the accounts should not be approved. Heirs must prove heirship. MANSON LEWIS Executor. M TEEGARDEN Attorney.
Albert C. Roberts has been appointed administrator of the estate of Jacob H. Myers, deceased, of Fountain County Indiana. The estate is described as solvent.
Administrator of the estate of Jacou H. Myers will sell at public auction at the late residence southeast of Wallace in Fountain County Indiana on April 17 1912 at 10 AM. Items include one horse two cows two 2 year olds a yearling about 1200 bushels oats about 600 bushels corn and other articles. Cash for 500 or less. over 500 a credit up to nine months with note at 6 percent interest. Auctioneer G Madden clerk Albert Lowe.
Harold Orahood spent Sunday visiting relatives and friends, enjoying time with family during a weekend stop.
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