Junior Membership Drives Red Cross School Involvement
The program fosters patriotic service through junior membership in schools nationwide. It outlines eligibility for boys and girls, funding requirements, and age groups with concrete projects such as afghans, blankets, surgical dressings, and clerical work, all under Red Cross supervision.
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Red Cross relief in Southwestern camps aids soldiers
The Bureau of Military Relief reports Red Cross efforts across seven Southwestern Division cantonments after an October 23 to November 1 tour. About 125,080 sweaters were distributed from Washington and St. Louis, with dedicated shipments to Camp Hicks Fort Worth Camp Kelley San Antonio and other posts. Units at Fort Worth Fort Sill and Camp Doniphan mobilized hundreds of men with warm clothing while field directors organized thousands of articles and responded to pneumonia risks by supplying comforts and requesting 15,000 more.
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St. Louis
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Lawrence Visit Notes From Kansas City Trip
Mr Hugh Blair conducted business visits while Miss Hester Jackson spent the day in Kansas City. Mr William Muller of Topeka and Mr Agel White of Baldwin joined yesterday's activities in Lawrence.
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Hugh Blair
Hester Jackson
Iter
Kansas City
William Muller
Topeka
Agel White
Baldwin
Lawrence
Fe ace MEIRY CALL SURPLUS YOUNG STOCK
Do not hold poultry until Christmas. Sell surplus young stock now for higher prices. Cull the old flock and keep promising breeders. Cull pullets with low vitality and disease risk. Determine house capacity by four square feet per hen.
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Hill
Correct care and feeding for poultry
Breeding is half of poultry keeping. Proper care and feeding drive production, especially in winter. Eggs require warmth water and essential nutrients. Feeds rely on protein fats and carbohydrates with fats and carbs forming the yolk and protein and water for the white.
Make Winter Layers Work For Part Of Her Living
The text argues that winter layers should be made to work for part of their living by scattering feed, noting that scratching for grain provides exercise. This physical activity aids bodily health, stimulates digestion and reproduction, and invigorates the entire system. Feeding is deemed crucial to winter production.
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Feeding fowls fresh meat during winter dangers
On farms it is common to feed fowls fresh meat in winter using rabbits horses and other animals. Careless methods lead to rotting meat and risk of poisoning from plomaine.
Bronze Turkey Best Known in Holiday Markets
The bronze turkey stands as the largest and best known domesticated breed. Toms weigh about 36 pounds and hens about 20, with heavier weights among breeders not for sale. Breeders report high demand for smaller birds for family dinners despite the breed’s large size. Bronze plumage is bronze with white banding, offering pleasing color effects.
Peighton Melvin Heads to Fort McArthur for Coast Artillery Training
Peighton Melvin departed last night for Fort MacArthur California to begin training with the Coast Artillery. He will join the unit training there and resume duties after completion.
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My. Peighton Melvin
Fort McArthur
California
Coast Artillery
Ducks for General Farmer Runner Duck in egg production staple
For general farmers prioritizing eggs over market fowls the Runner duck offers strong egg laying and hardiness. It yields a large white egg, is a good forger and fattening regimens use a mash of corn midlings bran beef scrap green feed and grit. Boiled fish can replace beef scrap briefly but should stop two weeks before slaughter to avoid fishy odor.
RIGHT DUST BATH MATERIAL FOR HENS IN WINTER
The article advises supplying dust bath material during winter. Dry light sand, gathered thoroughly dry or dried by fire, stores under cover and used when needed. A sunlit dust bath encourages hens to use it more, improving dust bathing behavior.
No remedy for blackhead in turkeys noted
The article explains blackhead is the most restric tive infectious disease for turkeys and occurs less when turkeys forage for most of their feed from hatch to market. It states no positive cure exists, and emphasizes free range and avoiding overfeeding as key factors in successful turkey raising.
Winter Feeding for Eggs
Winter feeding tip advises not overfeeding hens at dawn. If hens fill up in the morning and loaf on roosts, they gain fat but lay few eggs. In a short time they lose condition if not watched.
Grit supply emphasized for birds in winter health
A winter article urges a steady grit supply as the fowl's teeth to maintain vigor. Mr. Melvin Goff of Camp Doniphan has recovered from a long illness involving spinal meningitis and is visiting his parents on furlough.
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Melvin Goff
Camp Doniphan
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