Indian Runner ducks excel as egg producers and broilers
The Indian Runner duck is noted for higher egg output and lighter body, with drake weight about 4.12 pounds. They lay larger white eggs, produce broilers weighing 2.5 to 3 pounds at six weeks, and are active, hardy, and non-sitters. Ducks need more feed and care but resist disease better. marketing rhythms affect egg price realization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Brahma Chickens Described as Majestic Hardy Layers
The Brahma breed is noted for a pea comb and a very large size with weights from eight to twelve pounds. Cocks reach about 12 pounds, hens 9, cockerels 10, and pullets 8. Descriptions emphasize their broad heads, heavy brows, vigor, and utility as heavy table fowl, with dark Brahmas in coloration including black bodies and steel gray females with black penciling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New England
Rhode Island
Agricultural notes on veterinary counts and farming facts
Estimates place 12000 to 13000 licensed veterinarians in the United States. Uncle Ab says a steady farm power supply boosts horse numbers. Cannibalism in chicks links to boredom overcrowding or hunger. China’s 330 million hens lay about 26.25 billion eggs yearly. A 1200 pound cow producing 42 pounds milk daily needs roughly two ounces salt per day. Green feeds provide essential vitamins. Department of Agriculture to divert surplus hops to fertilizer and mulch. Hens thriving with good feeding should be culled promptly in summer. On 1938-01-01 U.S. horses numbered 11,163,000 and males 4,477,000. Only 47% of fluid milk is pasteurized. 1936 saw 42 epidemics and 28 deaths from unpasteurized milk.
Prideful Old Mr Toad Gets Dinner Invite Rebuff
Old Mr Toad, boastful after dining with Buster Bear, shuns neighbors and plots a grand meal. Jimmy Skunk and Buster Bear craft a plan to humble him. Old Mr Toad eagerly agrees to dine, then boasts of the invitation, cutting off Bobby Coon and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Toad
Thornton W. Burgess
Buster Bear
Bobby Coon
Jimmy Skunk
Green Forest
Jimmy
Buster
Buster Breat
Old Mr. Toad
Bobby
T. W. Bergess
Tidbits on Rugs All Over Designs Win Favor
Betty Wells surveys rug trends focusing on all over borderless designs in plain and two tone textures. prefers patterned plains balanced with coordinated colors. notes rug size should suit the room and arcing shapes optional. cautions on chemical washing and wear factors while stressing durability depends on construction and materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Wells
Agropos
Sy Betty Wells
Ocean Rescue Catches Five Pilots in Jamaica Bay Crash
A U S coast guard amphibian rushed to save five pilots after their plane crashed in Jamaica Bay. Pilot Kenneth Porter of Elizabeth New Jersey, who was piloting the craft from 500 feet, was seriously injured in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Coast Guard
Jamaica Bay
Kenneth Porter
Elizabeth
N. J
Bay
Soapy’s Winter Plans In A Tale Of Cop And Anthem
Henry Tells Tale Of Cop And Anthem follows Soapy on a cold winter night as he contemplates two life paths philanthropy or law. He chooses a bold course, feigns balance with a bribe to a cop, and escalates with a brick to a storefront plate glass, then pivots toward another scheme involving a passerby girl as winter deepens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soany
Porter of Greensboro to Ohio Prison Later Writer
William Sydney Porter later known as O Henry lived in Greensboro as a youth and then moved to Austin Texas. He embezzled 1150 dollars and was sentenced to five years in an Ohio prison where he began writing. He died in 1910 and was buried in Asheville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sidney Porter
Greensboro
N. G
Asheville
N. C
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Soapy’s Island sentence ends three months on vagrancy
Soapy fights loneliness and fear in New York streets as two nearby cops watch him. He tries to charm a girl but bolts when pressed. After wandering toward Madison Square Garden he confronts his past, contemplates reform, and is finally arrested by a magistrate for vagrancy, sentenced to three months on the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soapy
Yale
Madison Square Garden
Also Mentioned on This Page
United States
China
Department of Agriculture
Gloria Masson
Ocean County
Miss Masson Mostrates
Henry
Elizabeth C. James
Jack Frost
Seany
Elizabeth James