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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
8
The United States Department of Agriculture notes the market for young guineas rises in late summer and fall. Demand centers on birds weighing one to two pounds. heavier birds appeal as the season progresses. Birds are marketed with feathers and color, while dress and skin tone may affect buyers.
The Agriculture Department outlines how feathers on fowl should be prepared for market. If feathers are kept on, birds must be bled by severing neck vessels and dimly hanged head downward until bleeding completes. Removed feathers require careful wing and brain processing to loosen and pluck.
David A Wark's Hazel Head Kennels in Closter NJ hosts Englewood Kennel Club dog clinic under town board of health sanction. An ordinance allows dogs with muzzles and inoculations to roam streets. treated dogs gain rabies immunity for one year. Illustration shows a dog receiving the injection.
The text warns that preventing diseases in flocks depends on proper pens and fencing, leakproof roofs, adequate ventilation, clean litter, balanced rations, and dry, dust-free interiors. Poor conditions like dampness, crowding, and dusty, unventilated spaces reduce vitality and invite trouble.
Instructions emphasize keeping chicks hungry for growth and avoiding feeding the truck. Suggestions include using tiny amounts of fluorid in feathers to control lice, spreading lime around houses to prevent disease, and feeding alfalfa meal and wheat bran in mashes. Advises not to sell hens when prices are low, keep hens for home use and winter sale, and to maintain flock capacity for profit.
Irvin H. Hooper, chief usher, marks 31 years of continuous service at the White House. He began in 1891 under President Harrison as an electrician, installing the first electric light system in the White House. President Roosevelt later appointed him to his current post.
A jumble of facts notes differences between New York and London in days and a claim that Nottingham is the world’s largest race manufacturing center. Mentions Denver women wage earners and a 30,000 chamber. Notes gold amalgamation and fish inflation. Mentions Fasketanuking as an ancient industry and Swiss adoption of dated coinage and a stylé widespread adoption.
A garbled set of notes highlights various items including Queen Helena of Italy noted as a stamp collector, a claim that tomatoes ripen best in moonlit light, vast coal fields covering about 1,250,000 square miles, a planned union labor temple costing 50,000 dollars in Tucson, Ariz. The Cunard line steamship Acadia held a speed record to 1841, while two steamers Majestic and Leyla-Hida are 100 feet wide. Portugal is said to have only two cities with populations over 46,000: Lisbon and Oporto.
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