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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1924
Page
6
The article outlines buying strategies for beef cattle, emphasizing pure bred, thick, vigorous bulls raised in conditions like their use. It advises matching bulls to pure bred females, selecting by size and fertility, and ensuring uniform calving with crosses of pure beef blood. Charles J Bray Colorado Agricultural College.
Professor FE. TR. Gross of the State College of Agriculture endorses a barrel self feeder for young pigs. A square platform and a centered pyramid form a stand, ensuring a steady feed flow. The height is adjusted with blocks so feed neither runs out too fast nor stalls.
The piece explains pigs often bloat and die when abruptly moved to lush green clover from grass, especially if hungry or unused to such feed. Wet clover and other green feeds can trigger this, whereas modern hog-raising uses a planned sequence of green crops to prevent losses.
Farmers should rotate sheep to new pasture to prevent pasture infection. Avoid long grazing on the same field. frequent changes stimulate appetite and grass growth, reducing disease risk and improving flock health.
A historical note suggests turpentine as an economical cure for wormy pigs. Wormy pigs are described as having good appetite but poor growth, rough hair, and potbellied appearance. The remedy advised is a teaspoonful per 100 pounds live weight given in milk or slop for three consecutive days.
The article explains that turkey farming differs from chicken farming, requiring distinct management and healthy stock to avoid losses from diseases like blackhead. It covers breeding stock selection in fall, separation of breeders, proper winter care, housing with ventilation, feeding practices, and the need to update gobblers yearly for profitable future crops.
The article explains distinguishing features between White Rocks and White Orpingtons. Key traits include beak color yellow for White Rocks and white or pinkish white for White Orpingtons, red comb and face, reddish-bay eyes, and yellow versus white or pinkish white shanks and toes.
The text argues that crossing chicken strains often yields uniform first generation offspring but undesirable traits emerge in the second generation. It suggests using gradual steps to move toward a pure strain and notes that crossing can set back years of progress.
From the excerpt a farmer learns signs of fowl illness. Sneezing watery eyes and puffed face signal a common cold while rattling in the throat suggests bronchitis and difficult breathing points to pneumonia. Mouth canker indicates diphtheria-like infection and duck eggs failing to hatch may be fixed by pen changes or introducing a new leader.
A New York World report describes a compact respirator that filters lead fumes while leaving eyes uncovered. Worn with rubber gloves, it protects workers from lead poisoning when painting, regardless of paint lead content, ensuring clear vision and reduced exposure.
A Russian hunter recounts using a decoy to lure a wolf near a village izba. One man dressed as a peasant with yellow hair and red face attracted the wolf while a second hunter approached on all fours. The wolf paused, then charged. the decoy posed as bait and the hunter shot it.
A Cambridge Mass preacher at an insane hospital sermon notes a patient’s intense attention. After, the preacher asks the superintendent what the patient said. The reply quotes the patient: just think, he's out and I'm in, in a wry remark reflecting the era’s views on confinement and sanity.
An inexpensive metal power wheel designed to operate while fully submerged was created by a Salt Lake man. Blades fold on the upward stroke to boost leverage under water, enabling use in streams of any depth. The wheel, enclosed by a heavy mesh screen to prevent weed clogging, can be built in various diameters and widths and runs in reverse to avoid tangling.
A boastful traveler in a village inn tells a jokey chicken story about a hen with uncanny hatching. He recalls a hen that hatched a tennis ball to a lemon, jokingly. A listener retorts with a family tale of a hen fed sawdust and laying ten eggs, nine hatching with wooden legs, while another chick proves a woodpecker.
An enthusiastic admirer tells Arnold Bennett his latest read taught her to concentrate. He asks what she concentrates on. She replies she concentrates on many things, prompting a playful exchange about focus and intent.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns sheep suffer most from parasites among livestock. Lambs and young sheep are especially vulnerable. The bulletin urges prompt veterinary care, postmortem checks, and practices like pasture rotation and proper manure disposal to prevent outbreaks. Copies are free while supplies last.
In dialogue, a parent questions a son about his restlessness after graduation. The son admits he has done nothing since finishing college, reflecting a common post graduation transition as he struggles to find purpose. The exchange captures generational tension and the search for direction.
A fragmentary reminiscence records Uncle Life Cheek’s one day remark about Sam Blick. He wavers on honesty, saying Blick might be honest but would not be if he were believed, and that if he is, he is highly spoken against.
Kentucky leads eastern states in efforts to eliminate the bucky lamb with a three season campaign by state extension agents. Over 200000 docked lambs likely to be marketed this year, buyers from the east purchase direct from producers, and public auctions show top bids near eastern market levels. Docking and castration losses are minimal, with the main goal to cut seconds and eails and boost future lamb handling by one third to one half.
University of Minnesota livestock extension specialist Austin A. Dowell notes potatoes are valuable for fattening pigs. He advises cooking the potatoes, discarding the cooking water, then mixing with grain at a ratio of three parts potato to one part grain.
Mr Dowell notes prepared concentrates can fatten pigs and sows while raw potatoes suit mature idle brood sows in limited amounts. Pregnant sows must receive cooked small portions. He adds cattle, horses and sheep readily eat raw potatoes but dairy cattle fed freely may taint milk and create a butterlike mustiness. Potatoes contain solanine in sprouts and should be trimmed before feeding.
The article notes lambing time is a trouble spot for many flock owners and greatly affects profit or loss. Proper care after breeding reduces difficulties, ensuring smoother lambing and better outcomes for shepherds.
The article lists several profitable pig rations. A top mix combines 50 pounds corn 50 pounds middlings and 10 pounds tankage. Another uses 10 parts corn to 1 part tankage. Additional options include 50 pounds corn 50 pounds shipstuff and 10 pounds tankage and a mix with corn and soy meal.
An old Wall Street axiom says once a sucker always a sucker. A bucket shop receiver mailed back a dividend check from a closed bucket shop, the only salvage from a wreck. Days later he got a check and a buying order for $400 from a Broadway merchant, but the other was not executed.
Letters of administration have been granted to the undersigned for the estate of John Bout late of Warwick a Thames bn. All persons indebted should pay immediately and all claims or demands should be presented for settlement to Lizkin K. Now residing at Lititz R D No 3. Adninistratrix B Frank Kready Attorney. Bihef-ot.
Ellen Schnerer and M Ada Schnerer Administratrixes request immediate payment of debts and prompt presentation of claims against the Lititz Borough estate of Frank E B Schnerer to their Lititz address, with Amos Fe Burkholder as attorney.
A terse fragment recounts a firm that failed a year earlier and a recipient who dictated a letter to accompany a returned check. The lines hint at a cynical remark about con artists and perpetual dupes, reflecting a legal or business dispute context.
In 1877 to 1878 few had seen a telephone and even fewer knew how to use it. An early Delaware pioneer recalls difficulty teaching subscribers the correct method, noting people did not know where their ears were and one editor joked about training a user who kept rubbing the side of his head seeking his ear.
Carrie Barnhouse of Wellston Ohio reports relief from a goitre after using Sorboi Quadruple. She states she could not breathe at night before starting treatment, but within three days the choking stopped and within two weeks no sign remained. She offers to speak with others. Sold at drug stores and locally via Sorhol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio and Lewis N Moyer.
A Lititz public endorsement urges Dean's Pills for kidney pain backache and headaches. Mrs. Howard McCreary of Cedar Street reports heavy kidney pain eased after using the pills and claims repeated relief from backache headaches and regulated kidneys. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY markets the remedy.
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