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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
7
Rules for feeding fowls emphasize feeding all they will eat at each meal and adjusting amounts to breed age vigor housing season and individual fowl appetite. Heavier breeds and layers eat more. a daily feed curve shows winter consumption higher. About seventy five pounds per year per hen is a usable average with variation by breed and conditions. The hen herself should gauge daily feeding.
The article says Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons are best for fattening. Cockerels 3.5 to 4 months gain about a pound to 1.5 pounds in three weeks in fattening crates. Older birds require more food for each pound gain and crate fattening loses profitability after six months. Strong healthy birds perform best. heavier breeds like Cochins Brahmas Langshans are less satisfactory under confinement.
Green feed must be supplied for chicks. If kept on young grass they will help themselves, but in small yards provide tender easily broken greens. Offer finely cut lawn grass, lettuce leaves, onion tops, or boiled vegetables to aid digestion.
The text urges using sharp grit for digestion and dieting scraps of wheat and meat to boost appetite as the winter secret to profitable egg production. It emphasizes that without these measures fowls cannot give good egg returns in cold weather.
A Lancaster county indenture dated November 19 1829 conveys land to trustees Jacob Hellman Jossiah Blickensdorffer and Jacob Smith for a Lexington school and meeting house. The agreement requires a building that can host Lutheran German Presbyterian Mennonite German Baptist and Moravian services with the owners guaranteeing clear title and defense against claims. The deed notes a one silver dollar consideration and a formal acknowledgment by Jacob Hideneyer and Mary his wife.
An imagined dialogue reveals a writer unhappy with book sales and a reader noting the story’s fair merit. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quote discusses purchaser demand while a Boston Transcript snippet records a social rebuke about a cold winter of 1879 and a polite correction.
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