Two Worthy Institutions Aid Inmates With Home Comforts
The Zion Home and Hospital near Lititz, established 1904, spans 27 acres with a hospital, chapel, library, and other buildings. It houses 80 inmates in 132 rooms, with recent electric lighting and planned enlargements under Rev J A Heitler. Nearby Brethren Home and orphanage, built 1910, offers 150 capacity on 10 acres, cost about 75,000, 110-room home, 60x45 foot orphanage, and housing for 23 children awaiting homes, under Elder I W Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Zion Home and Hospital
Lititz
J. A. Heitler
United Zion Sect
The
Brethren
Commonwealth
Juniata College
Huntingdon
Elizabethtown
Lancaster
Sewanee
I. W. Taylor
More Potatoes and Less Bread Suggested by Scientists
The department of agriculture states that if wheat stays high or rises and bread prices climb, households should eat more potatoes and less bread. With potatoes at 60 cents a bushel, ten cents buys more nourishment than two one pound loaves at five cents each. If prices shift, potatoes could substitute bread significantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Department
Poultry and Eggs Feeding and Care Guidance
Feeding and care advice for incubator to brooders. Chicks should fast at least 36 hours after hatching for yolk digestion. Gradual hardening to outside, avoid testing eggs, infertile eyes and rot kill embryos, poisoned air weakens germs. A thermometer bulb misreads heat if resting on a rot or infertile egg.
Feeding Chicks: Early Rations And Routines From Kansas Ag Col
N L Harris of Kansas Agricultural College explains incubator handling to prevent chilling when moving chicks. The guide covers first feeds using boiled eggs ground with oats, yolk with grit, sour milk, water, then bran cornmeal and beef scrap. It favors hand feeding over hopper feeding for eight weeks and outlines a shifting diet up to range release with daily patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. L. Harris
Kansas Agricultural College
Kansas
Milk For Egg Production From Sour Milk Experiments
Experiments at the New Jersey experiment station show sour milk can raise egg production by up to 58 percent for birds of the same kind and age not fed sour milk. When using skim milk, keep vessels clean and sweet, provide sharp grit and ground oyster shell, and maintain eight to ten inches of clean dry coarse straw litter for exercise and digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey Experiment Station
Managing the incubator instructions for hatchery use
The article outlines general incubator use across machines, stressing strict adherence to manufacturer directions. It advises daily lamp filling and wick cleaning, testing eggs on day seven, turning them twice and cooling daily until day eighteen, then not opening again until hatch completion.
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OS Ae
Coiner Maerette Ches
Housaires & Home Furnishers
Hartford
Smith Axminster
Smith, Sanford, Bigelow
Axminster
Smith Saxony Axminster
Reliance
United Zion
Church OF the Brethren
Brethren Home
Emma L. Miller
Lancaster County
Lititz, Pa
John M. Miller
Henry Rkerb
Warwick Township
D. M. Graybill
James C. Brobst
Lititzborough
Litits
Helen Sevory Grosut BI
Gros Valentine Brobst Administrators
J.paul Rombuck
N. Duke Street
Lancaster, PA
D. ¢. Martin
M. D
Broad St
Bell
D. Alonzo Long
Broad Street
Litita
W. L. Woerner
Homeopathist
E. Main St
Warren S. Buch
E. Grant
W. M. Grube
East Main Street
Long & CO
Degker and
Janssen
Century Sheet Music
J. B. Young & Son
Orange St
Howards. Young
Piano Tuner
East Orange St. Lititz, Pa
Hassler
Geo. L. Keath
Justice of the Peace
Brunnerville
Stephen EB
Kissinger
V. Marion St
Hershey & Gibbel
Ind Tel
South Spruce St
Litit
Ind
Cc. E. Myer
Uitirz PR
North Street
Huber
S. M. Huber
Main Street
Kreider’s Hardware Store
Main St
May Kissinger
Corsetiere
S. Spruce St
A. R. Bomberger & Co
Spruce Villa Dairy
J. ¢. Brubaker Proprietor
Ghe
Lancaster’s
Allen
D. Frank Kline, M.D
E. King Sr
W. D. Fichthorn
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