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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
8
The article outlines strict home nursing precautions for communicable diseases such as measles scarlet fever and diphtheria. It recommends disposable or boiled utensils separate from the household, thorough hand disinfection, and boiling bed linens and contaminated items to prevent family transmission.
The Baltimore American quotes Perfectly Proper noting concern over inflated capital while acknowledging the firm deals in automobile tires. A quip from Syrus adds a caution not to earn unjust hatred as commentary circulates.
The article praises a passage from Wild Life and the Camera by A R Dugmore, detailing wild swans as they take off in a soaring aerial regatta. It notes speeds near 100 mph, journeys of a thousand miles, leaders rotating, sand ballasting before northward travel, and eggs guarded by down for protection until maturity.
Guidance on turkey and fowl care focuses on breed, nutrition, and housing. Emphasizes female and male roles in next generation, winter provision of lime grit and charcoal, preventing blackhead, egg release and setting, outdoor access on clear days, year round sale as key to success, and cautions about heavy birds with high roosts and low roosts for large breeds.
Ducks make poor mothers so incubators or hens are preferred. Hatch takes twenty eight days. Inspect nests every few days. Feed regimes escalate from oats and bread in week one to beef scraps and green foods by week six to ten, with four daily feedings.
The text compares Peking and Rouen ducks noting Peking males weigh seven and a half to nine pounds with white plumage and orange yellow bill legs and feet. Rouen ducks are up to twelve pounds and resemble the Wild Mallard, possibly descended with larger stock. The picture shows a Peking and a Touen.
The article prescribes a diet of half a pint of grit a tablespoonful of charcoal and a pint of clover fed three times daily to fatten ducks in about eleven weeks. It warns against scaring the ducks as fright reduces fattening and advises gentler handling and access to fresh clean water.
Advice stresses removing damp litter from closely built poultry houses. Condensed moisture makes litter damp and long retention harms chickens, so dry litter must be substituted and kept dry at once.
Poultry keepers advocate testing and watching production of individuals. They claim it costs no more to keep a hen laying 150 eggs a year than one laying 60, with greater profit in the prolific birds.
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