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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1915
Page
7
A detailed description of a nest box system with a square foot area and three inch back, featuring an upper door for easy egg collection. The setup keeps nests dark and clean, saves floor space, and offers convenient removal for cleaning. The text praises incubators as more reliable than hens, noting better hatch rates with thin-shelled and tracked eggs.
Mrs B R Buffham notes in Nebraska Farm Journal that a drawn plan shows a coop for raising Leghorn Rhode Island Red and guinea squabs as a profitable way to dispose of many male chicks at about three months. The coop uses redwood flooring with a feed drawer built from a store box measuring four by two feet and three inches deep.
A poultry keeper describes coop setup with coarse wire, daily feed in a drawer, and mash routines. He notes chicks drink water, dust provides grit, and a coop lid can be lifted on pleasant days. European farmers use cooked potatoes more, making a moist crumbly mash with meat, bran, and middlings. raw potatoes are rejected as hens refuse them raw.
It notes the emphasis on predicting a pullet's egg production during fall and winter when market prices are highest, rather than annual totals.
The Scientific American describes a new incubator design by C. H. Osborn of St. Joseph Missouri. It uses a central vertical chimney lamp as a heating medium with a series of trays around it. Trays rotate on inner wall flanges allowing easy egg loading through a casing door. Winter feed advice suggests burying or storing cabbage turnips beets rutabagas pumpkins for hens to maintain laying vigor all winter. Do not keep eggs in damp places.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines a practical sanitary dairy house design in Farmers Bulletin 689. It covers location near the barn, separation of work areas, ventilation, ample cold running water, steam sterilization, and a 20 by 10 foot plan with a concrete floor pitched to drain. The routine includes weighing, testing, cooling, and careful cleaning of utensils to prevent contamination and spoilage.
An article explains that even freshly laid eggs can taste off if hens are improperly fed or drink polluted water. It notes onions can impart odor, stress from dark damp or drafty housing weakens birds, and stresses space needs of four to six square feet per hen for flocks of 160. It contrasts silo use with seasons for dairy cattle and sheep.
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