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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
7
The article argues breed selection matters for market demands and warns against sacrificing body for snout or ear size. It stresses buying from reliable breeders, feeding pigs to full appetite, and keeping sows and boars in peak condition at mating. It condemns poor housing and hygiene, urging warm dry quarters and clean pastures over cramped, stinky pens.
Practical guidance from the Iowa Homestead on reducing time spent feeding hogs. Tips include using a horse to transport swill and feed, designing wide alley hog houses for a single horse truck, and sorting hogs by size to limit pens to twenty or thirty, improving efficiency and gains.
Water is essential and quality matters. A driven well from below surface water, a force pump, and a tank fed by pipes save effort and improve home hygiene. Pneumatic basement tanks or open-top tanks with a loose cover can serve, sized for daily use. add a sink and proper waste piping for convenient plumbing.
Advice on optimal site and care for poultry farms. Emphasizes outdoor access, dry ground, sunshine, air, exercise, and green food. Warns against overfeeding, poor ventilation, and crowded yards. Recommends sandy draining soil and south-facing slopes with water nearby. avoid heavy limestone or red clay land unless well drained.
Best comb honey should be marketed in neatly printed cartons to keep it dust free and prevent marring during handling. Cartons are cheap and useful but must contain only perfect sections. Buyers may avoid cartoned honey if a carton is partly filled or dirty. Cartons enable extra space for printed information with each sale.
The note instructs gathering road-dust in barrels starting this month for hens to bathe in during winter. In summer they dig in the field and sun themselves, half buried in the dust.
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