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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
7
E REXFORD reviews two hardy flowering vines Clematis paniculata and honeysuckle as ideal for screens and walls. Clematis offers snowlike clusters and late bloom, while honeysuckle provides dense foliage for screening. Advice covers soil improvement, support structures, and selecting suitable climbers for upper or lower story use.
The article presents trays of light lumber with screen wire lids to keep flies and millers from sun drying fruit. It favors galvanized frames, double screened trays, and placing trays on solid foundations to prevent pest access. Trays are portable, reversible, and aim to prevent worm damage during drying.
Fragmentary note suggests poultry free range in an orchard to control pests with possible references to insects and meals. The text is garbled and lacks clear names places or dates to anchor a fuller summary.
A writer in Farm Progress urges using soft foods for young ducks rather than whole grains. Ducks grow best on easily assimilated soft diets, with outdoor foraging, green foods, and pasture access. Emphasizes open housing, pools for swimming, and dangers from filth and rats to ducklings.
Among this lot are many that will show lots of milk and butter and cows that will weigh up to 14 pounds. Also ishead of good Mat aid a few good Stock Bulls, Farmers in need of goo cows should not miss this sale, for I got them to please you. Geo. S. Demmy
Keep watch of the cockerels and rush them to the broiler market as fast as they attain a weight of three to four pounds. There is more profit in disposing of cockerels as broilers than to hold them for roasters. If a special market for fancy roasters exists it may pay to hold heavy breed cockerels to five to eight pounds. The average poultryman gains by sending off cockerels as soon as broiler age.
Feeding pen for young chicks should be central to allow access anytime while older birds cannot reach it. When a hen calls her chicks other hens rush in to steal the morsel. A note on ventilation in the poultry house warns against drafts reaching the nests or roosts.
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