Common Geese Are Not Hard to Raise
Advice by Walter B Leutz on raising geese covering breed tendencies, feeding, grazing, water needs, incubation, hatching, and brooding. Notes discuss green food, twice daily cornmeal and shorts, moistened bread and beef scraps, avoid swimming for goslings, laying cycles, setting under hens, incubation thirty days, dusting eggs, watering during hatching, handling goslings, brooder raising, rapid growth, and cost comparison to pork. Emphasizes profitable geese farming with proper care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter B. Leutz
Location of Poultry Plant and Soil Effects
The success of a poultry enterprise hinges on soil quality where the plant sits. Heavy soil concentrates disease germs, harming fowls and profits. Use colony houses to move fowls to fresh ground yearly. Apply liquid insecticides carefully to brood coops to kill mites, with morning spraying and daytime airing. Use strong insecticides cautiously to avoid harming young poultry. Feed chicks a quality summer poultry food.
Farmers Auto Purchases Boost Farm Finances In Years Past
Government investigations showed farmers often bought automobiles by mortgaging land and using autos for hauling delivering and farming tasks. The practice reportedly paid off mortgages in a year or two and provided enjoyment education and income benefits for the farmer. Separate reports note two accidental deaths in Columbia and a Moravian Sunday School meeting discussing charts equipment and teacher training plus anniversary celebrations at Leacock and Paradise churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillman R. Bornberger
West Oley Street
Reading
Sunday School Association of the
Moravian Church
I. E. Deer
Different Ways of Fattening Turkeys in 19th Century Insights
An instructional piece by M E K Boyer on turkey fattening methods. It covers diverse feeds including potatoes, mangels, beetroot, acorns, chestnuts, and walnuts, plus American mash ideas with cornmeal and skim milk. Emphasizes ventilation, grit, water, and careful timing of feeding for market readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. EK. Boyer
The Tonka Bean and the New Mown Hay Perfume
A compact account of tonka beans as the source of the perfume New Mown Hay. It details origins in Venezuela Colombia and Brazil, tree height leaves flowers pods and single seed, the odor from C marin, and the harvesting drying and crystallization process for fragrance and other products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Orinoco
Caura
Cuchivero
Venezuela
Colombia
Brazil
Ciudad Bolivar
Ney
Flowers for the Living Motto Prompts Kind Words
A column urges speaking kind words to neighbors and avoiding harsh words before tragedy. Frank Baker, 54, of Mt. Joy, died after shooting himself at Lancaster General Hospital a day after expressing despair following his wife’s death. Neighbors in Bart township raise funds to replace horses lost to musty oats. a five acre Panama Canal model is shown at the Panama-Pacific Exposition with a 1000-seat movable platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wylie Rustler
Frank Baker
Mt. Joy
Lancaster General Hospital
Baker
Adam Homsher
Georgetown
Bart
Homsher
Panama Canal
San Francisco
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New York State Farm
Columbia
Harry Guhl
Joseph Knapp
Central National Bank
Samuel Dent
Washington
Rankin Turner
Leacock Presbyterian Church
Paradise Presbyterian Church
the King of Birds
Man
Aman
D. J. Paul Jrurbock
N. Dike Street
Lancaster
D. Alonzo Long
Broad Street
Lititz
Warren S. Buch
E. Grant
Lititz, Pa
Hershey & Gibbel
Scriveners
Ind Tel
GEQ. L. Keath
Justice of the Peace
Hetate
Brunnerville
Howards. Young
East Orange St. Lititz, Pa
Tad
Pnone
PENNA
Breal Fytura
Stephen B. Kissinger
W. Marion St. Lititz, Pa
Oxfords
Packards
Bostonians
LaFrance Ooxfords
W. M. Grube
Ss. M. Huber
Long & CO
John D. Bair
Blue Ball
Spruce Villa Dairy
4. C. Brubaker Proprieter
Lancaster’s
NK A
Rad
Kreider’s Hardware Store
Malo St
Spirella
May Kissinger
Corsetiere
S. Spruce St
FEF
B.schneser
South Spruce St. Lititz
Pac
Fite
H. P. Gingrich & Co
E. Main St
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