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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
4
A chaotic OCR snapshot from August 29 1907 mixes social whimsy with sharp one liners. It riffs on Newport society chimpanzees and a phantom anti whiskers crusade while noting urban quirks and a cleveland lawyers bid for habeas corpus to reclaim his mother.
A herbal and agricultural series offers practical farming tips. It covers orchard management, hog and chicken care, feeding values, silage, and pruning. It urges tidy grounds, balanced rations, careful breeding, and planning for harvest fairs while noting evolving agricultural education and dairy herd development.
Prof James E Rice of Cornell outlines a two pen poultry house for New York climate 12 feet wide 24 feet long with two 12 by 12 pen areas. For larger flocks a continuous design 15 feet wide with 16 foot square pens. features concrete foundation concrete floor sills ventilation window air flow and hinged roost and nest arrangements to keep birds warm.
Practical tips urge liberal feeding without fear of overfeeding ground dry bone and warn isolating roof-affected birds. Geese resist cold damp weather, shade hens with frames, add a weekly spoonful of coal oil to drinking water, place pulverized charcoal for plumage and health, and feed corn nearly burnt to aid molting recovery with clean quarters and extra care.
The article warns that persistent infectious poultry diseases are best controlled by culling affected flocks and restocking with healthy birds. Home remedies often fail, as disease may reside in blood, requiring thorough sanitation and replacement stock from disease-free flocks to prevent recurrence.
The author describes hive stands built five inches square at the base and fifty four inches high with a top measuring three by one and a half inches. Priced at three cents each, they are cheaper and more durable than wooden stands and provide neat appearance, stable bases, and reduced dampness.
A proposal suggests painting a new hen house interior with crude oil before birds enter. The roost areas would receive a double coat, with four barrels costing no more than $3.50 each including barrel, and any leftover oil could be sold or used as machine oil. The aim is to provide sustained mite reduction at modest cost.
Nearly every housewife owns a meat grinder and should use leftovers like cabbage cores peels and celery tops ground into small pieces for hens. The article notes hens will eat these processed scraps and repay with eggs.
Guidance on when to feed mashes or soft feed to poultry and how to allocate grains by age. Small flocks often overeat from scraps if fed multiple times daily, while older fowls benefit from whole grain at night.
The article advises growing sorghum broomcorn pancorn millet and sunflowers for seed in poultry operations. Corn wheat and oats are always purchasable, making diversification important to secure a steady seed supply.
A fragment from a column contrasts a father’s solemn departure with a son’s retort about leaving tracks not footprints. An English artist in a mustard riding suit draws a streetside reaction from a courting passerby. London’s St Mary churches cluster from Aldermary parish. New York records few runaway horses amid its hitching-postless streets.
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