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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1906
Page
10
A long article extols incubators as a profitable farm side line, noting rising demand for poultry and year round markets. It highlights easy operation, risks with cheap machines, and the value of proper temp control, training, and maintenance. It covers breeding, standard chicken varieties, caponizing, and the growing role of women in poultry farming.
The article describes practical poultry feeding methods using dairy by products like skim milk, butter-milk, and waste fruit and garden scraps. It notes benefits of free-range periods, brood management, and plum and apple crop interactions. It also mentions caponizing as simpler than stuffing, and recommends feeding greens, root crops, and grains to support egg production and manure fertility.
Living germs are placed on the street for food at about one sixth of a unit. After testing they stay in jars for seven days, changed as before, totaling eleven days in the jars. They are moved in a bamboo blanket to coled rooms above the jars and remain until hatched. The only heat is room warmth, or four heavy quilts in cold weather. Hatched chicks rest in shallow baskets briefly to gain strength before sale. Hatch rate listed as 69 to 70 per cone.
After testing, it is stated that 90 per cent of those remaining will hatch. This style of incubator probably would not suit American requirements, and the idea of utilizing the heat of the room during the later stages of incubation is very valuable, as to economize both heat and space.
The article explains traditional Oriental egg incubation in China, detailing brick kilns, mud walls, earth jars, and ash bottoms to regulate heat. Baskets hold up to twelve hundred eggs, with slow charcoal fires and multiple daily hatches. Temperature tested by touch and thermometers, eggs checked for fertility after incubation.
An honest but slow-witted Irish worker with six months at a coal dealer is fired for failing to learn duties. The owner taunts him to collect pay, Barney insists he learned enough to avoid trouble, joking that seventeen hundred makes a ton at the job as he accepts the discharge and leaves.
A fragmentary verse line plays with numbers and morals about sleep and human traits. It reads as a cryptic quote on nature, laziness, and goodness, suggesting symbolic counts tied to behavior rather than literal times.
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