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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1913
Page
2
In a 14 by 56 foot winter poultry house with southern windows, George W. Brown of Hancock County Ohio describes keeping hens busy from daylight to roost time by scattering small grain and suspending lawn clippings beets pumpkins cabbage and hay. Perches can be moved to the ceiling to control drones. drones are kept for the apiary only.
Farm and Home suggests carrying a box for each pen to collect eggs. Number each tray to match the pen, and use a bottom-board with holes to keep eggs upright on their small end so the numbers are easy to read.
An article advises maximizing egg profits by careful gathering, selecting, cleaning, and stamping with farm initials. It suggests selling direct to consumers or via a strict fancy-grocer channel, and coordinating among neighbors to share duties. Cold-storage notes stress dry handling to preserve poultry quality and question strict cold-storage mandates.
A glass front poultry house causes extreme temperatures with heat in the day and cold at night. It increases disease risk and frost sensitivity of combs and wattles. The open muslin front is best and, at the base time, least expensive. Some may be used but not exclusive.
In a comic contraption from California a breast plate with two wire legs aims to stop hens from setting. Straps pass under wings and buckle on the back, while a front teat-like bar prevents incubation yet allows laying eggs, a device praised by the Old Codger for its blunt practicality.
In a proud challenged claim the citizen asserts Gaynorized Community Chicago Inter Ocean notes the town has the finest churches stores and residences in the state yet admits the boastful statement lacks the actual assets, stressing the boastful mindset over tangible goods.
The notice warns that untreated colds in birds can develop into roup or bronchitis. It advises using a five cent oil cane filled with coal oil to deliver a nasal douche at first sign of a cold, then repeating if needed, and adding permanganate of potash to drinking water to prevent illness.
Pentwater Michigan woman says a year of weakness and severe back pain vanished after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Peoria Illinois resident reports relief from backache heaviness and headaches after a week of use, urging others to try the remedy.
The text offers farming guidance on poultry care and egg production. It covers feeding, ventilation, and parasite control for hens and geese, broodiness tendencies in ducks and geese, impact of exercise on laying, winter lay strategies, and feed additives like cottonseed meal and bone meal.
Melvina answers that this is a new ham mock and that she has not set another one before. The exchange confirms a fresh exercise in ham mocks between the two speakers.
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