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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1915
Page
5
Sad Mrs Mort and her daughter O'Dell hosted visitors including Mrs Sant Friday and family from Sumnerville. Ray Quackentosh and family from Bicknell visited relatives here this week along with Herschel Graham and family from Bloomfield.
The Rhode Island Red is highlighted as a popular American chicken breed, noted for rapid growth and high egg production. It blends Asiatic influence with practical farming traits, resembling Leghorns more than Plymouth Rock or Wyandotte, with persistent sitter tendencies and uncertain color traits.
Indiana experiments show hens fed grain with skim milk produced 133.5 eggs per hen over two years, while grain alone yielded 36 eggs. Winter months saw skim milk groups delivering higher output than meat scraps supplemented rations.
W. J. Morse notes no perfect spray combination for apple orchards exists despite extensive research in several countries. Lime sulfur reduces some issues but causes others and is often less effective than Bordeaux mixture against apple scab. Insecticides must be used with fungicides, and timing guidance remains incomplete for efficient orchard spraying.
Capons should reach full size before fattening at ten to twelve months. Fatten them two to three weeks before marketing, or two weeks if kept in dark coops. Feed cornmeal and middlings with milk, not too wet. Use grit for digestion. glass fragments are sometimes used but grit is safest. Farmers should raise many male birds as capons to maximize spring profit, since turkeys never fetch as high a price per pound.
The guide advises choosing gentle eastern or southern slopes, ensuring drainage on stiff clay, planting two year vines from a reliable nursery, and laying them in straight eight by eight foot rows. It details soil prep, mulching, staking, training, and top pruning, with Concord Niagara and Delaware as ideal family varieties and Catawba for warm sandy soils.
Damp conditions in duck housing cause leg weakness and rheumatism or cramps with no sure remedy. Overfeeding also contributes. Some cases result from persistent attention of heavy drakes.
Recommend locating brood coops beside the cornfield to provide shade and access to fresh ground. If feasible, place the coops close to the corn area to maximize comfort and foraging opportunities.
Classic horse care notes caution riders to avoid standing a horse on planked floors and to prevent draft exposure. They urge timely proper collar fitting before the shoulder area becomes sore, emphasizing sound training and equipment fit.
A farmer who compels horses to work until they foam and then leaves them to cold winds is accused of cruel handling and a disregard for humane care.
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