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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
6
Testimony describes brutal conditions in Chicago packing houses with workers forced to long hours unresponsive to whistle blows. It details coercive pay practices and ethnic labor replacement, alleging widespread abuse and unsafe food processing practices.
Instructions describe bone barrel fertilizer making with bone, soil, ashes and manure, then detail trough feeding and cramming for poultry. It covers coop setup, feeding cycles of nine to twelve days, and switch to cramming for a 19 to 21 day period before killing for market.
The article describes corn fattening methods for fowls during the Fourth of July period, feeding as a semi liquid to boost moisture and size. It notes weight gains from 3.25 lb birds to about 5.25 lb, increasing meat yield and price per carcass, with discussion of yellow skin versus white market preferences and the use of oats rice and melted tallow. It explains packing in uniform boxes and the importance of careful dressing and grading to maximize profits for large packing houses.
The article advises frequent shallow cultivation for most garden crops and limits depth to two inches in dry weather. It explains that surface stirring forms a dist mulch which dries yet traps moisture in the soil. A mulch of fine manure or lawn compost spread about 10 to 12 inches from plants preserves moisture, but must be light enough to allow air circulation. It also notes crusts forming after vines grow should be broken up.
Advertisement page lists jobs in copywriting sales and railway work plus real estate and consumer goods offers. Entries include advertising men wanted at Hapgoods Fate 143 Broadway New York, a nursery salesman, railroad firemen and brakemen, bead stamps, souvenir post cards selling, plumbing apprentices, ladies apparel devices, 20 acre Gulf Coast lands, Wichita Kansas property, California colonization lands, various printed items and a caligraph typewriter sale.
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