Culling Hen Flock for Higher Egg Profits
Extension poultryman H M Wells of the University of Nebraska advises culling hens with defects and poor vigor to boost egg output. Focus on bright eyes red combs active disposition and sustained appetite. Poor layers show lassitude weak appetite and faded vent eye ring beak skin or shanks. culling begins in June and continues through summer and fall.
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Gays H. M. Wells
Extension Poultryman
University of Nebraska
Guidelines for Storing and Testing Hatching Eggs
The United States Department of Agriculture advises keeping hatching eggs at 50 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit and not longer than ten days to two weeks before incubation. Do not wash eggs, test for infertility around day six or seven with a simple home tester, and discard infertile eggs to improve hatch quality.
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United Mass Department
United States Department of Agriculture
Feed Sprouted Oats to Poultry During Winter
Poultry raisers who have not adopted sprouted oats for winter feeding deprive hens of a tasty, valuable feed and miss a key opportunity to save on feeding costs.
Spring Range for Fowls Needed for Good Health
As spring arrives fowls should have a large yard to range for green food and earthworms. If any bird has diarrhea add one teaspoon of powdered muriate of ammonia per gallon of drinking water for three days, then pure water three days, then medicine again. Diet matters more than medicine in many cases of indigestion.
Theodore Roosevelt TI Poses in Washington Boys Athletic Class
The text notes Theodore Roosevelt II, son of the assistant secretary of the navy, in a fighting pose during a Washington boys athletic class at the Racquet Club. The phrasing emphasizes lineage and a ceremonial display rather than a competitive event.
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Theodore Roosevelt TI
Washington
Colonal
Mother Hen Guides Soft Chickens Through Spring
A playful Mother Hen teaches her soft yellow brood to follow, scratch for food, and stay near her. She muses on beauty, love, and the easy life of chicks, while the chicks respond with peeps and affection. The tale centers on care, growth, and youthful missteps.
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Mother Hen
Mother
Mystery Elizabeth Finds New Half Sister
The diary item notes Elizabeth arriving at school in elated mood and revealing a new half sister. The teacher responds with polite interest as Elizabeth jokes about the meaning of “half-sister” and how the other half is undefined.
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Elizabeth
Harper’s Magazine
Bald Man Noticed By FourYearOld In Downtown Scene
A four year old girl named Bessie and her mother observed a bald man in downtown. Bessie exclaimed in high pitched tones that the man had no hair, then asked if he knew it. The mother hushed her to avoid embarrassment as Bessie persisted with quiet inquiry.
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Bessie
Hoverybody's
Nosed Out Teacher to the Class
A classroom exchange centers on the discovery of iron with a student answering the question by humorously claiming the iron was smelted. The light moment captures a school scene and a teacher prompting the class to share what they know.
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Alr
City Sayings On Love, Ego And Optimism
A collection of cynical aphorisms on love, authority, risk, and attitude. Witty lines challenge pride, reputation, patience, and the idea of adversity, contrasting optimistic and pessimistic viewpoints.
Bright Remarks and Quips on Daily Life
The piece mixes light social musings on gossip and neighborhood life with humor about football fans, fashion, home beautification, and slipping lodging costs. It jokes about rent, hotel towels, a London professor, and a future cabbage shortage, ending with a quip about campaign cigars.
With the Girls Women and the model husband in marriage
The passage comments that women may come and go but a man relies on his mother and on a model husband who handles housework philosophically. It suggests men value prettiness over homeliness, notes quiet courtship, and compares a proposal wait to a cat watching a rat hole.
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