Culling a Young Chicken Flock for Efficient Farming
The article advises ordering extra chicks, culling “crowbenks” early, and separating cockerels from pullets by two pounds. It warns that keeping birds beyond peak weight costs more and reduces value, urging regular flock checks to save productive birds for winter laying.
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Poor Economy to Cease Feeding Mash in Summer
Prof. O W Carrick of Purdue warns against stopping mash feeding to hens in summer. He says quitting mash can trigger molt and stop egg production. Range feeding cannot meet protein needs, so continue mash with animal feeds to supply minerals and proteins.
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O. W. Carrick
Purdue University
Determine Exactly How Many Eggs Each Hen Lays
A detailed method using trap nests to count annual egg production. It emphasizes continuous daily observation through the first laying year and breeding season, selecting breeders capable of high production and early maturity. Persistent rhythm across seasons is seen as essential to top poultry breeding.
Lice and Worms Treatment for Fowls
To rid a flock of lice mix one ounce of sodium fluoride per gallon of water in a large tub. Use one pound for about three hundred fowls. Hold hens by legs and wings, submerge, and work solution into feathers. Repeat three or four times, using fingers for heavy plumage if needed.
Height of Roosts for Heavy Breeds in Poultry Yards
Guidance on coop design for heavy fowls urging floor level roosts to avoid crowding and injuries. Emphasizes clean ventilation and protection from drafts. Warns that high perches complicate descent and may cause bruises, nose running, and sneezing.
Daughter recalls cryptic telegrams at table
A daughter recounts listening to her father dictate cryptic telegrams by phone. Later at supper she explains details to her mother. When asked to speak again she replies that there is nothing more to say, period, stop.
Modern sweepers in Rome show old and new contrast
Popular Mechanics notes Rome uses motor driven street sweepers to clean ancient pavements. The piece highlights rotary brooms mounted on automobile chassis as a popular modern type in use, comparing it to traditional methods.
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Rome
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Maps as Dress Patterns Inspire French Couture
Paris fashion houses borrow Sixteenth and Seventeenth century maps to pattern dresses. Geographical motifs appear as mariners compasses winds and seas on afternoon and evening robes. The firm behind the idea built travel book collections and reports favorable reception from the trade.
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Paris
Christian Science Monitor
USDA develops pulp process from hardwoods for newsprint
The United States Department of Agriculture announces a new process to produce newsprint from hardwoods. The method aims to bolster newsprint supply from aspen birch and possibly maple in the northeast and to foster a gumwood based industry in southern states.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Pathfinding Query on Pyramid Stones and Darkness
A Pathfinder quote contends that YT sees good in all things and asks if good can be seen in the dark. The text suggests stones for the Egyptian pyramids were transported from distant sites, noting no quarries near the monuments.
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Pathfinder
Shadows and Promises in a Quiet Conversation
A terse exchange hints at an acceptance from Ann to Jack last night. A reply suggests suspicion of borrowing a hundred dollars. The dialogue closes with a Burke quote on knowledge and timber, urging prudent use.
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Alurlel
Home remedy claim promises relief for varicose veins
An article promotes an at home treatment for varicose veins and piles using a two ounce bottle of Emerald compound. It urges readers to consult their druggist for the product and claims the veins shrink with nightly water rinses and continued use.
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Emerald
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