Build Inexpensive Houses For Poultry
A guide to economical poultry housing using rough boards and heavy tar paper to prevent drafts. The design emphasizes separate roosting and laying areas, clean dry floors, movable nest bottoms, dust boxes, and open south fronts secured with wire to deter vermin. Ground plans detail a 2 by 30 foot unit with winter and summer sections and tiled drains to prevent dampness.
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Funeters
Maine
Minnesota
Montana
California to Use Convicts for Mountain Road Building
California Highway Commissioner Charles F. Stern urges using 1000 to 1500 convicts to build roads through the Sierra mountains opening 7 5 million acres of arable land on the eastern plateau. The act allows prison camps run by the highway department under control of the prison department with honor system work and extra food time for good conduct. The measure, modeled on Colorado practice, aims to hasten highway completion and improve prison welfare statewide.
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Sierras
Charles F. Stern
California
Colorado
Highway Department
National Committee On Prisons and Prison Labor
West Virginia
Stern
Three Poultry Hints For Hatchery and Brooder Use
Advice on hen housing grit oyster shell access and incubator egg selection. Use free range for sufficient oyster shell. avoid extremely large or small eggs to improve hatch rate and uniformity. early hatched chicks grow faster and can boost breeding stock sales and potential broiler market.
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iFarn
Ers
Submarine’s Rainbound Route Aims for Bottomless Roads
In a bold concept a submarine that traverses oceans on a single fuel load inspires a future path in southern Illinois where after rainfall the waterlogged ground could offer bottomless roads for prototypes and exploration.
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Illinoia
Illinois
Influence of Automobiles in Road Improvement
Despite lingering prejudice against automobiles their influence on road improvement is evident everywhere, showing a tangible impact on infrastructure and planning.
Help for Strawberry Plants Runners Not Rooting
If strawberry runners fail to root well, cover the ends of the runners with a small amount of dirt where plantlets have begun. This helps them root and establish new plants.
Supplement the Pastures and Rising Farm Costs
The article notes withered pastures driving up costs and risk as supplemental feeds rush in. It contrasts the burden on farmers from feeding pests with the costs of education for children, highlighting economic strains on agriculture.
Determining Value of Potato Seed
Purity of variety and freedom from disease determine seed value and yields. By cooperatives and careful selection growers can improve stock, learn vine and tuber traits, discard inferior hills, and organize efforts to advance the local potato industry. Early Ohio Early Rose Triumph Irish Cobbler Rural New Yorker Burbank Green Mountain are cited as seed and table varieties.
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Ohio
Triumph
New
Proper Rearing of Chicks by Green Feed
South Carolina Experiment Station outlines feeding chicks with green feed. Suggests using sour skim milk or buttermilk, soaked oats, and outdoor shade to grow sprouts. Recommends crops like rape cabbage lettuce mangels beets and turnips as cut greens for chicks.
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F. C. Ware
South Carolina
Profitable to Grade Eggs
Egg grading offers price advantages in city markets with high to low grade spreads. First quality eggs should be fresh and large, about twenty four ounces per dozen. Mixing grades lowers all eggs to the lowest grade. use dirty or odd eggs at home and keep brown and white eggs separate. Good insurance reduces frost risk.
Excellent points of silo mixing crops in silos
J B Fitch of Kansas State Agriculture College says mixing corn and sorghum for silos adds work and does not improve feed value. Sorghums mature after corn and are not ready for silo at the same time. The college circular covers cutting time, cutter size, packing, silo gas, and feeding timing.
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J. B. Fitch
Kansas State Agriculture College
Dairy Department
College
Market Hens When Overfed In Egg Production Notes
A veterinary note on fat hens in lay. Overfat hens stop laying due to abdominal bagging. Sending such hens to market is economical. do not reduce feed for entire flock. Hens with market value fetch top prices. avoid costly veterinary restoration unless highly valuable.
Onion Harvesting Guidelines From Early 20th Century Advice
Instructions advise onion harvesting after tops wither and fall. Several rows should be pulled together and the onions left in the field to dry a few days before topping and storage, outlining a simple seasonal technique.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised by Sterling women
In Sterling Connecticut a 22 year old girl reports monthly fainting and weakness improved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Miss Lavisa Mynnes of Massena New York also credits the remedy for anemia and exhaustion after five years of trouble. The notice urges girls with painful or irregular periods backache headaches and indigestion to seek restoration to health with the product.
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Terling
Conn
Lydia E. ‘Pinkham
John Tetreault
Sterling, Conn
Massena
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lavisa Mynnes
Box 74
N.Y
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Carter’s Little Liver Pills Card Note
Advertising copy asserts nine of ten results from a healthy liver. Claims pills gently but firmly stimulate liver to aid digestion and relieve constipation and discomfort after meals. Emphasizes small pill small dose small price and requires a genuine signature.
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Carter
Luring Him On Old Boarder Tenderloin Trade
Dialog captures a playful kitchen exchange as a waiter and a boarder joke about sharing a meal with mock indignation. The chatter hints at a social scene over food and preference.
Resinol Heals Itching Skin Say Doctors
Physicians have prescribed resinol for eczema and itching for 20 years. They report brilliant results and call it a regular prescription for itching. When applied, the itching stops and healing begins, with resinol sold by all druggists.
Next to Nothing reflects a judge’s aside on modest attire
A Judge comments on a wife drying clothes in the cellar due to concerns about health and modesty. He notes the daughter’s scant clothing makes the mother ashamed to air the garments outside.
Grove's The Old Standard General Tonic Ad
Advertising copy touts Grove's Tasteless chill tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system for 50 cents.
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Grove
Cave mystery exhibit dismissed as hollow mockery
A reader laments that the cave mystery exhibition delivered little substance, calling it a hollow mockery. The remark critiques the event's substance and lingers on unmet expectations.
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Noriaq
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Chatsworth
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