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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1936

Page

8

Helena Yorick and the Castle Intrigue at Yorick

In a tense passage from the Yorick saga, Helena Yorick reveals her calculated deception to save John. Pursuit, escape plans, and a dawn confrontation unfold as Bailey moves to remove the Count and Pharaoh’s influence dissolves into a potential return to Yorick.

Helena Yorick Pharaoh John Yorick Sabre Florin Dewdrop Faning Serviot Geoffrey Helena Valentine Annabel Bailey

Pemmican Powdered by Plains Indians Using June Berries

Plains Indians used June berries to make pemmican by mixing dried saskatoons with dry buffalo meat and packing it in buffalo stomach membranes. The fat or marrow kept it long in transit and provided a nourishing, portable food.

Lunch advice for office workers from Dr Barton

Dr Barton discusses lunch choices for office workers to balance energy and digestion. He cites a typical 2400 calorie daily need and analyzes a snack heavy lunch like two chocolate éclairs with milk, suggesting a meat or egg sandwich plus fruit or vegetables for most, with tailored options for underweight and overweight individuals. He notes thyroid surgery risks and stresses protein and balanced portions to maintain alertness after lunch.

Why Chicks Die When Brooded

Extension poultry guidance by C. M. Ferguson of Ohio State University explains that chick deaths during brooding are mainly due to pullorum disease or coccidiosis. Pullorum has no cure and spreads via eggs. coccidiosis comes from contaminated soil, feed, or equipment and is often linked to older stock. Prevention focuses on isolating chicks from adults, using clean range and materials, and practicing hygiene such as wearing rubbers and keeping the brooder dry with screened water platforms.

Oil Dipped Eggs Hold Fresh Quality Longer

USDA tests show oiled eggs retain original grade longer in cold storage than unoiled eggs. An eight month test found 65.8 percent of eggs oiled at 60 F, 55 percent at 80 F, and 32.5 percent of unoil ed eggs preserving grade. Vacuum oiling with carbon dioxide raised retention to 88 percent.

United States Department of Agriculture T. L. Swenson Bureau of Chemistry Gsells

Silkie Bantams A Rare Old Poultry Breed

The silkie bantam is a unique and ancient poultry variety with silky down instead of feathers. They come in white, black, golden and partridge, with white prized as original. their skin flesh and bones are dark mulberry. They lay medium eggs, brood readily, and are valued by breeders though cannot fly.

Feeding broilers to two pounds under ordinary conditions

An authority at North Carolina State College explains that seven to seven and a half pounds of feed per bird will bring broilers to two pounds under average farm conditions. Feed needs vary with vigor and management during the fattening period and intensified fattening changes appetite and use of feed.

North Carolina State College

Size 39 Shoe Too Small Pinches the Foot of Giant

A pair of size 89 shoes costing 88 dollars were made at Findlay Ohio for Rob ert Wadlow the eighteen year old giant of Alton II The shoes probably the largest ever made were returned because Wadlow said they pinched his feet.

Findlay Ohio Robert Wadlow Alton Wadlow

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