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Newspaper
Progressive Farmer
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
2
A detailed vintage design for a 7 by 16 foot poultry house housing 20 to 30 hens. Includes location, foundation, roofing, insulation, windows, roosts, droppings platform, and yard fencing with concrete costs and construction tips.
The article explains how honey bees reproduce to avoid extinction, detailing winter brood development, use of combs, and the conditions leading to swarming. It notes the queen’s laying capacity, nectar flow, and hive population required for a natural prime swarm, and how modern beekeepers judge swarm readiness.
Roosts should be two feet high from the floor and geese may not be good mothers until year two. Keep cockerels on plain food to avoid fattening and separate males from hens until breeding season. A poultry-keeper cleans roosts daily and provides fresh straw to boost egg laying while neat baskets may aid egg sales when prices rise. Appearances influence selling poultry products.
Farm and Fire notes that winter diet of corn and wheat provides warmth and nitrogen but lacks minerals. It warns that feeding hens only grain leads to insufficient shell lime and weak eggs, since grains contain little lime and essential minerals.
A movable poultry house on wheels housing 50 to 70 chickens can forage on stubble fields. It is moved to fresh ground and fed in the house occasionally to acclimate the birds. Built light with half inch boards, the structure saves feed year after year and suits winter idle time for construction.
Gow to Face the House Custom places the front of the poultry house to face south but sun warmth arrives late. A southeast facing coop brings heat and light earlier, warming interiors as soon as roosts are left. In winter the sun stays south most of the day, so SE facing provides warmth and sun to about three in the afternoon.
An old rural guidance note warns that lice may be present on hens even without skin contact in the coop. Inspect the neck and head, where large lice are visible. red mites travel through the house but do not leave the birds. If one hen has them, grease the necks of all your hens.
J. E. Wing in Country Gentleman explains how to raise lambs for either market or breeding. Feed the ewe rich clover hay and wheat bran, with corn meal and linseed mix for fattening lambs, and use oats and bran for breeding stock. A self feeder diagram is shown to support feeding.
The article discusses a 40 percent cattle shortfall, emphasizes feeding and care alongside breeding, and notes that clover, alfalfa, and cow peas provide double the digestible protein of grass hay. It advises early maturity sheep, disease control, and an Iowa hog breeder claim about 40 hogs per acre on artichokes with seasonal feeding.
The article discusses seed density for grain on rich land. It notes no universal rule, citing thin seeding can yield full crops with early sowing, but on very rich soil it risks light grain. It recommends thick sowing to crowd plants, leading to sturdy heads, while warning heavy seeding harms clover or grass seed.
A guide from A. G. Gilbert in Farm and Home warns against overfeeding hens with wheat buckwheat or barley as fat hinders egg production. Use a narrow trough for morning mash, feed only enough to satisfy, monitor behavior, and keep fat from reducing laying. Include cut green bones at 1 lb per 16 hens and add small noon feeds.
A Massachusetts Ploughman article argues hogs today need refined feeding over old practices. It emphasizes temperate, regular meals, fresh water, clean bedding, and air-slaked lime for bedding, plus grass and exercise to keep hogs healthy and productive.
The Tamworth breed is largely unknown in this country yet praised as a lean, pink flavored bacon hog with long bodies suited for bacon production. They are hardy, prolific, and early maturing, with sandy red coloring and variation with dark spots. The article notes their similarity to improved Yorkshires and sets them as an ideal breakfast pork source.
Observers describe crowded hog facilities with foul air likened to a black hole of Calcutta. Filth and tainted air risk meat quality and health, urging hogs be fed as pure food under sanitary laws to prevent disease and parasites.
A New York Tribune note reports a surge in demand for American horses in Germany for sausage production. The piece notes prices have doubled quickly while Germany restricts cattle imports yet accepts horse exports in various forms.
The French law lists unsoundness forms for horses and allows return to the seller within nine days of sale. The rule would shield buyers and be welcome by reputable horse sellers here.
About ten quarts of serum are drawn from each horse at a time for anti toxin treatment. The horses suffer no perceptible exhaustion and are not made useless for other work. Among twenty five horses owned by the British Institute is Blair Athol, a granding of Blair Athol.
The Rural New Yorker describes lime's chemical role in soils, how limestone becomes lime, and the design and operation of egg shaped kilns. It explains fuel layering, throats for drawing lime, and safety practices for workers against carbonic gas.
An analysis explains why Americans drive on the right while Britons and many others drive on the left. It notes the 1935 British highway act enshrining left turns for pedestrians, contrasts U S practice of right turns, and links wheel position and handedness to historical weapon use. It cites Europe generally turning right and suggests England and New England preserve older customs.
A simple cheap grain bag holder is built from a wooden barrel hoop with three light wooden legs. The tops are beveled to spread at the bottom, and the overall height suits sacks. It speeds husking and transferring grain, allowing easy emptying and loading without extra helpers.
One hundred dollar reward offered for any case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. J J Cheney & Co advertise the product and present testimonials. The notice asserts the honesty of J Cheney & Co and names wholesale druggists in Toledo.
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