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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
7
A farming article outlines profitably fattening poultry by using fat meat residues corn meal potatoes rice cow's milk and oatmeal. The writer in Successful Farming emphasizes oatmeal for its effect on color and fat content and notes the need for proper facilities and food.
Confine fowls in dark coops with lath or wire netting open. feed boiled potatoes thickened with corn meal three times daily with salt and pepper. Vary fare with pumpkins or squash occasionally. Keep bedding fresh and coop clean to speed fattening.
A method for poultry houses uses a 2 inch iron main pipe running the length of floors with T joints and cup drinkers. A west end tank with a float valve controls fill and overflow prevents flooding. A flush gate and an overflow pipe manage drainage, and hot water from the heater feeds the system.
The farmer who raises poultry can always obtain ready money. Estimating the cost of keeping poultry, allow one bushel of grain per year per laying hen. Pick slow pullets for broilers and keep only the best for maturity. Experiments show yearling hens lay 40 percent more eggs than two year olds.
The article warns against overreliance on table scraps and potatoes to feed hens. It notes that starch-rich scraps fill crops but lack nitrogen needed to produce eggs. Even salt can tempt hens to eat, yet the flock remains underfed and egg production suffers.
A poultry keeper in Farmers' Mail and Breeze warns against raising many chicks with hens. He describes a simple outdoor brooder built from sheetiron, boards, gas pipe, and lath, with a run for chicks and a brooder lamp underneath. Cost about $1.50 including the lamp.
In Ontario, W R Graham notes hens vary in egg hatchability. Some lay fertile eggs that never hatch, forming a fermentile group where embryos die around day eighteen. Others produce mostly hatchable eggs only under natural conditions, while a minority lay eggs highly resilient to incubation stress and hatch well.
A Bee Culture correspondent describes making a hive scraper from a wagon spring sharpened at the ends for use around an apiary. He cautions to clean seed grain promptly with good mills and warns that light seed yields weak grain and can stunt young plants.
Cloverport Kentucky police judge J H Wills endorses Dean’s Kidney Pills for kidney disorders backache and bladder issues. He offers to answer questions from any reader and says it is the best remedy he has known. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. John Muir Simplicity note quotes Harriman on wealth and contentment.
A 55 year old man recalls a lifelong battle with eczema described as itching and painful boils. After eight months using Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills he says he is cured, with a supporting endorsement from Nelson R Burnett of Tipton Iowa. The piece also includes unrelated political banter about entitlement and legal talent.
One way tickets on sale daily through March and April from all points to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Puget Sound. Tours in tourist sleeping cars via Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. Double berth from Chicago for seven dollars. For details write S A Hutchison Manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark St Chicago or contact nearest agent.
A lively pair discusses busy work at the office with flirtatious humor. The dialogue plays on bustling activity and mutual satisfaction, quoting Ruskin on great men being aided by others.
The California Fig Syrup Co promotes its Syrup of Figs with Elixir of Senna as a simple pleasant laxative that physicians can sanction for family use. The ad highlights known wholesome ingredients, ethical sourcing, and widespread availability through leading druggists, priced at fifty cents per bottle.
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