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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
6
A city man seeks guidance on housing 100 hens with four yards and a 14 by 30 foot south facing house split into two pens of 50 each. Two north and two south yards plus half an acre for green feed allow seasonal rotation and soil renewal. Rotate fowls, plow and reseed to maintain green forage.
A Farmers' Review writer urges movable poultry setups to roam fields weekly. Hens forage along furrows for worms and grubs, with estimates of 50 grasshoppers per crop and 5 000 insects daily from a flock of 100. Insect control on farms could be enhanced by better using domestic fowls.
Diagram explains a simple chicken coop door using a suitably sized box with a hole cut in one end. The box is reinforced with narrow wood strips on each side for strength and durability in a poultry yard setting.
A fragment describes a sliding door for a chicken coop with a groove for insertion. It notes narrow strips spaced three inches apart and a roof covering at the top for protection, suggesting a simple, durable coop door construction.
A farmer advises adopting pure bred chickens for winter egg production and better market value. He cites improvements in pure bred stock, urges small investment in a few well bred cockerels, and shares a twelve year success story of switching from mongrels to pure breds. He promotes beauty, higher egg yield, and profitable breeding stock for every farm.
A Farmers' Mail and Breeze item describes building an egg tester from a sugar box. It details drilling holes, cutting thin boards, placing two boards inside the box, and painting marks to guide egg testing with sun or lamp light. The device prevents eggs from rolling and allows a drop from fixed positions.
Practical poultry advice on vigor in breeding stock, nest setups, rat and cat protection, and seasonal hatching tips. Emphasizes cool nesting materials, cement floors to deter digging, feeding cats to curb predation, and timing of roast chicken prices affecting egg-set profitability.
Farmers urged that farm poultry is more profitable than poultry kept elsewhere. The writer expresses strong belief that on-farm poultry yields greater returns and urges practical measures to improve flock management.
Two boys reported finding a cave with human bones on Bartlett farm six miles southwest of Osawatomie. The mayor and police went to the site and returned with two skulls and bones in a gunny sack. Investigators linked the cave to an old hermit who practiced phrenology, one skull wired to hold bones in place.
Report from the McCracken to Scott City region states electricity during high winds burned wheat and vegetation, destroying about 85 percent of the crop. The affected wheat appears dark and dead and crumbles to dust when touched.
Prominent landowners in Lyon County organize the Lyon County Drainage Association to prevent floods in the Cottonwood and Neosho river bottoms. Four floods this year along the Cottonwood have spurred action. Government survey of the Neosho river valley last year is seen as a help to the effort.
A. J. Bliss of White Cloud was called before Judge Smith to answer perjury charges for a false tax statement. He claimed $400 in taxation while W. T. Lynds testified Bliss held $9,000 on deposit as of March 1, 1908. Bliss was bound over to the district court in $2,500.
A collision between Fire Chief Scott's wagon and a carriage carrying Fred Bower and his family occurred in Kansas City. Mrs. Bower died 20 minutes after the crash, with injuries reported for others.
Sunflower Oil plans a pipeline to supply western Kansas eastern Colorado and southwest Nebraska. Construction starts next week and should finish within a year.
The Santa Fe system reports full force in all shops with about 3,500 men back at work. Of those, 1,300 are in Topeka shops who have been out since June 19.
A flour mill with capacity of 100 barrels daily will be built at Bonner Springs by miller L. D. Mansfield who recently moved from Memphis.
The supreme court has granted two months more to both sides in the state against International Harvester. The state receives 40 extra days for testimony and the company 15 days for rebuttal. The company has recently presented Chicago evidence from top officials and the state seeks to rebut. The company then gains an additional opportunity to answer.
Garnett voices vindication for the firecracker as the town marks Independence Day celebrations. Amid races and a greased pig contest a man breaks a shoulder, a woman breaks a leg, and two men are stabbed in a quarrel, with no powder explosion injuries reported.
A Cofteyvinlé boy named Martin Moody aged year old faced burglars while guarding sleep, enduring a nocturnal incident that highlighted resilience and danger. Authorities report a tense confrontation and a dramatic attempt to protect his home and family.
In a humorous exchange the rival is mocked as a philanthro-what, noting his recent gifts of multiple Deadwood Dick and Nickel library titles. The ad then pivots to laundry care, praising Defiance Starch for superior strength allowing thinner application without sacrificing stiffness or fabric quality.
A magistrate hears a case where a "perfect lady" is charged with smashing another woman's head with an umbrella. She insists it was an accident and that she did not intend to break hers. The judge questions the claim as she repeats the accident defense.
An old village lady asks if city life costs more. Her city nephew answers it costs no more to live there, but maintaining appearances costs three times as much as in the country.
An old advertisement touts Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago products for red weak and watery eyes. It claims the remedy stops eye pain and includes a 48 page book in each package. Sold by druggists at 50 cents with a promotional tone urging consult with a doctor.
A comical dialogue mocks a new weather prophet who claims rivers will dry nationwide. An old timey ad plugs Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer and other quirky products. The text also notes job scarcity and consumer goods pitches like Red Cross Ball Blue laundry soap.
The passage asks how many American women in lonely homes long for motherhood yet are hindered by an organic derangement. It then asserts that preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by the use of a specific method or remedy.
Mrs Maggie Gilmer of West Union South Carolina and Mrs Josephine Hall of Bardstown Kentucky report health recoveries and becoming mothers after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts thirty years of use as a remedy for female ailments including displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities and backache and invites sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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