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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1921
Page
20
Poultry experts from the United States Department of Agriculture outline care guidelines for chicks in the first six weeks. Start the brooder early, clean brood lamps daily, keep hatch records, and toe-mark chicks. Do not mix ages. provide ventilation and ample space. monitor feed timing and flock size to optimize early laying and broiler profitability.
The turkey hen is described as the best mother for poults guiding them with a talking tone and warning calls. She keeps the brood together, calls lost chicks with a yelp, and leads them to food while teaching self-feeding as they roam. Usually the poults stay with the mother until October or November when males separate. When two hens with similar age broods are released together, they form a single flock for easier care.
Practical ironing instructions covering board setup, iron care, fabric handling, and heating levels. Includes polishing metals, dampening garments, rolling cloths, and special notes for silks woolens and colored fabrics with cheesecloth as needed.
Goosey Goosey Gander goslings require no feed until 36 hours old. Feed stale bread soaked in milk or water with chopped boiled eggs for 2 3 weeks, plus grass or greens. Provide water and fine grit. After 2 3 weeks switch to a light mash of shorts and corn meal or oats, adjusted with age. At 6 weeks, modify mash with meat scrap. some flocks fatten on pasture without grain, but mash remains advantageous. Whole grains generally start after good feathering.
Vegetables such as beans peas potatoes sweet corn beets and carrots have high food value. Beans beets and carrots yield more per area than most garden crops with one tenth of an acre planted to carrots producing about a ton. The energy in that yield equals roughly 870 pounds of average beef.
The article compares yields from small plots to beef, highlights vegetables as rich mineral and protein sources, and notes vegetables provide roughage and vitamins. It argues for more vegetables and fruits due to reduced cereal roughage and explains vitamins cannot be isolated but their presence benefits the body.
Instructions for sowing garden peas outline soil prep fertilizer placement and furrow depth plus seeding rate and coverage. It notes two week planting intervals for continuous supply and lists recommended varieties Alaska Gradus Thomas Laxton Excelsior and Telephone.
The article discusses growing peas on brush or wire trellises to keep vines off the ground. After harvest, remove vines and trellis and plant late crops like potatoes, cabbage, spinach, turnips, or late snap beans for late summer or fall use.
Early potatoes can be followed by a late crop of sweet corn planted between potato rows about two weeks before digging. Late cabbage can be set between rows and soil worked around them at potato harvest. Turnips can be broadcast after early potatoes. Late potatoes go in June to July and supply winter stock.
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