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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1918
Page
4
A fragmentary dialogue hints at an urgent declaration of love. One speaker vows a bold move, while the other suggests waiting until after a hospital stay, then marriage follows. The exchange reflects a tense personal moment with uncertain resolution.
Mrs Bargins ponders tomorrow as she scans Sunday ads looking for clues about what lies ahead in commerce and daily life.
Laying hens need ample water that is fresh and clean. Do not place the water receptacle where litter can be scratched into it. Wash it frequently to prevent green scum buildup. For summer, keep water outside the house in the shade.
The article advises selling hens that moult early in June or July as they are poor summer layers. It discusses summer housing with emphasis on fresh air shade sunlight dryness and ample water. It outlines a practical summer ration using green feeds bread scraps meat scraps ground with cornmeal and bran plus small grain portions and grit. It stresses keep hens lean and ensure constant water access.
Advice on poultry care for summer emphasizes not keeping cocks or early moulting hens, ensuring hens have ample clean water air and shade, feeding vegetable scraps to the flock, and placing homegrown chickens on the home table. It also recommends preserving a case of 30 dozen summer eggs for winter use to save money and aid overseas needs.
Guidance from a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin explains candling eggs to select only fresh, high quality specimens for winter storage. The brief text, illustrated by plates, notes how to spot ideal appearances and avoid bad eggs, with credits to Dr. M. FE Pennington and colleagues.
A two year test by the United States department of agriculture moved eggs about 1200 miles per trip with total damage under 1 percent. The study implies that adopting the department’s packing and hauling methods could greatly conserve the food supply by reducing breakage in carload and smaller egg shipments.
Farmers bulletin 889 Back Yard Poultry Keeping explains using table scraps as feed for fowls. Fowls provide good feed for people and scraps can be recycled into poultry diet. Free on request from the U S Department of Agriculture.
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