A Bird in the Hand Candling and Water Glass Preservation
The article explains candling eggs to judge freshness, notes the gloss bloom on new eggs, and describes safe lighting methods. It promotes guinea fowl as waste-to-meat potential, discusses air cell indicators, and gives a water glass preservation method for 15 dozen eggs in a five gallon crock with sodium silicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Building a Poultry House With Varied Lumber Resources
The guide suggests using new lumber for best appearance and ease, or packing boxes and secondhand material to cut costs. Building in a corner of a high board fence may save walls, but cracks must be covered. Ensure sunlight enters the front, and request bulletins from the USDA Publications Division, Farmers' Bulletin 889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster
Division of Publications
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers
Farm Family From Kansas Builds Poultry Business in Florida
IT visits a Florida home where a Kansas family arrived five years ago with only 300 dollars. Their White Leghorns sustain the household with income for a modest home, a car, several poultry houses, and essential business needs. About 1000 birds now rely on the couple's labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Florida
United States Department of Agriculture
Community News Roundup From Big Springs Area
Big Springs community notices include Edna Hallie and Elizabeth Pounds visiting Sullivan Saturday, B W Beard family at Warren Watson's on Sunday, and heavy berry picking despite heat. Laura Langston leaves for Palestine Illinois after twenty years with Dr. and Mrs. Durham. Eastern Stars held a fish fry in Will Watson's sugar grove. A front yard incident saw a man flee after a gun threat as Base gave chase with a shotgun that failed to fire. suspect escaped in an auto ready to depart. Ray Watson, Mrs C B Watson and children visited Hutsonville. Mrs Martha Hayes and Mrs Rose Hayes visited James Durham. Florence Bragdon and son Warren visited Warren Watson. Mary Mann and mother went to Terre Haute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna
Hallie
Elizabeth Pounds
Sullivan
B. W. Beard
Eliza
Mervin
Warren Watson’s
Laura Langston
Palestine
Ill
Will Watson
Sugar Grove
A. G. Cushman
Base
Ray Watson
C. B. Watson
Hutsonville
Martha Hayes
Rose Hayes
James Durham
Florence Bragdon
Warren
Warren Watson
Mary Mann
Terre Haute
Battlefield Scene Echoes War Imagery in Pennsylvania Ad
A hotel stay in a small Pennsylvania town is described with a morning visit to a stable where a pile of dead rats killed by RAT-SNAP is shown. The speaker compares the scene to a battlefield in Europe while noting ad copy sold by Turman & Riggs and H. V. Bennett with three product sizes and a guaranteed claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Europe
Turman & Riggs
H. V. Bennett
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Prince Albert
Prince Albert Tobacco
Ip. A
Makin’s
P. A
Cie
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem, N.C
Hr. L. Ramsey
Chiropractor
Cromwell & Cromwell
Chiropractors
Shelburn,Ind
Special Information Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Big Springs
Mr. C. Dunster
Bayside Bal
Bayside
Baysides
Renee
Hood Rubber Products Co., Inc
Watertown
Massachusetts
LENOX
Lenox House
Sullivan County Farmers
F. M. Douthitt
Clothier
South Side Square
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