Choosing a Breed Is Like Choosing a Wife in Poultry
The U S Department of Agriculture states there is no best chicken breed. Favor standard bred stock with a male head, choose general purpose varieties for eggs and meat, and favor American-origin breeds like Plymouth Rock Wyandotte Rhode Island Red while noting English Orpingtons differ in skin color. Egg breeds are mostly nonsitters requiring artificial incubation. meat breeds include Langshans Brahmas Cochins and Cornish.
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United States Department of Agriculture
America
Plymouth Rock
Wyandotte
Orpington
Rhode Island
Farmers’ Bulletin
Division of Publications
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Minorca
Ancona
Poultry keeping basics and town flock guidance
A Farmers' Bulletin outlines how to raise a small laying flock in homes, stressing strong birds with bright combs and clean plumage. It covers housing, management, egg production for a family, odor and noise concerns, rooster absence, and when to dispose of males. It also notes postmaster pride and a genteel luncheon hosted by Love Ann Long.
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Farmers
Gosport
Ed Bascomb
Love Ann Long
Keep Two Hens for Each Family Member
Estimates from poultry specialists of the U S Department of Agriculture suggest two hens per family member yield about 20 dozen eggs annually per person, a goal above city averages. To provide an egg a day per person, hens would need to lay 183 eggs per year.
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U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
LICKSKILLET ITEMS From The Bloomington Star
Local notes mix humor and small town life with speeders dodged by Constable Plum. A whisky bottle throw and Henry Ford card joke appear amid church split opinions on Sunday horse shoe games and local gossip about Ed Bascomb and Aunt Sally Hawkins.
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Si Plum
Henry Ford
Caleb Fish
Ed Bascomb
Dick Bledsoe
Wbbersole
Eph Keef
Bryan
Jim Slivers
Bride
Sally Hawkins
Grain's Many Names Across Regions
A brief note explains how the word corn varies by country and region. In England corn refers to wheat, in Scotland to oats, in Ireland to barley, and in this country to maize, showing regional naming differences for the same grain.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
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The
Bloomington Star
Grain
Florence Wickless
Brunswick Phonographs
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South Side Square
Manning
Barre
Davis Brothers
Washington St
Sullivan, Ind
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Bayside
Oxford
Casco Oxford
Hood
Acetylene
Harry Dilley Sullivan
Ind
Sullivan County Farmers
United States
East Gan
the National Bank
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