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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1911
Page
2
An advertisement rate notice states pricing at one cent per word for a single insertion and half a cent per word for each subsequent insertion.
Desiring Barred Rocks with a record of success in Indiana and Illinois offers eggs at 2.50 per 15, 4.75 per 30, 10 per 100. Also selling a trio of S C R I Reds and some good cockerels. Breeding pens headed by prize winners. Dugger Indiana.
32-41 Ss. Cc. R. J. Red or S&S. C. B. Leghorn eggs, $4 per 100, or 75 cents per 15. Day old chicks. Mrs. S. Be. Coulson, R. D. 10. Sullivan, Tid.
Indian Runner Duck eggs six cents each Pawn and White Indian Runner Duck eggs ten cents each White Orvington eggs seven cents each Black Mimorca eggs five cents each Ellery Hayden Shelburn, Indiana.
Ss C Brown Leghorns offer fine large birds with good color and comb. Regular egg machines. Stock from the best in the country. Eggs 75 cents per 12, 75.00 per 140. All orders filled promptly. Stock for sale by Geo C Schwegman Richmond Indiana.
Five cockerels and one cock bird offered for sale by G P Davis of Hope Indiana. Cockerels priced at two fifty each and cock bird at five dollars. Public notice of livestock sale.
Booking orders for eggs from prize winning stock. Send for mating list. A few good cockerels left at $2.00. Co. B. Crowden, Goodland, Ind.
J. W. Cook offers Kulp strain Rose Comb Brown Leghorn roosters for sale and eggs for hatching at five dollars per one hundred. Orders accepted from Bluffton Indiana area.
Foy’s Buff Rocks won in Logansport with top pullet, first pen, and several high placements. About forty birds competed. pullets sold for two to five dollars. J. E. Foy of Woodland Indiana entered the birds.
Weckler announces high class Buff Plymouth Rock breeding stock eggs from winners. Birds guaranteed as represented. Member American Buff Plymouth Rock Club. A. L. Weckler, Bunker Hill, Indiana.
Heavy laying strain ducks offered by Mrs J A Welch of Letts Indiana. Fawn and white Indian Runner hens suitable for egg production. Price quoted as 13 eggs per unit at one dollar.
White Langshans bred from blacks for seven years breed true farm raised. Twenty cockerels two dollars each Eggs two dollars per setting five hundred dollars. Alonzo Lyner R. D. 9 Greenfield Indiana.
Rose Comb Rhode Island Red and Single Comb Brown Leghorn eggs offered for hatching. Bred for egg production and color fidelity. Pricing listed as $1.50 for 15 eggs and $8 for 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. WM. THIE, R. D. 2, Batesville, Ind.
Poultrymen favor open front houses to improve oxygen flow and heat by burning carbohydrates. A two foot tight zone above the floor reduces drafts. The preferred design features a square shed on a continuous 29 by 20 foot plan with low front roof and no back eaves, covered by extending roofing material.
Santee guidance on building a poultry house emphasizes a double pitched roof for head room, concrete floors raised off the ground, insulated damp preventing layers, tar felt and small stone for drainage, and tight three walls with a single sash window in the southeast corner for sun. It favors rear yards, cleaning doors, windless partitions, and mats to avoid drafts while promoting larger flocks and free range where feasible.
An illustrated layout outlines a convenient chicken house roost platform recommended by the Department of Agriculture. The design includes a front duck curtain, rear entry nests with hinged bottoms, a four inch dead air space wall, trap doors to the attic, ventilating cupolas, and straw to absorb moisture.
A moderately priced poultry house features an artistic exterior and practical plant-like setup. It uses open frame construction with large south windows, canvas screens, elevated platforms, nest passageways, and a modern ventilator. The design allows easy extension and holds 15 birds, with a grape vine growing beside it.
Mrs N E Ridgeway and her daughter Mrs Hayden H Allen near Washington Indiana report she reached 83 on Sunday the 5th. Her friends sent 143 post cards in a surprise shower expressing remembrance and affection. She says she is in reasonably good health and hopes to live many years if God wills. A separate note by Chas B Allen of Sylvania Georgia describes a three year battle with rheumatism liver stomach trouble and kidney disease then credits Electric Bitters with curing these ailments after four bottles and endorses the remedy sold by Joe K Smock & Son.
The data describes a four cylinder L head engine with Gray iron cylinders cast in pairs. It lists bore four inches stroke four inches lubrication splash with positive feed pump. Transmission three speed sliding gear with forward and reverse. Clutch multifite disc. ignition low tension magneto and batteries. Carburetor automatic float feed. Gasoline capacity 25 gallons. Brakes expanding and contracting on rear wheels. Drive shaft enclosed in torsion tube. Axles drop front I beam semi floating rear. Wheels second growth hickory. Frame pressed steel. Extreme length 12 feet 9 inches. Extreme width 5 feet 4 inches. Equipment standard.
Rat proofing tips describe dirt or sand floors on a concrete foundation for poultry houses, wooden floors on concrete in stables, and galvanised wire netting with half inch mesh around granaries and small buildings. Cellar windows should be protected and poison kept away from fowls and domestic animals.
Wheat grows feather. Do not neglect to clean the poultry house often. Corn is a good food for poultry especially excellent for fattening. Let all the sunshine into your poultry houses that you can these days. To be a successful poultryman one must know fowls. Look out for soft shelled eggs. They are the cause of egg eating many times.
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