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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
2
A long local column lists callers and visits in Alma Elwell and surrounding areas. Residents like Levi Reed Miss Bessie Lane Theo Amesbury Edith Taylor Laura Fisher Edd Morgan PF Dershem Marlie Slingler and several families are mentioned with meetings, farm sales, store work, and church events. Also notes on cheese plant progress Rebekah lodge upcoming dances and Thanksgiving services.
A digest of visits and events across Wheeler Township. Geo Kipp shipped potatoes. Mrs A Swope and Mrs Emmet King visited relatives. Rev Verne Sibley preached. George Rich from Flint spent time with C I Rich family. Dr John A Gray spoke on Out of Work and hoboes in New York City. Wheeler Sunday School Convention in Breckenridge drew a large attendance.
Mr B Hawn and Mr Mike McNamara visited Alma on Friday and Monday. Mrs J Mull stayed in Elm Hall Saturday while Miss Tressell Gee visited Mrs Bert Morton Sunday. Mrs G Blanchard called on Mr and Mrs T Kress Sunday. Mr and Mrs D Watkins attended a Sumner meeting Sunday. Ellen Charters of near Elwell visited Mrs D Haag. Dan Haag’s wife visited her parents near Elwell Friday. Sumner Center Aid to meet Mrs A Hallowill Thursday November 20. R Fea, recently visiting, returned to Greenville. Nettie Birdsall Inez Connor with Ivah Kress Sunday. Ed Rockafellow visited his mother Mrs W Henderson in Sumner Sunday. Grace Morton from Elm Hall spent a few days with Bert Morton. Lovell family moved back to Elm Hall from the farm.
A Rhode Island experiment tests Embden Brown China Toulouse crosses and other varieties to determine profits from geese. Findings note easy plucks, plumage, and growth, with Embden White China cross as favorable for Christmas trade and early market readiness.
A. J. Liga reports precise field trial results comparing poultry manure with 14 percent super phosphate. In 24 hills per treatment, poultry manure produced 35.75 pounds versus 20.5 pounds from superphosphate, a 16.25 pound advantage, with the common No. 1 variety and minimal scab observed.
Scaly leg disease afflicts hens reducing egg output and causing rough shanks and unattractiveness. The condition lowers performance and may require care, rest, or treatment to restore vitality and egg quality.
The Farmer's Wife says earnings from a poultry flock vary with effort and judgment. Women have earned several dollars per hen annually by producing high quality poultry for exhibition and breeding. An Iowa widow funded college for her children after starting poultry efforts, showing the business can be profitable with care and prudence.
Practical farm guidance on feeding milk to young stock, keeping stables light, training horses, using alfalfa meal, and feeding potatoes to cows in limited quantities. Emphasizes gentle breeding, culling ewes, increasing pig rations as they grow, and avoiding moldy hay to prevent wind ailments. Highlights profit considerations and the broad role of diverse breeders beyond horse people.
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