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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
8
Advice on fat levels for market fowls emphasizes just enough fat for tenderness and even distribution. Cratefed birds are preferred over loose pens, with proper slaughter and handling steps for a compact postplucking appearance.
Clean hen houses in summer and winter, strong shells for fertile eggs, lime as a disinfectant around yards. Pair five ducks to one drake with thirty ducks per pen. Use a warm mash of corn meal and skim milk three times daily for rapid fattening. Hatchery and chick rearing determine commercial success. buyers should feel confident in incubators and brooders.
Market quotations updated Thursdays cover GRAIN Wheat No 1 white $1.02 No 2 red 107 Oats 611 or new 58e Shelled corn 77ee Ear corn Hemns Choice $2.50 per bit Red Kidney Beans 32.15 Rye 880 Buckwheat $1.00 per 100 Lin Harley $1.00 to $2.00 per 100 Lbs HAY Hay 815.00 to £21.00 straw 25.00 to 38.00 Millet $1.40 LIVESTOCK Pigs 34.75 per owt Heavy Hogs 6.25 per owt Be t Cattle 1.00 to 6.00 per cwt Sheep 8.00 to 4.50 per cwt Lambs 8.00 to 7.00 per ew Veal Calves 8.00 to 6.00 per cwt DRESSED MEATS Beaf 1 te We per pound Hogs 3.50 per cwt Mitton i per pound Veal Calves Sitse per pound POULSERY Hides Etc Hens 1 te Chickens 1 le per pound Beef Hides fe per pound Horse Hides B 2 fa) 3.00 Deacon Skins 25c Calf Skins i0e per pound Tallow de per pound PRODICE Butter e per pound Eyes 118e per dozen Wool price adver Selling Wool via W P Cash Rooms back of Wright House barn 1720f A Successful Farmer advice HARVELL'S CONDITION POWDERS for stock and poultry 25c Sold by Wheaton & Son Se V P Cash before selling your wool Rooms back of Wright House barn 19200f
Van Alstine & Co prepares a new cement block store on the former fire site with A. J. Sutton winning the contract and starting block production. Local events include a town funeral, faculty retention for 1912 1918, commencement talks May 24, and multiple community updates from schools, businesses, and socials.
For sale by Smith and Carr. Lime sulphur solution kills the bugs. Spray trees with a mixture of 144 gallons of lime sulphur to 50 gallons of water. Available in Alma from Smith and Carr.
In Woodstock Virginia Rev John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg long aligned with the pulpit but embraced independence after a stirring sermon. He shed his gown and donned regimental dress to rally nearly 300 men from his congregation, becoming colonel of the Eighth Virginia and earning fame as a battlefield brigadier general.
A morning after scene frames a lodge banquets aftermath with a wife asking about breakfast. An ad promotes MI-DNA stomach tablets to prevent indigestion and “destroy all poisonous gases” with a money back offer through Charles Rhodes and a 50 cent price by Large.
The text recalls Benjamin Franklin’s politeness with sarcasm, noting his 1774 dismissal as surveyor general of the American post office by Britain, the Continental Congress appointing him postmaster general, and his sharp critique of British campaigns in America. It ends with a friend’s remark on American wartime birth rates and a question on conquering the continent.
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