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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
2
An early 20th century note warns poultry farmers that chicks and turkeys are prone to gapes and other vermin. It advises inspecting wings and vents for lice, cautions against head lice on necks, and suggests a homemade insect powder from gasoline carbolic acid and road dust. It also warns to avoid dust in the eyes of young birds and to avoid frightening hens at dawn.
B. Anderson of the Indiana experiment station completed two tests to assess skim milk as a feed for growing chickens. The study used two groups of ten Plymouth Rocks and ten Houdans fed freely on a mix of crushed corn bran and ground oats with additional cracked corn cabbage and lettuce.
In a three lot trial, Lot 2 and Lot 3 received skim milk with grain while Lot 1 had no milk. Lot 1 ate 179.8 pounds of grain with 2.42 ounces weekly gain per chick, Lot 3 ate 217.4 pounds grain plus 4 pounds skim milk achieving 4.46 ounces weekly gain. Milk improved digestion and consumption, suggesting profitability and faster growth. A summer repeat showed similar results, indicating milk is valuable for growing chicks when available.
Mites can be treated by Creolin or similar disinfectants. To apply, attach a 14 inch brush to a bent broom handle and dip into the liquid. Sweep roosts and interior of the hen house with the homemade brush to combat mites.
Rye makes good chick feed but in summer chicks prefer lettuce and Schenchard to rye. Break rye into small bits and chicks will quickly clean up the green supply.
After sixteen years with fowls the Rhode Island Reds are praised for rapid growth, hardy constitution, and large winter lay. The breeder describes incubation, brooding, feeding, and handling routine, noting high vitality and profitable market weights from three months onward, with plump white breasts as an appealing market trait.
Guidance on when to molt in fowls notes August to October as ideal, with adjustments for young and old birds. Emphasizes separating sexes during feather growth, avoiding remating before New Year, and warns that malting weakens birds and raises illness risk. Recommends nutrition including moth sunflowers, linseed meal, and green foods to support new feather growth.
The article warns gape worms persist in soil where infected chickens lived and advises moving to unoccupied ground for two to three years or rotating the whole chicken operation. If kept on wormy ground until six weeks old, chicks suffer. removal or sanitation and lime spraying help. Prevention is emphasized as cheaper than cure.
Advice on feeding stock in winter urges supplying animal food enriched with milk and flourished mixtures. It favors any mix that aids digestion and supports both old and young animals, noting bulky fodder and Burney food as beneficial.
Four to six hours daily. Haspel Monbeck, fourteen, presides over Bors Box Purnitere, a Dayton cooperative with 23 stockholders aged ten to seventeen. Profits split by hours worked, about 19.908 last year. Capital stock one dollar a share. Some want more stock but rules forbid.
A man samples a folding catalog for a 70 volume set of speeches priced at 680 dollars total with installments. He checks the index and challenges the claim by noting the supposed greatest talker is not listed. The exchange centers on whether the collection truly contains the top voices.
Fragmented OCR text notes a scrambled mix of phrases about chickens and female suffrage in a municipal research context. The readable portion mentions a scarcity and an elf bachelor reference, but no coherent event or entities to report. No clear dates, places, or organizations are identifiable.
An Instance notes the city’s oddities with lines about a county machinery and elevator childrearing in an apartment house. It contrasts beliefs about baldheaded men.
Story recalls Postmaster Hamilton of Marysville Michigan losing a $100 bill on a trip to Port Huron and later recovering it from a hat lining. It also recounts Mortimer Sheridan of Brooklyn who misplaced $600 in a high hat, later reclaiming the amount when the hat was replaced for his daughter’s wedding.
An official from the gas department visited a householder about a meter seeming to under report usage. The decline was explained by a daughter’s marriage last June, which reduced winter consumption, calming the inspector.
After a match a man with a small mesh net returns to a bungalow. A neighbor asks if he went after speckled beach, he replies he is going in after mosquitoes with vengeance in his voice.
A dialogue fragment asks when to use eye drops after questions about timing. The speaker doubts the value of freely given advice and whether the adviser would follow his own counsel.
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