Capons On The Farm A Guide To Poultry Caponizing
The article explains raising capons as a sideline on farms using vigorous roosters from breeds like Rocks Brahmas Orpingtons Cornish Wyandottes or Jersey Black Giants. Caponizing should begin mid July to prepare birds for Easter markets avoiding competition with Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Roy
Dearstyne
North Carolina State College Poultry Department
WNU
Turkey
Best Results From Proper Poultry Rearing and Housing
Proper ration and care yield excellent results for well bred stock kept in adequate housing. Overcrowding limits growth and carcass quality. Provide abundant grain feed and growing mash. ensure birds are healthy and fattened with proper handling until market.
Do Not Mix Old and Young Chicks in Poultry Houses
A Missouri Farmer warns against raising young chicks with old stock. Mixing ages leads to sanitation problems, parasites like worms and coccidia, and lice infestations. Baby chicks cannot eat adequately and are trampled. Keep chicks on clean ground away from old hens to reduce losses from rats.
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Missouri
Controlling Lice in Hens With Dust and Treatments
The Indiana Framer Farmer's Guide advises that dust boxes spread unhealthful dust in the poultry house and raise cold risk. It favors crating hens at least twice a year and applying blue ointment or sodium fluoride. If handling hens is avoided, apply nicotine sulphate on roosts at sundown.
Poultry Notes on Feeding and Breeding for Chicks
Poultry notes stress adequate early rations with a "Feed them or sell them" mindset. A chick uses about four pounds of feed in eight weeks, cull poor producers in year one, and keep the best for the next year. Ducks show strong first-season production, pullorum is the only direct hen to chick disease, and a palatable feed mix combines cornmeal bran shorts meat scrap salt.
Mother renounces robber son who seeks “one more job”
Mrs. Della La Trasse, 80, of Kansas City, says she will never see her son William La Trasse again after learning he planned another safe-cracking job with Pat Carroll. Police found nitroglycerin, dynamite caps, and a complete safe-breaking kit. the mother had previously funded his cobbler shop and hoped for his rehabilitation.
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Della la Trasse
William la Trasse
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la Trosse
Yegg
William McMullan
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Victory Junction
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la Trasse
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Pat Carroll
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Mayo, Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Different Makeups for Women Urged by Expert
London beauty experts urge a modern woman to wear fifteen different face styles to match fifteen dresses. A color chart from a cosmetics firm guides makeup choices for light sports wear versus dark evening wear, including specific shades and lip colors.
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London
Browning
Rachel
Child's Cries Force Car Thief to Quit Vehicle
Otto Rune Jr four cried during a car theft in New York and prompted the thief to abandon the car within a mile. The child’s screams, encouraged by his father’s rule to yell if strangers approached, led to the quick rescue of the vehicle.
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Otto Rune, Jr
Otto
Elderly Man Plans New Teeth in New Baltimore
Peter Schaars, age 88 of New Baltimore Michigan, recalls riding the cow-catcher with the late Thomas Edison and announces his plan to obtain a new set of false teeth. He vows to get his money’s worth before he dies.
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Baltimore
Mich
Peter Schaars
Thomas Edison
Watch Saves His Life in Ravenna Shooting Incident
Jim Kyndle’s watch blocked a self inflicted gun discharge. He grabbed for the weapon and accidentally fired toward his heart, with the bullet lodging in the watch mechanism and preventing injury.
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Ravenna
Neb
Jim Kyndle
Kyndle
Thief Takes 5000 Dimes From Helena Blacksmith Home
Leroy Ford a Helena Arkansas blacksmith left for church and a thief stole 5000 dimes from his cupboard where he had saved for years. The loss highlights ongoing concerns about local security.
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Helena
Ark
Leroy Ford
Ford
Baby dirigible tested in France with cargo capacity
Reports say a small French dirigible completed tests successfully. The craft can fly at 60 miles per hour and carry a cargo of one ton three hundred pounds. It requires a crew of two and can be parked in an ordinary airplane hangar.
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France
St Joseph's Aspirin Promoted at 10c Pack
An advertising pitch touts St Joseph's Genuine Pure Aspirin at 10 cents for 12 tablets. It claims no monopoly on genuine pure aspirin and emphasizes purity, strength, and moisture-proof packaging. A separate court exchange features a judge remark about forgery and self-signature.
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St.Joseph
St.Joseph’s
St. Joseph’s
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