Doultrey Inferior Eggs Not Sought by Buyers
Poultry expert notes that fertile eggs from roosters kept in flocks during summer drive egg losses totaling about 5 million dollars in 1930. To improve egg quality and market demand, growers should gather eggs more frequently, cool them before casing, store cases in cool spaces, keep floors clean, replace litter, and provide adequate nest space with one nest per five hens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Alp
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
WNU
Illinois
Feed Mixtures for Chicks Thrive on Mixed Mash
The Dakota Farmer outlines a chick mash recipe using 150 lb ground yellow corn 100 lb wheat bran 100 lb oat flour 75 lb wheat shorts 50 lb meat scrap. Add alfalfa leaf meal per 100 lb mash if greens are unavailable and bone meal if meat scrap is omitted. Include salt cod liver oil and calcium supplement. offer oyster shell or limestone.
Successful Pullet Raising Eighty Pullet Project
Anna Corrigan of Dakota County Minnesota raised eighty pullets from October 18 to November 16. She fed 300 pounds of egg mash and a scratch mix of barley and wheat, with alfalfa leaves oyster shells and cod liver oil. Feed cost 9.94 dollars, income 31.68 dollars, net return 21.74 dollars or 7 cents per pullet, averaging 33 cents per dozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Corrigan
Dakota County
Minnesota
Capper
Feeding Wet Mash Increases Egg Production In Chickens
Prairie Farmer reports Ohio State University experiments showing chickens fed part wet mash with milk and the rest dry produced 24 more eggs per bird in a year than birds fed an all dry ration. The study kept all other conditions and rations identical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State University
Feather Picking Among Fowl Ailments
The Rural New Yorker notes that feather picking is driven by taste for blood from bitten quills. Separating birds by letting the flock outdoors is advised to curb the behavior. Tar can be applied to bleeding spots on the comb or head to deter attackers and prevent further bleeding from skin injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Let Sun Shine In For Healthier Poultry Flocks
On warm days fronts of poultry houses should be opened to let sunlight reach birds and interior spaces. Sunlight helps keep the flock strong and dry, boosts laying, and strengthens eggshells per EB W Henderson of Iowa State College. Soft shelled eggs often result from insufficient sunlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eb, W. Henderson
Iowa State College
Few Aces Among Men of Medicine
A physician writes that most doctors are competent but not scientists, likening most to nonentities who apply others’ discoveries. He argues that only a tiny fraction contribute to medical science, comparing doctors to catfish in a mudhole rather than visionary figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasteur
Steinmetz
Edison
William Welch
William Osler
William Halsted
Forecast of a Notable Hurricane Year Hinted
Weather forecaster Herbert Janvrin Browne of Washington says 1932 is shaping up as a strong hurricane year. He cites multiple Pacific typhoons including a severe Philippine storm on April 29 and storms in Indo China Bengal and Mauritius, with similar Atlantic activity expected as the season advances.
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Herbert Janvrin
Browne
Washington
Pacific
Philippine
Indo-China
Bengal
Mauritius
Atlantic
Oriental Rugs and the Evolution of Their Names
The article traces how imported rugs were first called Turkish due to purchases from Turkish merchants in Constantinople or Smyrna. It explains the shift to Persian as caravans carried the rugs across deserts and notes lingering value assigned to trade or district names. It also mentions makers following styles in demand from Tabriz, Tiflis, or Constantinople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Smyrna
Tabriz
Tiflis
Humanitarian dog in Ayrshire drowns rabbits
A farmer in Bajarg, Ayreshire Scotland reports his black and white collie sometimes catches rabbits but refuses to harm them. The dog reportedly traps the prey and holds its head under water in a barn until it drowns, a method the farmer says the dog has used only on rabbits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bajarg
Ayreshire
Scotland
Australia’s tobacco and cotton drive export surplus ahead
A decade ago Australia produced almost no tobacco and cotton, importing most from the United States. Under protection by the commonwealth government both crops have risen sharply and domestic needs will be met this year with an exportable surplus forecast for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
United States
Commonwealth
Good Enough Artist in Overalls Says Mr Newrich
The snippet quotes Frankfurter Illustrierte musing on selfish men and loneliness with a playful aside about painting a portrait in a frock coat or overalls. It reads as a light cultural remark rather than a news item.
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Mr. Newrich
Frankfurter Illustrierte
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