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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
3
Agricultural guidance warns fat or languid hens reduce egg output. Provide fresh air, sunshine, ample shade, and green feeds along with bread crumbs and meat scraps. Feed grain midday and ensure grit shells while maintaining clean water in shade to sustain steady egg production.
Hot weather requires shelter and good air flow for brooders to prevent overheating. Feed skim milk and buttermilk in a drinking fountain, keep water available, and ensure premises are free of mites with petroleum spray. Weekly dusting with insect powder helps remove lice.
If the prospective home orchardist prepares the soil where his fruits are to stand as thoroughly as he does his garden, the United States department of agriculture says the rapid growth of fruit trees will repay him in time.
All cockerels not kept for breeders should be marketed when at suitable size. Birds kept in a home fattening setup and fed a fattening ration for a week or ten days gain weight and fetch a better price due to improved quality.
Poultrymen lose about 20 percent of cracked corn when used in litter. Specialists advise sieving purchased or home prepared cracked corn to remove the finest ground material and mix with pinhead oats and cracked wheat for young birds or use in mash for layers. With cracked corn at $3 a bag, the fine grain loss is about 60 cents per bag. sieving minimizes loss.
The article notes turkeys are cheaper to raise as they graze fields and eat weed seeds and acorns. A turkey hen stays near the nest until poults are about a week old. Hatchings occur in incubators and brooders, with brood coops for hens with broods larger than standard poultry housing. Feeds for chicks suit young turkeys.
Congress weighs sweeping measures including the peace pact and the league covenant while accelerating appropriation bills to allow July funding. Debates on war containment, enforcement of prohibition, and rail and army budgets loom as partisan positions diverge.
A fashion overview of motor apparel highlights leather coats in three quarters to full length with belt slides patch pockets and shawl collars. It covers tweed covert cloth leather blends camel hair and pongee coats plus matching motor hats in patent leather silk and rubberized cloth with visors and little veil use.
The article notes that rain water is considered soft because it contains no mineral matter. This characteristic differentiates it from hard water and highlights its purity in relation to mineral content.
The piece highlights the spring to summer shift to light airy millinery with hair braid wide-brim hats, ostrich plumes, georgette crepe and braid designs, chrysanthemum braid crown accents, and satin piping. It notes marines and pansies colored hats, and predicts laced and buttoned shoes, with toned shoes forecast as less popular.
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