Backyard Poultry Flocks Cut Waste and Boost Food
United States Department of Agriculture experts say a backyard flock of at least 10 hens can convert kitchen scraps into eggs and poultry meat. Each hen may lay about 10 dozen eggs annually, totaling 100 dozen per flock worth roughly $35 at 35 cents a dozen. Keeping such flocks reduces living costs and provides fresher eggs fed largely on waste materials.
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Cialists
United States Department of Agriculture
Autumn Troubles in Flock Disease Roup Prevention
The USDA warns autumn roup spreads in damp, poorly ventilated houses from weak birds. Remove unhealthy birds, provide dry, well ventilated housing, and add as much potassium permanganate as will rest on a dime per gallon of drinking water to act as an antiseptic. Do not attempt to cure infected birds. kill them at first symptoms to prevent spread.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Keep Ducks and Geese Busy for Winter Breeding
Keep the birds active after mating, ideally by December 1. Provide a bulky ration with about one fifth green matter and avoid overfeeding. Cracked corn yields better eggs than cornmeal alone. Winter in good condition and mate early to avoid fertile egg issues, as very early eggs can freeze and ducks lay at dawn.
Secure stock for breeding season now
Advice urges immediate purchase of breeding stock as supply diminishes and birds must be acclimated to new quarters before breeding starts.
Escape Horrors of Bolshevism
Americans and British in Siberian mining camps recount miraculous escapes from massacre. Mr and Mrs E H Barker of Vancouver and sixteen others were rescued by a Chinese gunboat after Bolshevik terror swept Nikolaievsk Amur region and Camp staff faced execution threats before the refugees were taken to Vladivostok and later left on a Japanese freighter.
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Siberian
Seattle
Wash
E. H. Barker
Vancouver
B. C
Russia
Ghiroloff
Nina
Nikolaievsk
Barker
Amur
China to adopt new money plan altering foreign bank profits
A historical note describes China’s coming currency system reducing foreign bank control after 50 years. It explains the old tael and cash coins, port specific mock dollars, and high exchange commissions that drained a traveler’s funds. A New York businessman’s test shows the scheme’s impact on profits and exchange across ports.
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New York
China
Hongkong
Peking
Tientsin
Amoy
Swatow
Foochow
Shanghai
Saving an Old Tree on White House Grounds
One of the two Japanese acacia trees in the United States, both on the White House grounds, is sick from rot at forty five years. White House tree doctor J. Rebaume works to save its life.
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United States
White House
J. Rebaume
Fishermen Gather Sperling and Smelts From Shore
Scituate residents found vast piles of sperling and smelts left by the tide after large schools were driven ashore by bigger fish. In places the fish lay seven inches deep, and crowds with wagons and cars collected the edible catch without nets or bait.
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Scituate
Mass
South Shore
Compradores and Currency Tricks in Chinese Banks
The article describes Chinese compradores in banks who handle cash for clerks sent from London. Bond amounts range from 100000 to 250000 dollars, with the chit credit system forcing debt among clerks. compradores are educated, fluent in English, and explain money requests in pidgin English when approached by strangers.
World’s fattest woman dies in Bristol at 43
Lucy Moore aged 43, once billed as the world’s heaviest woman at about 600 pounds, died of cancer in Bristol England after traveling globally on exhibition tours.
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Bristol
Eng
Lucy Moore
A Letter For Women Promotes Cuticura Trio
A reader letter from Garnett Kansas praises Cuticura Soap and Ointment for complexion and scalp care. The ad extols Cuticura Talcum as part of the toilet trio and notes mental exertion as distasteful to some.
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Arthur Peter & Go
Louisville
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Esk
Wested Laboratories
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N. C
Claire Mercantile Company
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Potomac Park
Washington
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Bright
Doan
South Carolina
W. A. Clamp
Arlington Ave
Anderson
Kidn Doan
Nts Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
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Sloan's
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New York City
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Davenport
Florida
Polk County
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