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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
4
A winter meditation on thoughtful landscaping invites homeowners to map a broad, harmonious plan. Emphasis on natural integration, quiet retirement vibes for older owners, and treating the landscape as a whole with grading and planting as incidental to a cohesive ideal.
An article highlights the lure of second hand building supplies in old material yards with yards full of statues, mantels, doors, and bathroom fittings. It notes potential savings for home builders and cites a growing interest in harmonizing lighting with architecture as electricity becomes essential. It also discusses aerial transit ideas as a future transport solution.
Patriotic farmers who want to aid poultry and egg supplies should keep a significant share of yearling hens rather than selling all hens over a year old. Many hens fail to lay enough in their second year, but keeping pullets and hens with proper housing avoids overcrowding and maintains best production.
Housewife can help win the war by economizing with war commodities and using various sirups and dried fruits in desserts. Recipes include oat bread puddings and cakes made with molasses honey and corn sirup, plus popcorn treats and rice puddings. Emphasizes thrift in kitchens and patriotic duty through cooking without sugar.
Pennsylvania agriculture experts report boiled oats as the most affordable poultry food and a safer, easier alternative to sprouted oats. Prepare by soaking heavy oats, adding salt, boiling two to three hours, feed warm but not hot, with two daily servings for White Leghorn pullets and one daily serving for older hens to avoid excess fat.
A practical note on chicken feed suggests bran and shorts are inexpensive. Used in a dry mash with cornmeal, shorts can dominate the mix, replacing cracked grains. The mixture suits self-feeders, aids growing chicks, and can be kept as a constant option even without cracked grains.
Danbury fair and Fairfield county CT record a new chapter as seven tons of jam made and packed by county women under the home demonstration agent are exhibited at the county fair. The jars travel by decorated auto trucks to New York, then Fifth Avenue, and are shipped to the French army hospitals at the front.
A quirky note urges readers to imitate a careful squirrel that stores food for lean times and to embrace prevention. It argues those who cannot nurse can still prevent illness, avoid waste, and lessen others’ burdens by acting now with cheerful effort.
Poultry keepers should cull runts weak specimens and deformed birds as feed costs rise. Removing them conserves food, space, and coop resources for strong, healthier stock likely to yield higher profits.
The article notes 100 pounds of skim milk can equal half a bushel of corn in value, making skim milk a preferred feed amid high feed prices. It highlights high testing cream enabling more of this valuable feed and mentions buttons now derived from yeast.
The guidance argues against housing two males together. If more than one male is needed, rotate them with the hens, one with the hens same day and the other the next day. When not with hens, keep the male in a separate pen.
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