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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1914
Page
5
Article explains bumblefoot in old heavy turkeys from jumping on hard surfaces. It covers wound cleaning, incision and drainage, disinfection, and bandaging. Advises confinement, clean bedding, and seasonal housing to promote healing and prevent reinfection. Silver nitrate may aid stubborn cases and ongoing bandage changes are needed.
A Massachusetts duck farmer describes a four acre setup with a brook running through the yard. He dammed the duck yard to give two feet of water, boosting growth and reducing losses. He details mash composition and feeding timing to raise ducks to market weight by ten weeks, noting benefits of in-water rearing and careful feed ratios.
Ducks feed by dipping bills beyond the nostrils while on moist ground. They probe for worms and insects, using water to clear their nostrils. Proper shallow water helps keep their nasal passages clean during foraging.
The article argues that storing corn in silos would have saved about 90 percent of its value during last fall’s spoilage in the west. It notes shredding is common but silos protect nearly full value, with filling possible beyond weather limits except in severe storms or extreme frost.
Stored grain suffers from insects called weevils with granary and rice weevils being the primary grain pests. These small brown snout beetles spread globally via commerce and breed in grain kernels, causing damage to grain, flour, and baked goods.
An old poultry guide urges a dust bath in every coop to control lice. It recommends using road dust or dry dirt and warns against damp wood ashes. A three by three foot box, sunlit, is ideal, with Persian insect powder as a last resort. hens use it to stay active and exercise.
The author urges shorter rotations and lime and phosphorus feeding to improve meadows and pastures. They warn that every exported animal leaves one third of its bone phosphoric acid, causing soil deficiency and the need to replenish this element.
The text states an average cow drinks about nine to ten gallons of water daily. It adds that using coal in the tank heater warms water more economically than using carbohydrates in corn.
Green food for poultry is essential in winter when cabbage and beets are scarce. Sprout oats by soaking 24 hours, then grow to two inches and feed. Keep oats in a moderate room and dampen daily for best results.
Hollow celery stems result from unclear causes. Use good seed, balanced fertilizer, and clean tillage to prevent this common trouble.
A brief guide notes the best dairy cattle judging focuses on how animals behave and perform rather than how they appear. It urges observers to assess movement and practicality over showy conformity.
This study outlines a two part approach to Jesus teaching from the Perean period. It groups seven outward kingdom lessons emphasizing service mercy and humility with five inward lessons on personal discipleship and walking humbly with God.
A long list of kitchen and home remedies is presented, including fish recipes Halibut a la Creole and Delmonico Fish, plus tips on scenting rooms with dried orange peel, cleaning fabrics with potato pulp, insomnia remedies, frost prevention, dust protection, and child neck warmth with a flannel wrap. Notable names Lloyd and Browne appear in quoted lines.
An efficiency engineer extols John D for presence of mind. He recalls a Cleveland neighbor who blamed Smith's cow for garden damage. John D confirms the cow entered his garden too, milked it of value, then drove it out.
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