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Newspaper

Thomson Review

Location

Thomson, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 03, 1930

Page

4

Roosting Space Guidelines For Healthy Pullets

L M Ward of the New York State College of Agriculture advises ample roosting space to prevent crowding and improve growth. Steps include clean houses with fresh litter, proper floor coverings, ventilation, independent ranges for different ages, and periodic carbolineum treatment to deter red mites.

L. M. Ward New York State College of Agriculture

Fireless Cooker Idea for Egg Layers

A practical tip suggests using a fireless cooker to warm water for poultry. The method aims to keep hens comfortable with less expensive feed, noting warming water is cheaper than heating the birds directly. It emphasizes cost savings and simple warmth for egg layers.

Winter Egg Production For Pullets By Feeding

Colorado Agricultural College expert Wells outlines a ration for pullets to maximize winter egg output. Use a correct balance of lay ing mash and grain, grade birds by size, and provide growing mash with moist mush as needed to sustain development before cold weather. Separate feeding for backward birds aids earlier production.

Colorado Agricultural College

Farm Land Market Shows Improvement Across Regions

A survey by the National Association of Real Estate Boards reports better farm land conditions than a year ago. Data from 78 brokers cover 350 farm sales in the United States and Canada, with average farm size about 200 acres and price per acre around 71 dollars. Buyers mainly farm or invest, some for homes or airports.

National Association of Real Estate Boards United States Canada North Central States Middle Atlantic

Filling Livestock as Aid in Using Surpluses

RB C Ashby of the University of Illinois argues that feeding at the market or “filling” hogs before weighing can ease grain surpluses. He notes it equalizes weight differences caused by market movement and provides an economical use of feed, with hogs watered but not fed before weighing in some plans.

RB. C. Ashby College of Agriculture University of Illinois

Mercury Unique Metal Distilled at Mines For Shipments

A fragment discusses Mercury Unique as an exception among metals recovered without smelting, detailing distillation at the mines and shipment as a finished product. It weaves in unrelated quips about social dining and a satirical aside on office boredom from magazine-style fragments. The text also references a "Not So Easy The Nttle Job" piece and a humorous line about looking at oneself.

State to aid county road building refunds announced

Approximately 2,000,000 will be refunded to counties this year to cover costs of state aid roads in the bond issue system. Governor Emmerson was informed by the division of highways, with 1931 refunds totaling about 500,000 planned.

Louis L. Emmerson Division of Highways Frank T. Sheets

Route 80 Pavement Routed Off River Road

Route 80 between Hast Moline and Port Byron will be built on a new right of way rather than the river road. County engineer Wallace Treichler will begin surveying Monday, with state purchase of land and grading planned after surveys. Louis Sage announced the plan as state aid road progress for this year.

Treichler Davenport Muscatine

Long Time to Cool Lava and Early Flight Feats

Fragmentary OCR notes describe lava cooling times of fifteen to twenty feet depth taking a year and include references to looping flight by Adolphe Pegoud near Paris in September 1913. The text mixes garbled phrases about monoplane stunts, a Mark Pearse quotation, and Uncle Eben sayings, creating a mosaic of historical bits without a clear single event.

Adolphe Pegoud Paris

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