Feeding a Well Balanced Ration for Laying Pullets
The article outlines winter prep for pullets, stressing early housing and a balanced ration to boost egg production. It recommends reducing morning scratch, moistening mash with buttermilk, and careful exercise. Emphasizes clean nesting, water, health, and green feed like cabbages, mangels, and sprouted oats to sustain laying through the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriclture
United States Department of Agriculture
Concrete Mixing Guide With Tools and Mix Ratios
A home concrete how to describes using tools, a mixing platform, and forms. It details a 1 to 2 to 3 ratio for sand cement and pebbles, shows a sand filling method, and warns against excess water to maintain strength. It includes a table of mixtures for various applications.
Pullet Culling Profitability Tips for Poultry Flocks
In cutting pullets the main points are a long broad back full abdomen deep long breast clean cut head and a bright eye. Ten to fifteen percent of the pullet crop can be culled without affecting the flock's prospects.
Grading Chute Improves Potato Sorting In Wagon Box
Herbert A. Shearer describes a grading chute for potatoes, eight feet long with stepped slat spacing from upper to lower end, guiding potatoes smoothly to reduce hand-picking and avoid misgrading. The device fits under the wagon box rear, operating at a safe angle to prevent piling up.
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Herbert A. Shearer
Bayer aspirin ad and a street tale fragment
An old Bayer aspirin advertisement touts genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with dosage options and prices. A separate street conversation features Mrs Gondbelly asking a man about his seven years as a prisoner, followed by astonishment about the war’s duration.
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Bayer
Fatten Fowls For Market With Balanced Mash Diet
For rapid fattening of market fowls use ground mashes over whole grains. A fattening mash of 50 percent meal, 25 percent wheat bran, 23 percent ground oats plus enough sweet milk yields a moist crumbly mix fed several times daily. Encourage intake by small, frequent feedings. some use cramming to force more consumption.
Feeding Potatoes to Swine and Sheep in Self Feeders
Extension Service guidance from Colorado Agricultural College advises cooking potatoes for swine and pairing with protein feeds like mud dlings, tankage, or fish meal in self feeders to achieve proper proportions. Sheep can receive small potato portions similar to roots, about one to three pounds per mature sheep, supplemented by a recurring ration of jercome bay and coarse roughage.
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Jecome Bay
Extension Service
Colorado Agricultural Covese
Paper Stop Perplexes Subscriber in Philadelphia Column
A subscriber angrily proclaims he has stopped the paper. The editor calmly invites him to the office where all is normal. The editor then questions the claim and "stopped" the paper, rebutting the idea with a poised retort.
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Philadelphia
You Need a Medicine You Should Have the Best
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a proven medicinal remedy. It cites a druggist endorsement and sworn testimonials claiming benefits for kidney and bladder issues, urinary troubles, and rheumatism. Readers are offered a sample by mail and large bottles at drug stores.
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Kalmer
Kilmer & Co
Binchamson
N. Y
Measures to Prevent Roup in Fowl Flocks
A. J. Durant of the Missouri College of Agriculture outlines three forms of roup affecting poultry, including eye infections, diphtheritic mouth sores, and a chickenpox-like form. He emphasizes proper feeding and housing, and advises culling and burning of severely ill birds.
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A. J. Durant
Missouri College of Articulture
Contractor Gained 30 Lbs on Tanlac
William Magee a retired contractor from St. Louis reports Tanlac restored his appetite and strength after years of illness. He says the medicine helped his bladder trouble, improved sleep, and overall energy, noting a 30 pound gain and strong endorsement of Tanlac sold by druggists.
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Tanlac
William Magee
Lafayette Ave
St. Louis
Taxes and Tariffs Puzzle Court’s Winter Docket
The Court of Customs Appeals faces a winter docket filled with quirky tariff questions. Wheat screenings debate over duty rates, while odd items like goat’s beards via the Panama Canal highlight the complex, dollar stakes of international trade.
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Court of Customs Appeals
Panama Canal
Goats as Pets Gain Ground in Greenwich Village
New York correspondence notes goats becoming a popular pet in Greenwich Village studios. Proponents claim goats outdo Pekingese and Pomeranians for ease of care due to digestion, offer companionship, and help with garbage disposal. Observers cite rising goat presence near Sixth and Ninth avenues.
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Greenwich Village
Sixth
Ninth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
New York
Detroit News
Castoria and Mothers Aid Excerpt Sparks Candid Castoria Ad Vein
A fragmented news item recalls Castoria the infant remedy and its long use, noting signatures and claims for infants. The text includes stray quotes about playing for something and cites a Boston Evening Transcript exchange. It also references face powders and a travel tale, with assorted dialog from Episcopal church talk and a humorous misquote about marriage.
An Eye to Business in Berry Patch Bet
A story about four year old Elwood and his father in a berry patch. The father bets a penny he can pick a quart of berries faster. Elwood finishes first and the father offers a second bet. The boy, businesslike, counters with a nickel for the next quart.
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Elwood
Elweed
Man Reflects on Campaign Finances and Duty
A concerned former candidate recalls his past large contributions to his party. He notes his belief that public service warrants more than monetary gifts and laments the limited impact of a 290 vote result out of 25,000 cast.
No-worry residents leave wary future behind
A quirky saying contrasts carefree minds with anxious ones, suggesting only the unconcerned can inspect looming concerns without fear. The line hints at attitude toward risk and responsibility in everyday life, echoing regional dialects and cautionary humor.
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