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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
6
Guidance for poultry farmers on adjusting mash and grain intake. Feed by appetite with two thirds grain to mash, provide noon counts, and ensure no litter grain to avoid overfeeding. Use green forage when possible and add stale feeds like beet, cabbage, oats, or potatoes with grit and oyster shell for eggs.
The USDA notes geese can be profitably raised on more farms, especially where fatted for city demand. Handle gentle, keep mating geese in small colonies, and use 1–4 geese per gander. On one acre, 4–25 geese, with 10 as a fair average. Free range on grass or stubble advised. Toulouse and Embden may take 2 years to mature. Females lay until 8–10 years, ganders until 6–7. breeding peak at 3–5 years.
The piece argues market poultry and eggs demand depends on quality. Good plump tender chickens fetch top prices while inferior stock sells for less. It critiques farmers who claim no profit in poultry and jokes about the Van Buren boy and political honesty.
The Mill township fair is scheduled for August 16 and 17 in Garth Waite woods near Gas City with appointed committees to run departments and weekly meetings. The Monroe township Agricultural Association moves to Center Grove for a two day fair August 30 and 31 with Curtis Ferguson Roy Atkinson Grace King and Miss Blanche Ferguson on the program committee and promises strong exhibits.
Mr and Mrs Dora Krete and several relatives visited Mrs Ida Conwell and family for Sunday dinner. The Milo threshing ring will start at Henry Crevistons this week and farmers attended the Jones Grove picnic. No preaching Sunday night due to rain. Heavy rains delay day making on Studabaker farm across 200 acres.
Advice on chicken feeding outlines a plan to give about one third of daily mash in the early morning, followed by the remaining portion in the afternoon. It recommends a large hopper kept constant and positioned to stay clean and inaccessible to the scratching birds.
The article argues that arranging farm work to profit each department is key for average farms. Adding silos prompts management changes, reducing hay and pasture land but increasing corn area to fill silos, with labor needs shifting to the silo season.
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