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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
4
Handy Boys and Girls play a simple project ring toss game. A target with nine pins marked 25 15 10 points uses rings from tin can ends. Nails and stakes anchor pins, cardboard score numbers labeled 25 15 10, and a 20 foot throwing line sets the limit for tosses.
A home made play tent for girls uses an umbrella as a dome roof, a chair as a support, and braces of cloth or cord. Directions cover securing the umbrella to the chair, anchoring braces to ground or floor, pinning cloth walls, creating a doorway, and converting chair legs into a cupboard with shelves for play dishes.
Prof John Willard Bolte states a complete growing chick ration includes grains green food mineral matter animal matter grinding material and water. He details age based feeds from first week oats and bread crumbs to sixth week hulled oats and cracked wheat and cautions against moldy feed sour milk and the need for frequent dusting for lice.
An Indiana inventor unveils a square knockdown chicken coop with a flat roof sloping to the rear. The frame is cleated to uprights extending below the floor to keep it dry, with a front opening for fowls and a hinged bottom door for night closure. Ventilation via a top screen and a daytime ground door serves as an entry.
Demand on city markets for guineas rises as buyers compare them to wild game birds and favor their flavorful flesh. The birds require little care once they are a few days old, making them lucrative for sellers.
A hand force sprayer is a practical tool for poultry raisers to own. It eases spraying the inside of the poultry house with kerosene or other lice medicine.
Young geese will eat chopped apple, minced cabbage, and potatoes. These vegetables make a good substitute for green food early in spring.
The San Jose scale appears as a flattened black scale on bark leaves and fruit, infesting peach, currant, plum, pear and apple. Ho pefully infested trees should be cut down and burned. A spray made from quicklime sulfur and water kills scales and fungal diseases. Prepare lime and sulfur paste, boil and strain, spray in spring before buds break, with thorough coverage and gear for a two-person crew.
The article notes no universal pruning rules since every tree is unique. It advises shaping for a symmetrical top with an open center, removing branches that crowd or cross. Use a fine-toothed saw and cut smoothly near the main branch, cutting midway through the base enlargement of each branch.
New wood on peach trees forms many fruit buds but excessive growth leads to weak fruit and spindly shoots. Pruning should remove all weak last season’s growth and the main upward shoots, then cut back about one third to one half of the remaining annual shoots.
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