Poultry Notes
Poultry notes column compiles tips on care and feeding and market outlook. Practical guidance for farmers includes breed traits, housing, and cost considerations.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1910
Page
7
Poultry notes column compiles tips on care and feeding and market outlook. Practical guidance for farmers includes breed traits, housing, and cost considerations.
A playful verse by M. Barnitz imagines a spring poet faced with distractions and domestic interruptions. The speaker toys with how a poet’s muse would cope when plagued by wasps, skeeters, neighbors, and a bustling household as he tries to write.
A historical guide explains duckling hatching in large water pan incubators and moisture systems. It discusses test eggs, shell pipping, fertility, and avoiding dangerous trapdoor brooders, praising a two compartment, level hover with external lamp box and regulated heat for successful hatch.
Advice-style text warns against flawed breeding and careless practices. It cautions not to hatch from diseased stock or use a rooster with deformities, avoid exposing faults in others, and to value honesty, preparation, and practical sense as foundations of lasting success.
Practical notes warn buyers to choose incubators with glass doors at least three and one half feet from the door to prevent heat loss and contamination. Emphasizes automatic ventilation, level mounting, and regular tray turning to ensure even heat and uniform hatching. Discards less reliable units such as hot water and sand pan models and advises checking thermometers against a standard at 103 degrees.
A quirky collage notes Oklahoma with booming egg production and western pride. It cites Terbens state figures of 10,654,109 dozen eggs and 11,000,000 pounds of live poultry while joking about trends, "west" praise, and quaint rural anecdotes.
The Iowa City Presbytery and the Presbyterial Society of Homes and Foreign Missions held sessions April 14 with 68 registered delegates plus many out of town visitors. Speakers Mrs. J. P. Engstrom and Rev. Leroy Coffman D D inspired broad missionary effort as the meeting closes with business sessions. Delegates arrive from Davenport Washington Sigourney Ottumwa Muscatine Malcolm Marengo Unity Wilton Junction Blue Grass Brighton and other communities.
A fragment quotes Edward Everett Hale stating leadership requires action. It reflects on the necessity of capable guidance and the link between vision and execution in effective leadership.
Chicago cash grain quotes show winter and spring wheat samples with varying prices across No. 2 red, No. 3 red, and No. 2 herd. Corn and oats values listed by sample, with mixed percentages noted. Live stock in Chicago and Omaha reports reflect receipts and price ranges for hogs, cattle, and sheep, including bid levels for choice heavies, steers, cows, heifers, and feeders. East Buffalo and Dunning & Stevens quotes add regional market movements and car deliveries with price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and calves.
The Spedden-Paige company wowed Graham audiences with a lavish Du Barry production set in Louis XV era with elaborate scenery and costumes. The cast provided polished acting and the show featured a unique move of carrying its own furniture. The program promises East Lynne and Thelma on upcoming nights with prizes and a Diamond ring giveaway, plus a Great Divide engagement announced for April 2 under Henry Miller.
In New York Foong Hong Soy a non tong member was shot twice in the abdomen by a nervous On Leong tone gun van. Police say he was mistaken for Chung Queng a Four Brothers man who entered 30 Mott street minutes earlier. The shooter escaped. Soy remained conscious at hospital and likely will die.
Vienna reports Emperor Joseph received Richard I Kerens who failed to deliver credentials as American ambassador to Austria Hungary in succession to Charles I Francis. The audience included a formal Hofburg ceremony with Kerens conveyed in a state coach and escorted by an official.
Mexico City reports a large stash of war munitions uncovered near a Maya area in Quintana Roo. The contraband reportedly moved from British Honduras to Maya Indian royals via traders. A boat used for smuggling was seized and nine workers associated with the operation were arrested.
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