Plan Proves Successful Winter Egg Production Method
A West Virginia Practical Farmer reader details a winter egg plan. Use litter in scratching sheds with small grain feeds, morning and noon boosts, a warm mash at dusk, and constant access to grit oyster shells and warm water. Green cabbage every other day and occasional raw potatoes supplement. With good stock and a windproof, tight house, 24 to 28 eggs per hen fell in thirty January and February days.
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Virginia
Alice
Farmers Guide to a Nutritious Hen Mash
A home mash mix uses twenty pounds ground oats ten pounds corn five pounds wheat bran five pounds middlings and ten pounds granulated meat or bone meal. Feed four to five pounds of the dry mix to twenty five hens at noon and provide one full quart of grain mash for each group in the morning and evening. The grain can include oats wheat cracked corn millet barley buckwheat and other small grains and avoid feeding whole corn to hens.
Ducks Grow Quickly and Lay Fertile Eggs
The duck grows faster than a chicken from early weeks, weighing four to five pounds by ten weeks and ready for the table. Ducks thrive in all weather, do not need rain cover, and benefit from water to swim which may boost egg fertility.
Demand for Specialty Poultry Grows Amid Game Scarcity
A New York dealer notes rising demand for non traditional fowl as game supplies dwindle. Young guinea fowl, weighing three quarters to one and a half pounds, are desired dead with feathers and sell at one dollar per pair, driven by stricter game laws affecting suppliers and restaurants.
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New York
St. Louis Republic
Alfalfa Emerges as Green Feed for Poultry
Alfalfa, once a booming stock food, now rivaling green fodder for poultry. After A F Coburn of the Kansas state experiment station extolled its value, Kansas farmers expanded alfalfa planting, and poultrymen are exploring its use as winter green food.
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A. F. Coburn
Kansas State Experiment Station
Kansas
Poultry Care Advice Emphasizes Dust Baths and Salt Use
The article urges including Hime and gravel in the poultry yard and maintaining a shallow box of dry dust in all pens year round as the best lice remedy. It warns against salt excess though a little salt in food can help, noting chickens are highly profitable yet often understudied and under cared for.
City meat markets to close at eight PM from Jan 2 1905
Notice states all meat markets in the city will close at eight o'clock in the evening beginning January 2 1905. Also advertises CONSUMPTION CURE-WAR NERS' WHITE WINE OF TARSY and RUD cough remedy sold by J. H. Stewart with prices 25 and 50 cents.
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Warners
J. H. Stewart
Local Notes Move Through Town for Visits and Travel
Miss Lena Bailey leaves for Biggsville this evening. Rev. W. R. Stryker goes to Bloomfield on business and returns as a passenger this morning. Col. D. J. Palmer spent Sunday at home then Des Moines today. James Swift journeys to the Kansas and Nebraska region. Laura Bowman returns to Columbia Mo after home visit. Joy Schreckengast returns from Keota. Mr and Mrs D. T. Eaton of Muscatine visit J. M. Bratton. Mrs. Buchanan expected from Cedar Rapids. W. N. Bragg from Davenport visits Fred Bragg. Mrs. Perry Sluys and son return from Harper. Harris and Rose MacGugin back from Valley Junction. Carrie Emmons returns from Cedar Rapids. Ethel McCreedy visits Mabel Smith in Des Moines. L Klein and wife hear birth announce son to Starry and Belle Plaine. Mrs Klein travels to Belle Plaine. SICKENING SHIVERING FITS... Electric Bitters praised as malaria cure. Endorsed by E. S. Munday of Henrietta. Sold at J. H. Stewart's, 50 cents.
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J. A. Reynolds
Columbus Junction
W. R. Stryker
Bloomfield
Col
D. J. Palmer
Des Des Moines
Jas. Swift
Kansas
Nebrsaka
Laura Bowman
Columbia
Joy Schreckengast
Keota
D. T. Eaton
Muscatine
J. M. Bratton
Buchanan
Cedar Rapids
W. N. Bragg
Davenport
Fred
Perry Sluys and Son
Harper
Harris
Rose MacGugin
John Gibson
Valley Junction
Ethel McCreedy
City
Mabel Smith
Des Moines
L. Klein
Starry Warren
Belle Plaine
Klein
Public sale on Henry Berdo farm near town
A public sale will be held on Thursday January 5 1906 at 10 a m eight miles north of town on the Henry Berdo farm. Property includes two horses eighteen cattle fourteen young steers two spring calves two cows twenty shoals fifteen tons of hay corn in crib farm implements. Terms credit twelve months on sums over ten dollars cash under ten dollars six percent off for cash note at seven percent if not paid. Auctioneers C S Reeves and J A McCoy.
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Henry Berdo
A. L. Hill
C. S. Reeves
J. A. McCoy
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