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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1907
Page
4
The Feather notes guinea hens are often treated as novelties yet offer valuable eggs for cake bakers and fast growing young fowls for market. With better breeding, separate housing, and pest control, the birds could become more profitable. careful management is needed when hatching young guineas housed near hens.
D Ward King argues in Good Roads Magazine that macadamized roads are feasible where rock is nearby and land is valuable. He cites Missouri examples, urges communities to plan steady, small annual gains, and promotes a rule of one mile of stone road per year where feasible.
A J Moore of Johnson Creek Niagara county New York offers to pay 100 over his taxes and provide 10000 yards of crushed stone from his farm to improve the road from Lockport to his farm about nine miles away. The gesture shows farmer support for better rural highways and could inspire similar acts nationwide.
The Farm Journal urges gentler care for domesticated fowls stressing that they depend on humans and deserve proper feeding. It recommends winter hay as a substitute for green feed, with late cut raven hay steamed and added to morning mash.
The pullets should now lay steadily if properly bred and fed. A well fed neat hen lays well while a scrawny bird does not. Rusty water acts as a tonic. Pure bred stock costs more but proves cheaper in the end. Ensure clean houses with dry floors and good air without drafts and collect droppings each morning for sanitary conditions.
A Farm Journal writer from Philadelphia claims a half pound of smoking tobacco mixed in dry ground feed, moistened, will cure cholera in fifty fowls. Feed twice weekly or more if needed, and in severe cases the feed may be inserted down the birds’ throats.
Mites, tiny lice, swarm under roosts and in crevices of poultry houses. They hide by day and attack hens at night. When full of blood they are red. when empty they are dark. They are pests and should be removed.
The passage urges ample natural exercise for all ages of people, horses, cattle, and poultry to sustain health and vigor. It stresses cultivating healthful exercise throughout to achieve the best results, applying the principle to poultry care.
A wary warning targets roosters labeled Deadheads for hogging morsels. The speaker accuses them of greed and theft, noting their crowing and wintering as a problem that will worsen by May.
Sunflower seeds are valuable for feeding poultry during molt as an oily food helping brighten plumage. They are of little value as an egg producing feed.
Arnold Zimmer and Tom Grimes, accused of murdering John W. Gavin near New London, Iowa, clung to their original Thursday night stories during hours of questioning in Burlington jail. Zimmer’s confession was written. Grimes spoke only verbally. Both were bound over to the grand jury amid rumors of mob violence denied by officials.
In Gans Oklahoma a five man band attempted a bank robbery but was spotted by locals. A large male mob armed with improvised weapons confronted the robbers who retreated toward a railroad handcar and fled the scene after a volley of gunfire.
Paris Illinois January 26 petitions led the Chrisman city council to serve notice on saloonkeepers Scott and Wasson to show cause within five days why their licenses should not be revoked amid public reaction to Mrs. Edwards Lawrence death from alcoholism.
Paris a chamber of deputies passed a bill allowing automatic granting of divorce decrees if either party continues a suit for three years. M Lasses an anti semite argued the measure would dissolve family ties and undermine social order.
Eight prisoners escaped from Danville Virginia jail when an iron door was accidentally left unlocked during the absence of the sergeant and jailer. The incident sparked searches and security reviews as authorities assess the breach.
Geese may be kept on grass and water from spring to late fall with meadow space usable for goose husbandry. Feeding needs are minimal in winter, using oats, cut clover, green corn stalk leaves, oyster shell, ample water, and a little corn at night on very cold days to maintain breeding condition.
Poultry on the farm can turn much food waste into value. Fowls must be kept in good average condition at all times and not starved one week then fed heavily the next.
The passage cautions against forcing pullets to lay eggs from birth, noting such practice harms maturation and results in poor breeders. It emphasizes that teenage egg forcing undermines long term flock fertility and productivity.
Mrs C A Knupp arrived from West Chester this morning while Professor Hedges and Prof R F Hannum returned from debates in the region. Miss Stella Berry and Ida Dupuis headed to Ainsworth for a day with friends, and Mrs Horace G McMillan joined Lyle McGugin home visitors in Muscatine. The Wickhams left Keota for Ainsworth, and Mrs Howard Benn from Ainsworth visited her parents in town.
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