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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1905
Page
8
The article advises on selecting breeding stock by size bone vigor and health. It emphasizes mating pens with balanced parent traits, optimal pen sizes for Black Langshans, cold weather mating, and avoiding early wet chicks. Cleanliness feed and exercise are stressed to maintain vigor and fertile eggs.
The Toulouse goose gander Wonderful Joe, reproduced from American Agricultur al, imported by W. A. Wideer, is described as a very large and powerfully built bird with a long, deep, heavy frame.
The article advises gathering sitting hens at least twice daily and placing them where they won’t chill. For hens new to sitting in spring, start with China eggs for a year before trusting a valuable sitting. When hens mean business their skin feels hot and they shed breast feathers. keep sittings modest, about eleven or twelve eggs, and prepare the chest with straw and chaff to prevent eggs from rolling into corners.
Geese are hardy and long lived thriving on low lying land unsuitable for fowls. Old pasture suits them as they crop grass short and may damage new roots. They require liberty and wide range, eat nearly any green food, and goslings need grass and green food to grow. Early hatch is desirable but location and conditions matter.
The amateur who is just starting into the poultry business must be willing to start at the bottom and work up. He will meet many obstacles, but with sufficient stick-to-it-iveness he will succeed. It may be slow, but there is room at the top. The mushroom poultryman is short lived.
The note instructs keeping newcomers separated for two weeks to ensure health before mixing with existing stock. It emphasizes monitoring for illness and preventing disease spread by quarantine of new birds.
In a busy Glasgow thoroughfare a fully licensed public house measures as the kingdom’s smallest. It holds eight customers when full and is nicknamed the Cotla. Regular patrons use quirky terms for drinks and fare such as nails for whisky lids for beer monuments for brandy and soda gravestones for sandwiches and worms for cigarettes.
Gladys and Ethel dispute a claim about a former lover. Gladys accuses a man of professing that his heart bears her image. The speaker notes a debtor’s fate when the harbinger pursues creditors.
A Bee line item features Colonel John M. Fuller of Honey Grove Texas praising Electric Bitters as a near cure for liver and kidney trouble in a personal letter. Also advertised are Neurene pills, garden seeds offers, and Reed's Yellow Dent corn seed sales with pricing and supplier details.
A safe cough medicine for Children promises relief for colds croup and whooping cough. It says to buy Chamberlains Cough Remedy at Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman with no danger and guaranteed relief.
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