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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1905
Page
8
H A Nourse discusses how to raise turkeys and poults during the first ten days. Choices range from free range to confinement in a coop. Early feeding starts with stale bread and milk, then prepared chick feed, with strict schedules and water provisions.
Rhode Island station reports incubator test with 219 chicks in four pens. Pen A fed a balanced ration with meat and greens shows no digestive deaths and highest weight. Pen B with no animal food has 0.5 percent deaths. Pen C grain only and grain omitted both show high mortality and digestive issues.
The notice warns poultry keepers to fill hollows in runs or drain them after heavy rain to prevent birds from wading through muddy water. Otherwise valuable early hatched birds may die from exposure or wet conditions, and owners may wonder why.
Farm and Live Stock Journal asserts charcoal fed with soft feed weekly boosts poultry health. A teaspoonful per fowl three times weekly is recommended to prevent bowel diseases.
Green bone should be fed three times weekly to layers and daily to the male bird. Lice reduce hen performance, so keep birds clean. Tincture of iron in drinking water acts as a spring tonic. Kill deformed chicks at hatch. Replace infertile pens with a new cock. Never hatch deformed or ill formed eggs. Select well shaped eggs from strong stock.
The author visits a Japanese restaurant noting sliding doors, a Japanese garden setting, low ceilings, and chairs. A lacquer menu lists items by numbered columns. the traveler samples bouillon, a wormlike dish, a chicken cutlet, and a fine steak, paying about 1 yen 20 sen with Kirin beer.
In a distant town a branch bank opens with Si Fox as the first depositor placing a thousand dollars. He withdraws soon after to test the system, then redeposits the funds and explains he wanted to see how checks work. The tale is followed by Brantôme anecdotes about two French captains in a staged wound exchange.
A New York mother reflects on her son’s post college path and asks if education pays after detailing his low wage office work and the family’s high living costs including a $100 monthly chef salary. The quote suggests irony about education, effort, and economic return.
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