The Chicken Hawk Demons of the Air and Farm Losses
An vivid portrait compares the chicken hawk Accipiter cooper to a thunderbolt wheel in concentric circles preying on poultry across America. It details its appearance, nesting, and the famous tales of hawks stealing many birds, with farmers relying on shotguns traps and scarecrows to protect flocks.
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Accipiter Coopere
America
Rogues’ Gallery
California
Hawk
Mother
Jerry
Dad
Don’t let those chicks waddle in the milk
Agricultural guidance warns against milk spots on chick feathers and cautions about feed choices in hot weather. It urges careful chick care, water quality, and prudent housing. It mentions geese, hatching eggs, and avoiding cheap coops while stressing wheat over oats for early harvest benefits.
High Explosives Inheritance? Barred Rocks Feeding Collapse
A humorous, old style tale depicts Gaia i and Smith trading for eggs that hide danger. A sister buys old hen fruit, and a hungry Parson Smith returns home to discover twelve guns springing from a cupboard, knocking him out and leaving him smeared.
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Good Parson Smith
C.m. B
Common Poultry Questions and Practical Answers from a 1920s Expert
The column tackles Leghorn tail and comb mysteries, moisture versus dry incubators, rapid wing quill development, and pecking at each other in Reds. It advises breeding from the same stock, better housing, water as drink only, occasional single combs from hybrids, wet sand pan incubation, lower brooder heat, wing clipping, and beef scraps to curb cannibalism.
Poultry Knowledge for Brooder Chicks and Breeds
A vintage guidance piece covers chick weight at six weeks, feeding with fresh lettuce and clover, and the effects of hen weight on eggs. It toyingly critiques hatchery practices, explains eye color in tinted duck eggs, and advises on giblets and sale timing. It defines breed versus strain and notes breed varieties like Leghorn and duckwing types.
Gardening and poets bloom in a Georgia season
The piece notes soil placement for manure, urges planning for shrubs like dogwood and pussy willow, and laments common garden weeds. It observes the season reveals garden poets, links taste to home beauty, and mentions melons origin, concluding with a controversial line about African environment stereotypes.
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Asia
Africa
Georgia
Planting Time For Gardens In Northern States
Most northern states should plant by the last of April or the first of May with only early peas and some vegetables exempt. If the garden is in the ground by that period there is little fear of failure and results should be satisfactory.
The Tin Can Habit and Lawn Care Advice
A dated editorial style piece cautions against littering tin cans and praises industrious gardening. It urges tidy behavior, warns that poor upkeep reflects on character, and offers lawn care tips such as fertilizer and reseeding. It extols sweet peas as enduring favorites and notes flowers improve with time.
Several Methods Offered to Fight Cutworms in Gardens
Multiple suggestions address cutting worm problems. Encircle stems with heavy paper or tin to prevent access. Dig two or three deep holes beside plants for the worms to fall into and be removed. Mix arsenites with shorts or bran around plants, or blend muriate of potash with fertilizer to deter cutworms.
Reform to beautify villages and homes with flowers
The passage argues that improving natural beauty, encouraging industriousness, and promoting love of gardens and landscapes benefits all without selfish gain. It frames beautification as a lasting reform exceeding urban or monetary pursuits and aims to inspire broad public improvement.
The Witchcraft of Gardening: Science and Art Combined
Gardening blends botany with business sense and artistic delight. Soil economy, crop rotation, and markets sharpen skill, while landscape poetry and living color enchant homes. Vines, roses, shrubs, and vegetable plots create atmosphere, attract birds, and spread praise through beauty and fragrance.
Gardening on the Farm Beautifies and Buys Life for All
The article argues farmers should cultivate gardens and beautify homes to save money, provide better food, and raise happier, more cultured families. It notes rural life lacks social and intellectual life but improves with telephones and beautification, calling for sun shine, romance, and poetry for farm souls.
Horticulture Council Advises Subtle Lawn Frames
The National Council of Horticulture advocates framing the lawn with shrubs to avoid stiff lines and patchy color. It urges matching foliage and flowers to prevent clashes, using individual taste and avoiding harmonies, artificialities, and rigid geometry in garden framing.
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National Council of Horticulture
National Council
Village Life Gains Appeal For Summer Residency
A defense of small towns over large cities urges plain housecleaning and facial improvements to attract city dwellers to village suburbs. It argues for cleaner streets, better lawns, parks, and shaded streets, plus grouped farm housing to foster social life and easier transportation.
The Humble Potato
The potato, though not beautiful, fills a long felt want and endures. It is not for landscape use but for hungry households. Like the humble hen, the potato remains a friend of man and deserves growing even hidden away behind the barn. Roasting boiling mashing or frying make it appealing to all levels of society. The Irish demonstrated recognizing a good thing by naming the potato after him.
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