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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1904
Page
7
Walter Kinney suggests feeding newborn chicks with stale milk-moistened bread laid in a shallow tin trough to prevent trampling. oats ground fine and granulated oats with hills removed are recommended, plus free access to grit after the first day, all from Farm and Home.
The article details the queen bee is larger than workers and drones, treated with respect by the colony, and her death could threaten extinction if no new queen can be raised. It notes a good queen may lay 2000 to 3000 eggs daily, and describes her routine across the hive. It also mentions handling queens safely and their role in colony dynamics.
The text extols ducks as easy to raise with steady market demand near most poultry farms. It advocates using ducks as a side line and notes they can thrive with minimal care. Also guidance on repairing beehive frames urges edge-up placement and reusing old comb to guide bees to reattach.
A Maine farmer reports preserving 6000 dozen eggs last season with water glass, storing in cool dark jars and using fresh eggs. The method, tested by experiment stations, beats many methods except artificial cold storage.
Bumble foot is a winged poultry ailment from bruising when heavy birds land hard from high perches. Lower roosts and littered floors reduce bruising, preventing swellings, pus drainage, and permanent enlargement. lancing is only a last resort.
Description of a chicken house designed for warmth with a shed for chicks. Measures include thirteen by six feet, south door with curtain, east window, east roosts, and two nest rows on the west. Built of redwood with a shake roof and lath covered window. Holds 18 pullets and one rooster.
Practical tips on fowl care including using road dust and coal ashes for plumage, providing grit, using dry tobacco to combat lice, whitewashing with carbolic acid, making a tin spray gun for 25 cents, suspending roosts to reduce lice, and preferring a plastered cement-floored poultry house for effective fumigation.
A sleepily reflective man reads a warm letter from Mildred Halcomb inviting him to Palm Beach with bikes for a nine-person tour. He envisions a life with Mildred, recalling childhood bicycle companionship and a longing to unite destinies, then wakes to mail instructing him to depart Thursday with his bicycle.
A Shelbyville Democrat letter from Elias Kost, an Illinois farmer who emigrated to Western Canada with his three sons, describes securing a homestead near Edmonton and Lake St Anne, family crops of potatoes and oats, abundant hay, nutritious range and meadow grasses, weather patterns including Chinook winds, and building a log home with timber from local sawmills. He notes wildlife, fruit, and fowl plentiful, fish deliveries to St Albert and Edmonton, and invites readers to contact Canadian government agents for information.
Mrs K Kane of Chicago writes that Peruna has long supported her family health. She says it aided children with colds and ailments and helped a catarrhal condition, leaving her with every reason to praise Peruna.
An advertisement extols Peruna as a universal remedy against catarrh and colds. It cites testimonials from Mrs. A Hobson of Lansing Michigan and claims thousands of family endorsements nationwide, asserting Peruna protects health and wards off grippe and indigestion.
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