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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
3
Professor Jay Dryden of the Oregon Agricultural College states the colony system of poultry keeping is most successful. Small portable houses let fowls range, reduce disease risk, ease ground cleaning, and lower food and care needs. A 7 by 12 foot colony house can hold thirty to forty fowls and be moved by horses.
Instructions for building simple chicken roosts using two by four pieces set four feet high and ten inches apart to improve droppings access. Suggests cross pieces from wall studs and grooved boards for floors. Recommends two by two inch roosts and easy early morning cleaning with a hoe.
A readable guide stresses a roomy yard fenced with poultry netting not over two feet wide. Ducks must be kept off the main garden but can aid the fruit area. Emphasizes dry housing with litter, ample clean water, and careful selection of sturdy, healthy birds with strong bodies and bright eyes.
Advice on fattening young cockerels for sale, balanced rations, and avoiding sour feeds. Emphasizes hen laying capacity, shelter from weather, coop housing for market birds, regular cleaning, and thorough lice and mite control to protect chick health.
Deta Marlowe at 7 am writes in support of Peruna praising its digestion benefits and nerve nutrition. Julia Marlowe adds that a remedy aiding digestion strengthens nerves and notes that impaired digestion leads to anemic nerve centers and nervous debility. Be sure of something.
Virginia delegates, led by Francis J. Henry of San Francisco, oppose Taft and plan to seat Roosevelt supporters. Pacific coast radicals press the Taft line but gain little ground. The Virginia group met at 1 am to organize committees as the convention set to open Tuesday.
A lemon party at Fairview the Ebersole home honored Matthew and Oilie Ebersole with a large crowd from neighboring counties despite bad weather. Guests included numerous Travers, Frye, Carper, and Carpenter families from Greenwood Winchester and Brucetown, with many games and refreshments served after 11 PM.
Advice on keeping ewes healthy and fat for profitable lambing. Emphasizes flushing ewes weeks before breeding, housing in a well sheltered yard with strong fencing, and keeping dogs away with a tight wire fence and board at top. Warns lean ewes reduce profits and suggests fattening ewes for winter.
An article outlines building a low cost coop for a small hen flock. It describes placement of roosts and vents, foundation options, and basic framing with quantities of lumber and materials, including a brick concrete or sheet metal base and double flooring for rat protection.
A Practical Farmer note describes a simple door system for hog houses. It uses 2x4s with raw sides facing the door and holes fitted with iron rods or fork handles to let smaller pigs pass under while larger animals stay out. A sliding door is guided by nailed boards on each side.
A farmer with 40 acres should raise at least one colt yearly. Handle the colt from birth to avoid trouble, keep it away from its mother during work, and barn-raise it in a box stall. Feed sweet clover hay, oats, and corn, wean early, and let it mingle with other young stock in pasture by day.
It is best never to feed hogs on the ground. Hogs naturally pick feed from dirt, but with floors to feed from you improve sanitation and efficiency. Hogs will appreciate rations more when fed on proper surfaces.
The text explains that Streep cattle, normally hardy, are highly susceptible to disease attacks. These illnesses, while not always fatal, weaken their constitution and reduce usefulness in affected animals.
A fragment notes a doctor asking to stick out a tongue while discussing talk and medical routines. The brief exchange hints at bedside manners and patient dialogue in a casual, ironic tone.
The article discusses Indian Runner ducks as egg producers and notes ducks are hardy and fattening cockerels two weeks in a crate. It covers egg weights, shell eating in hens, incubator hatches for turkey eggs, feather yields from geese and ducks, greens from Swiss chard, and a remark on Chamberlain's Tablets for gentle bowels.
The Clerk's Office of Frederick County VA on April 13 1895 issued a chancery notice in the case Complainant versus James C Dolan and Maria Ann Dolan heirs and others. The suit seeks to ascertain the life estate and interest of James C Dolan in lands tied to the Dolan and Dolan heirs and to divide proceeds per wills. Defendants not resident are ordered to appear within 15 days after publication. A weekly notice is to be printed for four weeks and posted at the courthouse.
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