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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1901
Page
3
Short items note W T Stewart’s trip to Hillsboro Oregon to visit his mother. Dr W H Hare leaves for Olympia to engage with state lawmakers. Sinclair Ice Co reports 1200 tons stored with six inch thickness. A E Howard holds a 2000 contract for Selah canal improvements and 18 carpenters at work.
Advertisement claims indigestion causes irritability and trouble, and promotes Dr Loyal Ford's Dyspepticide as a remedy to settle the stomach and restore health and happiness in the home.
An eclectic clipping mixes theater line references to Monte Cristo and a quip about Jekyll and Hyde with ads for FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR and Banner Salve. It touts throat and lung defenses, chapped skin cures, and early riser laxatives, then quotes statistics on cities and criminals as part of the era’s advertising prose.
An economical device provides shade for young chickens when trees are unavailable. The ideal shade is a fruit patch like raspberry or blackberry, but if none are accessible, a small covering as shown in the illustration can be used to protect them and aid growth.
A New York Tribune note describes a simple framework of laths and cloth shade for chicks. It advises leaving air gaps all around to keep cool and suggests planting rows of raspberries on one yard side to provide shade and weed control while offering the farmer berries in summer.
Practical poultry advice on keeping fowl healthy and vermin free. Clean houses and nests, kerosene roosts, treat sitting hens for lice, use sulfur and insect powder, provide dust baths, and check chicks for vermin. Feed guidelines for young birds and precautions on early morning dew. Do not feed wet cornmeal. offer bread crumbs eggs oats millet.
The piece argues that neighbors often condemn a farmer who seeks superior blood and pure breeds, labeling him a crank, while later they may seek to exchange stock if it proves successful, despite the initial lack of credit for innovation.
Rural World argues buying purebred hatching eggs benefits the entire community by promoting quality stock rather than ordinary scrub fowls or unaffordable beef calves. It emphasizes that eggs sold for hatching represent genetic potential, not mere food value.
A method from California Poultry Keeper suggests using a thin wire wrapped around the upper bill to keep the beak from closing tightly. This prevents feather plucking while still allowing eating and drinking, allegedly curing the habit after prior failures with paraffin and bill paring.
A writer in the American Poultry Advocate argues against selling lean fowls. He notes producing a pound of poultry costs about five cents, even with heavy feeding. A six pound hen can gain to eight pounds in ten to twenty days, earning a total of about fourteen cents per pound if market price is twelve cents, adjusted for quality.
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