Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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a waste of time. A great ad-vance was made when the old-fashionedwet mash gave way to dry feeds. Thepoint for amateurs to remember now is notto begin feeding too soon, to watch out forlice and to avoid tainted ground. There is no reason for feeding a chick-before it is forty-eight hours old. In pointof fact, another twenty-four hours mightbe added without harm, but the conscienceof the average amateur rebels at anystretching of the two-day limit. The yolkof the egg absorbed into the abdomen jusbefore the chicken is hatched contains alarge amount of nourishment for such atiny body. I once heard of a man who got up atnight to feed his chickens an extra mealby lamplight. That was wasteful coddling.It is well to feed four or five times a dayfor the first few days, but three times aday soon becomes often enough. If a henis mothering the chicks, she usually will seeto it that they eat little the first two orthree days; she will eat the rations her-lelf if necessary, or scratch the grain out
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Use Oxide of Zinc Paints Good Paint Costs Nothing (Dutch Proverb) (^OOD PAINT is paint that effectively beautifiesand protect3 surfaces. Unpainted structures rapidly deteriorate. Good paint preserves them. Good paints allcontain Oxide of Zi?2C. THE NEW JERSEY ZINC COMPANY We do not make paint.A list of paint manufactur-ers sent free on request. 55 Wall Street, New York AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1913 f nultrg, f rtItrotnrg Pheasants and= Wild Waterfowl 1 ■» ~»i**™ orders for eggs of agreat variety of pheasants and wild ducks for Spring and earlySummer delivery, including eggs of the Genuine English GrayCall Ducks. fl I also manufacture a full line of foods for the successful raising ofyoung pheasants and wild ducks and for feeding the old birds in thepens all the year round. You really cannot afford to pass throughanother breeding season without these foods. Nearly Every Failure With These Birds I raise more pheas-Can Be Traced To Mis-Feeding. ants and real wid 9 ducks in c

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