The Cushing Independent (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1917 Page: 2 of 6
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New And Second Hand Furniture
Stoves and Queenware
Anderson Furniture Company
Telephone No. 445
117 N. Harrison
S. B. POWELL .
Licensed Auctioneer
FOR THIS CITY OF CUSHING
Kami Sale* a Specialty.
PHONE 39 FOR DATES.
ONE Per Cent Charges
White Diamond Dehorning
Pencil
For sale by
management.
Coming now to the question of
houses and buildings. From a pure-
ly and efficient business standpoint,
e\pensive houses are not either ad- I
| vlsable or necessary. A house 2f.
I feet In length. 14 feet in virtUi. I
! feet high in the rear an l 8 feet in
! front with a simple hci roof. \vT I
I nciomodate one hundred hens. Sue'-, |
j a hoiiM' ' o i h>- liuitl fr- riv 1
I plnnr'i lumber, l .i'M dirrf! '-nr
v inU, rnrt will consist of studding
I ::nd miners, all txi'U and inch board
I for sides, ends and sheeting. 1 |
i-trlps half an inch thick for
j (he cracks betv.een t'v; ! - ard '
I enty-flve doUare will pay lwith Mi
i I ■ I,i,r and linn' <•" ' i #
I i r-nsive hom- ""r your ohieken-*.
• cement foundation is preferable ha
' not iv"" :ir; . A cement floor wi'l
not give better results than a lr<r.l
' dirt floor •overlaid with sand. Tin
To succeed In the poultry business; buildings sfconld MM preferable
one must, expect to begin at the hot- <MiH:r-rn «* -mth-islcni ox|)()mim.
tom and work up. Most of the fail-j the early sun will reach the
uri"! in this haziness, and here have chicken on enid days, and if built
been many, have come from over- ' i'1 ide, good drainage and CQnse-
looking this essential feature. Some j fluent freedom from unnecessary
people thtnR they can Btart in the mltfj 'I ' vvi" 1,0 Insured. The best
die and even at the top. They buy |
five hundred hens, figure on three
SALEOF
POULTRY RAISING
i ' , !
| 1 order to redjee our stock of men's and young j
t 'n en's- fancy suits we are going to give you a dis- }
i count of 25% or 1-4 off regular price. This sale I
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\ : tarts
f!i
good health insurance Is obtained, , y
not by warmth but freedom from j
-.Hafts, . t
Place the roosts on the low side of j
of the htvuse, four and one half fee'. , ^
high, all In three level rows. Eight j
Inches under the roosts make the i
dropping floor, on a slight slant, j 4
hundred egs a day for three hundred
days in the year and count on ninety
thousand eggs or seven hundred
dozen nnnually. This gives the tidy
little sum of twenty-two hundred
and fifty dollars, figuring the average
! received for eggs at thirty cents a do-- If the roosts are made in section
zen. Such calculations look well , of three, ten l'eet high, ,and hinged,
. ... n . . ft j enough on paper and work out al- tbej can be pulled up when cleaning
Acklin Commission LO. rlght theoretically, but they do not j t!> dropping boards. Sometimes
, i succeed practically. Somehow dis-' the nests are placed under the drop-
Every pencil will dehorn 60 calves ( coppnclofl creep Jn , Rpeak from e,.! p,ng boards in order to save space,
from ten days to ten months old for peHence> fQr j 8tftrted poulutry rals- Others prefer them on the opposite
$1.°° | ,nR three VPars aRO on quite a large '!do where access is easy. In con-
A forfeit of $5.00 for any calf it | To(jay T hag0 a flock of tWo j struoting the nests it is an exxcellent
and will last for 10 days only, and if you want the pick j
• | A
of the stock you must come early. Prices are as follows
falls to deborn.
PHONE 620
CUSHING MARKETS
Ooni
Wheat
Cotton
Seed Cotton
Hot ton Seed
J scale.
j hundred high class hens, and it has
' taken good hard work and plenty of
| attention to reach this number.. Had
| I understod the principal in the be-
i ginning I should have been spared
expense, in time as well as money.
| Now If you a,re planning to raise
' poultry you wjll want to buy quality
I rather than quantity. .A dozen pure
bred birds will give you more re-
< RVtwtal, SPRINGS WATER
KYWlji
la meeting with great favor every
year, If we may Judge from our mIm
records.
90c
$1.76 No. 2
19c
07o | turns—and joy—than forty or fifty
$60.00 per ton scrubs. If you are raising chickens
in your back yard, use-care In the
I purchase and buy from a reputable
breeder who raises his birds under
these samo conditions, it you are
startlrfte a farm flock, buy farm rais-
ed pure breds. If possible purchase
from your own vicinity and thuus ob-
tain a strain already acclimated. If
plun to linge the bottom board which
facilitates clfcinlng.
We como new to the-most. imp irt-
ant facto.' of all that of fee ling
The writer wil nt attempt to give
sample rations .or go into detail on
on this subject in more than general
terms. Sufficient to say that if you
expect egggs, you must, of course
feed the foods which wil) produuee
them, if you expect meat you must
feed huch a ration that will economi-
cally produce the fat. The same ra-
tion wil ndt e useful alike to the poul-
try raised in Montana and Virginia.
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Different climates different condi-
tions, call for different fee feeds
you expect results write to your
state Experiment Station and
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$15.00 Men's Suits at $11.25
$17,011 Men's Suits at $12.75
$20.00 Men's Suits at $15.00
$22.50 Men's Suits at $16.85
$2" 00 Men's Suits at $18.75
$27.50 Men's Suits at $20.65
$30.00* Men's Suits at $22.50
SUITS
THESE PRICES ARE FOR CASH ONLY
We will not charge any suits during sale
onui- 1
, if |i
own | i
they I ?
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r> O. PATTERSON, Prop.
WELL DRILLER
i tain a strain already accumaiea. n ---- -- ^
not possible purchase from as slml-, will .rurnish you with not only prop-
lar a location as possible ; *ry baanced ratlolns, but also w th
There are several good plans about; building plans and acurato and mln-
purchasing this new flock of pure j ute directions for raising poultry in
! breds. One plan that Is often follow- your own state.
1 ed with success. It s to purchase from } And remember above all. that suc-
I a well known breeder, two or three sful chicken raising requires cash,
' year old hens. Often these are the courage, common sense and care
finest of his flock, yet because they | Cash, because from the beginning
are old and only good for one more ; there is a conUnaul outlay for feed
season, can be obtained very inexx- You nfay figure that it will cost
In other words you offly buy these at a minimum, .one dollar and a
_a Ul.J irnn f i'nr fOOM
To Whom It May Concern:
Anyone desiring to have a well m oluor WOI^n , ,
drilled it would pay you to get my birds for their eggs, expecting to quarter per bird per year for feed
drilled u wouiu j ^ 4 I alnn If vou can Krow on your own
prices before letting your contract, hatch enough
. < n rv on /I dill
I call give good references If desired
J. P. HALL
UL.LY HOTEL
Phone 3S6
n&tcn enougn chicks during the I alon. If you can grow on your own
spring and summer to start your own home place part of this feed so much
flock and kill off the old birds when the better and the cash cost will be
have served this purpose. This meth- Courage wil be required because
od will not only give you a chance, : the disappointments are many and
through studying the old birds, to often seem to completely oversl.ad-
note their breed characteristics, but | dow the gain. Even under the best
George H. Seaba
General Auctioneer
Will cry Sales anywhere in
the state.
Charges Reasonable.
and will Guarantee Satisfact-
ion. Date your Sale at this
office. Phone 39.
to obtain a much surer start with
high class fowels of# pure breeding.
TThis plan Is also .economical .from
the standpoint of cash exxpendlture.
Another plan for beginning Is to
buy direct from a reputable breeder
fifteen or twenty first grade young
birds, four to six months old.. One
thus has the service of these high
class birds for several years and can
develope a very uniform flock.
Another plan Is to buy day old
conditions, disease, accidents and
other unforeseen troubles will result
and the proportion increases with
the size of the flock.
Even in the face of apparent fail-
ure, which'is part of every chicken
raiser's experience, it pays to hold
fast to fundamental purposes and
not be pulled away by the vagaries
and fancies of the moment. You will
always be able to flnde someone who
will prove absolutely that your pol-
AllUlliri J'luu w " "**•' I til
baby chicks and thus start with a icy Is wrong and that you should
young flock and fololw them through j change from a meat breed to aa
the trials of th€lr whole existence . egg breed or vice vers. But if you
A fourth plan is to buy eggs, either look at it from a standpoint of com-
enough for one setting (fifteen) or | mon sense you wiy not be swerved
enough for an Incubator (one hun- | from your rlglnl purpse.
dred and up). These last two plans j —~
are only desirable where the pur-
chaser possesses considerable expr-i- j
ience, both in poultry breeding and ;
MEN and BOYS
OUTflTTERs) TO
CUSHING'8 BEST MEN'S STORE
*
DR. J. r. DUNCAN
VETERINARIAN
OKLAHOMA
ASHING,
C. C. 8UMAN
LAWYER
(iood Building. Head ot Stair*
('u*-liing. Oklahoma.
Drs. h urrow & h urrow*
"Thr Dentist* of Quality"
CUSHING. OK LA
1 felWf::-;
A bite to eat and a bottle of
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S. & S. Barber Shop
Everything Sanitary
Individual Shower Bath
Courteous Treatment
Skilled Workman
Rain Water For Ladie* Shampooing
360 PICTURES
360 ARTICLES
EACH MONTH
ALL NEWS STANDfl
15 Cents
Bevo is the one ss.it drink ll.a goes bcitle,
perfectlyMvith a meal—or a sandwich. ~
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tiiiu I* iiivui .v...
/he flavor is delightful— :th just the
touch of bitter from tli3 Saazcr IIopi
that : JUs zest to the meal.
A j-a-.teuri.-c i beverage in sterilized
bottler.—5jre to be pure—sometning
one ca inot be sure of in all water or
milk. Groc- ts sell Bevo by the case.
Yours can • pply y°u —
everywhere, 10 ccnts a
iuran:s, groceries,
- ' ug stores, picnic
grountii., I'm Us, soda foun-
ta:—. 'camsHips and
other i,la..'. \. . refreshing bever-
ages r.-c ; 1 . .!. I r th-> Fox on
the crown u . o( overy bottle.
Guard agar r ibstitutes. Have the
bott'e openci in tror.t of you first see-
ing that the seal i; unbroken and the
crown top beara I'.ie Fox.
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Roff, Charles H. The Cushing Independent (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1917, newspaper, February 2, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc276589/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.