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Show 50 Years Ago ... From The Park Record May 23, 1930 POULTRY TIPS Every human being knows how exercise, greens and sunlight develop his own physical well-being, and the same principles apply to chicks. force and expression to conversation but this is only seeming, for when contrasted contras-ted with really simple and consequently elegant diction the difference in strength can readily be seen. There are some slang words, however, in the American vocabulary which, if used at the right time and place, find their bull's eye like a minie ball. But, as a rule, the use of slang words is only a blemish on conversation and its use cannot be too heartily condemned. con-demned. ' ' Chicago Herald PUSSY AND THE PORKER Even lawn clippings are ordinarily several times : too long for the chicks, as they will get hold of a stalk an inch or two inches long, eat it part way down, and then choke on the rest. Chop the clippings, lettuce, clover, vegetables into small pieces. 90 Years Ago ... From The Wasatch Wave May 27.. 1890 SLANG "A man born and bred in the United States fails to appreciate how much slang he daily uses in conversation," conversa-tion," said an intelligent American who had just returned from a continental tour. "He fully appreciates these blemishes, however, The best way to give the chicks exercise to develop their little bodies is to feed their scratch grain among the litter, so they will have to keep constantly on the go to get the grain. Also give them as much room in the brooder house as you safely can, consistent with keeping them warm, and when you are able to get them out on a good clean, fresh green outside run, they will run about all day long and it will do them worlds of good. As early as possible the chicks should be getting good rations of good succulent succu-lent greens. Green foods are tonic and exceedingly beneficial, bene-ficial, helping the chicks to resist colds, stimulating the appetite, aiding the digestive organs, and furnishing variety var-iety to the ration and helping supply the essential minerals and the important vitamins A and D. The important thing to remember at first is to chop the greens up very fine. when he returns to America after having had daily intercourse inter-course with some of the well-bred persons in Europe. He picks up these blots on perfect speech so gradually and they multiply so rapidly that before he is aware of the extent of these acquisitions at least one-tenth part of his ' vocabulary consists of slang expressions. "This fact is so true of America that even the ignorant peasants of Ireland recognize it when their countrymen return to their native land. As heard in America slang seems to add An EI Dorado Springs (Mo.) correspondent tells of a singular attachment between be-tween a Berkshire pig and a kitten. Both animals fed from the same trough, and appeared ap-peared to take delight in helping each other. During the winter, when the kitten's feet got cold, kitty would hunt up piggy, now and then giving a loud meow, upon hearing which the porker would answer with a friendly grunt. Fussy, in finding its friend, would take the nearest route for the hog's back, generally climbing up its long snout. During cold nights kitty slept on the pig's back, and in the morning would be found in the same convenient place riding - to the barn, about a furlong distant, where puss caught mice. It was, indeed, an amusing sight to see piggy wadina through deep snow with the cat (toes turned in) on the oack, evidently as comfortable comfort-able as a queen in her carriage and four. St. Louis Glode-Democrat |