Home mash mixes for chick starter from farm grains
Poultry extension specialist outlines practical formulas for starting chick mash using farm grains. Detailed recipes vary by available ingredients such as ground corn, ground wheat, alfalfa leaf meal, soybean meal, milks, meat scraps, bone meal and oyster shell, with options to substitute bran and middlings and to offer milk or milk substitutes.
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FA. J. Alp
College of Agricultura
University of Tibota
WNU Borvica
Massachusetts flocks free of pullorum disease reported
A Massachusetts experiment station report says 180 poultry flocks statewide were tested last year and found free of pullorum disease. The veterinary science department at Massachusetts State College has long studied the disease, noting that disease free flocks occur in every county and that buying eggs or chicks from tested flocks helps control transmission.
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Massachusetts
Department of Veterinary Science
Massachusetts State Vollege
Feeding Potatoes to Hens for Better Egg Production
Potatoes fed to hens improve ration variety and palatability, boosting feed intake and egg production. Use unmarketable potatoes by steaming or boiling to make a warm mash mixed with laying mash. Recommend six to ten pounds of potatoes per hundred hens per day, fed once daily, either at noon or night.
Poultry Trade Shifts With Australia Suppling Britain
A Massachusetts State College veterinary department report notes Britain receives frozen eggs from China and imports from Australia as new rivals in poultry markets emerge. The findings highlight disease tests on poultry quality with palatability and meat standards mentioned amid ongoing supply changes.
Quick Hitchup Of Big Team Outfits At Illinois Plowing Meet
A U of I livestock specialist notes big team outfits save time and money. In a plowing contest 17 teams with 110 horses averaged 38 seconds to hitch and 22 seconds to unhitch per horse. Five to eight horse teams required two to seven minutes to load and unload, showing uniform speed across drivers and highlighting the efficiency of larger teams for farming power.
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T. Robbing
College of Agricultura
Uuihority
IiMncik
WNO Farvica
Ilinois
Sye
Too Fine Grinding of Feed Sparks Profit Tips
Ralph O. Hay of the University of Illinois warns that grinding feed too fine can cut livestock margins. Coarse grinding saves up to eight cents per 100 pounds when power costs six cents per kilowatt hour, as experiments show three to eight times less power for coarse grinding. Hammer mills offer some advantages for fine grinding, but coarse grinding increases mill capacity and reduces wear.
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Ralph O. Hay
Agricultural Engineering Department
College of Agriculture
University Oflinois
Device Improves Silage Spread In Iltofe Farm
A simple device gives an even silage distribution. A pitchfork bound to the down pipe and extending below the spout guides fodder onto a stream directed by one man at the movable doors. Reported to match the work of up to five men. Similar results noted by other farmers.
Rural land woes push farmers toward tenancy
The United States hosts about 0,800,000 farms with 2,520,000 carrying mortgages. Casualties among farmers are high, with 220,500 farm owners becoming renters yearly and one in every farmer demoted to tenancy. The average farm spans 160 acres with a $7 per acre mortgage. Rising farm prices may reduce the ownership tenacity gap.
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United States
Hop Disease Fight Progress in Oregon Hops
Oregon hop growers press toward control of downy mildew after three years of crop losses. Plant breeders develop resistant varieties and new control methods such as spraying and dusting, a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Oregon State Agricultural College aims to curb the disease.
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Oregon
United States Department of Agriculture
Oregon State Agricultural College
The Plan That Tears a Family Apart
Margery schemes to elope with her lover Stanley as Mrs. Landon’s companion Miss Knapp guides her. A risky plan, loyalties shift, and the aristocratic world collides with a secret romance within a mansion. The plan falters when Margery faces love, fear, and exposure.
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Margery
Darya
Brantey
Gery
Stanley
Knapp
Miss Knapp
Ty Don
Indy
Nilson
Bert
Denly
Mia
Misa Knapp
Stanley Reach
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