Winter Egg Production Feeding Guidelines for Flocks
Extension poultry specialist R L Watkins advises record flock keepers on winter laying. Successful hens are mature, healthy, well housed and fed, with proper body weight per breed. A balanced mash with ground grains, meat and milk protein, bonemeal minerals, salt, grit, and alfalfa, plus grain for weight, maintains egg production and warmth. hens must eat enough mash and grain, or lay will cease.
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R. L. Watkins
Ames
Cod Liver Oil Best Given in Feed for Poultry
A poultry professor touts cod liver oil as boosting health and egg quality. He notes benefits such as stronger birds, protection against leg weakness, better shells, more chicks, and fewer blood spots. Best fed in semi solid buttermilk or cottage cheese, or mixed with scratch grain at a quart per 100 hens weekly, continuing until spring.
Guard Against Disease in Feeding Green Bone
Advice warns butcher shops to avoid grinding poultry offal with green bone due to tuberculosis risk. Spread green bone in a cold room when bought, since centers heat and spoil in sacks. Thinly spread keeping small quantities is essential for safety and preservation.
Poultry Notes on Water and Feed in Cold Weather
Fresh water should be available to hens at all times. In extreme cold birds need more corn and grain than in mild weather. Birds prefer grain feeds. The amount consumed is determined by the quantity of grain fed.
New vegetable packing shed opening in Lompoc announced
J W Files for Frank H Buck Company of San Francisco announced the opening of a new vegetable packing shed in Lompoc to handle rapidly expanding valley acreage. Separately Grizzly Electric of Portola has applied to the state railroad commission to sell its properties to Sierra Pacific Power Company for 43500 dollars.
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Lompoc
J. W. Files
Frank H. Buck Company
Vegetable Packers and Shippers of
San Francisco
Grizzly Electric Company
Portola
Plumas County
State Railroad Commission
Sierra Pacific Power Company
Mexican laborers may turn from U S to homeland work
Members of the Mexican Federal Commission on Irrigation believe employers will seek other labor sources, notably in agriculture. Irrigation projects now starting below the international line are expected to draw thousands of Mexican nationals back to Mexico in the coming year or two.
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United States
Mexican Federal Commission On Irrigation
Mulching Benefits for Strawberry Beds
Strawberry beds benefit from clean wheat or rye straw as mulch. It protects against freeze thaw cycles, prevents unwanted growth in warm spells, reduces weeds, conserves moisture, and keeps fruit clean. Straw is preferred over manure which can spread weed seeds. lawn rakings can work in small home beds.
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Frank H. Beach
Clyde 8. Holland
Ohio State University
California official elected national ag association president
Director G. H. Hecke of the California department of agriculture was elected president of the National Association of Commissioners Directors and Secretaries of Agriculture at the annual convention in Chicago, earning national recognition for California agriculture.
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California
G. H. Hecke
California Department of Agriculture
National Association of Commissioners, Directors and Secretaries of Agriculture
Chicago
Mammoth Jawbone and Tooth Unearthed Near Corcoran
Excavation on the El Rico ranch southwest of Corcoran uncovers part of a mammoth jawbone and a molar weighing about twenty five pounds. The fossil, found by Jerry Wright a Stanford student, with H B Worley, will be placed in Kings County Museum Hanford.
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el Rico Ranch
Corcoran
Jerry Wright
Stanford
H. B. Worley
Kings County
Hanford
Grand champion Hereford steer nets $2.50 a pound at LA show
The grand champion steer of the third annual Christmas livestock show in Los Angeles was a 1,000 pound Hereford from the Baldwin ranch in Pleasanton. It sold for $2.50 per pound on the hoof to a local hotel, which will serve it in its dining rooms during the Christmas holidays.
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Los Angeles
Baldwin
Pleasanton
Fruit Storage Booms In Redlands And Nearby
Cold storage plants in Redlands Yu caipa and San Bernardino are filled with fruit. A bumper apple crop led to heavy storage with pears and grapes also packed away for better markets. Storage prices have been cut to allow sale at reasonable profit for growers.
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Redlands
Yucaipa
San Bernardino
California Walnut Buyers Protected by State Law
A California law safeguards walnut buyers by requiring walnuts packed shipped offered for sale or sold be mature and free from serious defects such as blanks insect injury or mold or shrivelling. The rule ensures an appetizing wholesome food for consumers.
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California
Squirrel pest control slashes county damage in Santa Barbara
The county horticultural department and ranch owners are credited for a decade of effort that cut annual damage from ground squirrels in Santa Barbara County from 500000 dollars to under 50000 dollars. Nearly three quarters of the department's work targeted the pest.
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Santa Barbara
State official urges reforms to animal quarantine laws
George H. Hecke, head of the State Department of Agriculture, recommended amendments to existing Federal animal industry laws. He cited a Washington decision that seemed to nullify states' rights to establish protective quarantines and argued that state authority is needed to protect California livestock when Federal laws do not apply.
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George H. Hecke
State Department of Agriculture
Washington
Hecke
California
Tulare Farmers Tax Bills Include 24000 Pigs Valued at 96000
Tulare county farmers will pay taxes on 24000 pigs listed at 96000 dollars on the county tax rolls. State lists show Tulare third in pork value, behind San Bernardino at over 200000 dollars and Napa at about 100000 dollars.
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Tulare County
San Bernardino County
Napa County
Peppermint Refining Plant Opens in Sacramento
The Essential Products Company has completed a peppermint refining plant on C Street between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth, claiming it will yield annual output enough to flavor about 160 million pounds of candy. The plant is touted as the only essential oil refining facility on the Pacific Coast.
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Sacramento
United States
Essential Products Company
C Street
Thirty-fifth
Thirty-sixth
Pacific Coast
Conference of Potato Men Endorses Marketing Reforms
At a potato marketers conference, several recommendations were unanimously approved. They urged locality studies to improve grading, adoption of Federal State shipping point inspection at origin, shipments limited to United States Number One grade, stricter State standardization, and government promotion of potato consumption through publicity on their food value.
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United States
Pacific Slope Dairy Show Draws Wide Representation
E W Lott reports the Pacific Slope Dairy Show in Oakland drew participants from nineteen states, Southwestern Canada and Hawaii. About 325 prize cattle were on display from the Havehorst herd of Meleland, with over 100 firms entered in the dairy machinery exposition and 135 product exhibits tested.
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Pacific Southwest
Pacific Slope
Oakland
E. W. Lott
Imperial Valley Milk Producers Association
Lott
Will leaves large gifts to Cal for agriculture chair and scholarships
The will of Jessie D. Carr Seale provides one hundred twenty five thousand dollars for the Jessie D. Carr Agricultural Chair in the College of Agriculture at the University of California. Mrs Seale also bequeaths forty thousand dollars for five scholarships at the university, three for agricultural students.
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Jessie D. Carr Seale
Jessie D. Carr
College of Agriculture
University of California
California to retire from land colonization plan proposed
Charles W. Cleary chief of the state bureau of land settlement announced a plan to retire California from the land colonization business. The proposal, still incomplete, would be submitted to Governor C. C. Young and, if approved, sent to the legislature as an administration measure.
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Charles W. Cleary
State Bureau of Land Settlement
California
C. C. Young
California Jersey Cow Sets State Butter Fat Record
California's Rinda Lad's Rose, a UC Jersey, completed the state's highest mature Jersey cow record with 760.46 pounds of butter fat in 305 days. She began testing at 5 years 3 months and earned a merit medal from the American Jersey Cattle Club. Rose trails in-state by the overall record held by Rinda's Begonia at 787.4 pounds. As a junior 2-year-old Rose won a silver production medal.
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California
Rinda Lad
Rose
University of California Jersey
American Jersey Cattle Club
University
Rinda
Begonia
Artichoke tops eyed as cow feed by UC and Patrick Farms
L W Wing of Patrick Farms Salinas reports artichoke tops are palatable for cattle and seeks UC Davis analysis from the animal husbandry division. Digestive trials are planned by the dairy production department. Artichokes cover much of California and fall tops are usually burned. Wing has stored them in silos for two to three years as potential feed to offer large quantities when silage is scarce.
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L. W. Wing
Patrick Farms
Salinas
Animal Husbandry Division
University of California
College of Agriculture At
Davis
Dairy
California
Pruning Currant Bushes by Removing Old Canes
The guide explains pruning currants by removing old canes and replacing with new ones. A three year system uses nine canes per plant, phased as six in year two, five new in year three, three older and three new in year four, then maintain three canes each in years two to four.
Dwarf Fruit Trees Rise in Popularity and Utility
Dwarf fruit trees gain favor for early fruiting cutting garden space use. They fruit in roughly half the time of standard trees and serve ornamental as well as practical purposes. Planted as specimens they bloom like flowering shrubs, require less ground, and simplify care such as spraying and pruning.
Spraying for Scale Is Job for Winter Season
San Jose and other scale insects including oyster shell scale hose scale and scurfy scale form a group of pests often unnoticed until damage appears. These tiny insects settle on bark leaves and fruit to suck sap and must be killed by spraying with a poison that enters breathing pores or by smothering agents.
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San Jose
Dairy Industry Needs Outlined by USDA Chief
O E Reed, new head of the Bureau of Dairy Industry, urges a nationwide program emphasizing production efficiency, product quality, and increased consumption. He calls for better records, superior sires, and improved feeding and management, noting cooperation across farms, manufacturers, and distributors to raise market stability and inform the public about dairy improvements.
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United States Department of Agriculture
O. E. Reed
Bureau of Dairy Industry
Reed
Feed Dairy Cows Well Balanced Grain Ration
Feeding diary cows requires a balanced grain ration matched to milk yield. A common guideline is one pound of grain per four pounds of milk at about 3.5% fat, or one pound per three pounds of milk near 4% fat. Adjust per individual cow's response.
Dairy Notes on Milk Quality and Flavor Sources
The article explains that multiple lice can inhabit a single calf but big blue ones cause damage. It emphasizes that bacteria counts matter only with known sanitary history. Clean milk tastes sweet due to milk sugar and rich and fragrant from fat. Onions and tart flavors can spoil milk taste.
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