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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1929
Page
4
Walter G. Ward of Kansas State Agricultural College explains how to improve old poultry houses. He recommends increasing upper wall openings to about one tenth of floor space with hail screens, adding muslin front covers for protection, and reducing height by installing a straw loft carried on inch mesh poultry netting.
With 1000 more acres under cultivation than last year, the cotton fields in San Joaquin Valley face an acute labor shortage. F J Palomares, manager of the valley labor bureau at Madera, reported the situation.
Findings show unlimited sour skim milk boosts total and average egg production, raises profit over feed cost, and lowers feed cost per dozen eggs compared with semi solid buttermilk, dried buttermilk, meat scrap, or sour skim milk whey. Dried buttermilk pens yield more small eggs. sour skim milk pen yields more large eggs. Dried skim milk whey underperforms. Dried buttermilk pen has highest hatchability. semi solid vs dried buttermilk favors semi solid for production and eggs per pullet. Dried pen offers higher yearly profit over feed cost and lower feed cost per dozen eggs with better hatchability. Vegetable protein supplements to sour skimmed milk like peameal, alfalfa meal, and beanmeal are productive and profitable. ranked: peameal, alfalfa meal, bean meal, then no supplement.
Practical guidance on keeping poultry healthy and productive. Emphasizes cleanliness, good drainage, cool egg storage, and biweekly market sales. Recommends feed blends with yellow corn cod liver oil and leafy greens, early roosting, proper nesting, ventilation, and safe brood housing. Encourages market-ready eggs this summer with careful care and housing adjustments.
Madera county cotton growers have accepted the 114 cents per pound wage scale recommended by the San Joaquin Labor Bureau. A labor shortage is expected in the valley this year and growers say they will pay above the scale to attract workers.
Calves over a few weeks old may be fed with powdered skim milk mixed at one part powder to nine parts water. It can be used in the same manner as fresh skim milk for feeding calves.
Periodic inspections in Antelope Valley show grasshoppers have scarce breeding this season. No grasshopper control measures will be needed in the district this year.
Professor E L Overholser and Carl H Spurlock of Solano county horticultural commissioners completed inspecting California fruits and vegetables. The cargo will depart on the refrigerated motorship Silver Hazel during the men’s trade expedition to the Orient this fall.
There will be a good apple crop in Three Rivers this fall if the Clarence Dineley orchard on the middle Kaweah fork proves a criterion. Mr Dineley started to prop his trees late in June and has thinned several times.
County Farm Advisor Henry Washburn announces a large consignment of local lettuce as part of a shipload of California fruits and vegetables set to sail for the Orient, signaling a push to place California produce permanently on the Oriental market.
D C Brown of the San Fernando Valley Walnut Growers Association expects at least a 50 percent increase in the walnut crop. About 90 percent of the valley's walnut production is reportedly signed up with the association.
The season’s first Porterville bale weighed 495 pounds and was grown by C. L. Macey of Woodville district. Last year the first bale was ginned on August 20 due to a late spring causing slower crop development.
Napa Union High School earned a $50 check for the best Smith Hughes agricultural display at the Sacramento State Fair. Lowell Edington was elected state president of the Future Farmers of America during the convention at the fair.
California grown pineapples may soon enter world markets alongside oranges and lemons. A pineapple seed planted at Fallbrook four years ago has yielded a promising crop this year, with extensive cultivation planned. California’s first oranges were likewise started in a small way seventy five years ago.
C C Passmore of Pomona cultivates a grafted fruit tree that now bears six varieties of nectarines plums prunes and peaches. The original cherry plum was non productive. grafting with buds from French prune, yellow plum, Kelsey plum, nectarines, almonds, cherries, Santa Rosa and egg plums and several peach varieties yields multiple fruiting varieties. Next year six more varieties will begin bearing, increasing interest.
E. E. Kaufman, federal state crop reporting expert, projects a fresh basis California raisin crop totaling 1,000,000 tons for 1929, down from 1,406,000 tons last year. He warns of short crops across all grape varieties, with wine grapes about 420,000 tons and table varieties about 350,000 tons, versus 482,000 and 478,000 tons in 1928.
A sharp drop in car requirements for grape shipments in the Stanislaus district is shown by applications filed, totaling 108 cars for the first shipping week, versus 450 cars in the same period in 1928.
The California Prune and Apricot Gowers Association announced a distribution of 600000 dollars from the 1928 prune crop. This payment marks the last for growers on their previous year's harvest and exceeds prior expectations by 140000 dollars.
Accompanied by Dr. C R Beach of the University of California and Grant Merrill, assistant farm adviser, William R Hinshaw of Massachusetts, an expert on turkey diseases, has begun a study of the methods by which California fights diseases among its turkeys.
Epicureans were assured that the supply of famous California abalone is not being depleted. After a survey, N. B. Schofield of the State Fish and Game Commission announced laws protecting the abalone are ideal, and it is not likely fishermen will seriously deplete the supply.
Heavy summer rains in the mountains improved growing conditions in Mentone. After a rain, Bear Valley Mutual intake flow rose by 400 inches. The downpour filled surface and underground reservoirs, with the strongest rainfall on the north side of the range.
Leigh Thompson secretary of the Orange Belt Council of the Izaak Walton League and a local citrus grower announce Gov. Young has ordered a survey to locate suitable sites for trout rearing ponds at the mouths of the principal streams around Upland.
Members of the Sacramento Region Citizens' Council from northern California and the bay area gathered in Marysville to discuss new markets for California products with emphasis on the South American field. Representatives tour Latin republics to establish outlets. Speaker Juan Carlos Godoy, consul general of Argentina in San Francisco, attended.
Redlands vines are producing and table grapes white slip skins black and white muscats are ripe for market. Tokays seedless grapes and other varieties will follow. No large grape acreage dominates the district yet, but several scattered patches create a solid total. Most fruit is sold locally.
Donald D. Conn, managing director of the California Vineyardists' Association, called for an immediate industry fund to enable California vine yardists to participate in the Federal Farm Board relief program. He urged growers to sign full Stabilization Corporation subscriptions without delay.
Investigations by the Bureau of Animal Industry, USDA, show length of staple and weight of clean wool per fleece correlate with higher quality. Inheritance, feed, management and season affect quality and quantity. effective farmers practice strict culling of aged ewes and light producers for quick flock improvement.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture describes jack rabbits nibbling fruit trees and alfalfa as an enduring pest. It outlines winter feeding, community poisoning, driving to central corrals, and rabbit drives. Pelts fetch money for hat production while skins yield modest prices, incentivizing trapping and wholesale shooting by individuals or clubs.
G M Twitchell of Maine recalls a method for protecting orchard trees while pasturing hogs. He plowed between trees, sowed rape, clover and barley, then moved hogs daily if trunk or root signs appeared. Hogs stayed content, growth was rapid, and no trees were injured.
Growers favor a standard Apple package for main producing sections and discourage other types. Barrels serve as the best known standard for measure being quick to pack economical and easy to load and transport though poor filling can ruin fruit. Tender varieties suffer excessive injury in barrels and are hard to display for retailers.
Mandy Homestead, a four year old Badger Holstein, set a national record in the Farmers Class for milkings according to the Holstein-Friesian Association. On a two milking day with a milking machine she produced 682.48 pounds of butterfat and 20 114 pounds of milk in 865 days, beating the previous record by 56 pounds of butter and 1 047 pounds of milk. Herd owner Charles Hughes and son report no more than two milkings daily and note Mandy calved in May 1928 and is due again in July. The cow grazed on pasture with a balanced ration and no special mineral feed was used.
Dr. F B Hadley of the University of Wisconsin reports dairy cows in a five year test show the poor ration of corn silage timothy hay non legume pasture and corn gluten meal keeps weight and butterfat near the level of cows on a well balanced diet with cod liver oil, minerals, and legume hay.
Calves can be raised without milk after two months if they start strong at weaning. Begin with dry grain such as cracked corn or crushed oats, then switch to a complete mixture when milk is discontinued. Early access to grain and leguminous hay provides essential protein and nutrition for growth.
Young and older bulls should have salt access. Calves need ample roughage like alfalfa or mixed hay as soon as they will eat it. New York dairy improvement association members show that larger cow grain rations are an investment, with some returns reaching 300 percent.
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