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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1928
Page
4
A piece on keeping poultry houses warm and comfortable to protect egg supply. It describes practical steps such as partitioning with burlap curtains, gunny sack perches, window openings, windbreaks from cornstalks, and indoor scratching. Proper winter housing reduces stress and improves hen performance.
Farmers note that hens molt late to maintain a high yearly egg output. Early molters stop laying in fall and perform poorly through winter, while late molters resume production in spring. Poor conditions can trigger early molt, reducing total eggs. early-hatched pullets help sustain year round production.
Pear shipments from Paradise in Butte county have concluded for the season with twenty carloads sent out. The consignments included a few mixed cars totaling about two carloads of peaches. The first carload of the 1928 prune pack left Napa for Italy last week. Napa Valley crop totals 15,000 tons with growers receiving fair prices.
Chicks should learn to roost as they mature and flocks must be kept lice and mite free. Emphasize good feeding and ventilation to prevent damp air and poor health. Summer spraying and a balanced ration boost egg output. Use kerosene and carbolic spray, coal tar disinfectants, and sodium fluoride dips to control parasites.
About eighty percent of Sacramento Valley rice land has signed the Rice Growers' Association marketing plan at Willows. Earlier hopes suggested at least ninety percent would sign under the program.
Orange growers in the Redlands district anticipate a record-breaking harvest, optimistic after two years of peak yields. Heavy fruit set, favorable weather, and healthy trees with unspotted fruit suggest a bumper season ahead.
Eighty cars of cling peaches were shipped during the season ending recently. Each car carried about sixteen tons, with roughly one third going to San Francisco and Isleton, and the rest to San Jose and Modesto. Local sales brought the total tonnage to 1,500. At twenty five dollars per ton, gross returns to growers are estimated at at least thirty five thousand dollars.
The State corporation department in San Francisco notified poultry and livestock owners using sale contract systems to appear and file operation details and apply for permits. Justice Sturtevant’s ruling holds selling contracts for raising rabbits foxes pigs chickens or other fowl in bulk for profit falls under state securities law and the corporation commissioner’s jurisdiction.
E. E. Kaufman of the California Cooperative Crop Reporting Service notes August was generally favorable for all growing crops. Grapes and cotton suffered limitedly from heat, while rice benefited, with production put at 6,854,000 bushels, over 2,000,000 below 1927. A yield of twenty three bags per acre is indicated.
The State Railroad Commission begins an investigation into railroad freight rates on hay in California to verify that horses still exist. The U S Interstate Commerce Commission is pursuing a parallel inquiry on interstate hay rates through the West. The two commissions will hold joint day rate hearings across the state.
North Sacramento Valley counties will be represented by prominent dairymen at the Pacific Slope Dairy Show in Oakland from November 19 to 24. A regional dairy show committee was formed for the territory, secretary-manager Robert E. Jones said. He reported the Oakland show will exceed past events, with 80 percent of exhibit space already under contract and six of eleven western states planning participation.
Dr. J. P. Iverson, chief of the bureau of animal industry, warns farmers not to salvage feed by feeding hogs burned barley fields or switching quickly to new barley. He cautions that too large a proportion of new barley can upset swine digestion before tolerance is established.
The United States hosts the world’s premier prune region with California alone producing 56 percent of global prune output. This dominant sector underscores California’s vital role in the dried fruit industry and U S supply.
Consistent and persistent fumigation is credited with heavy crops in Riverside county navel and orange groves this year. A. E. Bottel, the horticultural commissioner, says groves are in excellent condition and bear the largest set for this time of year ever reported.
Roseville in Placer county will observe National Grape Week on September 28 and 29. E. C. Bedell and P. P Goss are appointed to arrange the program. Stickers are being distributed to advertise the period. Roseville grows and ships much juice grapes and a large share of California grapes pass through Roseville to be iced at the Pacific Fruit Express Company's plant.
Five hundred and twenty five car loads of peaches have been shipped from Wheatland in Yuba county this season. The total excludes truck shipments to the local canneries and district around Rio Oso. The production rise is shown by higher fruit shipments year over year, with last July August and September totaling 11 170 and 175 carloads respectively.
E. E. Kaufman, chief of the California Crop Reporting Service, issued estimates for 1928 crops including potatoes 7,840,000 bushels, hops 8,715,000 pounds, sugar beets 419,000 tons, lima beans 1,168,000 bags, other beans 1,200,000 bags, apples 11,835,000 bushels, with declines in per acre yields in the San Joaquin delta and changes in bean conditions noted.
All of America urged to munch grapes as California vineyards ship thousands of car loads across the Sierras to supply the nation. The slogan Eat California Grapes Keep Well highlights the fruit’s healthful qualities while about half of the 2.5 million ton crop aims to feed the world with raisins.
The fall truck crop planting nears completion across the state as winter sowing starts. Weather has supported crop growth and recent shipments out of California focus on lettuce onions and potatoes. Onion and spud shipments are expected to fall while lettuce output rises. Lettuce planting in central California is nearly finished and carrot shipments from the district are starting.
Comparing the first six months of the current year with 1927, the Poultry Producers of Central California headquartered in San Francisco report eggs receipts rising from 573,705 to 739,397 cases, a 28.9 percent increase. Member prices rose 10.3 percent. The association added 865 new members, increasing hens by nearly 800,000, with last year’s figures at 574 new members owning 478,000 hens. By June 30, 1928 total hens reached 4,015,000, about a 25 percent six month gain.
Growers are advised to spray paradichloro benzene at the base of peach trees between October 1 and 15. Apply the measured amount by age, cover with soil, and keep undisturbed for four to six weeks on trees three years or older. Young trees may be harmed. follow precautions to avoid serious injury.
The market offers two strawberry types: perfect flowering varieties with both pistils and stamens and imperfect flowering pistillate types that need a nearby perfect variety to fruit. Examples include Howard 17 and Senator Dunlap. Pistillate types are marked I or P in catalogs, and staminate male kinds do not exist.
Orchardists fear wrinkled and deformed apple leaves, with blistering and cracked undersides from early freezes. Some cases linked to spraying, but no remedy exists. the frosted condition should lessen as the season progresses.
Two trees in an orchard never exactly match in shape or growth. Opinions differ on whether spray or dust is better, but both are more damaging to bugs and fungus than doing nothing. Focus on the young strawberry bed and note the next month determines the 1929 crop. Dusting for brown rot in peaches proves satisfactory. mixture may be home made or bought ready-mixed.
North Carolina farmer Tom Morrow in Iredell County shows a method turning corn into meal to feed dairy cows. Eleven cows produced 311.3 pounds of butterfat selling at 42 cents a pound, totaling 130.75 dollars, with skim milk valued additional income, yielding a net 79.33 dollars after feed costs and pasture charges.
Health officials in 106 of 117 cities favor cartons for butter packaging to reduce contamination at home and in stores and to curb odor absorption. The USDA's Bureau of Agricultural Economics leads a survey on merchandising farm products amid cooperative marketing studies benefiting producers and consumers.
The young calf usually takes about six to ten pounds of skim milk daily, rising gradually to sixteen to twenty pounds by four months. A little grain and legume hay, plus clean feed and surroundings, help growth. Calves should be tied separately during feeding for better monitoring, with a row of simple stanchions as the practical plan.
The article argues many dairy farms could benefit from silage in feeding plans and stresses removing poor producing cows via careful culling. It advocates joining a cow testing association to identify underperformers. Even well bred or cared-for cows may fail to produce profitably if they are emaciated or weak.
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