Poisonous Plants Found On Farms Warn Of Stock Losses
Farmers urged to locate and identify poisonous plants to prevent costly livestock losses this season. Professional help recommended to accurately detect and manage risks on farms.
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1963
Page
8
Farmers urged to locate and identify poisonous plants to prevent costly livestock losses this season. Professional help recommended to accurately detect and manage risks on farms.
In Neosho County, pig housing shifts to concrete steel and especially slatted floors. Oak slats from rough 2 by 6 or 2 by 8 planks are common, spaced about five eighths inch apart. Benefits include easier cleaning, cleaner hogs, and smaller space per animal. Ode Dunham and son built a 120 by 35 foot slatted floor structure using native lumber, steel roofing, and reused telephone poles, with 12 pens for up to 450 hogs. Self feeders and automatic waterers cut labor. pigs move from farrowing house to slatted pens after weaning, aiming for five months and about 225 to 250 pounds. Winter drafts, flies, and odors pose challenges without proper wind protection. East European Communist satellites endured another poor crop year in 1962 due to uneven rainfall.
Sunday gatherings included Deanna and Donna Reser hosted by Mr and Mrs Milford Page and Max LeRoy. Enid visitors Faydell Enos and Paul Bennett joined local families for a weekend visit while Henry Hazen Joyce Porterville and Raymond Enos attended Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott for treatment of a blocked kidney.
Mrs Jewel Clements and Mary Ellen spent Monday in Erie with Mr and Mrs Jack Elliott. Mrs Rhoda Peacock of Parsons spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs J E Haviland.
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