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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
7
The article explains how sports or anomalies in color and comb type lead to new breeds. It cites White Wyandette and Black Wyandotte from sports, notes Rose Comb producing single comb fowls, and claims many modern varieties like Black Rock and Black Langshans arose from such sports over the last 40 to 50 years.
The article explains movable roosting coops for young chicks. Structures six by three by three feet with wire sides ensure airflow while keeping predators out. Curtains roll down to shelter chicks in rain or cold. Coops should be movable on skids for daily repositioning and allow shaded cooling by elevating from the ground.
Practical notes emphasize not crowding coops to improve sales and profits. Highlights include choosing vigorous breeding stock, fall laying hens, duck eggs and ducklings as alternatives, water needs for ducklings, and feeding tips using oatmeal and buttermilk to develop chicks. Prices for fresh duck eggs suggested near 20 cents.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports on how plant spacing affects corn yields for single ear and prolific types. Prolific plants outperform in yield per acre due to more ears, while single ear plants increase ear weight. under varied field conditions prolific generally yields more overall. Bulletin details available free from the USDA in Washington DC.
Experimental evidence shows that continued use of acid phosphate does not sour soil and may slightly reduce acidity. Long term heavy applications on test plots have not harmed soil and often yield beneficial results, despite the trade name origin.
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station tests show pigs receiving 50 pounds of skim milk daily grow faster and reach market readiness sooner than a control group fed shelled corn wheat middlings and digested tankage. Milk should be pasteurized if from tubercular cows and feeding milk sweet or sour makes little difference.
Milk provides vital nutrients to support rapid growth in young chicks and helps prevent diseases. Sour milk and buttermilk often treat coccidiosis, a major chick illness. Keeping chicks growing quickly in the first eight weeks reduces susceptibility to disease.
The United States relies on grade or scrub dairy bulls for 75 percent of production, causing low per cow yields. In 1921, fewer than 80,000 purebred bull calves were registered, likely representing less than half of purebreds born that year.
United States Department of Agriculture inquiries to leading duck producers elicited detailed fattening regimens. The replies describe cornmeal heavy diets with bran and middlings, green feed adjustments, and frequent feedings to condition market ducks.
A Penned guide notes farmers in sheep farming should choose rams with pedigree and strong build. Key traits include masculine visage, broad face, and rugged neck. deep chest and rib, strong back. dense, long fleece with pink skin when healthy. Quiet, ground-hugging ram with good temperament signals quality sire potential.
The amount of concentrate needed to insure a thrifty sow and litter is small with few cases requiring supplements. On dairy farms skim milk is the best protein feed. If milk is unavailable, alfalfa, clover, soy bean or cowpea hay can be used and fed in low racks or placed in lots for free consumption.
C W McCampbell of Kansas State Agricultural College argues that livestock outlets use 80 percent of US food and feed output, with vast acreages of pasture and grazing land. He notes manure as the best soil fertilizer, returning 80 percent of soil-building nutrients from fed grain, aiding soil fertility and disease control.
A compilation of figures on accidental drownings fire injuries and deaths in fires and transportation. It presents multiple estimates including thousands killed annually by fires and railroad accidents and injuries from accidents and boiler explosions.
University of Wisconsin experts urge salt iodine and calcium in livestock rations. Salt aids digestion and coat condition, iodine prevents hairless pigs and goiter, and calcium must be replenished as dairy cows lose it in milk. Alfalfa hay with certain vitamins and lime or bone meal help calcium absorption.
Conditions across the Western Canadian provinces since mid April are described as highly favorable with minimal losses from rare hail. Alberta and Saskatchewan report exceptional prospects while Manitoba eyes a record wheat, oats, rye and barley crop. Land prices are low, making farms affordable for investors and homesteaders alike.
A summary from Oregon Agricultural College professor Fjeldsted outlines eight feed formulas to produce 100 pounds of pork. Each option mixes barley with additions like middlings skim milk digester tankage and garbage to compare efficiency.
A short proverb-like note extols kindness as a cushion that eases many difficulties, suggesting gentleness helps people endure misfortune and preserve harmony.
A feed mix of 60 percent barley and 40 percent oats suits growing pigs and brood sows. Improve with 40 percent barley 30 percent oats 20 percent middlings and 10 percent tankage. For fattening pigs use 90 percent barley or 60 percent barley 80 percent middlings and 10 percent tankage.
To have a clear sweet skin touch pimples redness roughness or itching use Cuticura Ointment then bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water Rinse dry gently and dust on Cuticura Talcum for fragrance. 25c each.
A vintage ad touts Red Cross Ball Blue for spotless clothes with no grimy streaks. It promises good bluing yields and notes the product is carried by all grocers.
The text urges rapid growth and development of pigs to ensure economic pork production. It emphasizes feeding grain to finish pigs early and notes that neglect can slow growth. Finishing may occur in pens or on luxuriant pasture with ample grain.
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