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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1923
Page
6
The article identifies blackhead as the deadliest turkey disease and urges isolating afflicted birds for treatment. It outlines lime disinfection, turpentine mixtures in mash, progressive dosing, and olive oil for severe cases, noting the disease can persist in soil and equipment and is often tied to management and feeding practices.
Poultry expert W H Allen of New Jersey State Agricultural College advises planners to determine next fall’s pullet numbers now to avoid under or overstock. For hatchers use five eggs per pullet, assuming 50 percent hatch, one cockerel per pullet, and expect 10 to 20 percent rearing mortality.
Guidance on early feeding after hatching with 36 to 48 hours without feed, proper chick concentrate mixes, and selecting gentle hens for broodiness. Advice warns against pullet eggs, parasites, and managing excitable hens to ensure vigorous layers and healthy flocks.
The USDA reports that selecting daughters from top laying hens can raise flock egg output without trap nests. Fall moulting lateness identifies good layers. spring hatch uses those lines. Early winter layers should be marked for breeding. large egg production links to vigor and stamina.
A concrete manure pit is recommended to prevent loss of valuable nutrients and improve soil fertility. Pennsylvania experiment data show manure from a horse worth 31.67 dollars and dairy cow manure worth 88.76 dollars annually. A 20 by 24 by 4 foot pit with a sloped floor, cistern, and access for a spreader stores manure and drains liquid into a pumpable sump.
A USDA survey finds small and large livestock producers gain higher net returns through cooperative shipping. Benefits include cost based marketing, price comparisons, and learning market demand. Success hinges on capable managers, solid finances, bonds, and clear marking. Bulletin 1292 explains organization and methods.
The article explains feeding potatoes to pigs, especially damaged ones. Cook and drain, then mix three parts potatoes to one part grain. Boil in a feed cooker and combine in a barrel with a wooden paddle. Suitable for fattening hogs, brood sows, and small pigs.
Tip burn, a serious threat to potato crops, led many growers to abandon plantings. Iowa State College scientists tested Bordeaux mixture spray and found it the most effective control. Over seven years, average yield rose about 25 percent.
New York state agricultural college at Ithaca says to ban hens that go broody often from breeding by leg banding them. It notes some hens brood multiple times while others lay steadily. The college suggests nightly fen-house checks and 72 hour broody coop confinement with feeding to restore laying.
Beekeepers complain sprays kill bees on fruit trees. Apply the spray after about 95 percent of petals fall and before calyx lobes close. This timing protects the crop and controls codling moth without harming bees.
The article advises feeding ewes grain in addition to pasture and forage. It recommends plenty of clean legume hay and corn silage, with salt available at all times. It notes thin or poor-condition ewes will not wean strong lambs or milk well, especially twins, and suggests two grain rations: 4 parts oats 3 parts corn 1 part wheat bran 1 part inseed oil meal, or a simpler 2 parts oats 1 part wheat bran.
Prof. G C Humphrey of Wisconsin College of Agriculture offers practical rules for novice sheep keepers. Choose purebred rams select young ewes and avoid older stock. Prefer yearlings to three-year-olds for starting flocks and discard broken mouthed ewes or those with udders problems. Ensure good size forms and dense fleeces and feed lambs well in the first year as growth is strongest then. Provide year round attentive care to the flock.
Southdown rams are described as highly prepotent due to ancient lineage. Three Southdowns will flourish on as much feed as one sheep of any other breed. The carcass yields no waste and the mutton is exquisitely tasted with delicate marbling.
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