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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1923
Page
6
The Ontario Agricultural College notes tuberculosis is widespread in provincial flocks. Infected birds lose condition, eggs drop, and mortality rises. postmortem exams reveal tubercles in liver spleen and other organs. Infected flocks require culling of diseased birds, thorough cleaning, disinfection, lime treatment, and restocking from healthy stock.
Heat affects fertile eggs by forming a blood ring, spoiling them for food. Producers urge clean nests, one nest per four hens, twice daily egg gathering, cool dry storage, and selling eggs twice weekly. Isolating hens from roosters yields infertile eggs of market quality after about two weeks.
Geese need a separate range from poultry to avoid dirtying hen water and breading grounds. Geese require plenty of tender grass and will steal feed from young chicks if allowed on shared ranges, increasing production costs though geese are largely grass fed and cheap to raise.
The Jerusalem Artichoke especially the Mammoth French White offers hardy prolific growth. It provides shade for stock, suppresses weeds, and stores well for winter feed for laying hens and early spring feed for chicks.
The article discusses evaporating fruits to stabilize prices and profits, noting many farms, diverse drying setups, and need for standardization. It highlights USDA Bulletin 1141 on evaporators, model installations, and the option for community drying plants in non-primary fruit areas. Details: address USDA Washington, D. C. for copies.
A. J. McGuire of the University of Minnesota extension division urges farmers to educate patrons on cream quality. He advises delivering cream twice weekly and improving farm care to ensure pure sweet cream. He warns that poor butter grades cause price losses and creamery failures.
Oat straw is not generally seen as dairy cow feed though in moderate amounts every two or three days cows will eat it with relish. If fed exclusively as roughage they will waste it and lose condition, becoming as thin as a string of shad.
Plan outlines a government bulletin No. 1302 How to Get Rid of Rats. It promises free guidance to control rats in poultry houses. It warns that rats threaten flocks, noting a family of rats can be killed in one night and that a few rats can devastate chickens quickly.
The article argues that feeding cows excessive corn creates a narrow ration that promotes flesh rather than milk, warning that such practice is misleading and harmful to dairy output.
In 400 demonstrations well sprayed potatoes yielded 74 bushels per acre more than controls. Disease-free seed added a further 69 bushels per acre. Results suggest spraying and clean seed increase potato production.
Rapid progress in Kentucky livestock improvement is led by the Live Stock Improvement association formed with the State College of Agriculture and Louisville Live stock exchange. The program aims to eradicate scrub sires and promote pure breds, aided by a full-time field man and the Better Lives Better Stock campaign increasing pure bred sire use from 73 to 270 in Union County.
The red and blackcap raspberries are vulnerable to several diseases and poor soil. Proper planting on well drained, fertile soil and attentive care can yield profitable, long lasting crops, while unsuitable locations lead to failures and costly neglect.
After harvesting blackberries raspberries or loganberries remove old vines by cutting and burning to prevent disease. Burn any suspect plants. Perform summer pruning on young canes, pinching back at two or three feet to encourage laterals and trim overly long laterals in spring.
New York agricultural experiment station urges expanding nectarine plantings adopting the Hunter variety. Described as large vigorous hardy productive trees with large handsome fruit of very good quality. Could be grown in home orchards and offer small scale commercial potential.
The passage explains strawberry blossoms come in two kinds: perfect staminate or male and imperfect pistillate or female. Perfect blossoms pollenize both types and enable fruit. imperfect blossoms cannot bear fruit without pollen from perfect blossoms.
Summer is the time to look after borers in orchards. paradichloro benzine is an efficient control for borers in peach and plum trees. If it helps control root insects on strawberries and woolly aphis on apples, it could benefit new growers.
W H Peters of the Minnesota College of Agriculture argues for more summer grain feeding of yearlings and baby beeves to capitalize on high late summer prices. He notes historical patterns of strong demand August through October, addresses summer care logistics, and suggests a system using fall-weaned calves finished by September.
A historical discussion notes consumer bias against heavy lambs and argues texture differences are minor. It explains that “lamb” is often applied to older sheep, leading buyers to prefer smaller specimens and pay more. Recommendations focus on feeding heavy breed lambs earlier for better meat quality.
Katherine Mansfield presents a quiet domestic moment as a writer in his dim study recalls his busy work surrounded by books and papers while his wife and sleeping child bathe in firelight, her shadow lingering like a Mother and Child on the wall.
Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge recalls a girl eloping with a man the night before last. He says the girl's kin reacted with guns then cheered, and later all joined in shivareeing the newlyweds instead of violence, according to the Kansas City Star.
A quirky exchange hints at a movie director’s push to endure stumbles while aiming high. The applicant humorously ranks near Niagara in its scale, suggesting grand ambition tempered by abundant sense that reduces risk to fun.
England's third woman M. P. Mrs Hilton Philipson, formerly Mabel Russell, was an actress at the London Gayety. She has three children born during wartime events and won a large majority in Edward Grey's old seat. Other female MPs noted include Mrs Wintringham and Lady Astor.
A Sunday school teacher led five eight year old girls on a hike that extended from a quarter mile to one and a half miles. After lunch all ate their provisions and returned safely. Midway a girl exclaimed her stomach felt awful funny.
Mrs Snaggs notes strange phrases in papers. Her husband counters with an example where the article says speculators pocketing losses, implying they were unpocketed. The exchange highlights humorous, old timey journalistic jargon.
If fall pigs are being considered the question of labor arises. They might require a board or two nailed over the hoghouse cracks or a little more bedding and energy spent on ensuring their wants are met. Labor at that time of year is forced by nature to ease off.
Hog lice mange mites and fleas are the principal insect pests of the hog. For lice and mange rubbing posts or oiled wallows will give relief. Fleas trouble breeding houses and open sheds in early spring. Clean bedding and spray with coal oil or stock dip. Repeat every four weeks until the pest is conquered.
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