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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
7
J Tyson, farmer representative for Pennsylvania in the U S Food Administration, calls for reduced burlap use due to jute shortage from India and wartime needs. He urges shipping fertilizer in 200 pound bags to save handling costs and notes import limits affect linoleum makers.
USDA guidance outlines feeding schedules for growing chicks. After ten days use growing mash of bran mid dlings cornmeal low-grade wheat flour and beef scrap, fed wet or dry with moisture to crumbly consistency. Two months old four feedings daily, three months old three feedings. Consider pre-mixed feeds or cracked grains for larger flocks. Sour milk or buttermilk can hasten growth. Hoppers may hold feed on good range.
The guide describes feeding methods for chicks including portions of cracked corn with wheat, or equal parts of cracked corn wheat and oats, with dry mash. It notes beef scrap can be fed separately in four hoppers and best to start at ten days old. It also advises green feed for confined yards and recommends charcoal grit oyster shell and bone meal for hens kept in small bare yards.
Advice notes that Trymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds begin laying around seven months with proper care. Lethorns Minoress and similar breeds start about six months. Emphasizes good feeding and steady chick growth to reach early maturity.
Howard Heinz, Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, declares that wheat can be cut from the diet without health injury. A science panel including Chittenden Lusk and Langworthy found wheat entirely replaceable by barley corn oats or other cereals, urging widespread wheat abstention to preserve supplies for troops and civilians.
Federal Food Control Act requires all wholesalers and jobbers in food supplies to obtain licenses regardless of annual volume. Brokers and commission dealers must license, while small retailers with under one hundred thousand dollars gross are exempt. Any sale to retail dealers hotels restaurants or bakers counts as wholesaling. Howard Heinz Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania clarifies the rule.
Colorado Agricultural College expert explains that lice and mites ruin hen productivity and mothering. Regular spraying of poultry houses and dust baths help, but when ineffective, individual treatment with insect powder is required. A discarded churn can aid large flock dusting to improve efficiency.
A U S Food Administration plan led by Howard Henry to curb threshing waste aims to save up to three bushels per one hundred threshings. Captain Kenneth D. Hequembourg heads a new Grain Threshing Division with state threshermen assistants and county committees to overhaul machines and supervise repairs.
Pennsylvania farmers urged to maintain and repair farm equipment due to high costs and material scarcity. Emphasizes cleaning, oiling, storing tools, and keeping machinery ready for use. Includes broad conservation messages and practical tips on hay, chicks, and pig husbandry.
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines breed selection for dairy cattle, stressing local conditions and markets. Jersey cattle, the most common US breed, originate from Jersey and show varied colors and excitable temperaments, with cows around 800 pounds and bulls about 1,500.
Advice urges clean cows and milking in clean surroundings. Emphasizes sterilizing utensils, cooling milk promptly to 50 degrees Fahrenheit or less and maintaining it, to prevent spoilage during food shortages. Calls for trained personnel to ensure safe dairy production.
The article advises sunlit calf quarters and a milk-based diet for two weeks then skim milk, plus liberal grain and bright hay, with gradual feed changes under careful owner supervision. It notes timothy hay as common but poor roughage for dairy cows.
The article urges broader use of tractors and labor saving implements to raise corn acreage and cut labor on farms. It recommends two row planters, larger plows, harvest machinery, corn binders with elevating wagons, and field enclosures to improve efficiency. It also notes methods for planting, thinning, and handling corn for ensilage and advises upgrading cribs and perches and cleaning incubators for the season.
Treating milk fever, common in heavy milking cows, with air injection into each teat using carbolic acid disinfectants. Distend quarters with filtered air, tie teat with tape, repeat after five hours if no improvement, and milk out gradually after recovery begins. A veterinarian is advised but not required with proper equipment and precautions.
The Guernsey breed, developed on the Channel Islands, shows steady growth with most cows in Eastern and midwestern states. Milk average per cow reaches about 8,984 pounds with 4.99 percent butterfat, while top producers yield around 19,388 pounds of milk and 876.75 pounds of butterfat. Beware of drafts in stables. a thermometer is advised.
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