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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
7
The Leghorn is praised as a highly capable foraging breed but warns it must be suited to its environment. Ambitious and tireless, Leghorns excel where there is scratching in garbage heaps, truck gardens, cold frames, manure piles, or rose beds, yet can bring trouble if kept where conditions are unsuitable.
The author urges garden keepers to secure hen yards with wire netting to raise Leg horns. Large runs can be protected by a seven foot fence, but birds that develop yard breaking habits will clear such a barrier by half flying and half climbing up the netting.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes goats are valued as low-cost milk sources, especially for small towns and suburban families. Goats require little space, produce 2–3 quarts daily, with milk high in purity and slow cream rise, suitable for cheese and infant use. Proper housing, ventilation, clean feed, and water are essential for productive dairy goats.
Prepared for the United States Department. The article outlines two swine disease groups. It stresses prevention, housing, feeding, sanitary conditions, clean water, and avoiding mudholes. It notes mild ailments are treatable by farmers, while infectious diseases require federal and state cooperation.
The guidance stresses five essentials for economical livestock farming. Maintain strict hog and sheep protection, ensure thoroughly good permanent pastures, grow leguminous crops, build a suitable site, and keep only purebred males. Labor and expense are required, but long term prosperity is said to follow from these practices.
A general plan outlines tillage and fertilization to boost corn yields. Deep plowing, subsoiling, and clover rotations improve water absorption and root depth. Proper seed-bed prep, shallow early cultivations, and keeping a loose mulch moisture balance enhance yields. careless plowing harms production.
The article stresses that oversowed sod, hard spots, and air pockets hinder corn. It urges thorough early cultivations to prevent weed or crust crusted soil setbacks and to allow steady vigorous growth from germination to maturity. It notes use of weeders and harrows, horse weeders and harrows.
Animal fats are required as hog weights rise and feed efficiency improves. The article notes heavier hogs gain more with less feed and stresses expanding swine numbers to boost fat supply nationwide. It highlights the dual national and individual benefits of feeding hogs to heavier weights.
Market reports show wider price spreads for receipts as fat hogs top the market. Hog weights at packing centers are heavier, signaling profitable fattening in response to requests for increased pork production. Farmers should feed hogs to 250 to 800 pounds, with heavy hogs costing more to flesh. Those buying feed may favor marketing hogs lighter to avoid slow, costly weight gain. Short 200 pound pigs reach weight in ten to eleven months.
Results from the Towa experiment station show feeding gilts a ration of exr orm plus one-tenth tankage by weight yields 98 percent of the pigs in a lot achieving strong litter outcomes.
The report details pig strength under different rations. Strong pigs fed corn alone reached 48 percent, while ear corn with clover or alfalfa in rack yielded 94 percent strength. Cost estimates for newborn pigs using ear corn with clover, alfalfa, tankage, or corn only ranged from 19 to 81 cents, based on 50 cent corn per bushel, adjusted upward 24 percent for current conditions.
The article argues consumers prefer well finished beef from a well-bred yearling under two years old. It notes fattening, market timing, and meat thickness in cuts drive choice and economics, asserting yearlings yield higher quality and thickness more efficiently than other beef animals.
Feeding alfalfa hay to horses in limited quantities is a desirable practice and should be treated as a concentrate rather than roughage. One pound of alfalfa hay provides 35 percent more available protein than a pound of shelled corn.
An Andrew Weinant article notes turkey numbers have fallen while demand grows, suggesting grain and stock farms as ideal for turkey raising. Turkeys thrive on grasshoppers, weeds seeds and other forage with low costs and high potential profits. confinement methods have largely failed to date.
Despite high feed prices, a flock of good fowls remains profitable due to rising egg and poultry prices. No cheap ration exists as grains have advanced. corn should not be omitted. Use cracked corn and oats as the hard grain base, equal by weight. add 20 to 25 percent barley for variety, wheat is unsuitable.低
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the bulletin advises patience with hens after partial hatching. Do not disturb a resting hen unless restless or stepping on chicks. move hatchlings to a warm basket or place eggs with another calm hen. remove unhatched shells. feed the mother to keep her calm. dust birds for lice before moving to a brooding coop, and apply small amounts of grease for head lice if needed while avoiding overdoing it.
The article argues early hatched chicks are stronger and more vigorous than later hatchings. Hens in peak breeding condition produce offspring with heightened vitality, while extended laying reduces vigor. Early hatchlings grow faster and cheaper due to thrift and better feed efficiency. When coop-raising poults is needed, extra care in feeding is essential during poor weather or range conditions.
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