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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
4
United States Department of Agriculture outlines how better horse power utilization can save labor on average farms. Emphasizes fall plowing, two horse and four horse implements, manure spreaders, and cooperative harvesting to increase work per labor unit. Also notes widespread use of one horse plows in the cotton belt.
The USDA advises selecting vigorous breeding stock to ensure healthy chicks. Yearling hens are preferred, older cocks or vigorous young cockerels suit breeding, and hens should have large runs with care to avoid heavy early winter egg production.
An old guide recommends free use of an effective lice powder and a dust bath of road dust and wood ashes to remove lice from fowls. Sodium fluoride powder from druggists is also cited as effective and should be applied at multiple feather bases including head neck back breast vent tail thighs and under each wing.
The article urges disposing of worn hens and roosters by stewing or selling while replacing them with fresh young fowls of good stock in pens and nests.
Limberneck is a symptom rather than a disease caused by poisons absorbing from the intestines and affecting the nervous system. It accompanies indigestion moldy grain or putrid meat and parasitic worms. treatment is a full purge with epsom salt or castor oil, with recovery possible in 24 hours. If no improvement in three to four days, culling is advised.
The largest wheat crop on record nears harvest and thrashers may be unable to cover rounds on time. Much of the grain will wait beyond the usual thrashing window and risk rain and dew damage if left in shocks. The agriculture department advises considering stacking for farmers unsure of prompt thrashing.
A system of sheep farming must consistently balance wool and mutton. Depending on conditions, management, and marketing, either product may take precedence while both remain worthy of equal consideration.
Administrator E T Laughlin files final account in Daviess Court. Hearing set for November 17, 1919 to approve or deny the account and for heirs and claimants to appear and present proof of heirship or claims. E T Laughlin attorney is notified and involved.
EPSOM Attorney Jerome Reese purchased the A E Hindman property. Osmon property Death was noted. JT Pruett attended Washington on Saturday. James Vanostran and family from Plainville were here Saturday. Jane Boardman of the river bottom visited Saturday. Theodore McCall drove to Plainville Saturday. Jess Ketchem and family of El Nora were guests of J T Pruett and family Sunday. Mrs Thomas Donivan visited Mrs James Smith Sunday. George Scott and family visited Aigie McCall's Sunday. Farmers meeting well attended here Saturday. Joseph and Austin Myers visited Don Meiler Sunday. W V Hagar moved to near Hyatt Station Monday.
We can furnish five percent money on a good farm loan for five years with prepay privilege.
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