Electric Pig Brooder Saves Many Lives
Farmers turn to electric pig brooders to cut piglet mortality. The device uses a triangular wooden frame with a lamp heater and reflector to warm a littered pen, reducing early spring pig losses by 17.4 percent.
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1947
Page
6
Farmers turn to electric pig brooders to cut piglet mortality. The device uses a triangular wooden frame with a lamp heater and reflector to warm a littered pen, reducing early spring pig losses by 17.4 percent.
Proper growth cannot be secured, nor health maintained among hogs without minerals. Bone meal, iodized salt stabilized and ground limestone should be kept before them at all times. Hogs regulate intake and will not overconsume salt if given free access.
A homeowner guide lists ten fire safety checks for farm homes. It covers chimney integrity and height, regular cleaning, secure stove pipe connections, spark arrestors, proper disposal of oily rags, metal containers for matches, keeping matches out of children reach, extinguishing every match, and using a flashlight to inspect dark areas.
Farmers nationwide report steady gains from soil conservation, noting that careful practices boost yields and profits. The piece credits long years of soil-saving work for wartime production and current farm profitability margins.
The cecal worm spreads blackhead and is not a major parasite by itself. Washington State College recommends placing young poults on a one half percent phenothiazine mash for five days when first turned out on open range to control the cecal worm and thus reduce blackhead.
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