Know Your Breed Chester White by W J Dryden
Chester White pigs originate in Chester county Pennsylvania and descend from English hogs York shire Lincolnshire and Cheshire crosses. The breed is prolific good tempered early maturing and good feeders. Color is white with strong bone and masculine traits in boars while sows show refined features and ample udder development. Six months boars weigh 225 pounds gilts 200 pounds yearling boars 500 pounds gilts 400 pounds mature boars about 900 pounds and sows 700 pounds.
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Home Pasteurization Proves Practical for Dairymen
The article explains pasteurization as heating milk to 143 degrees for about 30 minutes to kill germs. It notes that many states lack laws but major cities require this safeguard and that Lafgard portable home units let small dairies pasteurize milk for safety and potential profit.
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U. S
Milk Cooling Tank For Dairies Described
A concrete milk cooler is outlined to help dairymen promptly chill and keep milk clean and sweet until sale. The tank measures 27 inches deep inside and 36 inches wide inside with a length of two cans 24 inches long.
Gassing Proves Safe In Eliminating Rats
Rural districts cities and farms use gassing as a safe supplement to trapping and rat proofing says Harold Henderson of Iowa State College. Gas with calcium cyanide in a gas gun is a quick method to kill rats under floors and in burrows.
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Harold Henderson
Iowa State College
Isolation urged for control of Newcastle outbreak
Newcastle disease remains a serious problem in poultry as officials urge strict isolation of infected birds and rigorous sanitary measures. Contact between birds is identified as the main spread route, and poultrymen are advised to separate affected flocks to curb transmission.
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