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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
6
Poultryman O N Johnson of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture urges farmers to give pullets careful fall care to ensure a strong winter egg supply. Inspect for lice and mites, treat habitats, and maintain body weight with good feeding for higher farm income.
Weather like hail drought or frost can stop corn maturing. Silo such corn with mature corn if possible. Silage from immature corn is sourer and laxer but safe with careful feeding. Frosted corn may pack with its water. very dry fodder needs watering. Silage water needs and packing impact affect palatability and value. Only water-rich farms should silo fodder.
Practical advice for poultry farmers outlines feeding priority as days shorten. Emphasizes selecting productive hens and pullets, selling nonbreeders, preventing lice and mites, avoiding overcrowding, planning breeding for next year, ensuring value when buying stock, and rebuilding damp, wasteful hen houses in fall.
During heavy production hens require more water than at any other time. Maintain fresh water in drinking buckets through winter, prevent ice at morning drink, and consider noonfreezing and heated watering options or renew supplies several times daily with cool water.
The article stresses that cows require abundant pure water, composing over three quarters of milk production. Impure water lowers intake and harms health, so dairymen should water cows two to three times daily in winter and keep water available at 15 to 20 degrees above freezing, with warming options like heaters or steam.
Agricultural guidance warns summer losses stem from spoiled grain and decomposed carcasses left on farms. Overcrowded hens risk soup, cholera, and tuberculosis while coccidiosis may be linked to pinworms in the blind intestines. Thanksgiving turkey demand favors older birds. egg production relies on maintenance nutrition and tissue repair.
Barley is a good dairy cow feed and nearly as effective as corn. Some argue barley is equal to corn if not more than sixty percent of the ration. Corn is strong feed but low in lime and heavy. it should be lightened with bran and legume hay to add minerals. Bran complements barley or corn, adding bulk and a mild laxative effect though it lacks lime but is rich in phosphorus.
Dairy tips emphasize rapid cooling of milk in water compared to air, use of charcoal to absorb odors, grain on pasture for heavy production, hooded milk pall to keep milk clean, avoid infected cows, alfalfa hay high protein and palatable, daily grooming with curry comb and brush to reduce loose hair and dirt.
Landowners issue a strict warning against hunting or trespassing on their property and land under their control, with enforcement actions for violations. The notice lists names including C N Cruse, Mrs Harry Ford, D Leo Freyer, Harmon Hamry, and others among local residents and landowners.
See A. L. Murfin for radios we guarantee them. C. N. Cruse features Xmas candies and manicure sets. Martins promotes duck coats at 2.85 and wholesale china ware from 9c. Altoms markets cigars, meat curing salt, hay, and banked prices. Farmers Elevator Co. touts 2000 pieces of china and glassware and ice cream at Cruses.
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