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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1952
Page
16
New equipment aids hay curing with wagon box dryer featuring a slatted floor and air chamber. Fans deliver at least 18 CFM per square foot of mow area, controlling load to 18 feet total curing. County agents may feature field demonstrations on utilization and production effects.
A swine expert from Town State College outlines how sow nutrition, especially protein and alfalfa content, affects pig weight and litter quality. He notes 14 percent protein for pregnant sows, offers self feeding rations using oats, alfalfa, corn, and supplements, and explains how to adjust for oat and alfalfa shortages while stressing alfalfa abundance this year.
A report details revised ration formulations with reduced total weight and increased oats. It specifies adding 1 pound irradiated yeast per ton of total ration or per ton of protein supplement. The meat and bone scraps based protein mix totals 700 pounds plus 1000 pounds soybean meal and 100 pounds minerals, with an optional 85 to 40 percent commercial supplement. A mineral blend is outlined as 40 pounds finely ground limestone, 36 pounds steamed bone meal, 20 pounds iodized salt and 4 pounds trace minerals premix.
Marion County farmers expect feeder cattle prices to hold near current levels as corn picking finishes and feed supplies improve. Economist Gordon F Bivens notes near‑term signals point to a low already reached, with Cornbelt operators expected to compete strongly for feeders.
Purple cornstalks with poorly developed nubbins or no ears appear this fall in Iowa. Iowa State College plant pathologists and agronomists have no control yet, but research is in progress.
More than 3 000 Iowa dairy herds completed ring testing this fall as part of the brucellosis educational program led by Dr. John B. Herrick. The test uses composite milk samples to locate infected herds, not individual animals, with follow up blood tests and removal of infected stock.
The Bureau of Animal Industry provides free ring testing gear and veterinarians, with the Iowa Agricultural Extension Service organizing areas. Additional testing is offered in counties showing interest, contingent on positive herds being blood tested and adoption of a brucellosis-control program. Dr Herrick notes 25 to 40 percent of herds infected in five counties. Two motorists argue on a narrow bridge as one refuses to back up.
Iowa farm commodity prices slid for a third straight month ending November 15. The price index dropped 16 points to 279, the lowest since May 1950, with meat animal prices leading the fall due to lower hog prices and declines in beef cattle veal calves sheep and lambs. Butterfat also fell by one cent per pound.
The dairy product index fell by 8 points while the poultry and egg index stayed steady. Major crops rose in oats soybeans and hay but gains were wiped out by a sharp drop in corn prices, dragging the prices received for crops down by 8 points.
Rats and mice pose a triple threat to dairymen. They contaminate and destroy feed and may carry disease to the herd and contaminate milk, say extension specialists at Iowa State College.
To control poultry lice, you can either put DDT in each nest at the rate of a tablespoon of per cent DDT, or else you can put the powder directly on the birds.
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