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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1930
Page
3
Extension poultryman O C Ufford of Colorado Agricultural College urges shed type deep houses as safest and most economical for Colorado. The bulletin says cost under 2 dollars per hen with good materials, emphasizes sunshine and moisture control with concrete floors and muslin fronts.
L. E. Card of the University of Illinois reports feeding excess mineral mixtures to chicks is harmful. In tests, a diet with higher steamed bonemeal or extra ground limestone reduced six week weights from 253 grams to 212 and 187 grams respectively.
Across the nation farm prices fell, but in the Middle West poultry and egg prices stayed firm. Farmers see a standard bred, high producing flock as a dependable income source and a strong farm activity compared with others.
Last year US egg production ran at 46 500 per minute. Clean practices raise live chicks and profits. Sanitation saves chicks. cold drafts increase soup among flocks. Do not wash eyes. keep nests, hen houses clean, gather eyes. Lice thrive in heat. nicotine sulphate on perches helps control. A Kentucky study found 2511 internal parasites in one chicken. Coccidiosis resists drugs. start birds on heavy milk diet at first symptoms. Late maturing turkeys may be fed heavily on corn for Thanksgiving size.
Oswald Schreiner of the USDA says applying small amounts of phosphatic fertilizers to western sugar beet fields boosts yields by about three tons per acre, raising per acre income and total crop value by millions. The practice, tested in Colorado and Nebraska, has expanded to 200 000–300 000 acres with fertilizer costs around 700 000.
A simple, balanced approach keeps young chicks healthy with essentials in feed. Natural feeds like yellow corn and wheat work well when minerals and animal protein are added. Access to green feed and outdoors in sun helps prevent nutritional troubles. white corn on bare ground risks illness.
Cornell experts estimate a farm pond acre yields about 200 pounds of fish annually with proper stocking and no artificial feeding. Besides fish, ponds provide water for livestock, ice, irrigation, skating and recreation. Information available from the Department of Agriculture and local agricultural college.
The notes discuss how clean ground supports fastest gains for pigs and chicks with minimal feed, and that profit margins may narrow with volume but total income stays positive. Sudan grass compares to timothy hay, smothering weeds with moist straw and manure, summer fallowing as a low-outlay weed control, and thorough sprinkling to reach root zones with two to three gallons per square foot to moisten moderately dry soil.
Trials at the University of Minnesota Crookston Northwest Experiment Station find corn silage yields too low in northern Minnesota to be profitable for fattening baby beef calves. Ground barley and linseed meal with alfalfa outperform silage, with a per head margin of 22.37 dollars versus 27.71 dollars without silage. Adding oats to barley feed proved unprofitable at 38 cents for oats and 52 cents for barley.
Vaccination tests at Ames and other experiment stations show pigs as young as seven to nine weeks can become immune to cholera, with immunity as reliable as in older hogs. Experts note leakage from vaccination sites in very young pigs may cause uncertainty, advising vaccination at two months or older with careful, swift technique.
Clover in wheat and oat stubble is cited as the cleanest hog pasture on the farm. The sanitation plan warns against placing spring shores fattening hogs or old sows in the stubble after threshing as warmth accelerates eye infections. Fall sanitation pigs can help if the plan is strictly followed to protect next season's pigs.
Packer voices concern over feeding soy beans to hogs noting the flesh may remain soft. He argues soy protein prevents proper curing and hardening of the pork carcass compared with hogs not fed soy.
The article advises giving grain to lambs not yet marketed after weaning to prepare them for sale. A creep-feeding plan before weaning helps lambs acclimate to grain, boosts gains on pasture, reduces weaning setbacks, and may allow earlier marketing.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics expands federal beef grading and stamping to Buffalo Erie Cleveland Detroit and St. Louis with experienced graders to grade and stamp carcasses and wholesale cuts at a nominal charge. The service, first inaugurated in 1927, uses roll stamping devices to display U S grade labels and has seen a 62 percent rise in beef graded and stamped over the past five months.
Michigan State College animal husbandry specialists advise feeding breeding ewes one or two grains daily of pot or sodium iodide to prevent goiter in lambs. Mix with grain or dissolve in salt fed to sheep. alternative is one ounce iodide with 25 pounds salt and 25 pounds steamed bone meal. Ensure even distribution and avoid large prep quantities.
The article outlines a laying mash recipe using 100 lb each of wheat bran wheat middlings ground oats corn meal and meat scrap. It suggests supplementing with a crumbly mash mixed with skim milk at noon and feeding scratch grain of 100 lb wheat cracked corn and heavy oats. For 100 hens, about four pounds of grain are fed in the morning and eight pounds at night.
The article notes the risk of tuberculosis transmission between cattle and hogs, stressing cattle may contract TB from hogs less than hogs from cattle, with disease spread likelier when both share pasture and hog manure is eaten by hogs. It highlights dung handling as a transmission factor and urges caution in mixed herds.
J. C. Wooley of Missouri College of Agriculture notes that depreciation is only one form of loss from weathered farm machinery. Poor work quality, wasted time, crop losses, and energy drained by rusting equipment can exceed monetary depreciation as major costs.
A mother debates forcing seven year old Molly to wear a new dress she dislikes while contrasting with Frederick who resists going to school. The piece argues honoring a child’s tastes, postponing the dress, and testing discomfort as a path to self respect and independence.
A remark ponders shared pride of early settlers with Penn and Mayflower travelers. It questions whether an imitation coonskin coat could symbolize such heritage.
A weight loss advertisement promotes Kruschen Salts as the easy fat burner. It claims fat loss of twenty pounds in weeks with one half teaspoon daily in hot water and promises energy, clearer skin, and a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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