Alfalfa Clover Soy Hay Prove Useful Green Feed For Laying Flock
Ohio Experiment Station reports alfalfa red clover and soybeans as profitable green-feed substitutes for laying hens. One pound of leafy hay per month supports production when hay is finely cut and not high in crude fiber. Feeding in hoops of poultry netting and cutting hay to half inch lengths improves intake and ease of feeding. Alfalfa meal from green hay also works in mash or as a separate ration.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Ohio
Litter Not Desirable for Grain Feeding in Poultry
Experimental work and practical poultry keeping show hens do not need litter to lay well. Feeding whole or cracked grain in troughs keeps litter cleaner, while litter serves mainly to keep feet cleaner and floor drier. Some grain will be dropped regardless, and scattering grain in litter serves no useful purpose.
Poultry Tips for Early Hatch and Healthy Flocks
Advice on hatch timing, egg handling, cash sales, and incubator care. Guidance includes disinfecting incubators with formalin, temperature control, and feeding alternatives like sudan grass. It warns about mites versus lice, puddling around drinking fountains, and pullet rearing for a strong year.
Castration and Docking Lambs For Better Market Returns
Lambs that are not castrated and docked sell for less, while well treated stock fetches higher prices. Optimal age is about two weeks. castration carries infection and tetanus risks, requiring clean pens, mothers kept away, and careful antisepsis. Use warmed compound cresol pine tar solution on the tail stump after procedures to prevent infection.
Cost of Keeping a Work Horse Per Hour and Day
Report notes wide variation in yearly costs for maintaining a work horse and in hourly work costs across farms. Agricultural colleges show corn belt averages around 13.5 to 16.5 cents per hour, with a common daily figure near $1.50.
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Corn Belt
Flushing Ewes Before Breeding
Flushing ewes before breeding improves outcomes. Feed a grain mix of oats three parts to bran one part, one-half to one pound daily if not fat. Low condition leads to single weak lambs and poor milk, while overfat ewes complicate mating and lambing.
Steady Growth Path for First-Class Beef
The article outlines a two-step beef production plan. First, build a large frame with muscle using a bone and muscle rich ration including whole milk, skim milk, roots, ensilages, legume hays, bran, oats and oil cake. Then shift to fat production with more carbonaceous foods like corn, barley or peas.
Feeding Baby Beef Advocate Urges Silage Ration Changes
Prof D B Rusk of the University of New Hampshire advocates using silage and legume hay to replace grain in baby beef feeding. He notes a daily gain allowance of 80 to 40 pounds per day and claims winter gains of about 200 pounds per cow with a good silage and legume hay ration.
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D. B. Rusk
University of New Hampshire
Obeying Jesus as the true path in Matthew study
A compact lesson outline examines censorious judgment false prophets and the dangers of empty profession. It emphasizes prayer discrimination in holy things entrance to the kingdom warnings against false teachers unfailing fruit test and the safe way of hearing and obeying Christ.
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Properly Protected If a man has Christ in his heart
A devotional reflection quoting William Burns on sacred protection. The passage suggests heaven in view and limited temporal blessings suffice to endure life, making pain and sorrow less threatening. It emphasizes spiritual focus over material abundance.
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Christ
William Burns
Faith and the world formed by the word of God
A religious reflection cites Hebrews about creation by the word of God, explaining that visible things were not made from visible materials. The phrase emphasizes belief in a divine act of formation beyond human perception.
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