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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1930
Page
6
The craze for color extends to auto tires to harmonize with car bodies. Manufacturers show models where tires use a special material for longer life, but the main appeal is aesthetic harmony. A Munich publication jokes on a rich man’s strained fortunes and family relations.
The USDA reports pullorum disease can transfer from infected to healthy chicks in the same incubator without contact. Experiments at the Bethseda Animal Industry Station show 45 to 81 percent infection across incubator types, with rapid spread within 18 to 24 hours and high mortality in exposed chicks.
The piece notes that many duck strains, especially Pekin, prefer artificial incubation. Eggs should be gathered daily, cooled, turned daily, and set soon after laying. Maintain 102 degree temperature for three weeks and increase moisture in the machine. fertility can be tested on day four or five.
The note urges using pure raw sunshine to heat chicks even with cod liver oil in use and substitutes for glass. Open windows on sunny days and monitor the weather to shut them when clouds or cold winds arrive. Extra care of ventilation yields stronger, more vigorous chicks.
The article describes using sodium fluoride to eradicate poultry lice including body head and feather lice. It explains dusting or dipping as methods, notes both chemically pure and commercial grades. commercial is cheaper. It estimates one pound of powder about 50 cents for 100 chickens and dipping as an easier cheaper option.
The Iowa Experimental Station chief warns that young chicks must be kept from any ground previously used by old stock. Infection can spread via shoes and other means. clean ground is essential for prevention.
The guide recommends culling droopy hens and those underweight as tuberculosis signs. It notes lesions in liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs and intestines, and says only tuberculin tests by veterinarians can detect early infection. It outlines two eradication methods and emphasizes strict sanitation and relocating chicks to clean ground.
Agricultural notes discuss moldy or poorly cooled cream yielding smothered flavors and proper air circulation in cooling tanks. It highlights home grown fruit taste, harness care longevity, and recommends soy bean hay as a profitable winter feed for cattle sheep horses mules hogs and poultry. It also notes millet as a feed with barley like value and advises grinding for cows mixed feeding with other grains.
Shade trees sustain permanent injury from pruning wounds when neglected. Experts urge painting wounds with shellac dissolved in alcohol to seal the cambium, using additional permanent dressings such as asphalt or tar for larger scars, and to clean brushes with borax solution.
University of Illinois trials show self fed lambs on ground corn and chopped alfalfa hay gain faster and use less feed per 100 pounds of gain than hand fed lambs. Illinois notes low risk of overfeeding with a corn to hay mix starting near one to four and ending near one to one after seven weeks. Nebraska tests using cracked corn chopped alfalfa and linseed meal also fatten lambs well, with corn cracked to prevent kernel selection.
New York state college of agriculture advises placing at least one bee colony per acre across orchards to aid cross pollination. Apple varieties are largely self sterile and cross pollination increases fruit set. Diversify varieties with similar bloom times and rent skilled beekeepers. place pollinator bouquets 15 feet from hives.
Importation of plant material spread diseases and is the main risk of introducing new plant diseases. Long distance spread comes from host plant parts like fruit seeds bulbs and tubers. Every vessel arriving at a US port is inspected to prevent importing diseased plants or fruits.
Asparagus roots should be planted about six inches deep in rows four to five feet apart with two feet between plants in the row. In year one cover about three inches of soil and, as cultivation continues, fill the trench. The crop needs ample fertilizer and moisture during the growing season.
Purdue university market department official BE. R. Menefee emphasizes nest cleanliness to prevent soiled eggs. Dirty eggs reduce value by one to three cents per dozen due to lowered grade, especially as birds are turned out on wet ground in spring.
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