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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1918
Page
12
A practical, inexpensive poultry house guide from the USDA explains options for 20 to 25 hens. It covers space needs, ventilation, sun-facing fronts, and DIY methods using piano boxes, packing crates, or fencing. Construction details include 8 by 8 feet rooms, roofing paper, and simple framing with 2 by 4 lumber.
A heated discussion outlines advantages of early hatch for chickens and eggs, noting early spring hatchings mature by fall and lay in winter. It promotes warm stabling with straw bedding to improve all stock kinds and suggests alfalfa can balance hog rations when used correctly.
Local column outlines practical tips for farmers on livestock pricing, feed costs, and seasonal planting. Includes notices on market trends, cooperative requirements, and extension service guidance to aid farm planning.
The bulletin from the U S Department of Agriculture reviews mutton and wool needs in farm flocks. It details medium, long, and fine wool breeds, notes on community breeding, and which breeds suit pasture, feed, and market conditions for maximizing returns.
Instructions from the United States Department advise on poultry care to improve sitting success. Focus on mite control, nest cleaning, and safe treatments. Avoid petroleum sprays near eggs and use lime and sulfur, pyrethum dusting, and prompt removal of broken eggs to prevent mites. Clover seed guidance follows, noting spring sowing and seed quality.
Advice on maintaining farm tools with cleaning, painting, greasing and proper storage. Guidance to dig into subsoil about three feet before planting large acreages to learn soil conditions and improve yields.
Breeding ewes thrive on roughage like oat and corn stover with limited grain. Supplement with protein rich feeds such as cottonseed meal, linseed, soy beans, or velvet beans to balance the diet. Include leguminous hay and succulent feeds like silage or roots for best results and monitor cottonseed meal quality.
Coffey of the Illinois experiment station reports on yearling wethers fed with corn and corn silage, comparing rations with corn stover and oat straw. Legume hay supported similar gains. alfalfa gave a slight edge. Sole roughage fattening with corn stover or oat straw was unsatisfactory, while adding leguminous hay or silage improved efficiency and reduced cost.
Sheep, in proportion to the value of their products, are produced more economically on the farm than any other livestock. They fit in with practically every kind of farming, subsist on forage and grazing weeds, eat almost no human food and need less grain. They add materially to farm revenue but little to expenses.
Farmers believed pure bred animals excelled only in show qualities but not utility. The case rests that every show point ties to practical traits, making the pure bred the sensible choice for the business farmer.
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