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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
5
USDA guide argues killing sick birds is most practical to protect flocks. Prevention emphasized. culling weakest birds reduces contagion. Clean housing, clean incubators, and fresh ground aid disease control. selective brooding and disinfectants advised.
Advice notes hens should have a sunny dry dust bath to stay warm and free of lice. Use a high sided box to keep dirt in. Change loam periodically to avoid contamination and maintain flock health.
Farmers balance barnyard manure with rock or acid phosphate to improve crop nutrition. Applying about forty to fifty pounds of acid phosphate per ton of manure or 400 to 500 pounds per acre tests benefits on a small plot before treating the whole field. Spread phosphate evenly on top of the manure as it is loaded to ensure each ton carries the tested amount.
A Illinois dairy farm experiment shows successful summer seeding of alfalfa with corn for silage and hay for forage. The rotation uses fall wheat after silage, with wheat stubble plowed early and alfalfa seeded after rain, followed by wheat drilling around September 28. The system yields two alfalfa cuttings and a wheat crop the next year. No mention of cashing checks when selling cream to Roy Myers.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Farr and their son Lynn Boyd spent Sunday with Lynn’s grandparents Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Creviston.
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