POULTRY
OUR COMIC SECTION
MILK PRODUCTION
MEAT SCRAPS OR
SHOWS INCREASE
MILK IN RATION
FINNEY OF THE FORCE
Snoop’s Proud of That Voice
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During the past seven years the
production of milk In the United
States has shown a steady and fairly
uniform Increase, but the production
of milk products, although showing
[ Increases In most Instances, has not
been uniform, according to Prof. IL A.
Ross, milk marketing specialist nt the
New York State College of Agricul
ture nr Ithaca.
Since 1920, the manufacture of con
densed and evaporated milk has
shown the least Increase of all Impor
tant milk products. The combined
production of these commodities has
Increased at the rate of only 2 per
cent each year. The production of
canned sweetened condensed milk has
actually decreased at the rate of 10.5
per cent a year, but this decrease has
been more than offset by an increase
In canned evnporated milk. Cheese,
also, has shown only a relatively smnll
increase during this period.
Creamery butter and Ice cream, on
the other hand, have Increased fairly
rapidly. Roth of these products are
probably more sensitive to Industrial
conditions than are canned milk and
cheese, and the demand for them has
been high because of the general
prosperity of the urban population
during the last few years, Professor
Ross says.
Approximately two-thlrds of all the
milk hnndled In New York state plants
Is now marketed ns fluid milk or
cream, largely In the metropolitan
area including New York city. The
demand for the semiluxury, cream,
has increased more rapidly than has
the demand for milk, but both are
Increasing at a sufficiently high rate,
however, to Insure a good market
Pure Bred Doctrine Has
Been Given Big Setback
Perhaps the purebred doctrine hns
•teen handicapped somewhat nt times
hy making It too general. A man un
fam iliar with good sense In feeding
and dairy herd management has no
business with an extra good hull any
more than a hahy has with a costly
watch or a motor car. Pure tired cut
ie are excellent for those who under
stand how to handle them, tint they
may prove of mi particular value to
the careless manager.
With the right management, the
pure-tired dairy sire Is the greatest
single factor la Increasing production
and profits. The states which are
high In percentage of pure tired dairy
sires are also high In average milk
production tier cow. As the percent
age of purebred sires decreases In
the list of states the prisluctlon for
the group becomes less. This is the
result of a survey made by the fed
eral government
More Intensive Work in
Tuberculosis Control
(P re p a re d by th e U n ite d States D e p artm en t
o f A g ric u ltu re .)
© by W e s te rn N e w s p a p e r U
THE FEATHERHEADS
Little Nature Studies
{Tome-grown feeds should be used
ns much as possible in the,ration of
the farm flock, but grain feeds should
he bulnnced with nitlk or meat scraps
or both, says George Gtiostley, poultry
specialist of the agricultural extension
service of the University of Minne
sota. Ground feed called mash, as
well as grain. Is necessary. The fol
lowing w ill give good results, he says:
G ra in — C ra c k e d y ello w c o rn , tw o
p a r ts ; w h e a t, o n s p u rt, an d h eav y o ato
a h a lf p a rt.
M ash—One h u n d re d p a r ts each of
b ra n , m id d lin g s, g ro u n d y ello w co rn ,
g ro u n d o a ts , a n d m e a t sc ra p , th re e
p a r ts ea c h of s a l t an d c h a rco al.
Milk is an extremely valuable food
for poultry—more valuable even than
for hogs. Wed skim milk or butter
milk tf possible. Reduce the meat
scrap one-half If there Is milk before
the birds all the time. I f they have
milk only to drink the meat scrap can
lie scrapped entirely, particularly If
5 per cent more bonemeal Is added
to the mash.
One pint of cod liver oil to each
hundred pounds of mash, mixed first
with charcoal nnd then with the oilier
Ingredients, makes a valuable addition
to the ration. The riHsh should be
before the hens In hoppers or feeders
all the time. More grain than mash
should be fed during the cold weather
with the reverse the case In summer.
Feed lightly of gruln In the morning.
Warm water, oyster shell, grit nnd
green or succulent feed such as alfalfa
or clover leaves, mangels, carrots,
cabbage, cull potatoes, rutabagas or
sprouted oats should he furnished.
Changes should tie made gradually.
White Hollands From
Original Wild Turkey
Sense of H um or Defined
“ As I understand the phrase." said
Adam, "sense of humor is the ability
not to show that you think a thing is
funny. It Is to the Inner man what
laughter Is to the outside. If, instead
of laughing nt you, I retlect on your
condition and enjoy myself In silence,
then I have a sense of humor."—From
“ Adam and Eve," h.v John Erskine.
W ho K now s
We often speak Impatiently of the
Interruptions that hinder our work,
hut In our shortsightedness we may
be sadly mistaking values. It well
may he that the few minutes we give
to helping or cheering another Is the
most Important work of otir whole
day.
Their T astes D'.ffcred
A curious fact In connection with
Clinng and Eng. the famous Siamese
conjoined twins, was that one was
very fond of wine and drank It freely
while the other was a teetotaler, and
this often gave rise to strife.
O steo p a th y
The principles of osteopathy were
first discovered and formulated In 1874
hy Dr. Andrew T. Still, a physician of
Rnldwln, Kan. The first college of
osteopathy was opened at Kirksville,
Mo., tn 1892.
U ncle Eben
“ A hard-hearted man," said Unela
Khen, "loser friends so fast dat party
soon he can’t find nobody to get Into
conversation 'bout how hard-hearted
he Is.” —Washington Star.
Supervision N eeded
White'Hollands nre thought to have
I f the master takes no account of
originated from sports of the original
wild turkeys, and perpetuated hy se his servants, they w ill make small ac
lection nnd breeding. In fact, some In count of him, amt care not what they
formation lends to the belief that the spend, who nre never brought to an
White Hollands were perfected In Eu audit.—Fuller.
rope, where range was restricted and
nomadic habits most desirable, and
L ake of A s p k a ’.t
then Inter returned to Atntricn by
On the Island of Trinidad Is a fa
some of the early Dutch settlers. This mous lake known ns “ Pitch lake."
may be largely based on the docile, from which asphalt Is exported an
domestic temperament, characteristic nually. The lake Is about 100 acres
of White Hollands, which would Indi In extent.
cate the restricted areas of Europe of
that day, rattier than America. Too,
Progress
White Hollands nre said to have been
The world needs to pause once In a
fairly well-known In England early In
the Nineteenth century, nnd It may he while. Once In a while a pause Is
due to their foreign Invasion so to progress. And occasionally rushing
speak, that they were Inter to become headlong Is not progress.—Atchison
Globe.
well known In the land of their na
tivity, than were some of the other
F orests Cause C old
standard vurletles which were perfect
Belts of trees make a country
ed In America.
warmer, but forests, because they de
tain and condense passing clouds,
Keep Poults Hungry for
make a locnllty colder.
First 48 Hours Anyhow
Turkov poults should not he fed any
thing the first 48 hours after hatch
ing. I f they have free range, they
w ill pick up some seeds nnd Insects,
which w ill vary the amount nnd kind
of feed that may tie needed after 48
hours. It Is best nlwnys to keep them
Just hungry enough so they w ill be
hunting fet'd nnd getting the exer
cise that Is required for best growth
and
llvnhlllty.
Hard-boiled
eggs
chopped tine nnd mixed with corn
bread crumbs have been found gen
erally satisfactory the first week, a ft
er which whole wheat and hulled oats
nre good. Keep them out of wet grass
until they nre well along. Three lit
ters of eggs per year ure generally
about all that w ill be satisfactory tn
hatch, because late-hatched poults nre
likely to be less th rifty.
A number of stutes enacted legisla
tion during the past year enabling
them to conduct much more Intensive
work in the control and eradication
of tuberculosis of cattle. New states
obtaining helpful legal authority were
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jer
sey and Tennessee. Among the states
obtaining additional legislation, In
dlnnn passed a law requiring that
wherever a county adjoins two coun
ties working or having completed
area work, such county shall provide
operating funds upon ttie request of
the state veterinarian. This is In ef
fect a complete state law, as under
It all counties In the state w ill even
tually be required to make the neces
sary appropriations. At present 59
Kill Harmful Mites
of the 92 counties In Indiana are
Mites do not live on the chickens
either classed as modified areas or hy duy, hut come out nnd ruck tlielr
working to that end.
fill of blood when the birds are roost
ing. First the poultry house must be
claimed thoroughly.
Trash, nesting
material, etc., should he taken out and
burned. Then go over the whole house
thoroughly with crude petroleum or
carholtneum, using either a spray pump
Free access to water or watering or brush to supply the material. Pe
cows at least twice dally w ill Increase troleum Is cheaper hut the cnrholineuni
the profits from winter dairying.
gets Into the cracks better und lusts
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longer.
A loose separator vibrates and
mixes the milk und cream. Iluve the
Geese for Breeding
mnehine level and anchored ta the
It Is Inadvisable tn dispose of an
floor.
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older goose nnd keep young geese for
The amount of milk produced for breeding purposes, provided the older
each cow In the United Stutes tn bird Is In good health. Young geese
191« was 8,700 |siunds; In 1921 It was w ill often lay during their first year
1,000, and In 1920 It was 4,700 pounds. hut the eggs are usually Infertile and
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the number produced Is seldom ns
The average person Is using more high ns would he produced hy an old
milk than he used to, hut the num- er female. Females of the Canadian
l>er of cows In the country Is de breeds do not lay, as n rule, until
creasing each year. The answer Is. they are three years old, but females
each cow is producing more than for of any of the breeds may he kept for
breeding.
merly.
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Dairying Is on Its way to b-come
Eggs for Chicks
a ml 11 Ion-dollar Industry In Fort Mar
Eggs that nre tested out of Incuhn
gan since their cheese factory began
tors up to the 14th day make good
operation last month.
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feed for young chicks If properly pre
Unclean milk utensils, pitted and pared. They should he boiled for at
rusty separator bowls, unclean or lean 30 minutes so as to kill all germs
rusty cream runs frequently cause that may tie in them. Then pulverize
them In a Jar or some container, using
a “metallic” flavor In creum.
. . .
a square stick that w ill thoroughly
While animals of g-sel conformation mix the content# nnd pulverize the
usually have a large capacity for the shell as well as the Interior portletia.
consumption of fond, as a class they The only danger In feeding egga lies In
ore more e fflilm t In changing what not rooking them long enough or over
feeding.
they eat ’nto animal product*.
Dairy Hints
Hulls U sed in the A rena
Bulls used In hull fights In Spain
nre of well known lineage and reared
In special establishments. The best
bulls are worth from $2tX> to $300.
About 1,800 nre killed annually. In
many of the hull fights os many ns a
dozen at a time may be employed. It
Is also estimated that 0.000 horses are
nsed annually In Spain for this amuse
m ent
A n d Then W h ere A re You?
A word to the wise may lie suffi
cient, hut the wisp frequently ask for
further
enlightenment.—St.
Louis
Globe-Democrat.
R eal F riendship
"A friend In need," said Uncle Ehen,
“ Is de one dat lends assistance Instld
o’ glvln' big advice.” —Washington
Star.
A ncien t Legislation
The nets of the English parliament
go hnck to A. D. 1285, of the Scottish
parliament to 1480, and of Ihe Irish to
1310.
D iam ond to Cut Diam ond
Diamonds can lie rut only with
other diamonds. Therefore the, are
cut with dlntnotid drills.
H ighest E xplosive
T h e b u r e a u o f m in es s a y s t h a t
th e m o st p o w e rfu l e x p lo s iv e k n o w n Is
b en z o y l p e ro x id e .
Think It O ver
It Is hy the benefit of letters that
absent friends nre In a manner
brought together.
S cra p p le’s O ther N am e
“ Ponhnus" In Pennsylvania Dutch
dlulect Is synonymous with scrapple.
C otton Picking
An expert cotton picker can gather
500 to 000 pounds [>er day.
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