| OF INTEREST TO FARMERS |
PRODUCE “QUALITY" EGGS
Eggs of good quality can be pro
duced in summer’ if only a few
points are followed on the farm.
These points may be briefly listed
as follow's: Remove males from the
flock, so onlv eggs are produced
that are infertile. There can be no
chick development in infertile eggs.
Plenty of nests—one nest to every
five hens will help to prevent eggs
from being laid on the floor and
becoming dirty, and clean nesting
material wdll also help to prevent
dirty eggs. Frequent collections—3
or 4 times a day—in hot weather
will also maintain quality. There
is bound to be some deterioration
when eggs are left for the greater
part of a day in a hot poultry
house. Continuous feeding of a good
laying ration it a big factor in the
production of good quality eggs. If
layers are not fed as well in the
summer as in the winter, they can
not be expected to produce eggs
that are as full and of the same
quality as in the late winter and
early suring when they are usually
fed well. Holding eggs in as cool a
room as the farm will provide. A
temperature of from 50 to 55 de
grees is a good temperature at
which to hold eggs prior to market
ing Eggs should also be kept away
from materials that have a strong
odor, as the flavor is apt to be im
paired if they come in contact with
such substances. Candling eggs be
fore marketing will aid tremend
dously in detecting blood spots,
slightly checked or cracked eggs
watery eggs, etc. Sell the eggs ai
soon as possible. Twice or three
times per week is none too often
to sell them in the summer. The
longer they are held, the more they
deteriorate in quality and there
fore in value. Pack them in clean
cartons or cases when sending
them to market.
WHEAT AS STOCK FEED
While it isn’t often that wheat
sells at a price that makes it avail
able lor feeding purposes, there are
times when the crop may be of
such a quality as not to bring a
satisfactory price on the market.
Under such conditions it is worth
while to know what its feeding
value is as compared with corn. Re
cently, an experiment station con
cluded a feeding test in which
wheat and a protein concentrate
was fed to hogs weighing 100
pounds at the start Another lot of
the same weight and quality was
fed corn and the same protein con
centrate. The corn lot made slightly
more rapid gains, but it required a
little more corn and protein sup- ;
plement ped 100 pounds of gain 1
than it did of wheat and protein
supplement. In fact, it took only 400
pounds of wreat and 40 pounds of
Drotein supplement per 100 pounds i
of gain to bring the hogs from 100
to 225 pounds in weight. Wheat
should not be ground fine for hogs,
because in that condition it makes a j
pasty mass which is rather unpalat
able. It should, however, be coarsely
ground. Or if not ground in that
manner it should be soaked. Whole
wheat does not give as good returns
as a hog feed as whole corn. At
other experiment stations wheat
has also been used as a cattle feed
in combinations of 50 per cent corn i
and 50 per cent coarsely ground
wheat together with a protein sup
plement. This combination has
given as good returns, pound for
pound as corn alone with a supple
ment. SheeD can also handle wheat
to good advantage when fed with
corn on a 50-50 basis.
HOME MADE “SHOWER”
There is nothing that tones a
fellow upor makes him feel so good,
as a good shower bath. And just
because your home happens to be
in the country is no reason at all
why you should be denied this Jux
ury. A home I visited recently, says
an uptodate farmer . had the nicest
homemade shower in the basement
ft was simply a 12 quart galvanized
bucket, which had the bottom
punched full of holes. They had
taken a sharp nail and had gone
round and round in circles, making
the holes an even distance apart,
ft was suspended from the rafter
by a stout wire, such as we use for
clothes lines. A large shallow tub
was placed on the floor- under
neath it to catch the water as it
fell. A common kitchen towel rack
was in convenient distance with
plenty of fresh, clean towels on it.
When anyone was ready to take a
shower, all they had to do was to
fill the bucket up with warm wa
ter and step under it, the holes in
the bottom of the bucket allowing it
to do the rest.Of course if one does
not have a basement such a shower
as this may be placed in the s noke
house or any other out building.
BUSINESS AND PLEASURE
We often hear the expression
"combining business and pleasure.”
Sometimes it is nothing more than
an expression, for often neither
one ds accomplished at the expense
of the other. However, the summer
conventions that are held each
year for poultrymen that attend
them successfully combine business
and pleasure. These conventions
are planned for that very purpose,
and the measure of their success
can be seen in the larger number
of interested poultrymen that at
tend them year after y?ar. Most
of us appreciate the fact that a
change is good for everyone, and
when this change can be combined
with the opportunity to meet men
and women in our own line of work,
discuss mutual problems, get new :
ideas, make new friends, meet the
leaders in our industry and have a
good time in the bargain, we
should be quick to snap it up. All
this is what is offered by the sev
eral conventions that are held by
each summer. The summer is the
best time for poultry keepers to
get away: it is at this season that
the poultry can be most easily left
in charge of someone else for a
short period, the strenuous season
has only recently closed and there
is a natural desire to get away for
some sort of recreation, and the
weather is at its best for traveling.
WILT IN ALFALFA
If the foliage in your alfalfa field
looks pale gTeen or if it has a ye1
low cast, look for wilt. Dig up a
few of those pale looking plants
and observe their roots. Cut the
root a short distance below the
crown and if you see a yellow ring
just under the bark, you may know
that bacteria is at work and that
the plant is infected with wilt. On
many farms where alfalfa has been
grown for a considerable length of
time there is danger of the pres
ence of this wilt. Watch your fields,
therefore, and if the disease is dis
covered, prepare to plow up the old
field at the end of the season and
For those who have never taken ad
vantage of the opportunities of
fered by these meetings, *ve urge
them to attend at least one of thi
conventions mentioned elsewhere
in this issue. It is not necessary tc
be a member of any of these organ
izations: you will be welcomed
whether you are or not. There is
another form of combining recrea
tion with business that has be
come popular in recent years, and
that is the various poultry tours
that are run in nrany sections
comprising trips to many farms
within a county. Furthermore, ont
gets a new perspective of his own
larm after visiting others: he sees
it in a different light than he did
before. All this is a good thing; it
is one of the essentials of progress
Progressively minded people don’t
let themselves stay in a rut. Why
hot take advantage of at least one
of these opportunties this rummer?
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INSECTS AND DISEASE
How about your equipment to
fight insects and diseases? A few
years ago, spraying outfits were
employed almost altogether. They
still do good work. For the small
garden, a knapsack or a compressed
air outfit will answer the purpose,
but for commercial plantings, you
will want a stronger outfit. In re
cent years, dusting has been coming
to the front. Hand dusters are
now available at very reasonable
cost that will answer both lot
home and ordinary commercial
plantings. These dusters are a val
uable addition to any garden equip
ment. For plant diseases, consist
ing of rots, leaf spots, etc., the best
all-around material is Bordeaux
mixture. This can be made accord
ing to standard formulas, or it can
be purchased' in prepared dry form
and simply mixed with water or ap
plied in dust form. Sulfur-lead
arsenate mixtures may also be pur
chased in dust form. These prepared
forms are usually better mixed than
they can be mixed under average
farm conditions. A large number ol
diseases can be controlled with the
above materials. Lime sulfur which
is commonly used for fruits, seems
to cause much foliage damage to
some vegetables. As for chewing oi
eating insects, calcium arsenate does
very well with vegetables. Although
it injures fruits, it does not seem
to damage vegetables. It is cheaper
than arsenate of lead and prob
ably more effective. For sucking in
sects, or aphids, a stomach poison
will not answer. These pests do not
eat. They stick their beaks into the
tissues of the plants and suck out
the juices. Fortunately, their bodies
are tender. The best method is to
use a spray that kills bv contact.
Black leaf «, used at the rate of
one part in 1,000 of W'ater. will give
, results. An angle nozzle
should be used and high pressure
should be employed to drive the
material to the entire surfaces of
the leaves. In recent vears. it has
been found that nicotine dust will
also destroy the aphids. The fumes
appear to be effective.
LATE HATCHED DUCKLINGS
The late hatched ducklings have
a number of advantages over their
earlier hatched brothers and sis
ters. In the first place, summer and
early fall hatched ducklings, if
pushed for rapid and cheap gains,
will go on the late fall and early
winter markets in time for the Jew
ish and Christian holidays. They
are naturally very profitable for at
this time the highest prices can be
realized and in addition, the weath
er during the growing season for
late hatched ducks is more favor
able for rapid growth. Another ad
vantage in favor of the late hatched
duckling is the matter of shipping
the ducks to market. In the cool
weather of fall the shrinkage and
mortality losses in shipping are
greatly reduced and the cost of
shipping is materially lowered by
placing more birds to a coop than
could be done during hot weather
Of course, not all of the advant
ages are in favor of the late
hatched ducklings. In the first
place, ducklings or duck eggs can
usually be secured at less cost earlier
in the season. Then for breeding
purposes, the earlier hatched ducks
have some advantage in that mat
ings can be made earlier and lay
ing will start sooner, thus giving
a longer period of production. For
one who wishes to raise and feed
ducks for market purposes, however,
the possibilities In late hatched
ducklings should not be overlooked.
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VENTILATION PROBLEM
For satisfactory and efficient
ventilation of farm buildings, three
important points must not be over
looked, says a ventilation engineer.
First it is essential that the barn
be well built and the walls reason
ably tight. The flow of incoming
and outgoing air cannot be kept
under control in a barn which is
drafty and full of cracks. The sec
ond essential is that the barn be
kept full of cows. If the ventilation
system Is designed for 25 cows and
only 15 are kept in the barn, the
smaller number will very likely be
unable to heat the air around them
to an optimum temperature. A herd
of 30 cows supplies enough units of
heat energy to heat an ordinary
five roomed house. As the third
item of importance, he pointed out
that the ventilation system must
be complete to do satisfactory
work. A recent survey in one of the
leading dairy states revealed that
only 20 per cent of the barns were
equipped with outtake flues and
only 30 per cent had intakes. Many
of the failures of natural draft ven
tilation systems occur for this very
reason—because they are not com
plete. Both wooden and masonry
walls in dairy barns should be in
sulated in coo) climates for the sake
of warmth and to prevent moisture
condensation. For sufficient warmth
it would be necessary to build an
uninsulated stone wall from 20 to
24 inches thick, a width too great
to be practical from the standpoint j
of expense.
get ground ready for a new field.
It is evident that as the alfalfa
acreage increases w-e must not keep
our fields in this crop too many
years in succession. We must pay
more attention to rotation. Fortun
ately a year or two in other crops
will eliminate the wilt disease. The
dragging of implements over a field
of alfalfa not only spreads the wilt
disease, but they also injure the al
falfa plants themselves, thus giving
the wilt bacteria an opportunity to
get a foothold.
Feed chicks four or five times a
day, and allow only one person to
feed and care for them.
Unfolds His Plan
Several opinions pro and con
have followed the message of
George W. Wickersham, top,
chairman of President Hoov
er’s law enforcement commis
sion, to the annual governors’
convention at. New London,
Conn. Mr. Wickersham ad
vances the theory that the en
forcement of the prohibition
law in particular and all law in
general be divided between the
Federal and local state agen
cies. Governor C. H. Dern of
Utah was chairman of the con
vention.
Untarnatlonmi Nmiwl)
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Heads Women’s Clubs
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Miss Marion McClench of Ann
Arbor, Mich., is the new presi
dent of the National Federa
tion of Business and Profes
sional Women’s Clubs, having
been elected at the convention
on Mackinac Island, Mich. She
was one of 200 women who or
ganized the Federation in 1910.
(International Ncwireei)
111 in Pari*
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C. Bascom Slemp, former sec
retary to President Coolidge,
is “under observation” in the
American Hospital in Paris for
intestinal trouble. Physicians
say that his condition is satis
factory and that he will return
to work within a few days.
'lataroatlonai Mowsr««l>
Stillman Yacht Burned in Explosion
After a tremendous explosion in Hempstead
Harbor, off Glen Cove, L. I., the yacht of
Tames A. Stillman, the "Wenonah,” was
burned to the water’s edge, as shown above,
left. The banker and his wife, Anne U. Still
man, above, were not aboard when the acci
dent occurred, having just returned ham a
cruise and gone to New York. BeSs* ia a
view of the Wenonah, formerly kma a*
“The Modesty." Chief Mate Charles flam
Fen was lost and another member at Cbm
crew was injured.
Reinstated in Favor
in November, 1927, following
publication of articles by Rear
Admiral Thomas P. Magruder,
above, in which he criticized
the handling of naval affairs by
the department, the officer was
relieved of his duties as com
mandant of the Navy Yard at
Philadelphia. Magruder has
been recalled for duty and is
ordered to report August 1 as
rommander of the fleet base
iorce on the Pacific coast.
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Shades of Leander
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Famed for its heavy cross tides
and treacherous currents, the
Hellespont defied swimmers up
to the time of the mythical
1 Leander of Greece. Then came
Lord Byron and latter Richard
Halliburton. Several college
students performed the feat
last year. Now three college
girls have beaten the channel,
Lucy Hancock, of University,
Va., from Vassar, and two
Smith College girls, Eleanor
Stutley of Wellesley, Mass.,
and Eugenie Paterson, above,
also of Wellesley, Mass. The
three girl* are on an Aegean
cruise.
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The ‘Mystery Wmw*
pm. a. hi in ma—
“Teeps" Lucille, oar «t fee
two Lucille sisters of cnuveiie*
and vaudeville fame, mm*** fan
ward to say that dhr * dean
.woman who was with ESwne£\
II. “Boston Lome* Urn*
shortly after the Marins nsn»~
der in Flushing. L- L Sfaefarifwt
his case greatly by <lodhraa£
that she was at the moviessrorfcj
Lewis when Marlow nonetiaiA.
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Producing Hens Sans Wings or Toenails
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The modern trend toward increased produc
tion has hit the egg industry and brought with
It a new type of chicken, one without wings
©r toenails. Dr. R. T. Renwald, above, Omaha
poultry fancier, announces that after five years
©f experimentation he has produced a brood
•i such chickens. Normal hens, says Dr. Ren
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wald, are bothered each year with the mm&-~
ing of their wing feathers, and duKrasy ffcr;
period egg production falls off. Flyvag ihowf
out of the question for the new type heat sift
can keep right on laying the yea* m*m! am#*
Dr. Ren wald believes it possible for fcsa tft
pr’ociuce cn t'ae average of 300 eggs « yawn..
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