The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1925 Page: 2 of 6
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MICKIEyTHE PRINTER'S DEVIL
Neither "Prophet” Nor "Profit
a chick didn’t make
raising
TEq Wrong
WHAT’S THE USE
Poultry Facts
Acid soil eats away profits.
to hogs, when fed
of
and cod liver oil
leg weakness. So
milk ever spoiled the
or hatchability of an
in some form should be kept
chicks during the first month.
are said
will get-
better
black-
causes
poults
to determine their
resistance or 1m-
about the disease-
all species of the
should be
are trou-
the late
The best dust to keep off striped cu-
cumber beetles is composed of calcium
arsenate* mixed with land plaster.
Milk
before
Barium carbonate mixed with fresh
hamburger makes the best bait to kill
rats.
Logged-off lands can be made to pro-
duce satisfactory crops under proper
management.
It is good practice to feed the pigs
liberally for several weeks just before
arid after weaning them.
Remember that,heavy, sudden rains
and floods do great damage to young
poultry which are not given brooder
housing under the right conditious. A
house set low and open to rats and
vermin is a menace to the profits of
the flock.
In one year New York
the estimated wholesale
than $184,000,000 worth
dairy products.
Determine Sex of Calf
The common belief that male off-
spring is the rule when a female car-
ries her young longer than normal is
not well founded, according to a re-
cent study at the Iowa State college.
The gestation periods of 369 cows in
the experiment station herd were ex-
amined. No periods were considered
where twins or premature calves were
bom. There were 189 male and 180
female calves produced. Bulls and
heifers were carried the same length
of time.
General control measures are more
important than medical treatment for
avoiding poultry losses due to intes-
tinal parasites.
of the things that our culling
do is to weed out the persist-
The heavy layers do not
Many chicks are not getting enough
green feed. If they are not on range
carry sod to them or fix up a feeder
and give them cut alfalfa or clover
hay. You’ll be surprised how they
will eat it.
Creamery Operator Must
Apply Most Diligent Effort.
CHECK BLACKHEAD
IN TURKEY FLOCK
One
should
ent sitters,
waste time in broodiness.
city uses, at
value, more
milk and
Wheat treated with copper car-
bonate to prevent stinking smut is
not harmful to chickens, itt least if
Neither is
lx), amall
Most of the early lambs
on the market before they
bled with worms. It is
lambs, those which go on the market
during the last part of June and in
July and August, which need to be
treated for worms.
fed for only a short time,
it harmful
amounts.
and wished some one
come along and get you
with a good breed?
The time you had
chicks »on the old ground that
had been used for 25 years with-
out a change?
How your chicks acted when
they were affected by worms
and coccidiosis? .
How you tried to fight internal
parasites without new ground?
Potato Growers Making
War on Colorado Beetle
The Colorado potato beetle, like a
bad penny, never fails to come back.
Potato growers have become so used
to fighting this pest that control meas-
ures care now a routine procedure.'
Sometimes small growers or back-
yard gardeners neglect the application
of arsenic to their plants, and the
usual result is loss of the crop.
As a liquid spray, four pounds of
arsenate of lead to 100 gallons of
water may be used. As a dust, a mix-
ture of equal parts of arsenate of lead
and hydrated lime has given good re-
sults. Growers have found that a mix-
ture of one part of calcium arsenate
to two parts of hydrated lime may.be
safely used with satisfactory results.—
Dr. Frank H. Lathrop, South Caro-
lina Agricultural College Entomologist.
Sunlight
to prevent
ting the chicks onto the ground, either
outside the brooder house or on
chunks of sod placed on the brooder
floor.
‘arberry Plants -J
.Menace to Grab
“Moldiness in butter is absolutely
.preventable by any creamery operator
who is willing to apply diligent effort,”
says Harold Mack, bacteriologist for
the division of dairy husbandry of the]
University of Minnesota.
“Molds are living plants and must
be present and alive to do any dam-
age,” Mr. Macy adds. “If they are ex-
cluded or destroyed there will be no
moldiness of the butter.”
Molds grow luxuriantly in sour
cream or buttermilk. If the butter^
milk tank in the creamery is emptied
every, few days for cleansing ami
sterilizing, and If farmer patrons oj
the creamery would use two sets<■of
cans, one for carrying their cream to
the plant and the other for transport-
ing buttermilk back home, the uni-
versity bacteriologist says a tremen-
dous forward step would be taken
against moldy butter. Coupled with
these precautions the vats of cream
should be pasteurized, and the pipes
and pumps through which the cream
passes should be washed and sterilized
daily. Tubs in which the butter is
packed should be cleaned with steam
and paraffin and lined with treated
liners and circles. By “treating” is
meant boiling them in saturated salt
brine solution or soaking in a forma-
«lin solution.
Moldy butter is costing creameries
of the country many thousands of dol-
lars. One small Minnesota creamery
which ships about 35 tubs a week was
responsible for a loss of more than
$1,000 because its butter was extreme-
ly moldy when it reached the market,
oldy Butter Loss
Always Avoidable
Practicable Method of
Destroying Sheep Tick
The only practicable method of de-
stroying the sheep tick is by dipping
the sheep. Tills consists of immers-
ing the animals in a liquid that will
kill the parasites. Since the liquids
used do not destroy the- eggs a sec-
ond dripping is necessary and should
be done about 24 days after the first.
Because some of the ticks have prob-
ably dropped from the sheep, it is best
not to put the dipped sheep back into
ticky quarters. In warm Weather
eggs that have been dislodged may
hatch out and reinfest the flock. If
all the litter is cleaned up around the
sheds and lots and the ground sprayed
with the solution about double the
strength of that used in dipping, the
sheep may be safely put back in their
old quarters.
Calf Raising Involves
Many Different Factors
There are a good many factors in-
volved in calf raising. In the first
place the cows should be healthy.
They should be free from tuberculosis.
Fortunately this is now recognized as
a fact by the great majority of pro-
gressive farmers, although such has
been the case for only a comparatively
few years. Contagious abortion is an-
other disease that must' be carefully,
guarded against. This disease has
perhaps done more harm to the dairy
farmer, so far as the production of
his herd is concerned, than tubercu-
losis, and every possible precaution
should be practiced to keep it out of
the herd. Then, too, the cows must
be kept in good condition. By this
we do not mean that dairy cows
should be kept fat. In fact, It is im-
possible to keep a dairy cow fat. If
she is of the dairy type, she will con-
vert excess feed into milk fat and
not body fat.
: Do You Remember?
: The following questions which
> are put to the record flock keep-
; ers of Iowa by the Iowa State
>, college are pertinent suggestions
> to all poultry keepers. “Do You
i Remember?” they say:
i When
> fertility
; egg?
: When
• good growth when it has milk
: in its ration?
: What a time you used to have
: getting a lot of early chicks
> hatched with hens?
■ When you had a mongrel flock
would
started
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The common barberry, which has
merited and received so much public
condemnation because of its reputa-
tion as an accomplice in spreading the
black stem rust of small grain, has
several relatives of the same family
name scattered here and there in the
United States. There are some forty or
fifty of these barberry relatives cul-
tivated as ornamentals in this coun-
try, and they are all to be regarded
with suspicion, says the United States
Department of Agriculture, until
definitely proved harmless.
Common European Variety.
Heretofore but little attention has
been paid to any barberry except the
common European variety, now wide-
ly naturalized in this country. ’During
the last few years, however, a harm-
ful native barberry species has been
found abundant in the Appalachian
mountains of southwestern Virginia,
southern West Virginia, and western
North Carolina. This species is nat-
urally susceptible and spreads' stem
rust to grains and certain wild grasses.
In some localities, at least, it is as
much a menace to grain production
as is the common barberry. Numer-
ous clumps of bushes of this species
have been found also In Indiana along
the Tippecanoe river, but not In the
woodlands or fence rows of nearby
farms.
Put In Rogue’s Gallery.
Most of the species of barberry now
present in the United States have
come in during the last ten years, as
a result of the impetus given the bar-
berry as' an ornamental by the ex-
plorers in China. It is not known
definitely whether all of these species
are harmful, although it is reason-
able to assume that most of them
are. In order to give the public the
benefit of any of them which may be
harmless, so that they may be safely
used as ornamentals, the United
States Department of Agriculture is
gathering into one “rogues’ gallery,”
for future conviction or acquittal, rep-
resentatives of all of these suspicious
members of the barberry family, as
well as the Mahonias, a closely re-
lated genus. All species will be grown
in a special “barberry garden,” re-
cently established at Bell, Md.,
propagated, interbred, and hybridized,
and the resultant plants sent to the
testing station at St. Paul, Minn.,
where they will be inoculated with
stem rust in order
susceptibility and
municy.
This information
carrying powers of
barberry family is sought in order that
the propagation and dissemination of
undesirable foreign importations may
be prevented in this country. Some
of these barberries are very desirable
ornamentals. They will be given a
hasty “pardon” as soon as possible if
their innocence is fairly established.
Overfeeding Calf Will
Impair Its Digestion
It is quite customary to feed whole
milk to a calf for a period of three
or four weeks. If the calf is not in a
good physical condition at that time,
whole milk may be continued for a
week or two longer. Care should be
exercised at the beginning to not feed
the calf too much, especially milk test-
ing high in fat. Two or three pounds
at a feeding twice a day is enough
to start with. Even with this small
quantity, which is inadequate to
nourish the calf properly, it is well to
dilute, it a little with warm water if
it is from a cow testing 4% to 5^>.
It is better to start with tod little
and gradually increase the calf’s al-
lowance than to overfeed and pro-
duce scours, for whenever a calf’s
digestion is impaired it requires con-
siderable time before it becomes nor-
mal. More calves are overfed at the
beginning than are underfed.
After the calf has reached the age
of three to four weeks and is making
good normal growth, a little skim milk
may be added to the whole milk. This
process can be continued for a week,
increasing the skim milk and reducing
the whole milk until the calf is placed
entirely upon skim milk. At that time
a good normal calf would be taking
from six to nine pounds of milk night
and morning. If milking is done at
noon, it is a good practice to feed
the calf three times per day.
Every year blackhead in turkey
flocks becomes a little more common,
and every year the losses from the
dread disease are a little larger. And
while nd positive treatment has ever
been discovered, a remedy is being,
used by hundreds of successful turkey
growers that proves very satisfactory
if used before the fowls are in the
last stages of the disease, says a.
writer in Successful Farming.
A slight lameness is usually discern-
ible in a turkey coming down with
blackhead. The bird gradually grows
weaker, refuses to eat, but drinks an
unusual amount. Diarrhea is usually
present, and when the disease.is in an
advanced stage, the droppings are
usually a bright yellow. The wings
and tail are not held up. The head is
drawn close to the body.
Sometimes the flesh parts of the
head turn a bluish-black. If you are
not sure whether it is blackhead or
some other ailment that is affecting
the bird, it will be wise to make a post-
mortem examination. If the liver is
covered with black or gangrene spots
it will not be necessary to look further
for the trouble. You may be sure
blackhead is the trouble, and begin
treatment accordingly.
Powdered ipecac may be used either
as a remedy for blackhead or as a
preventive. We prefer to use it as a
preventive, as any disease is
prevented than cured. When
head enters our flock it usually
the greatest losses before the
are six weeks of age. For this rea-
son we begin feeding the ipecac to the
poults as soon as we begin feeding
mash. It is fed in a wet mash—one
teaspoonful of powdered ipecac to
enough mash for 20 turkeys—twice a
week. The same amount is given to
the young birds and the mature fowls.
This treatment will prevent black-
head entering your flock, though the
youngsters are allowed to range with
the older birds, and on infected
ground.
If blackhead has entered your flock
before treatment is begun, the sick
birds should be fed half a teaspoonful
of powdered ipecac in wet mash (for
each bird) for three successive days.
.If the disease is not in the advanced
stage it will not be difficult to remedy,
but if the fowls are nearly dead when
the treatment is begun, you cannot ex-
pect a large percentage of cures.
Heretofore, the only cure for black-
hdad has been to move to new, unin-
Hanpful Native Species Has
Been Found in South-
east Sections.
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