DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1929
TURKEYS RAISED
~~ IN CONFINEMENT
: Better Results Secured Than
~ Where Poults Are Free.
In times past many people felt that
turkeys could not be raised in con-
~ finement but that they should have a
large area over which to range. This
ontention has changed now, howev-
er, and in several localities turkeys
‘hs e been raised in confinement with
great deal of success.
The Minnesota and Nebraska ex-
ment stations have been among
he leaders in investigational work
in. turkey production, in recent years,
with some such work being done at
other experiment stations in various
parts of the country. At both of the
stations mentioned it was found that
‘better results could be secured if the
‘poults were raised in confinement
‘than if they were allowed to range
‘over a large area, the method once
followed in turkey production. In
‘view of these findings; those who wish
‘to go into turkey production, either
on a small or large scale, are no doubt
interested in the practices to be ad-
hered to in this method of turkey
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~The United States Department of
Agriculture has found that turkey
production has declined consistently
since 1890, in the face of an increase
in the production of all other lines
of poultry and live stock. This de-
crease in production cannot be attrib
uted to a decrease in demand, for the
demand has always exceeded the pro-
duction, or at least, there has never
“been a surplus of turkeys on the mar-
~ ket with which to contend.
~ This decline in turkey production
can be explained almost altogether by
the fact that farmers have always
felt that turkeys should have unlim-
ited range. Because of following this
method of production the turkeys
came in contact with the chicken
yards, to the detriment of the tur-
key business. The disease problem
among turkeys which come in con-
tact with chickens is great enough
that it has tended to cut down on
production among farmers and farm-
ers’ wives who have, in the past.
raised turkeys and chickens together
on the same range.
In the Nebraska investigations it
was found that the old method of
aising the turkeys on the open range
with natural hatching and brooding
* turkey hens was not successful
n the other hand, artificial brood-
and-hatching, by means of which
feed and environment could be kept
‘under the control of the producer,
was found to yield very good results.
Electric Brooders Are
Clean and Convenient
The New York experiment station
found electric brooders very satisfac-
tory except in extremely cold weath-
er, when this type of heat did not
rm up the space in the house away
om the brooder. Like “electric in-
bators, brooders heated by elec
tricity are clean, easy to regulate
ind very convenient.
Individual farm light plants extend
he advantages of this electrical
equipment to farms which are not
Jocated on an electric “high line.”
Because many farm plants are
equipped with both generator and bat
‘tery power, the supply of current for
“Xe incubator or brooder is constant
and relial'le.
Aylesbury Duck Meets
Faver as Market Fowl
~The Aylesbury duck comes from the
Vale of Aylesbury. from which fact
it derives its name. It is the market
duck of England It has a long body,
deep keel. and legs placed a little
behind tlie center of the body.
The Pekin is (‘hinese, and is the most
pular market duck in America.
S are set far back. giving an up-
right carriage.
~~ While the Indian Runner is not a
popular market duck on account of its
small size, its flesh is tender and pal-
~atable, and its foraging habits give it
a game quality that will make it in
Watch Young Birds
~ Watch young and delicate birds
very closely as they are most suscepti-
ble to the deadly roup germs. The
same is true of fowls suffering from
common cold or catarrh. The throat
and nasal passages, being already sore
~ and inflamed, are easily infected. Sick
birds should always be isolated. They
can be much more effectively treated
when away from the flock and they
cannot contaminate the healthier ones
he disease should prove to be con-
Don’t Hurry Pullets
It is best not to hurry the pullets
into heavy production. Allow them to
come into production normally with-
out feeding highly stimulating feeds.
Fewer “blow outs” will occur when
~ production is not forged on the start.
‘Feed two parts of grain to one part
o mash. The pullets will continue
gain in weight and still receive
ough protein to encourage the egg
to function without interfering
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LITTLE MILK IS
NEEDED FOR CALF
Youngster Is Early Taught
to Eat Hay and Grain.
Although whole milk is often mar-
keted leaving little skim-milk for
feeding, it is no longer necessary to
be handicapped in raising at least
enough calves on dairy farms to take
care of replacements in the herd.
For feeders and animal husband-
men have found that they can ‘raise
thrifty -calves successfully and use
only about 375 pounds of salable
whole milk in doing it.
The general method of feeding
calves is practically the same for all
dairy breeds, reports I. W. Rupel, in
charge of the work at the Wisconsin
College of Agriculture. The calf is
given a start on whole milk for a
few weeks and during this time is
taught to eat hay and concentrates.
Thrifty calves are then gradually tak-
en off the milk and continued on con-
centrates, hay, water and salt,
But, in their experiments, Rupel
and his associates have also found
that one schedule was most success-
ful for Holsteins and Brown Swiss.
while another schedule had to be
worked out for Ayrshires, Guernseys
and Jerseys.
The method the workers found best
for the Holsteins and Brown Swiss
was to leave the calf with the mother
for three days and then to pail feed
whole milk by gradually getting the
calf to take, by the end of the first
week, nine pounds until it was six
weeks old, and then the allowance
was gradually reduced until, at the
end 'of the seventh week, no milk
was fed.
The process for the other three
breeds was slightly more complicated.
The calves were left with the moth-
er for three to four days and then
were pail fed at the rate of six
pounds daily for two weeks, when the
amount was increased to seven
pounds daily for five weeks. After
the calves were seven weeks old, the
milk was reduced gradually until at
nine weeks no milk was fed.
Because the calves must get along
without milk, it was found that it is
necessary that the feeds given be
highly palatable and nutriticus. The
protein supply must be especially lib-
eral, and so the concentrates need to
earry a high proportion of protein
rich feeds. The experts also found
that the hay needs to be of the high-
est quality obtainable, preferably clo-
ver or alfalfa.
Dehorning Calves Best
Done While Still Young
The best way to dehorn calves is to
use caustic potash when the calves
are about one week old.
When the .calf is a week old the
horns may be detected as small but-
tons or scurs which are covered with
hair. To remove the scurs, clip the
hair over and around them, then take
a stick of caustic potash, moisten it
and rub vigorously until the button
gets red and blood appears about to
ooze through.
The stick eof potash should be
wrapped in paper at one end so that
the hands of the operator are not in-
jured and only a small amount of
water should be used so that it will
not run down over the calf's head. If
the water from the stick of caustic or
from the horns is allowed to run, it
will either injure the eyes or take off
the hair. If a small amount! of vase-
line is rubbed around the hair sur-
rounding the buttons it will aid in pre-
venting any injury ts the skin adja-
cert to the horns.
Calves should be kept in stanchions
or separated from other calves while
they are being treated and for a few
days afterwards. Then any remaining
caustic may be wasied off and the
place greased with oil.
[nefficient Separator
Is Extravagant Waste
growth. Any hinge: in feed is
iscouraged.
An inefficient cream separator is an
extravagant waste. Separators nor-
mally lose about .03 of 1 per cent of
butterfat into the skim milk, but
when the loss amounts to as much as
15 per cent, this excess makes itself
sharply felt in the cream check. In
a herd of twenty 400-pound cows, a
separator out of adjustment to this
extent would bring about a loss of
something like 225 pounds of butter-
fat annually. Figure this at the pre-
vailing prices for butterfat and the
total is not to be sneezed at.
Through frequent tests of the sep-
arator this loss may be controlled. It
is by stopping the small leaks that the
dairyman can boost his margin of profit.
Withholding Salt
At the Wisconsin experiment sta-
tion some milk cows, well fed other-
wise, were given no salt for periods
as long as a year. After two or three
weeks the cows showed abnormal ap-
petites for salt, but the health of the
cows was not noticeably influenced
for a much longer time. But finally
a complete breakdown occurred, ac-
companied with complete loss of ap-
petite, rough coat, and a rapid decline
in both weight and amount of milk
given,
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FARM HINTS FROM THE U. S.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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To prevent horses from eating oats
too rapidly, place a little chopped
clover hay or some whole corncobs in
the feed box with the oats.
One of the best kinds of sweet
clover hay comes from the seedling
crop harvested with wheat or rye.
This mixture of sweet clover and straw
cures well in the shock without much
damage to the grain and make fine
feed after thrashing.
Some tomato growers allow diseases
to destroy their crop on the belief that
spraying delays maturity. Spraying
experiments conducted by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture over a
period of seven years to show that
there is no difference in the average
earliness of sprayed and unsprayed
tomatoes. Fluctuations in earliness
are probably due to differences in the
soil.
One of the most important factors
in successful mushroom culture is good
ventilation. This not only supplies
oxygen but allows the carbonic-acid
gases exhaled by the growing plants to
escape. Drafts should be avoided,
however, as sudden changes of tem-
perature check growth and cause
darkening and cracking of tne mush-
rooms.
Turkeys are not so domesticated as
chickens and often lay their eggs in
secluded spots. Hidden nests can be
found by confining the turkey hens
early in the morning after they come
from the roosts and letting them out
late in the afternoon, when they will
make straight for their nests. Some-
times turkeys will take to nests made
for them out of boxes or barrels.
Parasites are insidious in their at-
tacks and will rob the livestock owner
quietly and without warning. They
rarely cause quick death, but parasi-
tized animals are unthrifty and in
time become emanciated and die. Such
cases should be taken in hand early.
Call in ‘a good veterinarian and, if
necessary have one of the worst
animals killed and examined to find
out the cause of the trouble.
Here's where knotty boards can
make themselves useful. A box with
short, thick sides is more resistant to
rough handling if it is made of knotty
lumber than if it is made of clear lum-
ber, ;says the Forest Service of the
U. S.- Department of Agriculture.
Boxes with short, thick sides may
come apart as a result of the direct
pull exerted by the contents of the
boxes on the nails, unless the shocks
caused by rough handling are ab-
sorbed by spring of the boards. Knotty
boards absorb such shocks better than
clear boards because they are more
flexible.
It is profitable to raise colts from
mares that earn their feed by furnish-
ing farm hoursepower, and under good
management enough colts can be
raised annually to replace aging work
stock. The young stock can be
worked four to seven years of age and
then sold. The outstanding require-
ment of profitable brood mares is that
they be both breeders and workers.
Ordinarily sound, young mares of the
heavy draft type are the best to use.
The cost of raising horses is less if
good use is made of coarse roughages
in winter and cheap pastures in sum-
mer.
Decayed cavities in fruit trees, be-
sides weakening the
harbor for ants, wood-boring larvae,
and other pests, and may be filled in
with cement. All of the decayed wood
should be removed first with a= very
sharp tool, and the edge of the bark
and cambium immediately covered
with a coat of shellac. Then paint the
exposed wood in the cavity with a
mixture of about one-third creosote
and two-thirds coal tar. Use a gooa
grade of cement in the proportion of 1
part to 2 or 3 parts of sand. The
materials should be mixed with water
should be well tamped into the cavity.
A few nails driven in the cavity will
help support the cement, and a slight
undercut should be made arcund the
edges so the hardened cement will be
keyed in.
Inside Information
Cottage cheese for sandwiches may
be moistened with a little cream, with
salad dressing, or with tomato catsup.
Leaflet 39, “Eggs at any meal,” is a
free publication issued this spring by
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, containing many good recipes
and suggestion about egg cookery.
One way to keep cool in the summer
is to do as much of the necessary
cooking as possible very early in the
day. Have many cold dishes—salad,
cold meats and jellied dishes, cooling
beverages such as fruit drinks and iced
tea and, when you can, eat on a porch
or in the garden.
Fresh tomatoes can be filled” with
almost any left-over meat or vege-
tables for a stuffed tomato salad A
filling made of chopped meat, such as
chicken, veal or tongue, cooked peas,
chopped pickle or cucumber, and salad
dressing is very good. After the to-
matoes have been pelled and scooped
out they should be seasoned inside
with salt, turned upside down to drain
and placed in the ice box until time to
fill and serve them.
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Habits
We form habits, then habits form—
or deform us,—Forbes Magazine.
Oldest Latin-American Republic
Haiti is the oldest of the Latin:
American republics.
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Taste in Books
People’s taste in books is often de
pendent on the opportunity they have
for coming into contact with good
ones.—Woman’s Home Companion.
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The gasoline motor is the grea
| great-grandchild of the firecracker.
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-Shavertown-
Miss Frances Thomas and Ruth Mec-
Keel will leave for Philadelphia and
Atlantic City for a week's vacation.
Miss Edna Cease has returned home
from Bucknell College to spend the
summer vacation with her parents.
Miss Mary Still was hostess to the
Dallas Bridge Club at her home in
Fernbrook Wednesday afternoon. A
delicious .Juncheon was served at 1
o'clock and the rest of the afternoon
the guests spent playing cards
Mr. Scott, a veteran ‘of the Civil
War, has entered the government hos-
pital in Virginia for several months’
treatment.
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Bake Sale
The Young Women of the Y. W.
Misionary Society will hold a bake
sale Wednesday afternoon at Higgins’
restaurant at 1 o'clock. The proceeds
of this sale will be used to send girls
to the summer camp.
Missionary Society Meets
The Young Women’s Missionary So-
ciety met at the church Tuesday eve-
ning with a good attendance. The
feature was the opening of mite boxes
and a nice sum was taken in. Mrs. Z.
R. Howell of Trucksville gave an in.
teresting talk to the girls. After the
meeting a social session follows and
the committee served refreshments.
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Screening a Town :
A whole German town was recently
made invisible from the air by means
of a smoke cloud which rose from ves:
sels containing a secret chemical com-
pound. The clouds rose 300 feet and
curtained an area of 500 square yards
in six seconds.
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Poisonous Snakes
There are about 592 species of poi:
sonous snakes known throughout the
world, but 288 of them belong to a
group of snakes known as the Opis
thoglypha, which are only mildly poi-
sonous, few of them being deadly to
man.
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“Fruit of the Wise,” Linnaeus called
the bananas, says Nature Magazine,
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it combines ideally with any protein concen-
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your cows a chance to show what they can do.
A great feed for young stock, dry stock, bulls,
and all other livestock as well. We have it—
a fresh stock on hand now.
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