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Show BEAVER CITY PRESS mm i ' 1 i Mi Best Type of Corn for Farmer to Use DAIRY POINTS i vnonj Some Crops Marketed Earlier Than Others OVE STOCK NEWS . Emdea-Toulou-se Cross Is Favored for. Holidays .The cross of the African gander with common geese la considered excellent This mating give larger goslings than common stock, and they make an attractive carcass when picked. The Rhode bland experiment station made some experimental crosses of geese. The results art: would appear The Bmden-Toulou- s cross for gento be the best era purposes for both early and late markets, and especially for the production of large geese for the Christmas and New Tear's market. They are large, hardy and, when dressed, present a fine appearance. The Emden-Afrlca- n cross seems to be next in desirability, and if goslings are sold early in the summer, or before they are eight weeks old, this cross would be preferable to all others. The Eroden-Whlt- e China croaa picked the easiest of these crosses, the birds were white when dressed and, although small, presented the most attractive appearance." be considerably reduced by supple- menting their expensive ration of milk with other food, says Prof. S."-JMead, New Jersey State College of . Agriculture. Tbe supplemental food method of raising calves has been used with considerable success, and while tho calves so raised will not be quite as fat and sleek as calves which are raised on tbe maximum amount of milk, they will, nevertheless, develop Into healthy, normal animals. "Allow the calf to remain with the dam for 48 hours. The first milk or colostrum Is laxative in its action and Insures the proper action of the bowels for the first few days. Take the celf from the cow at the end of 48 hours and feed it from a pall. The amount to be fed depends on the size nnd vigor of the calf. On tne average, three feedings a day, totaling six to eight pounds, are given during the first few days. This amount should be Increased gradually as long as the calfs appetite remains rood and as lone as scours do not set in. " if tho' calf does scour, the milk should be taken away for one or two feedings and a dose of castor oil administered. "By the time the calf Is three or four weeks old It should be given all the alfalfa and clover hay It will eat and a good grain mixture. The following has been used with success: 400 pounds 100' pounds of oil of corn meal meal, old proo-e- n 100 of pounds 100 pounds (round wheat bran oats "The more grain and hay the calf eat the less milk will be reaulrSd. In parts of the country where skim milk u available the calf should be changed gradually at two or three weeks of age. from whole milk to skim milk. The amount of skim milk fed, however, should not exceed what would usually be given of whole milk. "By the time the calf Is four months old the milk feeding may be discontinued and the calf raised on grain and hay. But remember, the calves will nor look as fat and sleek as those fed milk to a later age. though their ultimate development will be the same." New Publication Gives Practical Information (Prepared br the United State of Axrtcaltare.) Department grain Farmers all over the country will which leadingshown studies conductis by marketed watch with great interest the results ecoof agricultural bureau the of a teat to be made at the Inter- ed by Depart United States national Grain and Hay show In cago the first week in December to determine which type of corn Is the best to plant to the different sections of the United States. For several years there has been a difference of opinion among the leading agricultural authorities as to whether the old type of corn or a different kind called the "Utility" type I the most profitable to raise. The main difference between the two types ts that tbe standard old type has a Chi- ' i iff 'I "Utility Type. larger ear of rougher kernels while the utility type has kernels that are smoother and flintier. Exponents of the new type claim that It Is earlier in Maturing and freer from disease, but experiments in different parts of the country would indicate that under various conditions, each type has its place. Experts Advocate Extremes. Recently the discussion among corn experts reached such a point that the adherents of each type have tended to differ mere and more and advocate extremes. In order to be impartial the Illinois state fair offered a separate classification for each type with different judges and the winners were not compared officially. The accompanying pictures show the ear samples that were awarded first prlie In each division. The points on which they vary are well brought out and can be easily compared by anyone familiar with seed corn. It Is Interesting to note that some farmers entered samples In both divisions produced on the same farm In different fields and won high honors In both competitions. The raising of dairy calves, beginning with the cow before the calf Is born and carrying the young stock along to two years of age, is the subof a recent Farmers' Bulletin, No. ject To Exhibit Different Types. Intestinal Worms Very 1338, Feeding and Management of At coming grain and hay show Harmful to Iowa Fowls Dairy Calves and Young Diilry Stock, which the will be held in connection with now for distribution ready by the Many Iowa flocks are being ruined United States Department of Agriculthrough the prevalence of Intestinal ture, Washington D. C. worms, according to R. T. ParVhurst, The new bulletin Is full of practical poultryman with the extension diviInformation covering all the essentials sion of Iowa State college. Such In the production of good dairy aniworms cause, nonproductlon, lack of mals for growth and oftentimes death, besides tion. It breeding and milk producIncludes chapters on feeding making the birds susceptible to other before birth, weaning the calf, teachpoultry ailments. ing to drink, cleanliness, pasteurizaBirds affected with worms will betion of milk for feeding, quantity and come thin, despite a good appetite, and after a while grow listless and quality of milk fed, frequency of feeddull. This is especially the case ing, roughage for calves, grain feed, where overcrowding occurs, as with a milk substitutes, quarters, stanchions, of horns, water and salt, large flock and a small poultry house. prevention calves for Identification, dismarking The best method to get rid of these i worms is to feed the chickens a tonic eases, and several chapters on the L, . and of feeding js management young made from 12 quarts of mash, either stock beyond the calf age. rfry or wet, mixed with one pound of Old Type of Corn. The bulletin may be had free of epsom salts and one pound of dry to the by charge writing department the famous International Live Stock sulphur. Give them daily for three or aa long as the supply lasts. four days all they will clean up In ten exposition at Chicago there will be an or fifteen minutes. educational booth wliere the different It Is that all Calves to Develop Well ...... types of corn will be on exhibition. plan refuse Is removed from the quarters Must Have Sanitary Pens This display Is being arranged by a and aanltary conditions are provided. If calves are to remain healthy and committee of agronomists who will submit samples of Jh types of corn develop perfectly they must not only Thoroughly Clean House be correctly fed but must have sani- they consider the most satisfactory for to plant in their respective Before Severe Weather tary quarters when In the stable. Re- farmers The country is divided Into territories. cent have shown Investigations that six The ben house should be thoroughly and the experts have been regions lack of sunlight Is a powerful concleaned, disinfected and made tight in their sections durmeetings holding cause of rickets la all young before the cold weather sets In. If tributory summer and will have a final the ing the house bss dirt floor, It Is well to animals. Direct sunshine kills germs round-u- p the time of the at gathering and. lessens the therefore, liability to show. These state remove three or four inches of dirt are representatives scours and other calfhood ailments. from the top and to replace, this maA. L. Stone of Wisconsin, Prof. Prof. Calf are too often pens dark, damp, A. terial with dry gravel or aand. On C Arny of Minnesota. Prof. J. F. and badly ventilated. cement or wooden floors four or five dirty Foul bedding Is even more common Cox of Michigan, Mr. L. H. Newman of Inches of fresh straw or litter may be Canada, Prof. A. T. Wiancko of Inand la equally detrimental. thrown down after the floor has been diana, Prof. Wallace K. Hanger of cleaned. Ohio, Prof. Joe L. Robinson of Iowa, Dairyman Should Know Prof. C. A. Helm of Missouri, Prof. j. Vroduction of of Illinois, and Prof. L. Holiday Every Cow in His Herd CE. Hackleman Kansas. of It is hoped that Call No dairy cow has ever produced her Turkeys Is on Decline maximum the display arranged by this committee her unless feeder knew her. e Every year dosens of turkey means more than simply will tend .to unify the types and will raisers drop out of tbe game sod the Knowing her name sndfrectting the bring the adherents of the various her calling by production of holiday birds continues names of her ancestors. It means un- styles closer together so that a standto decrease. This means thst it Is a for each region will be set up derstanding her every need, desire ard type good time to go Into the business of Include the best features of will that and condition. By meana of a pair of producing turkeys if there Is plenty of a Babcock testing outfit and a each. scales, rang where the birds can get plenty little In the open classes of the grain and work, every dairyman could of feed and will not be killed by pred show there are expected to be, know cow wbat each in his hay herd proatory animals- .- fall Is th time of year duces, and thus have a sound basis on nearly three thousand samples entered " to search for good foundation stock which to feed and Judge the individual by tbe champion corn raisers of the before the turkeys arc all put Into fat entire country. Cash prises amounting merits of each cow In his herd. tening pens and sold. to considerably over M.000 for corn alone are offered by the Chicago Board Best Milk for Calves. Contagious Fowl Cholera For the first few days give the calf of Trade In addition to numerous ribIs Easily Distributed eight to twelve pounds of milk from bons and desirable trophies. A sepIts dam In three feeds a day, making arate competition will be held by memFowl cholera is a germ disease Intervals between feedings as near- bers of the boys' and girls' corn clups the Emble-tonwhich la very fatal, says Harry j ly eight hours as possible. Milk con- to determine tbe "Corn Prince" or head of tbe poultry department "Corn rimeem" of the world. Reof the Oklahoma A. and M. college, A taining Isnot more than 4 per cent duced railroad rates will be In effect considered best for calves. fowl showing no symptoms of the M all lines entering Chicago for this trouble may be found dead under the occasion and It Is expected that a Meat From Dairy Herd. roost the next morning. 'All affected no longer desired it third of a million visitors will throng Bulls are that birds do not go la this wsy. Some the herd for various reasons make up the metropolis to see the corn titles may linger a few days, showing' a part of the meat from dairy cattle swarded and the many other Interestloss great thirst, due to fever, also art seldom sulribl for d re wee" ing feature of the largest agriculThey of appetite. Tbe bewela will appear tural and H va stock show on the face beet -. r"-;"""very loose. t tfe ftoba, ... to-se- e old-tim- . but-terf- at crops farm are nomics of the ment of Agriculture. Statistics on tne over a m,thi murkpfini's Jiv fanners show that. five-yepefod, while there Ik considerable variation in month to marketing activity from r average is fairly month, the condirepresentative of the market tions each season. Aceordln to the figures gathered by crop department workers and volunteer marreporters stationed in the grain kets of the country'. 62.1 per cent of the marketable amount of the wheat of crop moves during the four months and October, July, August, September while only WM per cent of the oats moves crop marketed during the year figSimilar months. same the during mar-ke- t four the peak for ures gathered months for the com crop, namely, December, January, February and moves March, -- show that 47.2 per cent marketed Is rest gradually while the of the through the remaining months In sicnLftcant Interpret fact, vMr The ing these figures. Is, however, that while nearly all wheat Is sold except that needed for seed, only a small part of the corn and oat crops actually leave the farm. The department has no figures to show the monthly marketing by farmers of buckwheat, rice, the grain sorghums, and kaflr, but a study of the market figures for barley over the five-yeperiod shows that 51.9 per cent of the annual market crop Is sold during the first four months after harvest. Unlike thCiOther crops, the peak market months for flaxseed are September, October and November. An average of 59.2 per cent of the crop Is sold dur67 ing these three months, while Is per InDecember If cent is marketed cluded. ', five-yea- Way to Progress Is by . the League of Nations the peace there? g Use of Better Animals .rb be wing: accidents. ;S J? porci A writer prlnta some very worda on "Being Oneself T"" . can be to a dead certainty hla Income tax. rJE! in Those Moscow communists who he. lleve Germany la ripe for lovujtC" are .destined to find they havs trill to pick a lemon. A medical sharp says happiness av gland. The activity aland betas some. f are a Automobiles the ' t2 great blesatn. They enable folk on hnii,!-- .. lot of outdoor air, thoroughly mifj It might help Germany's itandlo. , and even Increase its bw rowing abilityif it could bring itaeH to do what it has to do wholeheart whole lot edly. nwurumg io jxuiaujr, to, wear glass la Whether you live In not, please refrain atone. tne style flxeri hair this winter a glass house or from throwlM In the good old days dad's paoH were cut down to make pants te Willie Instead of being cut down ts maie knickers for himself. The Persian earthquake at a sensation the eastern states In a campaign Is leading to eliminate the "bucky lamb, according to reports to the bureau of agriThe success attained In tne building cultural economics of the Department bred of pure up of a herd of grade or of Agriculture. This Is the third season animals will depend largely upon the campaign has been carried on care and understanding used In the that thestate extension agents and, as a the selection of herd sires, say New York by estimated Is It that more than result a dairymen who have made conspicu- 200,000 docked wether and ewe lambs ous success in Improving their dairies. will be marketed from Kentucky this The state college of agriculture at year. The high quality of these lambs the this backs up by saying Ithaca already has attracted the attention of average man must depend upon the many eastern buyers, who are going seand like" law that "like produces Into the state and buying direct from lect animals, for breeding purposes the producers instead of waiting for and producing that have the physical lambs to arrive at the central marthe characters desired In the offspring. kets. A number of public auctions Were It possible always to use have been held, with the highest bid proved sires, or sires with daughters within 50 cents per 100 frequently would chance of producing age, little of the pounds top at the leading east-ebe taken in their selection. Unfortusame day. the markets availnre few proved sires nately too from losses and castration docking able and most men must select a been very small. The greatest have untried younger, less expensive, and from the eliminating bull. In this selection, Individuality advantage to members lamb, "bucky" according be considered. and pedigree should of the and marketing specialists. Since there Is a relation between the Is In trade the number of seconds reducing an animal size and conformation of and culls In the market receipts. It Is and Its ability to produce satisfactory estimated to one-Imthat from physical development and type must more lambs can be handled In the be Insisted upon. future than are now gold, because of A bull of good Individuality and dethe Improvement In the supply. velopment whose female and male anIn the near two or three gencestors erations have made or ;linve trans- Potatoes Particularly mitted uniformly good' productions, Valuable for Fattening averaging well above that of the herd are particularly valuable "Potatoes to be Improved, should be elected. pigs," soys Austin A. For grading, It would seem wise to for fattening k Dowell, extension specialist require that the females In a sire's with the of Minnesota. University should have at least shown ancestry "They shonld be cooked, the water sufficient ability to qualify for advanced registry. Such a bull will discarded, then mixed with grain at the rate of three parts potatoes to one usually transmit to his offspring the so common to his part of the concentrates. Prepared in producing ability this way they may be fed liberally to ancestors. fatten pigs or sows with Utters. Raw and Young unproved bulls of excelpotatoes may be fed In limited quantilent breeding may be purchased at ties to mature and Idle brood sows. If below their actual value. prices fed to pregnant sows, they should be cooked and fed in relatively small Poor Lubrication Will quantities." Dowell says that raw potatoes Cause Tractor to Wear areMr.often readily eaten by cattle, " After a tractor handles a load for horses and sheep. Fed In large quan35 hours, 6 per cent of the lutities to dairy cattle they are likely to bricating oil will be kerosene that has taint the milk and produce a white been forced past the pistons, accord- salve-lik- e butter. Another reason why ing to J. C. Wooley of Missouri. And potatoes should not be fed too freely, when oil has reached such a state of says Mr. Dowell, Is because they condilution Its lubricating qualities are tain a poisonous material called solan-Inalmost lost. A tractor forced to opThe sprouts carry this substance erate on such oil wears out very rap- In relatively large quantities and idly. should be removed before feeding. Careful Investigations show that the crank-cas- e should be drained after three or four days of work. The clean- Lambing Time Is Looked est of the oil may be poured back to Upon as One of Troubles fluth the case. After It has been Lambing time Is looked upon by drained out, refill with new oil. The many flock owners as one of difficulty. old oil is useful in the hog and poultry It Is a very Important season for the houses. shepherd snd the degree of success through the lambing season largely determines the profit or loss from a Satisfy Hankering for flock. Cared for after they are Early Onions in Spring bred, very little properly trouble will be ex- Did the hankering for those early periencea at lambing time. green onions strike you the first thing last spring? And then were you able to satisfy jour hunger with onions Fall Pig Ration Giving right from your own garden T The Lucrative .Most Results folks who have a bed of winter onions, One ration which has given or, as others call them, perennial ongood reions, or Egyptian onions, satisfied their sults In the fall pig feeding is comtaste very nicely. posed of 50 pounds of corn. 50 pounds Suppose yon get five or six pounds of of middlings and 10 pounds of tank-agthe sets and stick them In an our-of- . Another used Is tha-wa- y corner of your garden where made up of 10 parts ofsuccessfully corn and 1 of the plow will hot turn them out This tankagev Fifty pounds of corn, 6 onion bed will be permanent and long pounds of shlpstuff and 10 pounds of before the spring sets or the seed ontankage also make a good ration, ions ara ready to use you will have all while 8 jmrtj f corn and 1 of the early onions an average family can oy beats may be used for a part feortb, possibly use. created 1m In the United Stataj than the news that Wale doe not play Better Lambs Campaign Is Winner in Kentucky Kentucky ""ona Five hundred people he.. killed by automobiles lu Chica. environs this year, and cone la Sheep probablr uffer more from kind of purasltes than do any other DeStates United the live stock, says a partment of Agriculture In -- publication Just Issued entitled Fanners' Bulletin 1330, Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep," by Maurice C Hall of the bureau of animal Industry. Most of our losses In sheep, mutton, and wool are from animal parasites, as sheep suffer comparatively little from bacterial diseases, It la said. Lambs and young animals are most susceptible to parasites and suffer from them. Special emphasis Is placed in the bulletin upon disease preventloa It Is the sheepman's business to prevent disease, and as soon as an outbreak is noticed a competent veterinarian should be called In. Act promptly, the department urges, to "ascertain the trouble when sheep become unthrifty. A postmortem examination of one of the slck animals may disclose the trouble and save others. Parasitized animals usually do not have fever they are unthrifty, and unthrlftiness may with a fatal tergo on to emaciation ' mination. " Pasture rotation, use of forage crops, j feeding from racks or bare floors, redraining or filling swamps, and straint of wandering dogs are raeas-th- e department recommends as In parasite control. It value of being points out emphatically that permanent pastures perpetuate parasites. Parasite eggs pass In the manure, usually. The disposal of the manure determines the fate of these eggs, whether they find their way back Into the animals and hatch out or not , Copies of the bulletin may be had without cost as long as the supply lasts, by writing to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. sheep-producin- 'JOBS Bat If the Island of Capri retreat for writer. ... . De- Gathered by Difference of Opinion as to Figures Sheep Are Particularly partment Workers. v Considerable Reduction Most Is Whch Variety When Pullets Beghv to Subject to Parasites Si.tM Department in Calf Raising Costs by th Unite (Preprd the United State Depart mem by uf Agriculture.) (Prepared Profitable. Lay Get Them Into Coop of Agriculture.) with The high cost, of raising calves can A difference in the rapidity Experienced poultrynien have found that if pulleti are allowed to remain very long on tbe range after starting to lay, the change to winter houses is sure to check them and may cause a " fall molt Cornell backs them In saying that as soon as the first eggs are found on the range, at least a third or a fourth birds should be of the in winter quarters. placed When the remaining birds show maturity, they should be put In winter , quarters also. A thorough cleaning and disinfecting of the bouses and pens In which the pullets are to live Is advocated. This la especially true If the birds that formerly occupied the building have been diseased or have had worms. Artificial lights should not be used on pullets until they have had a chance to respond to normal conditions. If they do not respond quickly enough, or if neck molt starts, then light can be used with good effect. Many flocks of pullets take cold after their removal to winter quarters because they are kept In tightly closed houses. All windows and curtains in the front of the houses should be wide open night and day until really cold weather sets In, Even In the middle of tbe winter, the cloth curtains should not be entirely dosed. Lack of ventilation causes dampness In the bouses and this. In turn, results In colds and roup. . circulating mark makes of the astronomers fitr reasonable. , 000,000,000 the prince of ;er. t The aviator are now figuring on i speed of 440 miles an hour, which k approximately fast enough to keep pace with the decline of German paper currency. In praising a man they say "Hi one of eur oldest and most highly respected citizen.'' 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