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Show . Xfkt x mr" ft mwrwijywi tca'Mwy I I S u ococ Healthful Quarters for Hogs of Big Importance If hog raising is to be a profitable business the animals must be kept healthy. This requires that sanitary quarters and equipment be provided. Hog houses can be designed and built of concrete block so as to satisfy every requirement They possess all the advantages of houses built of other materials and, when properly built have none of the disadvantages. N The accompanying photograph shows a swine house which forms part of the equipment on a large farm in Illinois. '' THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH ' -- rrffff,,,,,!.,,, Rust by Barberry Jack Frost and Merry Sunshine are wrinkling the brows of highway en- gineers and contractors. Their pranks d are ruining expensive and paved highways. During the winter months frost penetrates deep under the road surface, freezing and refreezing the subsoil numerous times. Then, Just like freezing water breaks the water pipe, the subsoil bulges up and cracks the surface of the highway. Rain and slush seeps through these cracks, freezes again, and the process of destruction goes merrily on. When spring comes the final touches are put on the breaking up of the road. The spring rins rush through the yawning cracks aud wpsh away the subsoil, leaving a hollow shell. The warm sunshine aids in the destruction, drying the surface and making it brittle. It is no time then until the road crumbles away under the heavy traffic impacts. Highway engineers of a big rubber concern travel and transport bureau g declare that highway travel is focusing the attention of g experts to this underlying cause of highway destruction. They say that governmental and private agencies have, in the past ten years, lost sight of adequate subgrade soil treatment in their eagerness to produce g surfaces for highhard, ways. Men prominent in highway development, say the bureaus experts, now recognize the urgent need of spending the necessary time and money to build proper road foundations and drainages before expensive stretches of highway are constructed. Searching study and analysis of subsoils will figure more g prominently in future than any other phase of the work, they hard-surface- road-buildin- wear-resistin- Concrete block is the material used in constructing not only the walls of the house itself, but also in inclosing small runways at the front The design shown is known as the half monitor type. It is always built to face the south, so that sunlight may enter through both the upper and lower tiers of windows. A passageway runs from one end to the other, which facilitates cleaning the bins, which are located at both sides of the passageway. At one end some space is set off for feed storage and mixing. Provision is made here for the cooking of feed, which is especially advantageous in cold weather and for early spring litters. The sw ine house should be kept comparatively warm, either with a small heater or by insulating the walls so that the animal heat is retained. Adequate ventilation is also very essential. -- Dry Mash Is Excellent Feed All Year Around Many poultry raisers are feeding cockerels to get In shape to sell as broilers. Purdue university recommends for this use a ration composed of two pounds of corn, one pound of shorts, one pound of ground oats, and eight pounds of buttermilk. This should be mixed and allowed to stand and sour for 24 hours before feeding. Feed in a trough placed out- side the crate in front of the birds. The birds should appear ravenous and eat greedily. If they do not, there Is something wrong with them, and they should be removed from the coop. s When the birds have eaten for 30 the trough should be taken away, thoroughly cleaned and allowed to dry. Give the fowls all they will eat in 30 minutes and no more. Water Is not necessary except In hot weather. It is advisable to feed grit every few days. Two weeks is a good average length of time to feed. The greatest gain should.be made during the first week, but It is profitable to continue in most .cases for another min-ute- week. Give Little Pig Chance to Make Hog of Himself Just as soon as the little pigs will eat they should be fed in addition to wnat they get from the sow. This will pay, according to L. A. Weaver of the Missouri College of Agriculture, even when the sow is a good milk producer, and on the best ration. The pigs should be given access to a small pen whece the sow cannot go, to receive their supplementary feed. Skim milk fed In a shallow pan is very good for them. The pigs may be taught to run into the creep for feed by allowing them some shelled or ear corn. As soon as they begin to eat f milk, some well, a slop made aborts, a little bran and some linseed oil meal or tankage fed along with the corn will make a ration which with proper exercise should satisfac- torily meet the requirements for rapid growth. This ration for the young pigs should Include by weight: 4 parts shorts, 1 part bran and 1 part tankage. As the pigs become older the corn may be gradually increased until the amount has been doubled. Critical Period of Pig. are It isnt the number of pigs-thfarrowed so much as the number saved that counts. The first ten days in a pigs life are the most critical. Give both sow and her litter special attention then. s at tr' Purebred Live Stock, "tf Four per cent of the beef cattle and f three and per cent of the hogs in the United States are purebred. This does not Indicate any great danger of overdoing the purebred bust ness at a very early date. one-hal- , . road-buildin- say. More Autos Registered Increase Highway Fund In motor vehicle registrations more than maintained the rate of rapid increase which has caused the total registration to grow from 3,500,-00- 0 in 1916 to 12,238,375 motor cars 1922 i of Agriculture.) (Prepared by the United Statee Department o( Agriculture ) Farmers proved that the common barberry spreads black stem rust to nearby wheat fields. Scientists showed why and how. Both have shown that rust epidemics disappeared when the bushes were destroyed, said Dr. E. C, Stakman of the United States Department of Agriculture. It Is related that as early as 1720 a farmer In England became so angry at seeing a large barberry bush on a neighbors farm, but near his own wheat, that he poured boiling water around the roots of the plant at night until he had killed It. Bushes Source Cf Trouble. , ' A number of writers observed during the time from about 1750 to 1865 that wherever barberry bushes were found near wheat fields there also was found Infected grain. Although it was not known just how rust could come from the barberry, it was natural that many farmers who had noted the damage to their own fields should be convinced that the bushes were the source of the trouble and should be removed. Differences of opinion between farmers and owners of barberry bushes became barf so sharp as to cause a berry war, which raged from about 1805 until 1855. Farmers whose grain had been destroyed by black stem rust often destroyed the guilty barberry bushes without even asking the owners permission. De Bary Solved Problem. Scientists, says Doctor Stakman, finally tried to find out whether the farmers were right. They were, The matter finally was cleared up In 1865 by De Bary, a German scientist, who made careful experiments and found that the life history of the black stem-ruparasite is as follows: The black stage of the rust lives through the winter. It cannot infect grains or grasses. The spores (seeds), however, do Infect the common barberry, on which they produce the cluster-cu- p stage of the rust. The cluster-cu- p spores are then blown by the wind and Infect grains and grasses, on which they produce the red or summer stage of the rust This stage continues to propagate and spread until late summer or fall, when the black fetage again is produced. Hundreds of scientists have shown that De Bary was right. No one any longer questions the fact. The barberry stands convicted. -- st and tracks at the end of 1922, accord lng to the bureau of public roads. Last year the increase amounted to 1,775,-08registrations, as compared with an average yearly rate of approximately 1,390,000 for the preceding five years. The table issued by the bureau gives registrations by states which total as Culture of Clover for r foilows for the whole United States : Private passenger cars 10,890,112 Profitable Crop of Seed Taxicabs, busses, and cars If you have a heavy growth of 69,459 for hire clover and wish to get a crop of seed, Motor trucks and commercial cut the clover as soon as the heads cars 1,278,804 turn brown ; cure in the windrow and, ! 29,328Trailers ' as soon as the hay rattles in the 182,714 Motorcycles handling, haul under cover; spread A comparison of the truck registraone peck of coarse salt over each tion figures with those for the precedload as put in the haymow. If ing year shows an Increase of 30 per salt cannot be had put a layer of straw of this that cent, indicating phase old hay between each load. The or highway transport is undergoing rapid will take up the moisture In the development. The increase in truck hay clover and prevent heating in the mow. indusconfined is to not registration side delivery hay rake is superior trial sections. Such agricultural states The to the ordinary hay rake, as It leaves as Virginia, Indiana and Florida show loose so the hot air can cure increases of 33 per cent, 30 per cent the hay as well the sunshine. This rake will and 29 per cent respectively, which as the of the tedder, as the take place seems to indicate that many farmers not broken are changing their method of hauling fine leaves and stems are in the handling and lost as a result of road Improvement. The total gross registration revenue of which Flies Will Reduce Milk amounted to 152,047,823, work to road was $117,093,116 applied Flow of Cows Materially under the supervision of the state The dairyman finds the fly an expenhighway departments. Eighteen states taxed gasoline, deriving a revenue of sive Inhabitant of his premises. Flies reduce the milk flow materially by $11,923,442, not all of the states rethe cows. It Is the practice period. porting for a full twelve-montOf this amount, $6,474,178 was spent now to protect the cows through the under the supervision of the state use of repellant mixtures. The extension division of the college suggests highway departments. this mixture: Take twelve ounces of crude carbolic acid, twelve ounces of r turpentine, twelve ounces of oil of tar, Spanish Trail Will Be s of an ounce of tanand to Construct Costly nin. To these should be added enough The old Spanish Traill a national kerosene to make five gallons of the highway from Jacksonville, Fla., to Los mixture. Use this material In an Angeles, Cal., along the Gulf coast and atomizer and spray the cattle in the through the territory immediately stable night and morning. north of the Mexican border, is destined to include several sections of road the equal of which will not be Sudan Grass Excellent found In the United States. It is estiEmergency Pasture Crop mated that a road through the marshes a farmer is going to run short If strong enough to withstand any gulf of hay or pasture, he may well conartilof the to bear storm and weight sider putting out a piece of Sudan lery would Cost from $300,000 to $400 grass as an emergency crop. Two cut000 a mile. tings of hay may be made In one season, giving a total yield of two to four tons per acre. Although It Is relished Motor Cars Responsible stock If cut early enough, It has for Good Road Building by no higher feeding value than ordinary The great demand for motorcars grass hay. The feeding value of Sudan that is responsible for many automo- grass hay may be greatly Increased by bile factories working day and night growing soy beans or cowpeas with Is attributed in a measure to the work it For some farmers Sudan grass accomplished by good roads advocates would be of even more value as pasduring the past few years. In turn ture or as a soiling crop than 'or hay. the automobile itself Is accountable for many good roads movements. The Feather Eating Habit Is v two are closely linked. 0 two-hor- h three-fourth- Australian Government to Introduce Road Bill It Is expected that the Australian government will introduce a main road bill for New South Wales at the next session, creating a board to take charge of and finance the main roads tor that province, says Consul R. Wormuth, Sydney, In a report to the department of commerce. At present there Is a lack of coherence and consequent Inefficiency In the matter ol road building, because the control Is Uvlded among municipalities. ' Discuss Insect Pests of United States and Canada As a result of an International conference on insects of Importance both to the northwestern states and the prairie provinces of Canada, which was held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, recently, plans were perfected for conducting experimental work In the control of these Insects. The experiments are to be carried on in such a way as to render the results comparable In all the districts Involved. A base map of all the International territory affected has been prepared for the purpose of plotting the occurrence of the principal Insect pests of common importance to Canada and the United States. The principal pests discussed were grasshoppers, the western wheat-stesawfly, the pale western cutworm, and the Hessian fly In Canada. The bureau of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture was represented, and other American entomologists were present. The meeting was addressed by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Davis, of Manitoba, and also by the acting president of the agricultural college. Chickens and Eggs Sold Make Family Comfortable Comfort and financial security were attained last year by a Colorado woman through her poultry keeping, although the main crop was almost a failure. The wheat crop was only 90 bushels and the barley 30, besides a small amount of corn to be fed to the live stock. A report received by the United States Department of Agriculture states that after culling her flock and selling the culls for $106 this woman bought lumber to enlarge the poultry house so as to have more space for the pullets retained. The eggs and chickens sold brought $597.20, which was sufficient to pay the annual taxes, to pay the Interest on money borrowed for the farm build the poultry house, add a new room to their house, and finish the inside of two rooms. This enabled the family to have a cozy, warm, three-- , room house, which was much more comfortable than the one room and lean-t- o kitchen they had had before. tar-pap- Guineas can be tamed If their training begins Immediately after hatching. If yon want them tame It Is best to hatch them under common hens and keep them confined while small, teaching them to roost In the henhouses. .In this way they will be quite tame, though they will probably never care to be handled. Some like to have them wild. In that case they may be hatched by the guinea hens, though an a farm, If there are enemies about and they are allowed to roam, they may be killed. Guineas are noisy, but they have a place on the farm. Demand for them is growing in Eastern markets. They Sometimes Hard to Cure are most excellent eating, some flnd-n- g them similar to prairie chickens. The reason that fowls eat feathers is the fact that they are seeking after They are fair layers. The eggs are -certain classes of foods which they Ichor than hens eggs and are said to need but are not getting, says Harry keep longer. Embleton. head of the poultry department of the A. and M. college. This High Value of Feeding class of food Is represented by any Eggs to Little Chicks torm of milk, tankage, meat scraps. one or more r alfalfa pasturage. If Poultrymen occasionally doubt the alue of feeding eggs to baby chicks. of the above feeds are furnished them n sufficient quantities they will get Experiments conducted at the Univer this habit. versity of Wisconsin show that the adTt is sometimes hard to correct th dition of a small amount of eggs to the ration for baby chicks w'll givs onMe once It Incomes a habit. Per ten case often have to be killed. good result. surprtsins ) Now Recommends Lydia E. Com Is Probably Best Single Fattening Food of such fatbuckwheat, good results is probably the best ''single fattening food, but gives better results when combined with other grains. Under farm conditions the simple rations will usually give the most satisfactory results, as they are easily mixed and handled. Since the finishing ration Is essentially a fattening ration, fattening foods should be supplied. Cornmeal and milk or beef scraps are usually used as their base. A ration composed of bIx parts cornmeal, one pftrt beef scrap and four parts middlings Is very satisfactory for fattening. By Its use f about one and pounds have been added to roasters In two weeks. In range fattening the ration Is largely grain. Usually corn is used, not because of better gains secured, but because It is Inconvement to feed a wet mash to birds having the liberty of the bam. Fattening rations should be fed wet, preferably moistened with sour milk, since milk gives excellent results. The ground steeds should be used as far as possible. Experiments show that they are superior to gains ' produced to whole grains. In the case of pen feeding, corn moistened with water or sour milk ir often used to supplement the ration. Any rations compounded tening foods as corn, oats, barley and wheat will give In poultry fattening. Com one-hal- Home-Grow- Feeds Best n for Production of Eggs Pinkh&ms Vegetable Compound Washington, D. C. hams Vegetable Lydia E. Fink Compound saved me from an operation a physician said I would nave to have for a very bad case of female trouble. My system was all run down for two years after my little girl waa born. Then I read of your wonderful medicine and decided to try it. I could hardly dragons foot after the outer, and after taking six bottles of the Vegetable Compound I felt like a new woman. I now do all my housework, also washing and ironing, and do not know what real trouble is. Mybealth is fine, and I weigh 140 pounds. When I started taking it I weighed 97 pounds. I gladly recommend Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound to any one who is suffering from female trouble or is run down. You may use this testimonial for I am only too glad to let suffering women know what the Vegetable ComMrs. Ida Hewitt, pound did for me. l529Penna.Ave. S. E. , W ashington, D. C. Such letters from women in every aection of this country prove beyond question the merit of Lydia E, pink, hams Vegetable Compound. Reasqn to Quit. Hank Pringles wife sed shed let him smoke In the house providin hed blow the smoke up the chimney. After Hank had bumped Us head bout Teven times an singed off most of his whiskers an broke his specs an burned holes in his pants he allowed smokin was a bad habit anyhow aD he reckoned hed give It up. Life. which .Commercial chicken feeds to stimulate egg production are not used by V Qualified. the majority of the leading poultry-me- n Have you had any exProprietor of Iowa. That fact was brought Applicant I out In the recent survey made by the perience as a waiter? carried six courses at oneAfme In col poultry extension meij of Iowa state w college. A questionnaire was sent out to the leading poultrymen of the state and 57 reports were received. Of these 57, there were 34 who had never used commercial feeds for stimulating egg production. Of the 23 who had used commercial feeds, 11 stated that they believed the feeds were valuable and the other 12 stated that the feeds were not beneficial. The Iowa poultry department at Ames recommends the following: Scratch feed: 2 parts corn, 1 part of wheat and 1 of oats. Dry masli : 1 part ground com, 2 parts ground oats, 1 part gluten, tankage. Sour milk or buttermilk could take the place of tankage. Green feeds, as cabbage, sprouted oats, steamed alfalfa hay are beneficial. Fresh, clean water is essential. Gravel or crushed stone are necessary for grit. Oyster shell supplies the hen with material'-neede- d to form egg shells. Many Young Chicks Die Every Year From Gapes Many thousand young chicks die every year from gapes. The disease Is caused by a parasitic worm which attaches itself to the walls of the windpipe. This worm is sometimes called the forked worm by reason of the fact that the male and female are so firmly united that at first glance they have the appearance of one worm with two heads. The worms suck blood from the mucous membrane, thus weakening the chick. They also clog the windpipe, which interferes with breathing. The first symptoms of the disease are coughing and sneezing. Soon the chicks begin to gape, plainly showing that they are unable to get sufficient air. Gapes spread rapidly. The female In the windpipe develops a large number of eggs, which are coughed up by the chick, or else are swallowed, passing through the Intestines and being voided with the droppings. In its efforts to rid itself of the obstruction in Its windpipe, the chick often coughs up live worms. Difficult to Eradicate . Taming of Guineas Must Be Started Right Away 0PBU1TI0H 111 , Alfalfa is one of the leading forage crops in this country, says the United States Department of Agriculture. It Is also widely distributed throughout the world, growing In various soils and meeting the rigors of both heat and cold. It requires considerable moisture, but It does best In a relativewhere water Is ly. dry atmosphere available for Irrigation. In the United States It succeeds at altitudes ranging from below sea level In the Imperial valley, Cal., to 8,000 feet above the sea in the mountains of Colorado. Alfalfa withstands hot weather well where the atmosphere Is dry; most of the damage is done by very cold weather In winter and spring. It Is not known to what extent cold alone does damage to the crop, but It is known that low temperatures combined with other winter conditions cause a high mortality among the plants. Alternate freezing and thawing on poorly drained soils often does much damage by heaving the plants out of the ground and breaking the roots. Deep loams with open subsoils are best, but where other conditions are favorable the crop has a very Wide range of adaptation. It does not thrive on a soil that has an impervious subsoil, hardpan, or bedrock near the surface. However, It has been known to do well on soils with limestone ledges 18 Inches below the surface. Good surface and underdrainage are necessary. 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