Show feeding Stir stimulants nulan s to increase weight utilization of feed profits from dosage evidence that tonics and seimu lants are as effective for livestock and poultry as they 1 are for humans is contained in re search conducted by washington ex peri pendent ment station A year ago the experiment station started a feed ing trial with four groups of hereford heifers six in each group one group serving as a con arol was fed a basal gram grain ration consisting of barley oats beet pulp peas and bran the other three groups had the kame iame grain ration with these addi lions lot 2 fowler s solution 18 grams arsenic trioxide per 1000 pounds of gram lot 3 grams of per 1000 1 pounds of grain lot 4 2 pounds per 1000 1 pounds pf grain during the first two weeks of feed ing the heifers getting lot 3 gained 3 8 pounds per head daily those getting fowler s tion 2 6 pounds those getting thi 2 4 pounds control animals only 8 6 pounds during the follow ing two week period steers gained 4 1 pounds fowler s solution 3 31 1 3 con arol 3 As the weeks went by the aver age daily gains for all groups came closer together here are the rates of gain for the tour four groups at the end of 14 weeks controls no stimulant 2 35 pounds fowler s so lution 2 6 pounds 2 7 pounds 2 5 pounds the cost of feed per pound of weight gain was lowest in the group that is they made better use of feed than the others KNOW YOUR BREED british by W J DRYDEN the british like the american originally was imported from the la perche brov ince near normandy france first used extensively during world war I 1 the demand demland for this type of draft horse was so great exhibited at british horse show histon cambridge that by 1918 the british horse society had been formed to encourage the breeding of perche rons for agricultural work the color of the british Is gray or black with little white stallions are a minimum of 16 hands 3 inches tall with mares ai 1 I lowed 2 inches shorter keep them healthy to reduce lamb and sheep losses from dogs and wolves use truck flares placed in holders on top of steel posts driven into the ground sheep learn to gather near the flares at night wolves and dogs are kept away by the flicker of the flame and the odor 0 0 if DDT tails fails to control flies around the barn it s probably because there are manure piles or old bottoms nearby these breeding places can turn out flies faster than DDT can kill them of turk blackhead of turkeys ays eys is caused by an organism that Is carried by cecal worms is ef in removing these worms from chickens and turkeys many turkey raisers now give phen othia zine in the mash every three or four weeks to prevent outbreaks ot of blackhead farms use six times Rs ris many tires as city the typical midwestern american farm has six times as many rubber tires on its rolling stock as a one car city dwelling family a survey conducted by B F goodrich corn com pany indicates the survey cov ered farms in a representative agricultural county in illinois and disclosed an average of 32 matic rubber tires per farm from the standpoint of actual rubber vol me rne the farmer s edge is greater |