Show irm limed litter helps improve hens health built up system mso also benefits baby chicks by caw W J DRYDEN not only as a means of saving on the cost of litter material as well as on labor but also as a coc cidio sis control measure authorities now recommend that litter be left in the brooder and laying house tor for a year or more when the litter is treated with hydrated lime little danger from disease will result by using the buildup built up litter method the poultry house receives additional insulation resulting in drier litter and more uniform temperature extensive tests at ohio and washington state colleges coll have proven the value ol 01 6 healthy poultry can be kept on litter left in houses for a year or more this system of litter management when the built up method is em aloyed the litter is first put in at two to three inches deep to which one pound of hydrated lime is added to each five square feet of floor space when the litter begins to pack another layer of litter as well as an application of lime is added this may be repeated as needed when the litter is stirred with a fork and sticks together in clumps or if the hens can t move it when scratching more lime should be added less liming will be needed if feed hoppers and other equipment is moved occasionally when deep litter is used a greater amount of lime may be adlisa ble this system in fact no tern tem will be satisfactory in damp weather unless the house is well built and land well drained 1 green manure crops green manure is vital to t 0 soil so 11 rebuilding and higher crop yields that come from a crop of legumes as shown by accompanying chart to compare the organic matter and nitrogen various legumes pro duce through their tops and roots tests were made at joliet soil ex peri pendent ment field plots of white blos asom som sweet clover alfalfa and red clover were seeded in oats may I 1 samples of tops and roots were col lecter november I 1 results showed that white blossom sweet clover pro deuced considerably more organic matter and nitrogen in the fall fa of leg the first year than the other leg umes sweet clover is a superior POUNDS OF C AND I 1 N TROGEN IN TOPS AND SWEET r RED 1 HATTER C AA ph 2300 1 IV L I 1 ad 2000 00 croven 60 ad 12 green manure crop because of bitsi its growth in the fall fail and its high per of nitrogen in the spring of the second year this greater fall growth the first year is due to the fact that sweet clover does not bloom but continues growth until freezing weather alfalfa and red clover frequently will bloom in the tall fall of the first year vegetative growth stops with the blooming practical control of in swine the following program for control of in swine should prove effective blood test breeding stock segregation of infected breeding stock blood test the prospective gilts and boars frequently and up to and during the first pregnancy lemov ing reactors and breed only nega tive tave gilts to clean boars animate or 24 D will knock out poison ivy poison ivy now can be lulled killed with either of the two new chemicals almate or 2 4 D if animate is used as a spray dissolve it in water at tl e rate of one pound to the gal ion spray when the ivy is in full leaf so that the largest possible amount of surface will be covered but spray on a cool cloudy day when there is little chance of rain for 10 hours cover plants well sc that they are soaked |