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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Feeding For Egg Production By BYRON ALDER, Poultryman, Utah Agricultural Experiment with milk or wat make . more s Pre- masb ferable if tbp v,Q eat ifc readily, becausp ot tbe labor involved in mix- a reedlng a moist mash. Thirty seven of mill run bran and shortspounds may be used to lep ace the bran and shorts iri asbIf the price of these the feeds ls more than 80 cent of the cost of fine groundperwheat then it ls advisable to use about 35 pounds f ground wheat instead of the prau arid, shorts in the above mix- This ls esPecially true when ground oats and barley are used palatable Station. With a flock of vigorous, Veil de- pullets or hens kept in a comfortable house, the number of eggs which they will produce during the winter, or entire year, is only a question of how and what they are fed. Good feeding is to give the birds all they can consume of a palatable mixture of feeds that will supply all that is necessary to main- tain the body arid to manufacture y - the eggs. Since the first law of nature is the amount to instead of corn. self preservation If three t0 four gallons of skim If the feed is feed is important. limited in amount or kind, egg pro- milk or buttermilk are available duction is first sacrificed, and npt each day for each 100 hens the body maintenance, an increase in meat meal may be left out of the the consumption of feed above that mash, and milk will furnish the required for maintenace results in "iC!.S.lary-,pro.ir-i' A. Part of this milk may be used and increased egg production if the feed amount for produc- a- proportional amount of meat is properly balanced All that is known of the meal added to the mash. tion. Where fresh meat or fish are value of artificial light in increasing winter production is that it makes used they should always be in a it possible for the rens to eat more good fresh condition or will cause digestive troubles.they The feed. Grains alone are fattening feeds. amount each day should be jus. An abundance of grain without a what the birds will clean up readOver feedprotein feed to supply the material ily in a few minutes. recessary to make the white of the ing of these feeds may cause digeslime to tive disorders and an overstimulaegg. and these without make the shell will not give a sat- tion of the egg producing organs isfactory egg production. Thd nec- with probable increase in blood essary protein can be supplied by spots in the eggs and later a serskim milk, butter milk, ious loss of fowls from eversioiq of feeding meat meal, fish or fresh meat. Which the ovaduct. f d Tv. ever is used must be supplied regIv all they wul, clean up. rel!lar W here ular and in proper amounts. - ?! should be of scratch feed should be increased. As a To increase egg production. con- costs. inrule the home produced feeds are sumption of mash should he and creased feed scratch decreased cheaper and will give satisfactory A good ration without proportionately. Charges in feed results. A corn for egg production using the should be mafle gradually. homo produced grains can be made regular supply of green feed is desirable not only because of a rich as fellow's: of vitamine, ash, and other Scratch Feed Wheat 90 pounds; supply but also because of the nutrients oa's. 3'1 pourids. effect, of this feed on the digestive Madi Bran, 26 pounds; shorts, system. A regular but limited 12 pounds; 20 pounds, amount of green feed is desirable barley, (ground fine); oats, 12 pounds, while an over supply causes a very meat meal, 13 irferior quality in the egg (around fine); rounds; charcoal, 2 pounds; salt, 4 pounds. pourds; bone meal, 1 Fresh clean water and oyster shell ALFALFA SEED PRODUCTION or crushed lime stone should p,n kept available for the hens. (Continued from Page 4) A drily feed of dry alfalfa leaves and mangles or sugar beet3 is also mies to the grasshoppers, are owls, desirable during winter, and fresh blackbirds and the haw'ks. The only green feed in summer." The above time a hawk should be killed is amount of feed should supply 100 when he has proved himself to be laving hens for ten days. a frequent visitor of the poult ry Corn is a good grain to use as yard. The sparrow hawk and the a narf of the mash and scratch feed swansons hawk are both destroyers for laving hen, but it is not so im- of grasshoppers. portant that it should be fed when Blister Beetles. t''e price is higher than) other grains. When blister beetles do become the Win n i he price of corn is near the serious and need controlling, for Trice of the other up machines rigged scratch the grasshopper grains h e would and mash given above may he catching grasshoppers They as anything. as effective changed to the following mixtures about if Gio feeder desires to use corn: can very easily he driven with the piles Sr..irh Wheat. 50 pounds; wind out of the fields on to burnstraw the corn. then of strav and pound; oats, 25 oounds. Poisl Mash Bran, 25 pounds; ed and' the beetles destroyed shce-successful but pounds; corn. 20 pounds, oning is not very he done with should ("Tomui fine); barley, 12 pounds, when attempted, of two o rate the at (cronnd fine): meat meal, 18 Paris greenone-hapounds to one rounds; charcoal, 2 pounds; salt, two and of water, and the rounds; bone meal, 1 pounds. hundred gallons The scratch feed should be fed plants on which they are feeding, covered. twice a ,p,v cjran ,jry straw litter thoroughly Chalcis Fly. about r, to 8 inches d deep, a.falfa ho "nTim and The chalcis fly feeds on are dein the , eggs The ,nt seeds. fornoon. Feed from 8 to 16 and clover the pods are growing rounds a dny for parh 100 hens, posited when t ie cv green m I the irf amount is determined by through wbek later the Jit one t,lp condition of the birds, the sea-So- seed. About and b hatched are and tbo rate of production. tie larvae soed whore the re The mush should be fed dry and feeding on the are ready to come rt tu food until they little hoppers always avail-fi- o mainas adults. They are a knat o flip hens out should and the they n ahoii t the black fiv that resemblebroo ron proportion of mash somewhat. The first n(t srr.itch feed given in order to its rorrriv balance the riutritents. pletes pro tbo hens do deposit eggs in the not eat the mash ready to seed gen as there are cadiy part 0f moistened crop of may is so important that fed no matter what it erations a year. The second generation passes the inside the seed and comes in the spring as an adult to deposit eggs within the ready pod of the first seed. These adults are sometimes con- !usad witb knats hovering over the ieldsThey enjoy hot weather but during the extreme hot hours of the day they are somewhat like humans they seek the shade during the heat of the dayThey are very active fliers and usually go with the wind, are found all over the world where alfalfa and clover seed are - - grown. Quite a large per cent of the seed crop is destroyed unnoticed because the seed are so small when the eggs are deposited that the seed and fly both perish. Any where from ten to thirty per cent of the first crop of seed is destroyed with this pest and from twenty to seventy per cent of the second crop where ser- ious infestations occur. Control Methods Farmers very frequently have the habit of pasturing their field that. was left for seed thinking this is the best and cheapest way of harvesting a poor crop. This is the most serious mistake, as has already been stated the fly hibernates or passes the winter inside the seed and the cattle tramping on this infested seed tramp it into the soil providing an ideal protection for this fly during the winter month so that it can come out in the spring un- molested. Such fields should be cut and cleaned, as much as possible, from seed pods or seed. This should be fed to the cattle in feed racks and any left over should be burned or composted. All alfalfa growing along ditch banks sh0llld be removed and de- stroyed at the time the regular hay ' n crop is left for seed, all volunteer alfalfa in the vicinity should be moved and burned as it is this vol-ounteer alfalfa on the edges of the Held that provides an ideal place for this insect to multiply sufficient infest the seed 90 as to seriously re-win- ter ut crop- AH the stack yard should be composted or burned. (Composted means inS in a heap and allowing to heat sufficient to destroy the insects therein.) Late fall cultivation as advocated for weevil and grasshoppers is again advocated for the chalcis fly as it covers the pods containing the ov fly in the fields so deep that they can not emerge in the Farmers should note the spring. inconsistency of selling all their good seed and planting the poor seed or screening for by doing so they are Planting the seed that contains the pil-velop- chalcis fly. All seed should be passed through the cleaning machine that will elim- inate a11 infested seedAnother suggestion is that the seed crop should be cut early and not wait until the last pod is matured as the flies in the early infested pods will become adults and the second generation of this fly will reinfest the later pods on the same crop so the thing to do is to cut the seed when the majority of the pods are matured. Again it is necessary that "ommunity effort should be put .ln c:ga"ized to rather frth individual efforts control ths pest. As can be seen from the history of the insect itself, and its habits, no method of poisoning is possible, just clean careful fanning. Alfalfa Stem Xematafde. Until recently it was not known that this species of animals known - W A a on pnS al-wa- vs On Top the World WITH RADIO WELL tuned Radio set will pu you on top of the world in the matter of keeping you amused and entertained. A Famous addresses, popular orchestras, A simple turn shows, all at your finger-tips- . of the knob and youre thousands of mil.-from home. lf '1 s one-thir- two-thir- A ds W. L. WOOLF ,v to ! ed |