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Show k VOL 5, NO. 21 ROOSEVELT, UTAH, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR Seasonable Livestock Notes The big show is over. .The cattle are home, and owners of the best ones are, perhaps, preparing advertising copy figuratively colored with purple, blue and red. Breeders of champions may well be proud of their accomplishments for is not the breeding of good dairy cattle, Three problems are presented in for the winter. At thds time that the flock be treated for let hay, if cut late, tends to be lice and the roosts treated for constipating; it is, as a rule, not as mites. Blue ointment, in quantity palatable as most other hays and the size of a pea, rubbed around it is relatively low in protein. the vent of each fowl will control Silage and millet hay require a lice. Spraying or painting the roosts grain mixture that will yield be- thoroughly with crude petroleum of farm live stock a fine art? If tween 18 and 20 per cent of di- or crude oil will control mites. that is true then is not the feeding gestible protein to properly balance Mites mass together in cracks and and care of farm animals a part of the ration. The same is true of oth- crevices under roosts and in the that art? What can we do in No- er hays low in protein such as timr walls. At night they crawl to the vember to help live stock bring othy and sudan grass. A satisfac-- fowl and suck blood. The crude oil j more money and greater satisfac- tory mixture could be made of 200 must be forced into these cracks tion? pounds of ground corn or ground a.nd crevices. Kindness in the Cow Earn barley, 200 'pounds of ground oats, Feeding For E5 A letter from a very successful 200 pounds of wheat bran, 300 Feeding the flock for egg proJersey breeder in Minnesota lists pounds of linseed meal, 100 pounds duction is an important part of the among the essentials of cow care of gluten feed and 100 pounds of November management of poultry. the factor of kindness. The cows cottonseed meal We suggest a laying mash composed are 'now in the barn for the winter Care of Dairy Calves of 100 lbs. each of wheat, bran, except for short periods of daily In our issue of October 10, we wheat middlings, ground oats, corn exercise. We are in. closer contact published a very good article on meal, and meat scrape. If it is dewith them, a fact which may invite the care of the dairy calf. The sub- sired to increase the consumption abuse or kindness from the owner, ject is timely for, November con- of mash a quantity equal to what depending on his disposition which, sideration, hence this reminder. The tie birds wiii clean up quickly as a rule, is partly the product of number of dairy cattle in this coun- may be fed at noon, mixing the dry habit. It is worth while in Novem- try has been slightly on the decline mash to a crumbly consistency with ber to study our housing facilities the per capita consumption of dairy skimmilk. cratch grain to be fed to find out if we can make our products has been noticeably on the with this mash consists of 100 cows more comfortable. It is worth i increase. We cant help but feel pounds each of wheat, cracked com of while to make an effort to be kind that the proper feeding and and heavy oats. The quantity in and about the cow barn. of well bred dairy calves is grain to feed for 100 hens will be about 4 pounds in the morning and good business. Reducing Labor Costs 8 pounds at night, From fifty to sixty per cent of Feeding Dairy Cows attenthe cost of producing milk is for In this issue we call your grain hens should have free access of to grit, oyster shell and water feed. The next big cost item is for tion to the beginning of a series or labor. The quantity of milk pro- articles oil the subject of feeding Green feed such as cabbage disalso helpful. mangle is duced on different farms for a giv- dairy cows. The first article en amount of labor .varies widely, cusses some very important factors in the so much so that we are Your own good faith must he suggesting of feeding management here the subject of economy in the economy of producing milk. your chiefest care. No matter what use of labor for November considersome others do play fair! Housing Fall Pigs We know a farmer who made a ation. not On a recent into the country costly mistake in September by IDAHO GROWERS STORING trip which in we were on. a farm where the ownproviding a suitable place and POTATO CROP WAITING FOR get er stored his barley, oats and corn a good sow could farrow reIMPROVEMENT OF PRICES overhead in the barns, sprouted the acquainted with her pigs. The described. grains by gravity into the hopper sult need i ot be BOISE, Idaho (AP). A majority of a feed grinder set at the end of There is still time to avoid costly in Pridiof the potatoes of this years crop the manger into which the ground mistakes or negligence fall for quarters !are going in storage to wait more feed was delivered. ng safe winter feeds are not mill and Grain we This i3 an example of what W. H. Wicks, pigs. care- favorable prices, mean by efficiency in the use of la- so low in price as to justify of the department of agrJ takes too much feed It bor. less housing. details the of many great culture, said Tuesday when he rein taking care of live Btock during for 100 pounds gain under suchn turned from a tour of the principal ventila-tlothe winter are born of habit. We conditions. Dry bedding, sections of the accumula- potato growing that prevents the on suggest November as a time to bewas considerthere said He state. regin breaking bad habits that tion of moisture and frost among able shippers and! activity pigs quire more labor than is necessary inside of the house, preventing were being moved many potatoes oo much to do a up from pUing not in quai work. but of amount the of state, out given and convenitremely cold weather,factors of good titles comparable with last year. Silage and Millet Hay are A subscriber from. Nebraska ence in feeding He said large cellars were being management. writes in for suggestions concern- housing filled by growers willing to absorb ing a grain mixture suitable to be and losses from cellar shrinkage we urged, led with corn millett in extra of cost and anticipahandling care silage culled bay. There may be other who have the poultry flock he are pu tion of more favorable prices. a similar fully before the pulets this combination of roughage. ! we---urg- e Mil- man-agme- nt tor a S 5f problem. S'U tot HOW TO FEED YOUR TURKEYS FOR BEST RESULTS First The grower should start to feed his turkeys now; he should have them on full feed by October 10th or 15th. He should select foods, which! contain, the greatest amount of nourishment. He Should give them every care possible. He should eliminate diseases or crippled birds. For Thanksgiving he should kill only last years birds, or birds that have reached maturity this year. He should weigh his year's birds before killing. If, after starving for twenty four hours, a hen weighs less than pounds, or a tom weighs less than 14 pounds, he should hold them over 83 v shoula not a thin bird. In killing he Bhould make a wound large enough to permit thorough, bleeding. He should be sure to remove all feathers, including meek and tail feathers; a small fan on the tip of each wing, only-bein- g permissible. He should remove all pin feathers, be careful pot to tear the skin In any way, eliminate bruises, wash the feet and head of each bird. He should wrap each head in paper. Should starve twenty four hours before killing amd kill twenty-Kai- r hours before delivery. If he ships, he should be caref not to pack his birds before the-a- re thoroughly cool- If he observes all these rules he should have "ho difficulty in realizing top prices on his product. HAY SELLING AT ADVANCED PRICES OWING TO FAVORABLE FACTORS IN IDAHO MARKET Boise, Idaho (AP). Hay is being marketed practically all over tib state at S10 a ton and in some instances as high as $11 a ton, local dealers said Tuesday. The price was in nart attributed to shortage of holdover supplies, caused by the late rains of last spring which held many stockmen off the ranges and forced them to feed Btacks of hay which originally would have been heldi for fall use. acreage is also reported to have affected the price, many farmers going over to bean growing. |