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Show .THE UINTAH BASIN FA12IE2 Laying Hens Now on a Night Shift 'Artificial Lights Deceive Pullets Into Increased Egg Production. esifential during the pregnant Potassium Iodide should be In the drinking water twice a' given month or In the salt kept before the ewes at all times. Ewes In good, thrifty condition are more likely to give birth to strong vigorous lambs. success has been bad with soy beans, mixiDg them with tankage one part beans, two parts tankage. Soy beans may also be fed to pigs In the bundle and let them do their own threshing. Soy beans may be fed In tbe place of tankage when the price of soy s beans is of the price of tankage per ton. Of course. If you have your own beans and do not have a ready market for them they may be worth more than that rather than make a cash outlay for tankage. Good two-third- Clover Winning The hens that lay New Yorks breakfast eggs are about to go on the night shift again. The recently Introduced practice of Unexcelled as Cover Crop increasing egg production by lengthening the short autumn and winter for Plowing Under to days with artificial light In the hen so successful that houses has proved Improve Soils. It Is expected to become almost universal this year among the thousands As a pasture and soil Improving of suburban poultrymen In New Jercrop, sweet clover Is winning a popon and Long island. ular place for itself sey, Connecticut among many Hans Respond Profitably. farmers. hens Proof that the respond profitAs a cover crop for plowing under ably to the system of lengthening the in the general field. In the orchard, winter days by electricity has been or pasture. It Is said to be unexcelled. Leslie If. Black, poultry Recent tests in Illinois show produced by an ac- expert of the New Jersey Agricultural cumulation of In the tops and nitrogen college, who publishes the results of roots of around 250 pounds per acre tests In the Farm Journal. .from clover planted one spring and Black has tested 163 flocks of pultested In May of the following year. lets over a period. Of these, This Is as much nitrogen as is con43 flocks were tested without the aid tained in 25 tons of average farm maof lighting and were found to average nure or in over 1,600 pounds of ni72.9 eggs per hen. The others, tested trate of soda. under three different lighting systems, Success with the crop, say those all ran profitably ahead of that figure. who have grown it, depends on a good Three Lighting Plane Used. seed bed, well limed. At least one to The three methods used to convince two tons of finely ground limestone the hens that winter days are as long must be used to each acre. Inoculaas summer ones, and so keep production of the seed Is also important. tion artificially stimulated when prices In many Instances farmers have not are high, are these: obtained a good stand with the first First The evening lunch system, trial even under the best of condiwhen the houses are lighted for an tions and treatment; but, once a good hour at night, between eight and nine, stand Is secured in a field, sweet cloor nine and ten. Second The mornver will be found one of the most ing lights plan, when the houses are valuable crops on the farm. lighted before dawn. Third The use A recent bulletin from Kentucky of lights both morning and night so says, "Sweet clover Is perhaps the that the length of the day Is made to most valuable of all legumes for pasequal absolutely that of the night ture and soil Improvement on KenThis last system seems to give the tucky farms. Properly managed, sweet best results of the three," the Farm clover pastures will support at least Journals expert reports. It produced one steer or dairy cow per acre from 10.7 more eggs per pullet than when early spring until late fall, which is no lights were used, 6.5 more eggs two or three times the capacity of than under the evening lunch plan, Kentucky pastures at the present and 1.3 more than the morning lighttime. The growth of grasses Is greating system. ly stimulated by sweet clover when It is Included In the pasture mixture." Popular Favor six-mon- Agricultural Hints Paint will help the looks of buildings. A Building costs are high, so we must take better care of the buildings. d Dont expect feeds to provide shelter for animals. The owner mnst look after the shelter high-price- himself. Lambing tolls can be reduced and the loss of many of the fattest ewes by paralysis prevented by proper cold weather management. Erosion, gullying and. sheet erosion take an annual toll of $200,000,000 from farmers of the United States The loss is in their basic resource, the solL Although dairy herds of low cows require less feed and less man labor, the cost per pound of the butterfat Is greater than cows. for herds of butter-fat-producin- Pallets that are nearly grown require much more space Gian thej did when two or three months old. Be sure to have sufficient roost space so that each pallet may sit on the roost without being crowded. As lambing time approaches the loose wool should be trimmed from tbe flanks and udder as this gives the young lamb a better chance to secure nourishment, and lessen possibility of wool balls in lambs stomachs. Percentage of Nutrients Select Seed Potatoes its high yield per acre but also because of Its nutritive value, says the United States Department of Agriculture. The only feed crop that can be compared readily with barley In farm economy is oats. Barley produces more pounds to the acre than oats and has a higher percentage of digestible nutrients. Success In feeding barley depends somewhat upon how It is fed. Barley fed whole is too coarse for best results, and If fed too finely ground Is pasty and unpalatable. The best way of preparing it for live stock is to have it coarse ground or rolled, the latter way of preparation being common In the West. Ewes Need Care The success pends largely Good Extra Good at Lambing Time of the sheep flock deon the management. feed and care materially influ- ence the subsequent lamb crop. Pregnant ewes should be separated from the main flock and carried along In food thrifty condition until lambing .time. They may be fed such succulent feeds as roots and ensilage, the latter in limited quantity, together with some alfalfa hay, for the purpose of stimulating mii production. Good water Book Farming Gives From Healthy Plants Most Satisfaction Tubers intended for next years seed should be selected from healthy plants alone, and should be lifted while the foliage is green. The persistence of the seed tuber, with the resulting poorer growth. Is accounted for by the overdevelopment of the seed potato. The seed potato ought to Tells Story of Year's Work in Dollars and Cents. T.Ve light essarily boj d for spring planting. straw Protect It with coverings of weather. of during a winter spell mm Feeding Soy Beans to Hogs Is Favored Plan fed to hogs quite Soy beans may be mineral successfully provided a good are beaus as soy mixture Is also fed, extent in mineral lacking to a large matter. used to have a good deal of fun at the expense of the book farmer. Some book farmers have the laugh on the rest of us, however. The boys who at the end of she year can turn decay. Tubers for seed are better of the size of a fowls egg. The skin must be "set," which is evidence that the to keep potato Is ripe, for the crop skin is The surely until the spring. off rub easily not set when It does seed for tubers and with the thumb, sunof hours In many must be ripened is which them, shine. This greens are ripe. further evidence that they In the The seed crop must be kept necnot although winter. all the g high-produci- Barley Produces a High Barley should be more widely used hens first laying season la her most profitable. th as a stock feed, not only on account of the farm j to their farm account books and show the figures, black and white, which tell the financial story of tbe years work, accomplishments, profits and losses, are the ones who really know where they are at" The keeping of adequate farm accounts requires but a few hours work during the year. It is not half such a chore as it might seetn. No piece of work during the much return In jear will give you soinformation about satisfaction, in real your own business, In checks and on what yon are doing with your time and energy, as a simple but complete story In figures. In dollars and cents, in hours of work and yields of acres found In your farm account book, says tbe Illinois Farmer. January is the best time to open such a book. If you do not already keep one. Farmers wbo do not are In the, majority.. Now yon have time to take a simple inventory of wnat you have and wbat you owe, and to make the start toward farm bookkeeping. You dont need to operate a set of double entry books to have an adequate farm accounting system but yon do need a better information file than your memory. Our state college of agriculture will give you all sorts of helpful suggestions for the asking, and most anyone can follow the simple rules laid down In any good farm account book. Oxf.ce started, you will find a lot of interest in keeping up the entries and balancing your business at the end of the year. No other business but farming would even try to get along without an accounting system, and, in fact, the farming business has not done so very well wlth-- Prune Gooseberry Bush for Health and Yield Too little pruning done during the dormant season last fall was responsible for the poor yields from healthy gooseberry bushes, about which considerable complaint was made this past season, according to Dr. A. & Colby of the University of Illinois. Growers therefore should not hesitate to prune heavily in their small fruit plantations this falL removing the oldest canes of currants and gooseberries and some of the strong as well as ail of the weak canes of The laterals also the bramhles. on should be cut back about one-haraspberry and blackberry boshes, he added. This is the best time to prepare the bush fruits and brambles for the winter. Pruning small fruits In the dormant season is generally recommended. partly because of the time available when other work Is not so pressing. The earlier it Is done the better, because insects, such as and cane borers, and diseases; like anthracnose, crown gall and cane blight, are controlled more satisfactorily by early removal of Infested, lf tree-cricket- wood. s . Fall Fertilizing Best Practice for Hay Land Why not apply a top dressing of phosphate or potash mixtures to hay lands this fall! Many farmers are finding It a practice that pays. New seedlings respond well to fall application of these mixtures, although in a general soli building program it is usually considered best to apply them In the spring at seeding, according to C. J. Chapman, of the soils department at the Wisconsin College of Agriculture. Chapman points out that this late application, which may be made any time between harvest and frost, has two distinct advantages. It stimulates fall growth and, at the same time, becomes more thoroughly incorporated with the surface soil In advance of tLe growing season. A cow must have three quarts of water for every quart of milk she pro- duces. The good live stock farmer shelters properly his family and his animals. Both should be comfortable at aO times. bal-ime- es More beef breeding herds on com belt farms, will result in a more profitable and permanent type of agricul- ture than is now found. A thorough cleaning of the house and Its Interior fixtures Is essentlaL Some good coal tar dip can be used effectively in this connection. |