Show limed litter helps improve hens health built up System Uso Also benefits baby chicks B by W V J DRYDEN not only as a means of saving on the cost of litter material as well BS as on labor but also as a control measure authorities nm now recommend nd that litter bo be left leftin in the brooder and laying house for a year or more when the utter litter Is treated with hydrated lime little danger from disease will result by using tho the built up u p litter method the poultry y house receives additional insulation resulting in d rier drier litter and moro more uniform temperature E extensive tests jit A ohio and washington colleges have proven the value of Z Z healthy poultry can be kept on litter left in houses for or a t i year or more this system of litter manai management ement when the built up method ism aloyed the litter Is first put in a two to three inches deep to which ono one pound of hydrated lime is added to each five square feet of floor space when the utter litter begins to pack another layer of atter as well as an application of ume dimeis is added this may be repeated as needed when the litter Is stirred with a fork and sticks together in clumps or it if the hens cant move it when scratching more lime should should be be added less liming will be needed if hoppers and other equipment Is moved occasionally when madeep deep litter misused Is used a greater amount of lime may be adviga ble this system in fact no system will be satisfactory in damp weather unless the afie house Is ie well built and land well drained I 1 green manure C crops green manure Is vital to sou soil rebuilding and higher crop yields that come from a crop of le legumes gums as shown by accompanying chart to compare the organic matter and nitrogen various legumes produce through their tops abid roots tests were modo made at jollet joliet pollex soil sol lex experiment peri ment field plots of white blossom sweet clovey clover alfalfa ario and red clover clever were wera seeded in oats may 1 samples of tops and roots were collected november 1 results showed that white blossom sweet clover produced considerably more organic matter and nitrogen in the fall of the first year than the other legumes sweet clover Is a superior su MATTE A AND 4 IN topa AND A dau va RED I 1 A HAT so 48 2000 floo orm 69 16 2 gre green en manure crop because of it its growth in the fall and its high percentage of nitrogen in ili 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 free freezing zink weather alfalfa and red clover frequently will bloom in the fall of tho the first year vegetative growth stops stop s with tho 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 baars frequently and up to and during the first pregnancy removing reactors and breed only nega tive five gilts to clean boars baars animate or 24 D will knock out poison ivy poison ivy now can be killed with either of the two new chemicals animate or 24 D if animate is used as a spray dissolve it in water tit at the rate of one pound to the gallon galion 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 chanc of rain r al n for 10 hours cover plants well so that they are arc soaked |