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Show FOR THE FARMER Considerable interest in purebred bulls was aroused last year in a coun- ty in Mississippi through a "lottery'-to "lottery'-to encourage owners of scrub bulls to get rid of them. A purebred bull was purchased by one. of the banks in the county. Each owner of a scrub bull Traced his name on a slip of paper and put it in a sealed box which was , brought to the shipping pen. One ' name was-drawn from the box to de- termine who would receive the pure- bred bull in exchange for his scrub. The others were paid the market price for their animals. In another county j in the same state five banks cooperat-j cooperat-j ed in making a similar offer to sell-I sell-I ers of scrub bulls in that -county. Should , green crops be turned under, un-der, fed or sold ? Many local factors I are involved in this- question, but generally speaking, where a forage crop can be grazed or advantageously fed to livestock and the manure returned re-turned to the land, this will be the most profitable. However, where a ' small' number of livestock is kept, or ' where the soil is poor and in need of organic matter, it may. be more profitable profit-able in the end to turn under a green crop than to sell" it. The turning under un-der of a green-manure crop may affect af-fect the yield of following crops even to the third year, and this fact should be taken into account when considering consider-ing the question of selling a legume hay crop or turning it under. Proprietary remedies, given to poultry poul-try either as medicine or mixed feed, or water, are of no use whatever in controlling external parasites, says the TJ. S. Department of Agriculture. Practical tests carried on by the department, de-partment, by dosing fowls with a large number of different internal medicines, show without doubt that not only do these internal "remedies" fail to control the lice and mites, but they often decrease the vitality of the fowls and thus render them easier prey to the parasites. No such short cuts should be attempted: the standard stan-dard control recommendations of the department of Agriculture should be followed. There are supplied free to interested persons. ,.'.-' Grasshoppers attacking soy beans may be destroyed by a common poison bran bait. - The species of grasshoppers grasshop-pers injurious to soy beans are the same that attack alfalfa, such as the red-legged, lesser migratory, and different dif-ferent grasshoppers. They are more likely to cause serious damages on soy beans in semiarid sections, but during dry summers they may multiply sufficiently suf-ficiently to cause serious injury wherever beans are grown. A good bait may be made of 50 pounds of wheat brali, 2 pounds of Paris green or crude arsenic, 1 gallon of molasses, 6 gallons of water, and 1 1-2 ounces of amyl acetate. The poison and bran should be thoroughly mixed while dry, and the molass'es and water stirred together and the amyl acetate added to this liquid. The bran-mixture should be thoroughly wet with this liquid, but not so wet that it can-: can-: not be easily distributed. . The bait should be broad-cast thinly and evenly; even-ly; if distributed in lumps there is danger of poisoning the live stock. About 8 or 19 pounds (wet weight) are needed to an acre, the best time of day for distributing being the ' early morning. Alfalfa and clover are among the best pasture crops for sheep. Because of the great danger of bloating, however, how-ever, sheep should never be turned on such pastures when wet with dew or rain. Moreover, sheep should be accustomed to clover or alfalva pasture pas-ture gradually by giving them a full' feed of blue grass pasture or legume hay before turning them on the new pasture. The danger from bloating seems to vary with different sections of the country, so that the accumulated accumu-lated experience of a neighborhood is usually better advice on the subject of bloating than are general recommendations recom-mendations from outside sources. Cool Hives Control Swarming Protecting the bee hives and supers from the direct rays of the sun during the hottest part of the day will help to control swarming. Hives should be protected from the sun's rays by shade boards or double covers. Painting Paint-ing the hives white also helps. Apiaries Apiar-ies should be located where there is a good circulation of air in the yard; if placed in hot nooks with insufficient insuffi-cient circulation of air, the discomfort to the bees will make them leave the supers during the heat of the day, thus increasing the tendency to I swarm. The use of large additional openings for ventilation, also aid in swarm control. The time of issuing of the swarm depends somewhat upon up-on the weather and, in the case of Italian bees especially, may be hastened hasten-ed by extremely hot weather. Swarming Swarm-ing is more difficult to control in the clover region of the country than in any other region, and frequently about half the crop is lost this way. More than twelve thousand cooperative coopera-tive associations in this country are engaged in buying and selling farm products. In addition to those occupied oc-cupied in buying and selling, there are about 58,000 organizations engaged en-gaged in other kinds of activity, including in-cluding agricultural educational as sociations, production associations, credit socities, rural telephone companies, com-panies, and mutual insurance agencies. As an example of what these associations associa-tions mean to farmers can be seen by the fact that in the field of cooperative insurance alone the risks carried amount to more than ten billion dollars dol-lars annually. One of the best forage crops for temporary pasture for sheep, particularly particu-larly where the soil is thin, is soy beans, a crop which is eaten with great relish by both sheep and lambs. Although the earliest plantings of soy beans can be ready for pasture about a month after seeding, it is usually resirable to allow five or six weeks between seeding and grazing. Soy beans can be ready for grazing about the middle of July or later and will furnish most of the feed until October Oc-tober or the first frost. The feature which soy beans have of making a new growth after being grazed is a valuable one for a rotation of forage crops. |