Show baby chick need of riboflavin Is great curled too toe paralysis cause of deficiency riboflavin a crystalline yellow vl vi alln containing mg nitrogen and has proven necessary for or growth of poultry it Is also im ortan t in connection with the tor for nation of an enzyme responsible for chick at left la Is afflicted with curled toe paralysis due to riboflavin flavin lick lack right same chick a week later after being furnished this vitamin vi photo university of missouri utilization of feed within the cells of the riboflavin Is widely distributed in feeding materials it Is present tn in greatest amounts in milk products yeast live meal alfalfa cereal grasses and byproducts byproduct of the fermenting and distilling industry only a 1 few grams are required per ton of mixed feeds many poultry authorities have stated there Is an advantage in using natural riboflavin concentrates in preference to synthetic riboflavin the rhe natural natural concentrate gener generally 11 y supplies other important nutrients aside from riboflavin when chicks are fed a ration low in riboflavin they start squatting and develop a condition known as curled toe paralysis in the past the lack of riboflavin in feed ingredients has caused considerable sid erable economic loss baby hicks require greater quantities than older ader birds deficiency in laying flocks lowers egg production and results in inferior eggs or poor hatchability BURNING RUINS SOIL when you burn straw cornstalks corn stalks and other crop residues on the field you lose valuable nitrogen and de s troy organic matter vital to soil ret re t building and crop production if the stalks of a bushel corn crop go up in smoke pounds of c matter and 55 pounds of nitrogen are lost when you light a ma match to a mature sweet clover crop you lose about pounds of nitrogen and three to four our tons of organic att matter t er it takes more effort to plow those these materials under than it does do ea to burn them but an extra 10 to 20 bushels of corn per acre and a more fertile soil should be wo worth rth the extra trouble new mew disease of sweet potatoes in the south A new and distinctive disease of 0 sweet potatoes known as internal cork has been the subject of intensive studies by dr C J nusbaum south carolina experiment station sweet potatoes affected with ith the disease are characterized by the occurrence of dark brown corky spots ot of irregular shape and size there are I 1 indications that it may be possible to develop resistant strains the disease Is caused by a virus but little else Is known about it farmers money not all increased earnings what farmers do now with their liquid assets and credit will determine their financial position for or the next two to decades it Is imperative for farmers to recognize that much of their presen present t money in fact act is not increased profits it represents the soil fertility sold off the farm depreciation of 0 buildings fences and equipment the money farmers now have in large part belongs back k on their land to restore soil to modernize bernize the land trapping Is good way to control moles in the spring the activities or of th the common mole appear to be m more or noticeable unlike rodents such as rats and mice moles live chiefly on earthworms and insects the mole is unpopular with farmers because his tell tale ridges and mounds disfigure the fields ruin new seedbeds and dam damage a ge gardens and lawns trapping appears to be the most mosi satisfactory way yet found to con arol the mole |