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Show u THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH r RICH COUNTY RBAPBR na Utah, under the Act of Mar. 8, 1879. m Sees Small Profit in Cattle Feeding SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Per Year in Advance Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop. matter Feb. Bntered ae second-cla8. 1929, at the post office Randolph. v.'1 lit 3 HOUSS WITH ss Outlook Not Promising for Average Breeder This Coming Spring. (F2((m) t Q GREEN FOODS FOR HENS IN WINTER Alfalfa Considered Best by Most Breeders. Swiss chard makes a good green feed until freezing weather occurs and then the remaining leaves can be cut off and given to the hens until the supply becomes badly wilted, says the Indiana Farmers Guide. Swiss chard should be planted In deep rich garden soil for best results. As soon as the leaves are cut, more will sprout from the roots. A long row in a farm garden will supply a lot of rreen feed for the average farm flock during the late summer and fall when the grass on the range becomes dry and tough. Bushels of the succulent green leaves can be gathered from a very small space. However, alfalfa is now considered about the best winter gree1" feed for hens and if you can obtain a fev loads of second cutting alfalfa which is rich In green leaves, you will find it more desirable for the poultry than swiss chard or cabbage. Cabbages are easy to store and will furnish succulent feed for a long time and mangel beets are good succulent feed but vhen it comes to serving hens with real appetizing green feed, there is probably nothing better than the alfalfa leaves. It pays to keep a rack of alfalfa in each section of a laying house It gives the hens something to peck at which will furnish bulk and vitamins and the stems can be added to the scratching litter. Flocks Value Depends In these days of low profits, poultry-me- n may take heart from earnings made by flock owners with the agricultural extension division of the University of Minnesota, in keeping flock records. During the nine months from November, 1930, to August, 1931, only two out of seventy-seve- n flocks failed to return a profit above feed and miscellaneous costs. No flock failed to pay for its feed and leave at least a small balance. e The latest records, covering reflocks for August, show cash ceipts of over $3,500 in return for a charge of about $1,400 for feeds and miscellaneous expense. Miss Cora Cooke, specialist in charge of the record project, points out that such returns are dependent upon good feed and care, but assures flock owners that such care has paid during the past year and may be expected to continue paying. fifty-thre- I Treat for Lice Poultry losses from lice may be reduced and egg production Increased by treating the perches with a 40 per cent solution of nicotine sulfate just before the chickens go to roost, says the Ohio State university. The material may be painted on the roosts with a small paint brush. It is best to repeat the treatment in about ten days. Sodium fluoride may be used InDurstead of the sulfate solution. men warm weather many poultry ing prefer to use this as a dip. The dip s of an Is made by adding ounce of the chemically pure product, or one ounce of the commercial sodium fluoride to each gallon of water. Nebraska Farmer. three-fourth- Poultry Facts Birds of a feather will flock togethScrub cows, scrub hogs, scrub horses, scrub chickens and scrub farmers are all In congenial company. Southern Agriculturist. er. Eggs from a 6,000-he- n poultry farm In Brandenberg are taken by auto trucks at regular hours to Berlili, Germany, where they are sold In the streets. Whether you ship two cases or forty cases of eggs each week you can profit by the reputation of your pack. Hatching eggs from fowls two-year-o- ld Old-Time- rs WITH one-fift- 802-pou- t r a- - tPxfJJts African Province Found to Be Flealess Oasis A plague prevention survey of Africa resulted In the discovery of a spot which is absolutely free of fleas and the incident was regarded as so remarkable that the investigators tarried for some explanation of the unusual situation. This favored spot was the town of Prieska and the country immediately surrounding it. Fleas are notoriously good carriers of the germs of this disease and therefore the entire wide reaches of Africa were systematically searched for animals carrying infected speciHence it mens of pullex Irritans. happens that certain dogs at Prieska, which lies on the Karroo prairies of the Cape of Good Hope province, were searched for fleas by the medical men. Not a solitary jumper could be found. Every cur, even the most d neglected and mongrel brutes, was absolutely devoid of them. The theory of some residents Is that the nitrates in the barren lands surrounding this particular settlement act as a natural disinfectant. native-owne- ot one-thir- d well-timber- (5 hands in good Condition for outdoor work by using Mentholatum regularly. It is indispensable for cracked, sore skin. Jars or tubes. F 30c.. SftjpED re not as fertile in the fall as in the spring. Duck eggs are said to be Infertile while the drake Is molting. Worlds Slowest Animals rare sloth was picked up by C. S. Webb, the exA three-clawe- d plorer. It was swimming in a British Guiana river, two miles from land. Day Dream is estimated to be about five years old. It took her, said Mr. Webb, exactly 3 minutes 47 seconds to climb from my boots to my shoulders, and I am not a giant. She was said to be at the top of her form. According to Mr. Webb, she and her mates live in perpetual twilight, more than 100 feet above ground. Sloth eyesight Is so feeble that Day Dream wears a staring target pattern between her shoulders, or prospective suitors would never be able to find the lady. Hiccough Remedy attack of hiccoughs can be stopped by the use of an ordinary paAn per bag. Dr. L. A. Golden of Boston has cured cases which have persisted as long as two continuous days. The opening of the bag is held tightly over the patients mouth and nose. As he breathes, carbon dioxide accumulates and this frequently brings relief. At any rate the treatment can do no harm unless kept up so long that the patient faints from lack of oxygen. Worlds Work. According to Precedent Slittendorf I invented a better rat trap. , Piffenpoof Whats your next move? Slittendorf To a cabin In the woods, of course. one-thir- d one-fift- h. Nutritional roup In poultry is caused by a lack of vitamin A It can be cured when not too far advanced by giving the chickens an ample supply of green feed. s If prewar prices prevail for beef next spring, there Is a chance for very little profit from cattle feeding, except where the better grades of cattle are fed, concludes R. T. Burdick, associate economist at ' the Colorado Agricultural college. steers The feeding of was studied on a total of about 30 farms. Steers weighing an average of 802 pounds when purchased made an average of 235 pounds of gain In 138 days. At present prices of the feeds actually used, the feed this winter would cost $15.28 per head or $6.50 per 100 pounds of gain. "If these same steers could be put In the feedlot this fall at $5 per huncharges dredweight, says Burdick, for Interest, death loss and miscellaneous cash Items, plus man labor, water, corrals and equipment, horse labor and overhead would total $7.55 per head, or $3.22 per hundredweight Two Canadian With a Seasons Catch of Beaver and White Fox. of gain. With feed costing $6.50, the (Prepared by National Geographic Society. 1812 the British government, looking total estimated cost per hundredWashington, D. C.) WNU Service. would approximate new regions being opened for a strategic route from the sea to weight of gain $9.7,2. which Great the would avoid Lakes, new roads, railroads and Changes In feeding practice will routes, Canada re- the international waterway of the St on decided effect the this cost, he adds. For exconstruction ports an Increase of nearly Lawrence, of one man using alfalfa, corn, Rideau which the would canal, h ample, give In population during the past an alternative waterway from Mont- wet beet pulp and pasture had costs decade. According to a recently comto Kingston, on Lake Ontario. at 1931 prices which totaled $4.78 for pleted census there are 10,353,778 in- real The was canal built the feed, or $8 per hundredweight of gain. by Royal in habitants the Dominion. The story of the discovery, explora- engineers in the third decade of the Others had feed costs close to this, tion, settlement and development of last century and is still in use, a mon- while some had higher costs. ument to their skill and workmanship. r Canada from the days of Jacques Assuming average gains, an With the opening of the canal the litfeeder steer would sell at 1,037 (1534,) Samuel de Champlain (1603,) and Henry Hudson (1610) tle settlement grew in importance, and pounds at the end of 138 days. The down to the advent of the railroad in was called Bytown after Colonel By, costs listed above would require a the middle of the last century, is one commanding the Royal engineers. It sale price of $6.08 o. b. at the feed-lo- t, soon became the headquarters of the or a margin of $1.08 to cover feed-lof travel by sea, river and lake. costs. Extra charges for marketThe waterways of Canada provide thriving Ottawa valley lumber industry. ing would require a higher price at easy access to the heart of the contiBeautiful driveways and natural the market nent. Nearly half the area of the parks line the banks of Ottawas rivDominion, excluding for the moment Early spring market prices at Denthe District of Franklin, comprising ers and canal ; and, though it is essen- ver for the years 1904 to 1913 indicate, tially a city of homes, many industries that for the month of March there the Arctic Islands, is drained by mathere attracted by the was an average price of $5.19 per huncongregate jestic rivers on the Atlantic coast, the St Lawrence; on Hudson bay, the cheap water power developed by Chau- dredweight for all classes of beef, and Nelson ; and on the Arctic, the Mac- diere falls. The original parliament $5.50 as an average for April. No reckenzie. No great natural obstacles di- buildings were burned in- 1916. A ords are available for the better vide these river basins, and passage magnificent Gothic structure has ris- grades of fat cattle. Chicago prices from one to another is easily made by en on the old site, crowned by a cen- for this period were apparently more short portages. Travel by boat or tral spire, Victory tower, 385 feet high, than $1 per hundredweight above the canoe throughout the northern and built to commemorate Canadas part reported Denver prices. eastern parts of Canada though slow, in the World war. These prices. If duplicated this Montreal, the lsygest of the Canahas always been easy. show a chance for very little spring, Until the railways were' built, set- dian cities, was desolate St Lawrence profit, except where the better grades tlement and commerce were largely river bank three hundred years ago. of cattle are fed, since these grades It was first visited by Jacques Cartier ; confined to the seacoast and the terbring better prices. Indications are ritories adjacent to the great rivers the first settlement on the site rose in that prices for beef are back to the 1642. Few cities have greater natural and lakes of the interior. prewar level, consequently, feeder catadvantages. At the head of ocean tle will have to be purchased at preUsed. Airplane Being During the past decade, a widely ex- navigation, yet almost 1,000 miles from war prices In order to show a profit. tended use of the airplane has been the Atlantic, it is a natural gateway developed in the remoter parts of the for the commerce of the continent. Dominion where modern facilities for Her merchants have not been slow to Pigs Made Appreciable travel are nonexistent and the alter- take advantage of the situation. UnGains on Cooked Beans natives are the canoe In summer and limited water power drives her indusThe Michigan agricultural experitries wheels. the dog team in winter. ment station has found that the cookto Next Montreal, ranks Toronto, Its use by foresters for fire patrol cull beans Improves their feedof ing and timber cruising is now well estab- capital city of the Province of Onfor swina The Ohio station value ing lished, while the modern surveyor, tario, the most thickly populated pro- found that feeding cooked soy beans with his aerial camera, flying 5,000 vince of the Dominion. Nearly 100 pounds of the Dominons inhabitants live saved 115.7 pounds feed per to 10,000 feet above the ground, proIn a ration including raw soy gain. duces a complete photographic record within Ontarios borders. Toronto is beans, pigs fed 30 weeks averaged 198 of the country for many miles on each a worthy capital of a great province, with an as weight compared pounds side of his line of flight, from which a financial and industrial center, and 247 pounds for similar pigs of average of in the the largest university seat can be plotted, with simple traverses fed a ration including cooked soy Canada. on the ground for control, all the natFor the next largest city, one must beans but limited to the same amount ural features of the region. of total feed as was fed to pigs havRegular air routes between large jump half way across the Dominion ing raw soy beans. Where pigs were Canadian cities are In the making. to Winnipeg, the distributing center of allowed 0.71 pound cooked soy beans That phase of development must nec- western Canada and, as it were, the feeds to the limit of other plus daily of the bottle, where the railway essarily be slower than In Europe or neck were ready for market they the United States, where the popula- lines converge. Although slightly appetite, 84 days earlier than similar pigs fed tion is denser, the traffic heavier, and more than a century old, its rapid raw soy beans. In these trials corn, climatic conditions less severe. To growth has taken place during the alfalfa, and minerals were fed see Canada from the air today, one past two generations. Now it is a city ground in to soy beans. Too many addition of fine streets, is dependent on the courtesy and hosparks, beans produce soft pork. The Illisoy and beautiful the driveways along pitality of the services maintained by nois station tells us that a ration for and Red rivers. the Dominion and provincial governhogs should not contain over Is a This ments and by commercial firms. leafy city, far removed fattening 12 per cent of soy beans. Hoards from ones a idea of treeless drab, The greatest percentage of increase in population, shown by the census, prairie. The noble parliament build- Dairyman. was In the province of British Columings of Manitoba, are worthy of the Cholera Prevalent bia where there are nearly province. Growing with the great Camore Inhabitants than there were ten nadian west, Winnipegs future Is asOhio is experiencing now an outyears ago. Quebec and Saskatchewan sured. Some 900 miles west Is Cal- break of hog cholera almost as serious gary. as that In 1926, according to reports of provinces increased by more than Two Big Cities In the West. state and federal veterinarians. Due Vancouver with 120,000 Inhabitants to low prices In recent years many Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Hamilton are and Victoria are in the spotlight farmers have allowed their swine cities of more than 100,000 population. among the leading cities of the Pacific herds to remain unprotected without coast. Victoria, clinging to the southOttawa is the capital of the DominImmunization against cholera. The ion. Queen Victoria was well advised ern end of Vancouver island, Is the small community auction sales where when she named Bytown, as it was first city of the province of British no supervision Is found have been a then called, the seat of government, Columbia. It was first settled in 1842 means of spreading disease, veterinariafter confederation in 1867. Few cap- by the governor of the Hudsons Bay ans have found, for frequently hogs itals have a finer natural location. company. It is perhaps the most Eng- with the first stages of disease are sold lish town outside of England. The houses of parliament and surroundIn these sales and taken back to farms Vancouver contrasts sharply with where healthy animals are being ing government offices are built on a high bluff on the south bank of the Victoria. It is the metropolis of the raised. Ohio Farmer. Ottawa river, Just below the Chaudiere Canadian Pacific coast, a thriving city, still In the making, each year increasfalls. . Few Young Horses Rivers and Canal at Ottawa. ing its importance. is a shortage of good, young There To the north, forested spurs of the Just under the 100,000 population and mules In the United States, horses Laurentian mountains extend almost mark Is Quebec which no narrative of to the river bank, while on the On- the Dominion fails to mention. No according to the Horse Association of America. In 1920 there were 6,500,000 tario side of the river the city is surcity of the world has a more romantic horses under four years old. In 1930 rounded by a fine farming country. history than the old French capital, Since the days of Champlain, the Ot- nestling below the cliffs of the Citadel, there were less than 2,000,000 of that tawa river has been the main highway and the Plains of Abraham, where age a shortage of more than 4,000,-00It is estimated by the Horse asfrom the sea to the West Permanent was finally decided In 1759, the great sociation that the United States will settlement In the district however, struggle between France and England more than 850,000 horses In 1931, lose only began in the first decade of the for supremacy in the western while raising only a little more than Nineteenth century. After the W4r of 500.000. Nebraska Farmer. Car-tie- hour ;Cofd m away in 12 - on Good Feed and Care J eafaa 0. 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