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Show the mrw potinty reaper. RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Bernard H. Ewer, Editor and Prop. SUBSCRIPTION . $2 00 Per Year in Advance matter Feb, Entered as second-clas- s 8, 1929, at the post office Randolph, Utah, under the Ac'c of Mar. 3, 1879. Waste to Market Poor Vegetables . . GENTLE BULL IS EVER DANGEROUS TURKEYS RAISED IN CONFINEMENT JAPANESE MILLET IMPERFECT FEED If. Not Good When They Animals With Bad Than Reputa-- , Better Results Secured Experiments Show It to Be Leave Ground Never Will Free. Where Poults Are tions Closely Watched. Inferior to Timothy. Be Any Better. Vegetables that are not good when they leave the Held will never be any better, according to Paul Work of the New York State College of Agriculture. It does not pay to put poor vegetables on the market. For the good of both the producer and the consumer poor stuff should be plowed under for fertilizer or fed to live stock and not dumped on the vegetable market. Grading Pays. Careful grading of vegetables pays. When the produce merchant or the customer sees poor specimens of vegetables or fruit In a carload or a basket, be judges the whole lot to be poor in quality. The buyer assumes that there is more of the worst than he sees, and he therefore uses the "defective specimens to make the seller lower his price. The cost of marketing is so great that low grade vegetables are' seldom worth shipping or taking to market Less Storage. of vegetables is less imStorage portant than formerly because shiphas imping under refrigeration of movement The products proved. to market over long distances and during all seasons of the year has reduced the need for long time storthe fluctuation of However, age. r prices from day to day and the eagerness of merchants as well as growers to catch the best prices has increased the use of storage plants for short periods. Refrigerated storage is used more because it beeps the vegetables in the best condition. Burying vegetables in pits and other forms of outdoor storage are rapidly going out of use. Gently Sloping Hill Is Best Orchard Location . Never' plant - fruit - trees . or small fruits in low places with higher ground surrounding them. Such places are altogether too frosty to be safe for fruits. The best locution is on a gently sloping hil! where there is a free movement of air. This, In general, should be on the eastern, or southeastern or southern side of the slope in order to take advantage of the protection against western and northwestern winds. southern slope has a little disadvantage in that It warms up a bit earlier in the spring than a northern slope and may make a day or two difference in blossoming time. This, of course, increases slightly the hazard from frost, but the benefits accruing from the warm, sheltered side of the hill are much greater than the danger. A Brood Sows Should Be Given Lots of Water , Brood sows should be given very 24 hours after farrowing hut should have all the water they desire. The first feed given after farrowing should he limited In amount and fed as a thin slop. The amount fed is Increased gradually as the pigs need more milk, until in 10 or 15 days the sow is being fed all she will eat. The brood sows ration during the suckling period should be slightly laxative and provide for increased milk production to meet the needs of the ? . pigs. little grain for All bulls must be regarded as dangerous," says H. A. Hopper of the New York State College of Agriculture. It is the gentle bull, not the vicious one, that most certainly kills or maims his victim. Those with bad reputations are more closely watched." Since improvement In dairy herds comes slowly, promising bulls should be kept in service long enough to determine the worth of their daughters. With proper care, bulls may give (satisfactory service until fourteen or sixteen years old. The chief reasons for frequent changes of bulls as indicated by owners, are: Sold for beef, changed to another breed, his calves were mostly bulls, his daughters lacked type and were poorly matted, sold for beef to avoid InbreediDg, lacked arrangements for exercise and safety, he was often neglected, became useless as a breeder and was killed, he killed his keeper. The first four reasons are, in part, valid ; under certain circumstances they might justify the disposal of a bull. Professor Hopper says. The last four causes turn upon inadequate facilities for housing, for controlling, and for maintaining the health of the bull and a more serious cause. Professor Hopper is the author of a bulletin Just issued by the New York State College of Agriculture on The Housing and Handling of Bulls, E 177. In it he says that bnlls respond to care and training. The author describes the bull stall, the safety bull pen, handling the bull, trimming the feet, ringing, and dehorning. The publication will be sent free upon request made to the office of publication, Roberts Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. Excellent Plan to Keep Calf Little Bit Hungry A calf fed three times daily can assimilate more food than when it is fed after It has finished drinking its milk. Milk fed to young calves should be at Cool milk about body temperature. should be warmed to a temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit by setting the pail in a vessel of hot water before being fed. One cannot depend upon guesswork be sure to use a thermometer! Cold milk will almost always cause digestive troubles, resulting in scours which tend to stop the calfs growth and hinder its getting a good start. No one can accurately estimate with the eye the quantity of milk in a pail. Milk scales are very convenient for this purpose. Clean feeding pails are absolutely essential to successful calf raising. They should be washed after each feeding as carefully as milk utensils and sterilized if possible. Dirty pails invariably cause digestive troubles. All mangers and feed boxes should be kept scrupulously clean. Plenty of bedding, straw, corn stover or shavings should be used, especially In the winter, to insure the calves always being on dry litter and not on the cold stall floor. Contamination of Water Will Lead to Disorders The water supply of dairy' farms should be carefully examined and its purity established. The farmer, owes this protection to his own family, to his business interests, and to those who use milk that comes from his dairy. Contamination of water may Plowing Under Rape lead to typhoid fever. All water on Rape does not take nitrogen from the farm, even that to which only the the air or add anything to the soil cattle have access, should be above which it does not take from the soil suspicion as to its purity. If cows in making its growth. The advantage wade in polluted water, disease bacgained in plowing under a crop of teria may adhere to their bodies and green rape lies in the added vegetable later fall into the milk pails. Especial matter which goes hack into the soil. attention should be paid to the The decomposition of the vegetable of the water in which milk purity matter reacts on soil particles and and other utensils are washed. pails liberates plant food so that a better crop is likely to follow. However, you have added no fertilizer to the land. Dairy Stable Equipment Makes Much Difference i Farm Notes $ Y Alfalfa hay supplies cheap protein. f'f Poisoned bran will stop the army worm army. , a i - ' f ' ' , successful farm cannot be located by observation alone. A ? Sanitary conditions are necessary to prevent diseases on a farm just as In a hospital. The equipment of a dairy barn makes a great deal of difference in the labor of caring for the cows. Good concrete floors with gutters and drainage makes it possible to keep the cows clean and minimizes the labor of caring for the stable. Swinging stanchions which allow the cows considerable freedom have met with approval. When cows are confined by stanchions they require less space, less bedding and may be handled with less labor than by either leaving the cows loose or in box stalls. Dirt floors are not good in a dairy stable as they cannot be kept clein. In times past many people felt that Hay made from Japanese or bam turkeys could not be raised in con- yard millet, sometimes called Billion finement but that they should have a Dollar grass, is regarded as inferior to large area over which to range. This timothy hay as a food for sheep. contention has changed now, howevWhile few data of an experimental naer, and in several localities turkeys ture are available showing the value have been raised in confinement with of this roughage for sheep, the above a great deal of success. as to its merits in comparistatement The Minnesota and Nebraska ex- son with and a general distimothy, periment stations have been among cussion of timothy hay as the- leaders in investigational work for sheep will permit of some deducin turkey production, in recent years, tions, says D. S. Beil of the Ohio exwith some such work being done at station. other experiment stations in various periment In practically all experiments which parts of the country. At both of the have been conducted timothy hay has stations mentioned it was found that been found a very inferior roughage better results could be secured if the for sheep feeding. At the college of poults were raised In confinement University of Alberta, Alagriculture, than if they were allowed to range ewes fed timothy hay Canada, over a large area, the method once berta, of which died lambs yeaned followed in turkey production. In reached the age of twenty-eigh- t before they view of these findings, those who wish days. Not only was the loss of to go into turkey production, either Iambs heavy but the ewes lost nursing on a small or large scale, are no doubt 27.8 pounds each in weight during gesinterested in the practices to be ad- tation. This lot of ewes was compared hered to in this method of turkey with another lot of similar ewes fed raising. lot raised alfalfa hay. This alfalfa-feThe United Statn Department of all of the lambs yeaned, and the ewes Agriculture has found that turkey were thrifty and vigorous. production has declined consistently In Bulletin 120 of the Missouri Agrisince 1890, in the face of an Increase cultural Experiment station in found in the production of all other lines .this statement concerning timothy hay of poultry and live stock. This deas a roughage for pregnant and nursgrease in production cannot be attrib- ing ewes: Timothy hay proved to be uted to a decrease in demand, for the such an Inferior ration that it was not demand has always exceeded the procontinued the second year. The data duction, or at least, there has never presented show that the ewes fed timbeen a surplus of turkeys on the marothy hay and grain yeaned 17 lambs, ket with which to contend. five of which were weak at birth, and This decline in turkey production one born dead. The ewes lost an avcan be explained almost altogether by erage of 7.67 pounds during the trial. the fact that farmers have always Ewes fed clover hay and grain yeaned felt that turkeys should have unlim16 lambs all of which were alive and ited range. Because of following this strong at birth, and these method of production the turkeys ewes gained 6.53 pounds each durcame in contact with the chicken the test. ing yards, to the detriment of the turWith Japanese millet ranking inferThe disease problem key business. ior to timothy hay as a roughage among turkeys which come in conand with giving such poor retact with chickens is great enough sults littletimothy can be said in favor of the that it has tended to cut down on millet in question. The sheep raiser production among farmers and farmwho is striving for efficiency and econers wives who have, in the past, will do well not to omy of raised turkeys and chickens together use suchproduction for his ewe flock. If it hay on the same range. seems desirable to grow millet for hay. In the Nebraska Investigations it one of the foxtail groups German, was found that the old method of Hungarian, or common would be raising the turkeys on the open range more desirable, and even these are not with natural hatching and brooding meritorious to any extent. by turkey hens was not successful. On the other hand, artificial broodPrevent Cattle Losses ing and hatching, by means of which feed and environment could be kept on Sweet Clover Hay under the control of the producer, The right precautions will prevent was found to yield very good results. a good share of the loss of cattle on sweet clover hay or pasture. Moldy Electric Brooders Are hay may contain poisons that will kill stock. Sweet clover hay seems Clean and Convenient to thin the blood of the animals and The New York experiment station, cause it to lose its clotting characfound electric brooders very satisfacSome other kind of hay teristic. tory except In extremely cold weathshould be fed with clover hay, or the er, when this type of heat did not animals should be changed to another warm up the space in the house away kind of roughage after two weeks on from the brooder. Like electric insweet clover hay. cubators, brooders heated by elecBloat is caused by the rapid detricity are clean, easy to regulate composition of the high percentage and very convenient. of organic matter in green feed. Individual farm light plants extend Bloat on sweet clover pasture may be the advantages of this electrical largely prevented by starting the aniequipment to farms which are not mals on some other green pasture located on an electric high line. and then getting them used to the Because many farm plants are clover slowly. In serious cases, the equipped with both generator and batpressure may he relieved with a trotery power, tlie supply of current for car. Every farmer who pastures the incubator or brooder is constant clover of any kind should have one and reliable. or more trocars on the place for emergency use. University of Nebraska. Duck Meets Th guimdar at tha British at Yorktawa October 19. 1781, virtually styled the Revolutionary war. The picture show Croc church, still atsndiiif, and, which was fas us duriny tha Revolution. - one-ha- lf d TRUMBULL TRUE TO IDEAS OF LIBERTY Only Revolutionary Governor Who Aided Efforts of Patriots of 76. "We will see what Brother Jonathan has to say about it, was a frequent remark made by General Washington during the Revolutionary war. The Brother Jonathan to whom he referred was Jonathan Trumbull,' the war governor of Connecticut Of all the Colonial governors in office at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, Trumbull alone was loyal to his conn-trAll others sided with Britain. He was hated and berated by British officials and British press. But it had no effect on him. He went ahead working day and night to raise troops and finding ways and means of feeding and equipping them. Little Connecticut, y. clover-liay-fe- d Aylesbury Favor as Market Fowl Heifer Calves Finish The Aylesbury duck comes, from the Vale of Aylesbury, from which fact Quicker Than Steers it derives its name, it is the market duck of England. It fias a long body, deep keel, and legs placed a little behind the center of the body. The Pekin is Chinese, and is the most popular market duck in America. Its legs are set far back, giving afi upright carriage. While the Indian Runner is not a popular market duck on account of its small size, its flesh is tender and pal. atable, and its foraging habits give it a game quality that will make it in demand wih epicures. - Watch Young Birds Watch young and delicate birds very closely as they are most susceptible to the deadly roup germs. The same is true of fowls suffering from common cold or catarrh. The throat and nasal passages, being already sore and inflamed, are easily infected. Sick birds should always be isolated. They can be much more effectively treated when away from the flock and they cannot contaminate the healthier ones If the disease shonld prove to be Cattte feeders who are feeding steer calves, and heifer calves together will observe that the heifer calves seem to finish out quicker than the steer calves. This is not due to the heifer calves making more rapid gains, but rather that they are somewhat smoother in conformation, and tend to put on surface fat sooner , than the steer calves. The feeder who has a number of calves on feed should ship the heifer calves as soon as they show enough finish to sell well on the mar- ket Best Veal Calves . can be procome from the Wisconsin 'No better veal, calves duced than those that disease free herds Brown of- - Hol-stein- s. Shorthorns and Ayrshires For those who prefer the lighter weights there are the smboth finished Guernseys and Jerseys. Veal has taken its place as a year round food and the Wisconsin farmers feel that their calves should sell on the same grade basis that an accorded other live stock. Swiss, Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut During Revolutionary War. be It remembered, furnished more Rev- olutionary troops than any other colony except Massachusetts. At the age of seventy-three- , in the year 1784, Trumbull decided to retire from public life after being thus engaged for half a century. The cares of the war manager, the lawmaker, the negotiator, the magistrate, the judge, the statesman, were ended. He was back at his old home. The remainder' of his life was one of In August, 1785, this tranquility. blessed old man went to his final reward. Three Important Dates - ' ' in History of Nation Celebration of July 4 as the day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed probably will continue as long as the United States exists, but there are at least two other dates which might be more appropriate as anniversaries of the nations beginning. The first is June 21, 1788, when the new Constitution was ratified by New Hampshire, (the ninth state, which made the instrument, operative. The second Is April 30, 1789, when George Washington was Inaugurated President. A - correspondent of the New York Times recently wrote apropos of the last two dates pointing out that after July 4, 1776, there was a tong, hard struggle borne by the states against great odds, both foreign and domestic, before independence became organized into government Another date that might easily have become the anniversary of the nations birth was September 3, 1783, when the treaty of peace with Great Britain was signed at Paris. Detroit News. ? Step to Independence On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee offered In congress a resolution declaring that the Colonies shonld be free and independent. On the same day congress made a demand for Independence Instead of constitutional liberty. , |
