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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 Per Year in Advance Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Pron. Entered as second-clas- s matter Feb. 8, 1929, at the post office Randolph, Utah, under the Act of Mar, 3, 1879. Popularity Bid the honey stores are rather short In the early spring, the bees will delay g until they have had time to gather sufficient stores from the blooms. This precaution on the part of the bees will naturally decrease the size of the hive, and colony will be considerably weakened and will not develop to full strength by the time of the main honey flow. New Comparatively Crop in Favor Rapidly Gaining Many Sections. LEGUMES USEFUL AS GRAIN FEED Each Hen Could Profitably Use Pound of Hay Daily. brood-rearin- are making a race into popularity among the farmers. Last year the northern states Increased their soy bean acreThe total acreage age 25 per. cent of soy beans in the country was acres in 1924 as against 452,000 In 1923. Some states, such as Misshowed a 50 per cent Increase. souri, Seedsmen are racing In their test laboratories and testing grounds .to catch up with the rush of the soy bean. It has been found necessary to test this comparatively new farm crop both for climate and for soil, the varying strains being somewhat national as to their territory If they are to flourish. Although first known in the United States in 1804, so far as records show, the soy bean has not been a commercial product of importance in this country until the last few years, in fact it is chiefly a development since the war. What They Are Good For. To the layman, the natural question appears to be: What are soy beans good for that they should be spreadOne of its ing over the country? chief uses is for forage In this country. It is one of the great oil vegetables and in times of failure of the cotton crop the soy bean is called into service. It makes a very fine oil. It is also an article of food for human beings, although much more highly esteemed in the Orient to date than it is here where its use as a food is practically unknown. Soy bean meal is an important fertilizer as well as food for stock. A vegetable milk is made from the bean as well. The oil Is used largely in the manufacture of soap and in paint manufacture. The vines make Soy beans cross-countr- y 534,-00- 0 New Vegetable Entered Illinois Family Garden The Ohio experiment station has done some valuable work in testing out the use of alfalfa, clover and soy bean hay as substitutes for green feed for the laying flock. They found that each bird could make profitable use of about one pound of leafy, finestemmed, bright hay per month. The hay should not be coarse or contain a high per cent of crude fiber. It Is nearly always possible to get at least a limited amount of such hay from the last cutting of alfalfa or the second cutting of clover. A considerable number of farmers are cutting a small portion of their alfalfa late in the fall, after the removal of the last regular crop. The least mature of the soy beans, when they have been cut for hay, are equally satisfactory. These Ohio tests indicate that these three, alfalfa, red clover and soy beans, are equally valuable if cut and cured properly. In these tests the feeding of the hay in hoops of poultry netting was found to be very sath isfactory. Cutting the hay in lengths made the feeding easier and the hens ate more. A silage cutter or feed chopper can be used to cut the hay. The shatterings that accumulate where the alfalfa or clover Is handled in feeding the cattle or other live stock is equally valuable if the hay is of good quality and not injured by weathering or heating in barn or stack. Alfalfa meal made from green good hay. Good Fertilizer. hay in the mash or fed as a separate Being a legume and having the trick part of the ration. Is another green of secreting its own nitrogen on its feed substitute. roots in small lumps or nodules, it is also valuable to grow and plow under Litter Not Desirable for fertilizer and as a followJ crop to Place for Grain Feed keep the land in proper condition. The soy bean has earned the popuExperimental work at several stalarity it is achieving. , tions as well as the practical experience of a large number of poultry keepers prove that hens do not need Essential for Success to hunt in the litter for their feed That Bees Have Honey in order to lay well. More and more owner of bees should open Every people are feeding the whole and cracked grain to the poultry in troughs the hives early In the spring and asto keep it cleaner than it would be If sure himself that the necessary stores are available for maintaining the bees scattered in the Utter. Litter is highly desirable In a poul- until blooming time when they can and nectry house during the time that the gatherin their own food (pollenmust field. have The the bees tar) flock is kept confined, but its virtue is in keeping the feet cleaner, the floor at least two or three frames of good drier and more easily cleaned, and the sealed honey in the l ive at all times house warmer than when no litter is in order to be protected against starused, and not to furnish a place to vation. An abundance of good honey enhide the grain feed. Some grain will be dropped in the straw or chaff, or hances the excessive brood rearing shredded fodder or peat moss, even in early summer and late spring. though troughs are used, and the hens This essential cannot be overlooked will scratch for It. But deliberately if the hive is to be strong enough to scattering the grain in the litter, un- make large quantities of honey. If less there is no container available, serves no useful purpose. HOME-GROWhalf-inc- x It plant closely related to cauliflower. The new vegetable has the ability to produce two or three crops a season. It is as easy to raise as cabbage and has a delicate flavor as cauliflower, according to Lee A. Sommers of the university. It is a hardy plant and can endure far greater temperatures than cauliflower. About 60 to 70 days after the plant is set in the field the main stem enlarges and flower buds break forth. The buds form the edible part of the plant The plant looks somewhat like cauliflower but it is green. After the first main head is removed smaller heads form and are soon ready to cut. The common method of serving the , vegetable is similar to cauliflower. Poisoning one pair ol gophers this spring will be equal to killing six or more next fall. It is suggested that alfalfa growers give every infested field a thorough once over treating with poisoned wheat as soon as the ground is dry enougn to work. One bushel of strychnine poisoned wheat should kill 600 or more pocket gophers. On a basis of six gophers per acre one bushel of poisoned wheat should clean up 100 or more acres of infestation. Early spring Is breeding and littering time for pocket gophers. Poisoning during early April will be most effective in controlling the 1929 gopher crop. Gopher mounds may be dragged down to prevent the killing of alfalfa plants by smothering. - ' Utilizing Sweet Clover for Different Purposes Sweet clover may be utilized as hay, pasture, and for soil improvement purposes. As a hay crop, however, it is not equal to alfalfa or red clover. As a pasture, a good stand of sweet clover in its second season will furnish more grazing than any other plant known. It s also an excellent crop for soil improvement, and fortunately it will serve both as a pasture and a soil Improving crop at the same time In some sections it has been found that the increased yields of sugar beets due to sweet clover were practically the same when the crop was turned under after being pastured as when the entire crop was turned under. S- X Makes Cleaner and Quicker Fire Than Coal. Is good business to hatch chicks early. - between the railroads, the mine operators and the miners. To use this wood would not deplete the forests of any marketable timber as it could be harvested from the crooked, crippled and diseased trees and from forests that are This would aid also in making room for trees of better quality and more desirable species for future timber production, states Mr. Graeber. In hauling eggs to the market, do With over 50,000,000 cords of wood not expose them to the direct rays available for use this year, R. W. of the sun. Graeber, extension forester at North Carolina State college, asks the quesInsist that the buyer pay cash for tion, Why not use fuel your eggs, and that he buy them on a in North Carolina homes? Any wood makes a cleaner, quicker quality or grade basis. fire than coal, is free from gas and A standard incubator which will odor and compares very favorably chicken hatch successfully eggs with coal in heating value," says Mr. Two pounds of dry wood should hatch the turkey eggs with Graeber. equal success. Many have been used has the same heating value as one pound of coal and many of the heavy successfully. woods, such as hickory, oak, ash, Either red or aisike clover is more f All parts of the incubator should birch, beech, elm and pine, for hay than timothy. valuable to the 4,000 cord, making be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. weigh pounds One per cent formalin can , be used. a cord of this wood equal to a ton of The large crops of oats and barley Then level the machine and regulate coal. The lighter woods such as popwill supply most of the harvested basswood and white pine, carefully to the desired temperature. lar, cypress, many others weigh only 2,000 pounds to grain for the dairy ration. Poultry raisers not being fortunate the cord and it would therefore take Asparagus Is one cultivated crop to have clover, alfalfa or other green about two cords of this wood to equal that will grow when a comparatively feed ranges, or those wishing to one ton of coal in heating value. According to Mr. Graeber, the heavy application of salt has been plant green feed for summer use In economic made. value of using wood is twotheir poultry runs, will find Sudan in all fold that the for money spent grass very good. From early spring to the latter part wood remains in the state and the cutof would and furnish work May is the best time to seed sweet hauling Male birds with large combs are ting most apt to become frosted after they for many that would otherwise be ob- clover. Weeds are less troublesome jects of charity. At an average price with the later seeding. are wet. V of $4 a cord, the wood that is now A lot of poultrymen confuse lice available, if sold, would add $200,000,-00- 0 When planting seed In the garden to the wealth of tin state. As it care should be taken not to get. the with mites. Lice stay on the birds all of the money spent for seed too thick since this will increase the time, whereas mites attack then) is, only at night and hide in cracks and j coal leaves the state to be divided the amount of thinning necessary. crevices during the daytime. over-matur- e, over-crowde- d. home-grow- n $S , Agricultural Hints long-lea- I ! - two-thir- Babies CRY 'Babies will cry, often for no apparent reason. You may not know whats wrong, but yon can always give Castoria. This soon has your little one comforted; if not, you should call a doctor. Dont experiment with medicines intended for the stronger systems of adults ! Most of those little upsets are isoon soothed away by a little of this pleasant-tastingentle-actin- g childrens remedy that children like. It may be the stomach, or may be the little bowels. Or in the case of older children, a sluggish, constipated condition. Castoria is still g, the thing to give. 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