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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH An Ailing BEST LITTER TO COOLING MILK BY USE IN BROODER ELECTRICITY NEW TUBERCULOSIS IS CAUSE OF LOSSES Shavings, Cut Straw and Cut Current Is Cheaper Than Ice on Many Dairy Farms. Hay Meet With Favor. Task of Cattle Raisers to The advent of electric refrigeraOne of the commonest questions Kill Ailing Cows. asked of the poultry department of New Jersey agricultural experiment station during the spring is, What is the best litter to use, in the brooder house? For the benefit of all poultrymen who are troubled with this problem the station issues the following statement: There is no best litter, but there are certain requirements that litter must meet in order to be satisfactory for use in brooding chicks. These requirements are that it should be: Light in weight, thus allowing the droppings and dirt to work to the floor so the chicks are not likely to pick up contaminated material ; absorbent, and therefore capable of keeping the brooder house floor dry ; cheap, so one can afford to replace it every five days after the, first four weeks; and clean, ' which means freedom from mold, mustiness, and dust. Shavings, cut straw, and cut hay meet these requirements. , They are not the only materials that one can use, but they are among the best. Straw or hay used for litter should always be cut. If the straw or hay is not cut it becomes matted and covered with droppings, and is therefore of no value for litter. Bacillary white diarrhea, coccidi-osiand intestinal worms are sprend to a large extent by the use of dirty litter, the experiment station warns. One rule in brooding chicks that should be followed, if all others are forgotten, is:. Clean the brooder house every five days. This means removing the litter, sweeping the floor of the brooder house, and putting in clean litter. the s, , Produce Good Pullets at Reasonable Expense At the Pennsylvania state college 926 pullets were raised to maturity at a cost of $1.26 per bird after deducting the returns from 924 cockerels. Most of the chicks were leghorns valued at twenty cents each. The cost of production included feed and coal, cents per hour, and labor at thirty-fiv- e interest at 6 per cent on the investment in equipment, feed, and chicks. The pullets were also charged with depreciation on the houses at 5 per cent and the depreciation on the equipment at 10 per cent. Undoubtedly the results in brooding and the mortality rate were very satisfactory to produce good pullets at the. laying age at a cost of $1.26 per bird. Many poultrymen sell leghorn pullets at eight weeks of age at about $1 each. At three months of age they are worth about $1.25 to $1.50 each. Pullets that are ready to lay are seldom sold by poultrymen for less than $2 to $2.50 each unless they have a surplus. tion as a new method of cooling milk has awakened new interest among dairymen in the cost and efficiency of the several methods used to get low temperatures in their cooling vats," said R. F. Bucknam of the New York Agricultural college, In a radio talk. As long as it was a question of another cake of ice from a ice bouse, no one worried much about the cost of cooling milk on farms. But when the cost of cooling shows up every month on the bill for electricity, in the subject develops rapid, interest ly, Mr. Bucknam said. Although there is considerable variation in the cost of electric equipment and its installation, it may be roughly estimated that the investment will be from $75 to $100 for each can capacity. The amount of current required is easily ascertained. Studies made in Wisconsin show an average requires of a kiloment of about watt hour for each can of milk cooled. This investigation reports studies in large-sizdairies where a high efficiency may ' be expected. Limited investigation in New York shows that the kilowatt hour consumption to a can was somewhat higher. At rates available in most of New York, tbe cost of actual operation would be about five cents for current and nine cents a can for maintenance of equipment, making a total cost for cooling with electricity of fourteen cents a can, as compared with a cost of sixteen cents by ice cooling as generally (By 3. W. LUMB, Extension It is also generally considered better to feed all rations dry rather than wet ; for turkeys. Watch the old hens in your poultry flock. They are dangerous spreaders of poultry tuberculosis. c Milk, sour or sweet, Is excellent for breeding stock.! Beef scrap or other animal meal may be left out if a plentiful supply of milk "is available. . Feed and protection aid in keeping turkeys fit. Vitamine A supplied in yellow corn, cabbage, alfalfa, clover, and most greens, increases resistance to colds. God liver oil also is beneficial. ' - . eight-tenth- e self-feede- harmless as the recipe on die wrapper reads. If you see Chas. H. Fletchers signature, it is genuine Castoria. It is harmless to the smallest infant; doctors will tell you so. You can tell from the recipe on the wrapper how mild it is, and how good for little systems. But continue with Castoria until a child is grown. 'Light Reveal Ga A Dew gas detector has been adopted for British mines after tests in the house of commons. The Invention, which signals the presence of deadly fumes by , lighting a red lamp, was produced about two years ago, but it did not catch on until after trials in parliament in the presence of a conclave of officials. Curiosity Uses Curiosity came into the world when the first man looked at the stars or had the original primordial stomach ache. It Is the first sign that the lately born child is something more than an impersonal scrap of appetite. It can survive the adventures of youth and the disillusion of later years and give old age enough to do to keep it out of mischief and misery. It deserves a good word even though it Correction or Criticism How do you like me In my new needs none. gown? I got it for a ridiculous price?" A Woman Financier You mean you got it for an absurd Benham As soon as 1 put my umLondon Opinion. figure! brella up the wind wrecked IL In a novel, one always likes the Mrs. Benham I suppose that will sensible character; and there isnt add to what you call your more than one. expenses. over-hea- d r, self-feed- self-feed- er one-ha- lf ,, Dairy Notes Provide warm, dry, clean stalls for calves. fall-bor- n - Barley, oats, wheat and corn will As a sanitary measure place a dis- not make up a balanced ration. infectant mat at the entrance to the brooder house. This mat can be made Gluten feed, gluten meal and bran by filling a square box with gunny are widely used in preparing the winsacks soaked in some reliable disin- ter ration. fectant. Feeding , large amounts of cottonIsolate all birds from the poultry seed meal, even though it Is low in flock as soon as they show symptoms price, is not advisable. of disease. Then decide what method V. , ' t follow. to treatment of Cows like clover hay. Clover requires about 14 per cent digestible Many turkeys are graded as number protein in tbe grain mixture. two or thrown out. entirely because of failure to starve them out properly Cows will eat mixed hay. Mixed " before dressing. hay requires about 16 per cent digesSmall eggs produce small chicks, tible protein in the grain mixture. and these should not be incubated. Time spent in cleaning and washing Eggs uneven in shape are not suitable, a separator will pay dividends. A nor are extremely long and very short dirty separator will not skim round eggs. T ; . Are you prepared to render first aid and quick comfort the moment your youngster has afi upset of any sort? Could you do the right thing immediately though the emergency came without warning perhaps tonight? Castoria is a mothers standby at such times. There is nothing like it in emergencies, and nothing better for everyday use. For a sudden attack of colic, or the gentle relief of constipation; to allay a feverish condition, or to soothe a fretful baby that cant sleep. This pure vegetable preparation is always ready to ease an ailing youngster. It is just as .writ te " , FrW ffiSrfrw! and , well-fille- d ' i aaeafis Veterinarian, tle and their products, it is the task of live stock raisers to treat herds and locate the tuberculous cow and give her a free ride to the rending tank. Tuberculosis of man and animals is so intimately interwoven that it is almost impossible to view them inde' pendently. Three discoveries that tuberculosis was infectious, that it was caused by a definite germ that could be isolated, and that tuberculin could be made and used as a test substance to determine the presence or absence of tuberculosis were of very great importance and laid the foundation for our present methods of control and eradication. With this knowledge more exact methods were used in combatting the development of the disease in man and animals. Tuberculosis was proven to be a preventable disease. These investigations definitely proved that man may become infected with bovine tuberculosis. It is true that such infections are, as a rule, limited to children or take place during the early periods of life. It has been found that very few people hav. lng tuberculosis of the lungs have the bovine type of infection. Tho form of tuberculosis that attacks the brain or spinal chord is seldom of the bovine type. General tuberculosis is likely to be of the bovine type In about 16 per cent of the cases. Taking the cases of abdominal tubercufigured. in humans, the percentage showlosis If a farmer has a good ice house, a infection of the bovine type may ing convenient ice pond, and no serious labor problems, it would probably be run well over 50, especially if infants and children are examined. cheaper for him to continue with ice, on to Mr. Bucknam. If, the according other hand, it is necessary to build a Production of Pork in new ice bouse, or go to any great Most Economical Manner expense to repair one, or if labor is a The man who provides automatic use of electricity serious problem, should be thoroughly investigated. waterers, so arranged that the water in them can be kept above freezing throughout the coldest part of the winCalves Require Protein ter season, and has his fattening yards is in posiRation During Winter provided with a most ecoto in tion the live to produce pork calves Young through trying is rectheir first winter on cornstalks, straw, nomical manner. A and ommended for hogs only will fattening do much better if or prairie hay not be for should It pigs. a growing to little cottonseed cake supgiven ply the protein their bodies need for used for brood sows. A brood sow normal growth. Tests of the last few should be fed a limited grain ration years at the Valentine experiment sta- and not all she wants to eat. That is cannot be used to tion of the University of Nebraska why a to one advantage for her. Movable houses have shown that from pound of pea size cottonseed cake per are essential for the rearing of the calf per day in conjunction with pigs till they are at least four months prairie hay is enough to produce the of age. most economical gains. In all these tests, the gains were worth several Leading Farm Crops Nqw times the cost of the cake. The cotMarketed Through Stock tonseed cake may be fed in bunks, some or cattlemen prefer to scatter it It has been conservatively estimated on clean ground by throwing a sack that s of the product of over a horse and letting the cake improved land and all the product of dribble out slowly as they ride around unimproved lands is used by live stock. the field. Of the ten leading crops in the United The calves used in the Valentine States 85 per cent of the corn, 98 per tests vere continued each year on cent of the hay, 35 per cent of the pasture during the summer and then wheat, 80 per cent of the oats, 60 per fed out the next winter at the agricul- cent of the cottonseed (in the form tural college experiment station in of cottonseed cake or meal and cotLincoln. In each case, the completed tonseed hulls) and 90 per cent of the tests showed that no one can afford barley is marketed through live stock. to stunt young calves. The thin, These ten crops represent 87 per cent stunted calves did gain rapidly on of the value of all farm crops produced the grass the next summer, but they in 1927, and 55 per cent of the value never caught up with those that had of the ten leading crops represents the cottonseed cakes the first winter. value of the portion of these crops that are marketed through live stock. Ft asgzsgi CHILD Kansas State Agricultural College.) As producers and consumers of cat- three-fourth- Poultry Facts ALCOHOL'& '' I"H,,l,,H"H,,H-H"l-H"lH-,H-i,,lH-- Colds come suddenly. You can often end them just as quickly! Take Bayer Aspirin the moment youve caught one. A single sneeze should he the signal, or the first sign of congestion or headache, or soreness. Exposure to cold and wet isnt half so serious when youve learned to protect yourself with Bayer Aspirin. For the speedy relief of colds, headaches, neuralgic or neuritic pain, and even the acute suffering caused by rheumatism, there is nothing so sure and so safe as genuine Aspirin tablets stamped Bayer. They make a marvelous gargle, too. See proven directions in every package iBAWiEim ip.n mnm as Aspirin is the trade mark of Beyer Manufacture of Monoace ticaeideeter of Saiicylicadd H Live Stock Hints A foal that is born strong, fully developed, and robust is in the best state to resist disease. 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