Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — PINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

PINTS FOR FARMERS

Rations For the Egg Layers. One of the best dry mash feeds that can possibly be fed to hens for winter egg production consists of the following: Two hundred pounds good wheat bran, 100 pounds good wheat middlings, 100 poqpds good cornmeal, 100 pounds linseed oil meal, 100 pounds gluten meal, 100 pounds beef scrap: Clean a space In the floor and place a layer of this feed, then another layer on top, and so on until all Is used; then take a scoop shovel and thoroughly mix, says the Indiana Farmer. Keep this mash dry before them all the time In automatic feed boxes. To this add clover hay and green vegetables, such as cabbage, mangels and turnips. Also for each 100 birds feed two quarts of wheat In the morning and the same at noon and two quarts of shelled corn at 4 o’clock In the evening. Keep plenty of warm water liefore them all the time, as cold, chilly water tends to stop egg production.

Tankage For Hogs. The Ohio station In a feeding experiment fed tankage to hogs following cattle. Each lot had seven steers. Lots 1 and 3 . received corn, cottonseed meal, stover, mixed hay and silage. Lots 4 and 6 received the same ration except silage. The hogs In lots 1 and 0 received a third of a pound of tankage dally per head In addition to what they could glean. The first sixty days three hogs were In each lot; the last fifty-six days four smaller hogs replaced the first set. The gain of the hogs receiving tankage was 1,230 pounds; the gain of the hogs not receiving tankage was 808, a difference of 422 pounds. The total amount of tankage fed was 259.5 pounds. That would cost at $45 a ton $5.85. The extra pork, 422 pounds at 6 cents, would be $25.32.

The Weanling Colt.

A close and regular connection between the oats bln and the colt stall is always marked with the best results. If there is any desire to save oats, the older horses had .better be skimped rather than the colts. It is Indeed a shiftless colt that will not produce results as evidenced In a sturdy frame and conspicuous muscle, on a regular feed of oats and possibly a little bran, the amount to be such as will always leave with him a taste for more. The only promise of first class draft qualities In the grown horse Is an ample frame well filled out In all parts In the colt. Such a youngster Is admired by all and when grown fetches the high price. But he cannot be brought to this stage by accident—Homestead.

How to Control Gan Jose Scale.

About the best and first thing that should be done with an orchard that is infested with scale is> to cut out and remove all the dead and unnecessary wood, says j Farm and Fireside. This Is especially true with old orchards that have much wood In the tops. After this part of the work has been done and the brush been removed and burned some kind of spray should be applied that will destroy the pests. The lime sulphur wash is the remedy that is most used for the control of the scale. It is safe and cheap and when applied properly is effective. This remedy has much value as a fungicide, beside being a scale destroyer.

Feeding Fowls In Winter.

For the best results you must give your fowls warm, dry, comfortable quarters and feed them regularly, giving for breakfast a warm mash, with one ounce of cut bone for each hen. Give them all the finely cut hay or clover they will eat. Keep vegetables of various kinds before them and feed them corn or wheat before they go to roost, about one pint to twenty hens. Keep a supply of sharp grit always before them and furnish them with fresh drinking water at all times, and you will find profit in hens in winter.

Pruning Fruit Trees.

In the pruning of fruit trees the object is to obtain the greatest amount of bearing wood arranged in a convenient form. Therefore we prune to obtain a low, open headed yet compact tree. A low headed tree bears the fruit in a more convenient form for picking. An open headed tree by letting in the sunlight obtains an earlier and ovener ripening of the fruit. Pruning of a fruit tree Insures the throwing out of younger fruit bearing branches.—Wallace’s Farmer.

Warbles In Cettle.

Warbles are also called grubs and wolves, says Hoard’s Dairyman. They appear on the back and sometimes on the sides of cattle, causing elevations or bunches resembling small abrupt tumors. Squeeze them out with your thumb and fingers and destroy the white grub by fire and wash the cavity with a solution of creolin or any of the coal tar preparations.

Keep Pure Bred Fowls.

It does not require any more house room to keep pure bred fowls than scrubs. It does not cost any more i| the long run to feed them. It does nc* take any more time or labor, but the results are far in favor of standard poultry. The standard hen lays more eggs a year than mongrel bens. In dressing it will far exceed in weight, looks and quality.

The Modern Btable.

No stable is complete nowadays without some provision for watering the stock inside and a good system of ventilation. When planning the general layout of the stables these two points should be given consideration and the necessary provisions made for Installing the particular systems decided upon.—Farm and Fireside.