Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 1, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 December 1937 — Around the Farm [ARTICLE]

Around the Farm

Matured sugar cane contains 18 per cent sugar. * * * Wheat provides the principal food of one-third of the total population of the world. * * * An expert claims that farmers put back only one-third of the phosphate they take out. * * * Turkeys can be made to lay eggs earlier than normally by use of lights in their houses. * * * Plant breeding as a science is less than 40 years old, and scientific vegetable breeding is even younger. * * * Boys’ 4-H club work interested more farm and ranch boys in Texas in 1936 than since the World war. * * * This country consumed two and a half billion dozen eggs last year, or an average of about 250 eggs for every man, woman and child. * * * To maintain heavy egg production, at least 25 pounds of grain and mash should be consumed daily by 100 hens. * * * Early-hatched pullets often go into a molt after a few weeks of laying, but this is largely preventable. The secret is to keep them gaining in weight.