Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 October 1940 — Rural Briefs [ARTICLE]

Rural Briefs

Low-broducing hens lay most of their eggs in the spring and do not add miich to the fall production. * . * Tests! show that more than 75 per cent of the pressure gauges in use on potato spray rigs are inaccurate. • s • Steers fed on ground ear corn tend to bloat! less when on legume pasture than animals getting shelled corn. • • • An Australian breeder is reported to have successfully crossed a guinea hen with a White Leghorn cock. The chicks are said to resemble Leghorns, and are called guinlegs. * * * Records of hundreds of farm accidents in the files of the federal department of agriculture show that most of them were caused by carelessness, haste, use of makeshift repairs, taking chances, and using machinery without safety guards in place. All the soybeans in the United States 60 years ago were a handful brought from China by a missionary. In 1939, 10,000 carloads of soybeans rolled into one city for processing.