South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 258, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 15 September 1917 — Page 10

OUTH BEND NEWS -TIME 10 5 VTTTTTVW ATI I.KVOOT. TTTTHMnCU 15, 1!'. AGRICULTURE INFORMATION FOR FARMERS AND ORCHARD1STS STOCK-RAISING

Green Food

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is Important Part of

of Fare For Chickens

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Tendency to Keep Down Diseases

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Jado, ürHlr nnd Writer. Cn n food ffr poultry throurrhout the yar is a n-- 'ssity. It is unfortunate trat rren food ir so frrmrallv consider d a mere aeces.(iry, rf iltir, ir; widespread m lc t nf t!u- poultryman's fli'Mf't j-oure- of food. The lowf-r ort of l.iairitainfn fnw! on open ratm" is P.i in a larue measure to th-ir heavy consumption of tender, nutritious plant growth.

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ard m-at f-l :tlmo form a ration too hip-bly concentrated for jrper diK tif-n. Ireri food is not exactly a yuainim; ration, hut more especially it is a st i n 111 1.i t i or-r-ctlvc to the ,!icrstiv tr;trt and ;i for.ir. to the koktuI sy.-tem. I'owls ffrt liberal rjiiruititirH of Krcf-n food are It-.-s subjort to disea.se. thy bfrornc more -vigorous, improve in Ktamina, lay mor' rtrtrs ami their chicks live anl thrive vr!l. Ju response to pr s't Wilson's apjeat to lnre;i:e th' food supply. nearly every poultryrnm lias at the Käme time pip.ir-d ji mean of providing preen foo l fur his fowls with little l.tbor or expense. Wo havo raised the larK'vt supply of -e-taMs in the hi.-tory of our country. und the excess vhih viil naturally j---u!t may be used ns- a ration for I r u 1 1 r and by this means eliminate liny wahte. l)!irinir tlie summer months when the fowls hae ample ranee tlrey pi' k up e.nouirh preen food in the pras. weeds and w.'etaMo growth. Hut where they are confined to runs which lack desirable preen food, it vill pay to supply succulent food for them. To supply preen food :lurincr the summer is not a dilllcu.lt matter, as there are plenty of underripe or oer-ripe fruits or vegetables available which are not .suitable for table .use. Idtue leaves. b-et tops, abbape leaves, tomatoes or melons are lelished by fowls, and will form a larpe juirtion of the ration durinp the warm ucather when preen foods ure most needed. Corn or corn cobs arc excellent, rspeeially if the cobs are cut into t!v pif i s. Com husk anl com -vilk of frtsh s.vjct corn aro ri lisln'il. Corn fodb-r may e cured for use in winter and it is a aluable substitute for preen food. When the ears have been pulled the corn stalks should bo cut close to the pround and stood up in shocks until quite dry when they are tied In bundles and 5 et aside until needed. If th'is is too bulky, strip the leaves from tho com stalk; when dried thoroughly they are put away for winter use. Oirins ;in (lipping. Uwn lippincs are aluable as .1 Mibritutp for prren food durinp the winter months, if they have been properly cured. To cure them it is hr-t to rake the clippinps into small lirrip. left in the sun for several hour?, when they may be stirred and alowed to remain till even inc. If they are fairly dry ),y evening they should be put in a basket and hung -r that tie a'r will blow through them. l.nwi! clippings thus cured 1 an !e sor'd away in barrels or boxes for winter fedinc. and when takn out they will have a nice pre'n ppearance. An e( ellent method of fee,in lawn clippings consists of taUinc: a piece of incli me.-h poultry nettinp about f"ir fett hum and two feet .' wide, laytnpr it :'at and eoverinp to :i depth of ."'Vi lal iiu h- s with the

Indiana and U. S. Crop Report For This September

GRAY JAPANESE BANTAMS

Whm the Japanese Hantams vere first introduced into Kni;lund. and thence into America, the only varieties were white, tdack, and blacktailed white. l'nplish fanciers deeloped the attractive (Jray Japanese Bantams, shown above. In color they are like the lUrchen Gray Ilartams. The male has a silvery white nock hackle, saddle hackle and top of winp. The balance of the plumace Is lustrous preenish black, except the breast, each feather of white is lactd or edped with silvery white. The female 's intense black in all sec

tions, except the neck and upper part of the breast, each feather of this section heinp" edped with white. They have leps only about an inch and a half in length, and the winps are carried droopinp almost to the pround. The tail is ery lonp and stands up alnnp the back and past the top of the head. These Hantams may be kept successfully in limited quarters. They rat little and are easily cared for. The liens are yood layers. Gray Japanese Hantams should not exceed to '2 2 ounces in ueipht for females, or 22 to ounces for males.

Hy C. S. I?rant (Indiana Field Apent). WASHINGTON", Sept. 14. A summnry of the September Yop report for Iialiana and for the l'nite 1 States, as compiled by the bureau of crop estimates (and transmitted thrown the weather bureau , United State. department of dpriculturc, is as follows: Corn. Indiana Sept. 1 forecast. 2CD,000,000 hushfls; production last year (Drcember estimate), 17 4,65$,000 bushels. l'nited States Sept. 1 forecast, n, -.10.000,000 bushtl.; production last year (Dcceml)ei esrimate), 2,5i.1.2 1 1.000 bushels. All Wheal. Indiana Sept. 1 forecast. "1.I'OO.cOm luislu'.s; production last year. '. Ieember estimate , 1.,44,J,0'. hushe's. fTnited states ft pt. 1 f re cast. IiiSOOO.ffM) bushels; production last j-ear Iei e.r.'ier estimate), . ''., S ; , M0 bushels. Oals Indiana Sej t. I j'oiecaft, ! ' 0 0 , 0 1 1 1 bushels; production last year (Ieeni1tr estimate!. .".J.ÖO,1 0' l.Misliels.

Fifty-Fifiy Biscuits

Have you tried "fifty-fifty biscuits" Uncle Sam's latent iaea for prtvtn? wheat flour in hot bread 7 You use two cups of corn meal, soy beans which can be home ground, finely crushed peanuts, or rice flour to two cups of white flour. Or yon can ase one cup of corn meal and one cup of pround soy beans or crushed peanuts with tho wheat product. You can make "fifty-fifty" mutfns with one and one-half cups of cooked and mflfhed sweet or Irish rotato, or cooked cereal, or pround j-oy beans, to an equal amount of flour. Then there aro "fifty-fifty" recipes for wafers and for corn meal cookies. How to make all these "fiftyfifties" as well as home methods for entire ccrn meal perns and yeast bread and rolls made in part of hnely crushed peanuts sweet or Irish potato, soy !ean meal which can he made at home- hy prindinu soy beans in a hand mill, rice, corn meal, or cooked cereals, are desrribed in detail in United States depirtment of agriculture circular No. A SI, "Partial Substitutes for Wheat in Hread Makinp." Here is a sample recipe the one for "fjftjt.fty" biscuits as worked out by

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Uldted States S(pt. 1 :c recast. ilome demonstration work:

1 ..VJO.ooe.OftO I usb-ls; production last ear ( I)"cq-nher estimate i,

l,- 1. '!'-. '0m bushels. Tohacro. Indiana Sept. 1 forecast. 1 10o.0'- pounds; pioductip 1 tt ear ( I)ev n: ' r estimat , 1 ::. 7 4 .- Otn jtounds. :'nited State Sept. 1 forecat, 1.2'0.000.eo0 bounds: production last year (Pec-ember estimate',

1.1 " J.loiO pounds, i Potatoes.

Indiana Sept. 1 forecast. O.öiU,(00 bi'shels; production lu.t e;ir (P'Mtnibei- estimate). ::.-";. 000

biisln-ls.

United St:.ts Sept. 1 ff recast.

"rifty-rifty Hi-cuits.

clippinps. This is rolled very tiphtly, fastened up and hunu insiile the poultry- house within reach of the fowls, thus providinp reen food at all times without danper of waste or soilinp. Supar beets or manpels make excellent Kreen food and should be put away in a cool place where there is no daiiL;-r of freezinir. In the fall when cabbape plants are pulled the poorly headed ones should be set aside for poultry. Pip a trench wide enouph -and deep enouph to cover the cabbape head. Place the cabbaere down in the trench and cover with soil, leaving about half of the roots sticking out in the air. Cabbape put away in this manner, if in a well drained location, will keep all winter. lVcdini: Turnips and Small Vegetables. Small turnips, potatoes, or other vepetables may be used by plaeinp th'm in a roll of wire, or fastened to a nail, to keep them from beomintr soiled or wasted. Very often it is advisable to boil small potatoes and feed them as a wet mash. Where clover ran be procured the second crop is an excellent substitute for Kreen food. The same may be said of alfalfa. The clover should be cut in the eveninp and about 10 o'clock next morninp, when the dewis dried off, it should he raked into piles and allowed to stand till the folio winp day, when it may he stored away for future use. Clover or alfalfa may be fed by the same method supyested for lawn clippin.es. or it ran be cut tine and fed in the wet or dry mash. Cloer and alfalfa

Two cups corn meal, f round soy War.-: or tinely pround peanuts, rice flour, or other substitute, two cups white llcur, four teaspoons bakinpowder, two teaspoons salt, four tablespoons shorteninp. liquid sufficient to mix to proper eor.sistenev (one to one and one-half cups. Sift topctner the Hour, meal, salt, and bakinp powder twice. Have the shorteninp as cold as possible and cut it into th mixture with a knife, finally rubbimr it in with the hands. Mix ouickly with the cold liquid criilk. skim milk, or water), forminp a fairly soft douph which can be

i'sed. the roatel and shelled nuts should be finely crushed with a rollingpin. In makinp the flour and peanut biscuits the flo-.ir jnd other dry inpredients should be sifted together twice and then mixed thotouhly witn the crushed peanuts.

NUXATED IRON

4f;i'()O.0fM ushds; production last , im- uoa.o. n.,,, .t

. - uoureo oirii-i; iuii niiu si.tei inn '"' over one-half inch thick; cut Into

inns w& &Mt&

year (Peember estimate). L'.'.l

j.U o ishels. All fla. I ndiana IM elin,inar estimate, .'.(va.utoi tons; V'cxiuction last year tPcccnib",- estimate . ::. 4o:;,ooo tons. l'nited .states IVelin.inr r' t sti.nate. '.I'.Oob.roo tons; production last year (I). Member estimate), loy,7m;,""" tons. Apple ( i:i it uititral Crop). Inliani Sept. 1 fore.ast 1,;20.ll'O barrels of three bushels, pro. duction last ear j Pecembcr estimate). l.'oT.OO"1 1 arrels. l'nited States Sept. 1 forecast, .V.'. 100,000 ban els of three bushels; production last year (December estimate, GT.41.",00 barrels. IVarlie-. Indiana Ks ti mated production, 117. r.!oj,00t bushels; production last year ( i )?ce niber estimate), 88?,(('0 bushed--. l'nited States Istimated production. 1!17. n'.OO.OOO bushels; pro-d'jctioi-last voir (December estimate). :a;.t:::,ooo bushels. l'rievs. 'I he tirst price uien below is the average on Sept. 1 this ycr.r. and the second on Sept. 1 last year. Indiana Wl eat. 20: and 1 cents per bushel. Corn. -16 and Si. Mats, .i7 and 41. Potatoes. 11." and 1L'. Hay, i;;.:0 and ?10.::0 per

ton. I'ps. and

dozen. rnitcd States Wheat, 1".1.L' cents j. er ousbel. and s :'-.: cents. ats. ;i

jcer.ts. Potatoes. Kfr.l

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ton. Cotton

pound. K,7s per do.ei..

are highly nutritious. and may be used as a bulky food in place of bi'H n. Those who have vegetable parden." an pro ide enough yrc-en food for the fowls by pieparinp a part of the paid.en for fall plantinp. The land should he spaded deep and made tine by rnkinu. Then sow winter wheat. or winter rye. to which may be added (in cases where it may be allowed to stand foi permanent pasture) white, or little Dutch clover. Kentucky blue rass and red top prass. This will insure a pasture throuph the winter, early soring and summer. Call sowinp should be done as early in September as possible, so that it will pet a pood start before cold weather checks its prowth. and also to pive the prasses an opportunity of Rettin;; well rooted. TIkis sown the plants will make a st roup prowth. and poultry can pasture on them almost from the lirst. especially if they are covered with poultry netting to prevent the fowls from scratching up the roots. If the prowth is luxuriant and there is sutticient other pree-n food avail - aide, the prasses may be cut off and cured in the same manner suppestrd for clover or lawn clippings. Purinp the winter when all other vepetation is withered, winter wheat or rye will be seen stickinp above the snow, and there is nothinp equal to them for feedinp at this time. In 1. . 1 , ..: . , . i

ioe iaie spiiuu or eariy summer me ivmwx i-1'ni li maiaiiv

wheat and rye become tough, but j 'oather conditions lurinp the they have furnished preen food for ! month of Aii-n-t were not 1 enetirial

to crops generally. With the excep-

rounds; place these in lightly floured biscuit tins (or shallow pans), and bake 10 to 1 j minutes in a a.thr not oven. If peanuts are

NETHERLANDS MINISTER TO U. SJS RECALLED AVAHIXGTOX. Sept. IT.. The Netherlands mini.ter to the l"nitd States. Chevalier V. V. C. Van llappard has been recalled by hipovernment and Friday he called upon Sec'y Landing to announce the

fact and to ask if Mr. Van Royen. i

vho has bcön raived his successor, will be acceptable to the United States. Chevalier Van Ttanpnrd. who ha:ben minister here for four years, will be transferred to a Furopear. post.

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the fowls, and will protect the more

tender shoots of rnss and clover that come on later. Value of Spirited Oats. Karly in the sprint:, a soon as the ground can le worked, a part may le sown tn oats; oven if snows fall or freezing takes place after they have been planted, the oats will not le injured. All poultrymen have recourse to sprouted oats as Kreen food, hut the question aries: Does it pay? This must he. settled hy each operator for himself. Sprouted oats has been one of the standard feeds anions commercial cjrp producers for many years, and it is one of the mo.t satisfactory methods of , providing succulent reen food at times when other vepetation is warre. It is a simple matter to sprout oats if the vessels used are sweet and clean and the seed is kept in a temperature of CO to 70 decrees and sprinkled with tepid water at frequent intervals. Oats may be sprouted in small quantities l.y soakintr them in a bucket for a few hours, after which they are 1 rained in a sack. They are then spread on a Hoor. or in shallow pans, one-half to one inch deep, and sprinkled with warm water rnornins. noon and nipht. When the pre-n shoots are two or three inches lonp. they are ready for f-ed-inp. The shoots may be (lipped and f-d. Or the practice i. k feed the entire mass roots, sprouts and all. I'owls that are kept under norm-il co:idi;ions and properly f-d may be 1 M t to determine the exact proportion f preen food that houId enU r into the ration. Whfn kept in ( loe

conti npiiu-nt and heavily fed on highly i on. o.Mtrnted prain rations, thr is some danrer of their cors nnini: .tioro creen Than j- trood for tlioni. ,T.d the operator should be wxfrn-accordingly-

tlon of the lust few days the temperature was entirely too low, : and somewhat below nrmal for the, month. Showers were comparative i ly infrequent the tirst two-thirds ofj the nonth and were widely scat-1 tered and of varfnp intensity, althrush generally liuht. Durinp the last few (lays of the month showers' were more intense and better di.4-' tributed throughout the state, although the precipitation for the j

month was generally deficient; many sections sufierinp from drouth .'winp to cool nUhts prevailinp during the month corn did not mature so rapidly ?. it should hn(v

ome very warm weather and mori rain is needed, especially for thej late planted t orn. Oats thrashing j is practically comj-leted in the south and -cntral portions of the state. imd in the north :art cood progress I is beins made, ivith better ykdds fori several years past. Potator-; do not ! Jook so poou ..s last month which is attributed to several caufes. the cool, dry veathe.- beiup the prin-! cipal one, however. The commei-J ( ial ;;ipie rp is looking excep- : tionally uom1. but the apricultural ! crop did not improve any dunnp , the month. All hay crops have beer, harvested under favorable con-. dPior.s. Vat 1imv a yield somewh: ! less than la-t year, which with the1 decrease in ;nra-e will mean a! considerable shortage. j

The effects of the anticipated fooj shortage is beinp felt by turkey raiMTs. Careless or easy methods f otlier yfars must be nmivled. Ifow to eiiminat thi. wate will le discussed in next work's artict-.

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