The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 26, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 October 1930 — Page 3

’ FARM t POULTRY . SCRATCH LITTER OFTEN MENACE ' May Become Damp and Filthy in Poultry House. More harm than gno<| sometime* results from the scratching litter. It may become damp and filthy and thus be a menace to the health of the flock, or moldy and musty straw may be used with the result that serious loss of birds follows. Scratching litter can .be used to great advantage and most poultry keepers resort to Its tise during the winter months. The purpose of litter In the poultry houM>ls threefold: 1. Enables feeding of grain so as to Induce the birds to keep-active during the day. 2. Acts as an absorbent and keeps floor clean. x 3. Makes the Finis more comfortable. ‘ ' While these purposes are usually accomplished, nt the same time the litter often becomes an unsuspected source, of trouble. Poultry keepers can well afford* to exercise much discretion a* to the quality of straw to be used for scratching litter. Only bright clean straw, free from dust and mold, should be used as chickens are Unable to stand excessive dust and but very little mold since It Is so irritating to the air passage*. It is difficult to realize how delicate and complicated Is the respiratory system of a fowl. As one author puts it, the "chieke!) breathes pretty much all over its body." Besides having bronchial tubes and lungs, it also has tune air sacs located In various parts-of the body Which form a part of the respiratory system. Pullets Laying Eggs Need Best of Care Hens need a balanced ration If they are to return a profit for feed and care. In the natural laying season— April. May. and June —the hens balance their own ration by eating green ffs-d. gravel, lime; *<••■<!< ntid grains nnd Injects and by drinking water In, abundance if it Is to be f. ter, when the hens are kept In a building. these things must.be supplied If eggs -are to be produced. ■, . • ' In stj Btantly. *ln order to provide exercise in winter, cover t+e floor with straw and then scatter the feed In this litter. ' 1 . shells, gravel: arid charcoal in separate hoppers.. I’rOy Ide the protein (Insects) by-feeding tankage, meat scrap or milk. Give green feed In the form of cabbage, alfalfa or sprouted oafs. Mangels make an excellent succulent feed. greet! feed. A warm mash, fed about noon during November and December, stimulates egg production. TMs may be continued throughout the- winter with good results., Extremely Thin Shells Show Lack oL Material When egg sheila are extremely thin, either there is not sufficient material given the birds so that t’o-y can make normal shells, or the birds themselves : are not able to make the proper use of the material that, is given theme The add’d ion of cod liver oil to‘the ration will help the. birds to make better use of the materials that have o " I mixture may supply the necessary elements the birds need. If birds Could get. out in tin* direct rays.of the sunshine regularly. the health giving properties would enable them to make more efficient use of the feeds ami supplements that are given them. The practice of keeping layers confined tn winter prevents this. That's why glass substitutes are used In some of the windows, as these substitutes, allow the healthful sun's rays to pass through; Whencpd toser-oil I* used, it is added at the rate of 2 pounds to 100 pounds of the mnsh fed. or about pints to 100 pounds of Bttgli. Need More Protein When hens are not laying, there are • few questions to ask relative to the flock. First, are’they .properly boused? Second, are the pullets, matured and up to standard weight? Third, are parasites, either external or Internal, handicapping the flock? |f those three questions can be answered satlsfno torlly and still the bird* are not laying In a suitable manner then It Is likely that the trouble lies in the ration. Well grow n birds need a ration containing more protein. Feeding Program _ A good winter feeding program that the average farm poultry raiser will find helpful is as follows: Small grains, as wheat, oats and barley given in early morning; green feed or sprouted oats, 9 to 10 a. m. or another light feed of” small grain-; a light feed of hot mash at noon and heavy feed of shelled corn In the late afternoon. Do not overfeed on small grain because the birds should consume a good amount of mash from the hoppers throughout the day. Remove the Spurs Cock birds having long spurs. are the cause of many injuries on female*. Thia can be avoided by removing the spurs. Thia Is a comparatively easy operation and should be done. It to best, to cut off the spur with- a saw and then sear the end of the cut with a red-hot iron. This will prevent serious bleeding and in a few days there will be no danger of further injury. A chisel or pair of shears are not aat’'isfactory for removing the spura as ghey crack the spur.

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By W. A. RADFORD Mr William A Radford will" answer I question's and'give advice FREE OF (■COST on ailvproblema pertaining to the subject <>f building work on- the. farm, for the readers of this paper. On acicount of his Wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on the Isiubjeet.- t <ll in i rlee to \\ dllam 'A Radford; No. Wt Sbuth; L>earlo>rn Str« ; t. Chicago. 111.,' and only inch se two-cent stamp f»r reply. Work for . the y-’ar is practically complete on the farm. A.t this time of the year farm owners utilize their *p;ire tiine in cleaning their machines | and tools and greasing, the various sti .-l parts at-I paint i; the Iron, ami [wood pans. After this renovation ■is done, the machine should be stored tri a weatherproof building such as ■ nt she I a- d repair shop J showu. in the .accompanying illustration. This building Is of the. low gable pitched roof type'ami is designed to house machinery, and tools wtthjoiit Investing" a c<»tisi<le.rable amount of mom-y. It wm be noted by the floor : i';,n. ■ <-ri-'s* •'sc t. ti :i?id details that oniy one eml has a. concrete floor, 'l l s i- -de-igoed- as a repair shop ,wi .r, tl .• • :o : ’k-< and implements that are in need of repairs may he' taken and the w<>rK done indoor's at - odd times throughout the winter. The building is of frame eonstruc- | tion s<‘t on concrete corner posts and- . has a concrete floor th the shop and the cinder floor in the storage part. Cinders lire good because a layer ofout or .five inches deep will provide Bathroom Costs Less Than the Other Rooms The bathroom Js unique among all the rooms in the house In that it is the one room that i* almost completely furnished when a family moves into ’ i tew honie. None of tin other rooms are ready I f.*r occupancy until rugs or carpets •re purchased, p.ctures Lung, and furlint ex epi -or arranging the fow.ds, I hanging the shiadesi and curtains, and putting the family into the ■.•. Linet, the bathroom is ready when ■.he plu l-er ami decorator' finish their ■ l ew ptxqde think of the bathroom in this way; Yet it is true that one might -select plumidug fixtures arid ac* e'sor.es of excellent quality for tlie ; bathroom and. still the cost of furnishing this room would be far below that of the living room, master bedroom. or dining nmu:. This is a i»oint to keep in mind in selecting fixtures for a tuithroom in a. new house or u bathroom that Is beI ing modet nizval. It pay;s to select fixtuns of good quality’, not. only beLeatise, like furniture, the family is e dig to live with, them for a nunilaT lof years, but also becanae the befit IU, in the long run. the chetipest. Style, too. Is a factor to be kept In . mind. Years ngo plumbing fixtures I were bought for utility alone. Today, however. Myle.'des,gn. and color all tre important elements in the selection | Us plumbing fixtures. All plumbing fixtures are available lifi a. variety of colors. The purchaser I also has tiie choice of chromium or . nickel plated fittings, Although today j chromium is preferred in all of the better Installatl’oua.

How You Chn Cut $2,000Off Your Building Bill Between J 2.000 and $2,500 can be saved by any bulkier of a home or bungalow which he expects to u-e Tmly half a .year by the adoption of a few simple expedients, reveals a writer in Modern Meclutnics Magai zine. v A triple purpose bungalow suggested by the writer as an ideal economy ,in building is so called because, first, it builds equally well as a permanent town home or as a temporary summer cottage and log cabin. Second, the two floor plans suggested give one a choice of living room lengthwise of the bouse or across the entire front. Third, the cost, around is low for what the bungalow offers in both service and equipment. There are four ways to clip a cool $2,000 off one's building, according to the Modern Mechanics Magazine writer. If one builds a cellariess house one may save from SSOO to S7OO. Then, a closet bed instead of an extra bedroom saves from SSOO to SI,OOO. And by omitting a fireplace one saves from

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$715 to S3OO. An upstairs or first floor heater may save another $715. Since labor Is the largest single item of expense, the doing of some of the rough work by the owner may cut as much as SSOO off the labor bUL Steel Bridging Takes Place of Wood in Frame For many years wood bridging has been used to re-enforce frame coiV st ruction, but a comparatively recent innovation has been the utilization of steel for the same purpose. Steel, in its superior strength. Is naturally more efficient as a re-en-forcement material than wood, and it has the added advantage of doing away with the nails which were liable to loosep or pull out. The average home owner Is not acquainted with the necessity for bridging, and it is a subject of paramount importance. Floors which have not been re-enforced develop squeaks and flaws, and bridging possesses an important bearing upon the strength of the entire house.

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DAIRY INCREASED SIZE AND PRODUCTION Large Cows Were Curiosity Only Fifty Years Ago. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, our yearly average milk production per cow in 1850 was 1,436 pounds, in INSO it was 2,004 pounds, in 1900 was 3.OR> pounds, and in 1927 was 4,600 pounds. During the same period, a much greater increase has been evident in the black and white herds both in size and production. In 1866, when the Holstein cow Texalaar made a record of 74 pounds of milk daily for ten piiays, she was hailed as a wonder. -Now there are more than 250 llolsteins that have exceeded that production in the United States not only for ten days but tor an entire year of 365 days. Baek in the eighties, according to \V. R. Barney of Des Moines, lowa, member of the committee that verifies the qualifications of Holstein judges, arid one of the oldest living exhibitors of the breed, large cows were a curiosity 50 years ago, while today they are common. During this period, he asserts, the breed as a whole has increased considerably in size as well as production. No doubt better feeding and breeding methods have been an important factor in this development, but size is also a factor. How important is the factor of size is indicatwi by McDowell of the United States Department of Agriculture in his recent investigation of the D. H. 1 A. records of the nation. He found that a 660-pound variation in the weight of tl>e Holsteins considered showed an additional income of $33 each over feed cost, or $5,50 for each WtVpound increase in weight. He states that this increased net return should be considered as additional net profit. Amqunt of Feed Needed to Maintain Dairy Cow It is usual to feed all cows tn a herd the same amount of train, regardless of their production. To illustrate the amount of feed necessary to maintain a cow and furnish enough ; rite n and energy for milk production, the following examples are given: 1 ,_A Holstein cow weighing 1.400 lbs. and producing 4»’> lbs. of 3.5 per cent milk needs: 42 lbs. corn-silage. 17 lbs. hay (half clover and half ordinary hay) ami 12 to 13 lbs. grain (1-8 per cent to 20 per cent protein). 2.—A Holstetn- cow weighing 1.400 lbs. and producing 22 lbs. of per cent milk need*: -12 lbs. corn s:'a.e, 17 lbs. bay (half clover and half ordinary hay) and but 4 to 5 lbs. of grain (18 per cent to 20 per cent protein). After r cow freshens, the grain may b gradually increased to about. I'2 to 13 lbs, for a Holstein cow producing 46 lbs. of milk and kept at nearly that amount for three or four-months. when the grain may be gradually reduced during the next six months. . When cows have been overfed, a good time to reduce the grain or change the grain ration is when a change can be made from a low-grade bay to a better grade, or from p«mr succulent feed to good succulent feed, or when one has a surplus of milk. For greater profit.. t<>e<| more protein hay, grown on soil which has been limed and has had an application of superp'hosphate,.and less liigh protein grain. Big Problem of Manure With Many Dairy Herds It looks as though sanitation Is to be the keynote of successful dairy farming in the future. In the -arly days, when there were three to six <ows od 100 acres.»there was little thought given to sanitation and little required. There was not enough stock around to seriously pollute the premises. Now with 20 to 30 head of slock In the same building, all using the same yard ard the manure a corresponding greater accumulation, sanitation is a real problem. Prof. W. R Graham, professor of poultry husbandry at the Ontario Agricultural college, in advising that all growing pullets be k»-pt from the farm buildings, remarked: "The soil around the average farm bam is not dirty—it is filthy." If tfm soil of the barnyard Is fatal to poultry, can it be healthy for calves and heifers? Filthy yards and stables may not generate disease, but they are favorable to the mulripllCntlon of disease germs and make disease eradication almost impossible. Clean premises are Important just in proportion as we increase our live stock.

Cull Poor Animals As a large percentage of the dairy cows on harms are bred to calve in the spring, this Is an excellent time to consider the cheapest method of properly raising the calves. This is especially true now that dairy cattle are somewhat cheaper than they were two years ago. or even last year, and* they are likely to continue to be cheaper for several years. This is not only a good time to cull out and sell the less productive cows, but to cull the calf crop as well. Using Nurse Cows Many dairymen and farmers raise their calves on nurse cows, but this method has proved more expensive than bucket feeding. This system supplies the calf with butter fat that is worth at present about S3O per hundred pounds, and for which skim milk may be profitably and efficiently substituted after the first month. Where nurse cows are used, the calves are usually weaneu severs’ months before the milk ration should be discontinued.

LOOK. DEAR—6ID YOU EVER SEE SUCH GLEAMING WHITE CLOTHES? wffiW No scrubbing —no boiling yet clothes wash whiter "TXTHO SAID women aren’t as effiW cient as men? Look at this wash, dear .. .white as snow. Yet I didn't do a bit of hard work. I just soaked everything in a wonderful new kind of suds —and out came my wash sweet and spotless! “The soap? Why.Rinso—of course! It is the only soap I know that produces live suds, the kind that loosens dirt without the help of a washboard. That saves the clothes, let me tell s you!” Safe, economical suds Cup for cup, Rinso gives twice as much suds as lightweight, puffed-up soaps. Lasting suds, even in hardest water. The makers of 38 famous washing machines recommend Rinso. So do home-making experts everywhere. Get the BIG package. Rinso is // If rl great for Jw/ dishwashing, pEi to °* KjBI MILLIONS USE RINSO in tub, washer and dishpan Threatened It was durlfig a Washington diplomatic gathering that Ruth Bryan Owen was subjected to some joshing regarding.her success In politics, especially since some of her views are at wide variance from those of her famous fatiier. "Yes. and I have some mone!” i laughed Ruth, "and one of them is that it wouldn’t hurt Uncle Srim to get married."—Los Angeles Times. Real dyes give richest colors! FOR every home use, Diamond Dyes are the finest you can buy. They contain the ' highest quality anilines that can be produced. It’s the anilines in Diamond Dyes that give such soft, bright, new colors to dresses, drapes, lingerie. Diamond Dyes are easy to use. They go on smoothly and evenly; do not spot or streak; never give things that re-dyed look. Just true, even, new colors that keep their depth and brilliancfe in spite of wear and washing. 15c packages. All drug stores. . DiamonckOyes Highest Quality 50 Yaars Dancing Taught by Squares Dancing steps are being taught by means of a checkerboard floorboard recently invented by a dancing master of Berlin. Germany. It fits the average size room. The squares are numbered and a code tells upofi which square the pupil s feet should be for each step. No one seems to value his youth at Its worth, except one whose health 1 isn't very good. Parrots learn swear words because of the emphasis on them.

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Polluted Rivers Work Havoc in Fish Family It is getting so no self-respecting shad dares enter the mouth of any American river. If he has no selfrespect and pushes on through the murk and chemicals and gloom of the debris deposited ,in them a dreadful death awaits him. It is getting so no shellfish—oyster, lobster or clam—can hope to retain his health u'ong the bays and estuaries where the£“ rivers empty. But he can take a just revenge. He, can poison the population which has poisoned him. In 10 years the crab fisheries of the Ctoyapeake and Delaware rivers have n/ten cut in half, and the lobster catcjr is a third of what it a ago. Not only the opeh sewers of rivers, but oil-burning ships void their refuse in a manner increasingly deadly to all forms of marine life.—Harper’s Magazine. Queen’s Crucifix Added to Vatican Treasures The pope has recently added a very irnportant, though quite unostentatious looking crucifix to the already large and priceless collection which he possesses. This crucifix was carried by Marie Antoinette almost up to the moment of her execution and is made of wood and brass. After the queen had made her confession, an hour or so before her execution, she handed the simple little ’crucifix to the priest . . almost her last earthly act. Some time later the priest gave the crucifix to his niece, who lived in Toulouse. As she lay dying she asked the cure to select some little object as a keepsake. He chose Marie Antoinette's crucifix. Later he became Monseigneur Ricard and it was he who bequeathed the relic to his holiness. ' A Hungry Airedale Had / Partaken of Luncheon Guests had been invited to dinner. Rolls had been prepared for the occasion, buttered and placed on the pantry shelf. The hostess had seen to it personally that there were plenty of them. Jmagine her surprise, after they had been passed only twice, to see the maid enter with only two on the plate. Her expression ffiainly showed there xyere no more. The hostess wondered. Just about this time young son, sit-, ting next to his father, was talking volubly. 2Say, Daddy.” he said, "poor old Bill (referring to an airedaie that lived next door) was just too hungry for anything this evening. He ate five rolls as fast as 1 could throw them to him." Got Hi* on Earth Anne W. Armstrong tells a little story which reveals the psychology of the southern mountaineer. When she yvas a child her father took one grin) old niountaineer from Yancey county. North Carolina, to Visit the finest house in town. The mountaineer gazed at everything without comment, but as they came away he remarked.’ "Won't no man what lives Ln a house as fine as that there ever go to heaven!"—Washington Star. . Hardy Grain for Russia A hybrid grain, a cross between 'rye and wheat, has been grown in the Soviet botanical observatory at Minsk and it will probably make a great change in the grain industry of the country. It has the cold-re sisting qualities of rye and the richness of wheat and jthe yield per acre is -about trebled xvhen compared with wheat. It will be ready for general distribution next year. ’■ Past Experience Seaside Landlady—l'm glad your friend recommended my boarding house to you. Stout Guest—Yes. he knew how anxious I am to reduce, and told me to come here. As we advance in life we learn ,the limits of our abilities.—Froude.

g 1 / ~~ * walkw ouron SirJhW Sir WALTER RALEIcCJ 1 restored the good repute otV'Say a pipe. Give that unpopular briar of yours a thorough clearing. -Fill it with Sir Walter’s snr-xing mixture. Before you’ve fin’,bed the first can, you’ll find yo irsclf with a reformed pipe—a pipe that will ( get admiring glar.ces from your friends. Sir Waite' is a distinctive blend of fine Burley, skillfully mellowed to a mildness and fragrance that are hard to equal, no matter what price you pay. tefflji I A I IT’S 15/ — and milder The ideal Vacation Land Sunshine All Winter Long Splendid roads—tiering mountain ranges—Highest type hotels—dry invigorating ait—clear starlit nights— California's Foramost Desert Playground P Wrltt Cr»» a Chafftv alm CALIFORNIA IliAHO.Crops are fine at Twin Falls. Idaho, same as every year ‘for 20 years past. Wheat is v-ieldinsr 60 to 75 bushels, alfalfa, corn, beans, potatoes proportionally, which oc» urs only where climate is excellent, soil fertile, and there is ample water supply alf summer for irrigating crops. Farmins; h*;re is a pleasure. Write for Information. Chamber of Commerce, Twin Fall*. Idaho. $ $ $ MONEY P Hnntt-nt Valuable Furs. Raising and f selling Hunting Hounds, bog Supplies, Hunting. FisMing. Camp ng. Sporting Goods. Agenev Plan. Free Cata/04/he. ar* w KAKAKIA KENNELS, CC33. Herrick. 111. invisible' Force Except to the color blind, color affects everybody whether lie be award of it of not. if you want tennants for your bird house, paint the Inside light yellow or light orange and your want will be supplied.—American Magazine.