n-Ht-RSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1929
Q How to !
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| Poultry j
I By Dr. L. D. LeGear; V. S
St. Louis, Mo.
I p r LeGear is a graduate of the f
I Ontario Veterinary College, ]
f 1892. Thirty-six years of veter- !
\ nary practice on diseases of live j
I tl ,ck and poultry. Eminent au- 2
\ thority on poultry and stock |
! raising. Nationally known poul- |
! £ -v breeder. Noted author and |
popular lecturer.
THE CASH VALUE
OF CLEANLINESS
Sanitation by Insuring a Healthy,
productive Flock, Pays Actual
Cash Dividends, Says Dr. L. D.
I eGear, V. S., of St. Louis, Mo.
Editor*? Note —This is another
, on . in a series of 52 stories on
poultry raising written by the well
known national poultry authority,
p r 1 d. LeGera, V. S., of St. Louis.
The entire series will appear in this
paper. Our readers are urged to
re ad them carefully and clip them
out tor future reference.
ARTICLE 111
Little Johnny, in his bath, with
ear? full of soap and soul full of
rebellion, undoubtedly has no use
whatever for the doctrine that clean
liness is next to Godliness. To him
it is just a pain in the neck — a dev
ilish invention of grown-ups to keep
a boy from his rightful occupation
of play. Left to himself, he will most
certainly have as little as possible
to do with that particular kind of
Godliness.
Most grown-ups recognize the de
sirability of personal cleanliness and
of common sense sanitation in their
homes and places of business. It is
more comfortable to be clean after
one has reached maturity and too
inconvenient to suffer the expensive
ills that result from unsanitary
surroundings. When it comes to
their poultry, however, that is quite
a different story in all too many in
stances.
The same man who would recoil
in horror from a filth-encrusted dish
placed before him on his table al-
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When your
Children Cry
for It
Baby has little upsets at times. All
your care can not prevent them. But
can be prepared. Then you can do
w nat any experienced nurse would do
—what most physicians would tell
you to do—give a few drops of plain
yastoria. No sooner done than Baby
b soothed; relief is just a matter of
foments. Yet you have eased your
cnild without use of a single doubt
., drugs; Castoria is vegetable. So
E s safe to use as often as an infant
as any little pain you can not pat
d *ay. And it’s always ready for the
fueler pangs of colic, or constipa
jjo, or diarrhea; effective, too, for
. *® r children. Twenty-five million
were bought last year.
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CASTORI AI
10 DAY SALE
Starting Saturday, August 3rd, we are put
ting on one of the biggest price slashing
sales in the history of our town.
Our entire stock including SHOES, DRY
GOODS, NOTIONS and GROCERIES has
been reduced to the very bottom.
COME AND SEE THESE WONDERFUL
VALUES AND BE CONVINCED
C. B. CRUTCHFIELD
MONCURE, N. C.
lows his fowls to eat and drink from
utensils that are no less an offense
to decency because they are in the
poultry yard instead of a dining
room. He will howl his head off if
Junior tracks a little mud onto the
living room rug, but he will allow
droppings, decomposed food mate
rial and other offensive litter to ac
cumulate in his henhouses until thev
smell to high heaven. He is scrup
ulously careful about the lawns near
his house, but his chicken yard looks
like that lower corner of the “south
forty” after the last batch of city
picnickers had done their worst to
it. Then he wonders why his fowls
are such poor layers, look so droopy
and dispirited and so- readily, take
on all the ills that chicken flesh is
heir to.
The discoveries of Dr. Gorgas in
Panama and of Dr. Neguchi, who
\ recently died a martyr to science
in Africa, have shown how certain
kinds of mosquitos transmit the
1 germs of yellow fever. This suggests
that such parasites as lice, fleas,
mites, ticks and bedbugs, which so
often infect chickens, may also be
carriers of disease. There is reason
for believing that such is the case,
but whether they do or not, such
parasites cause a heavy drain on the
vitality of the fowls. That means de
creased ability to block the progress
of disease should infection occur
from other sources. The simplest
kind of sanitary measures that make
poultry houses and yards very un
healthy for germs and parasites, so
why they should be tolerated ’s 'past
understanding. Simple cleanliness is
the first essential of sanitation.
Poultry houses should be made so
they can be scrubbed out occasion
ally and they should be regularly
sprayed with coal tar dip and disin
fectant.
No animal or vegetable matter
should be allowed to remain exposed
in yard or house until it begins to
decay. All such material should be
removed and burned or deeply
buried. Be particularly careful so to
dispose of fowls or animals that have
died from one cause or another.
Drinking vessels and feeding
equipment should be watched care
fully. All fountains, troughs and hop
pers should be so constructed that
the fowls cannot get in them with
their feet or roost on them, thereby
befouling the contents with dirt or
droppings. Fresh water should be
given at least once a day. All feed
ing and watering equipment should
be throughly scrubbed out, scalded
or disinfected at frequent intervals.
Droppings are perhaps the most
dangerous of all possible sources of
infection. They are almosit inva
riably breeding grounds for disease
germs and also frequently harbor
intestinal worms. These may be pick
ed up by fowls not already affected,
thus spreading the evil. Further
more, nothing could be worse for
fowls than to be compelled to roost
just above a filthy droppings board.
The odors and gasses arising from
droppings are extremely unhealthy.
Continued breathing of air so con
taminated weakens the lungs, thus
making easy the progress of any
HHi ill
;. jp%BgooMßpL Waft
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q u i t e approve the
quick comfort of Bayer Aspi
rin. These perfectly harmless tab
lets ease an aching head without
penalty. Their increasing use year
after year is proof that they do help
and can’t harm. Take them for any
ache; to avoid the pain peculiar to
women; many have found them
marvelous at such times. The
proven directions with every pack
age of Bayer Aspirin tell how to
treat colds, sore throat, neuralgia,
. neuritis, etc. All druggists.
Aspirin
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture
of Monoacetieacidester of Salioylicacid
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C
1 disease which may be contracted
1 later on. Both roosts and droppings
“ board should be frequently cleaned
' and disinfected, as well as the
whole house. It is also advisable to
■ cover the droppings hoard with wire
netting so the fowls cannot get into
the droppings with their feet.
Birds that show signs of disease
should always be put to themselves
and treated until it is safe to return
them to the flock. If any consider
able number of them show signs of
the same trouble, they should all be
taken out of the flock and a whole
sale clean up should be made; clean
out and disinfect all houses and
equipment; clean up yards and in
every way attempt to remove all
possible sources of infection.
Not all of the possible sanitary
measures can be discussed in any
article of this kind, but some of the
most important ones are described
above. A good dip and disinfectant
used regularly and conscientiously
will go a long way toward making
disease impossible in your poultry
flock, not forgetting the most effec
tive of all—God’s own great steril
izers, fresh air and sunshine. It is
not as easy to keep things sanitary
as it is to let them go to pot, but
it does keep down disease and that
pays.
Hens that are healthy, robust,
strong, free from parasites and dis
ease are better layers, better breed
ers and are worth more on the mar
ket than those that are neglected
and compelled to get along as best
they can. Maintaining sanitary con
ditions may mean work, but it is
neither difficult nor as trying as
fighting disease and it is infinitely
more profitable.
(Copyright, 1929.
by Dr. L. D. LeGear, V. S.)
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Brickhaven News *
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Miss Louise Nash of Norwood is
spending a few days with Miss Ruth
Kennedy.
Miss Gladys Dickens is the guest
of her cousin, Miss Elizabeth
Dickens, of Moncure.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Nash of Nor
wood were among the week-end
visitors here.
The revival began at the Brick
haven M. E. church at Corinth yes
terday. The pastor, Mr. E. C.
Maness, will have charge of the eve
ning services which begin promptly
at 8 o’clock. Mr. H. H. Johnson
of Duke University will conduct the
afternoon. services, beginning at 3
o’clock. The two services yesterday
were well attended and both sermons
were above the average. A cordial
invitation was extended to members
of other churches and denominations
to take part and help make it a week
of work and prayer.
Miss Mae Dickens goes to Vass to
morrow to spend sometime as the
guest of her cousin, Miss Bessie
Gunter.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Dickens and
children spent yesterday at Pullen
Park, Raleigh. They report a most
enjoyable day.
Miss Katharine Thomas of Chapel
Hill and Miss Nell Yarborough of
Raleigh were guests here of Miss
Frances Thompson during the week.
Mrs. R. H. Marks and children,
Dan and Betty Louise, of Chapel
Hill, are spending this week with
relatives here. Mr. Marks is attend
ing a meeting of the merchants asso
ciation which takes place at Lynch
burg, Va., this week.
Mrs. Garland Tarrell of Aberdeen
spent a while here last week with her
sister, Mrs. Claire L. Harrington.
James Marks is visiting relatives
of Aberdeen this week.
The play, “The Country Doctor,”
was presented in the auditorium of
I the Fuquay Springs high school last
| Friday evening to an appreciative
: audience. When returning home the
1 car containing four of the players,
Mrs. J. H. Lawrence, Miss Annie
Utley and Messrs. Grady Truelove
and Larry Marks turned over. Miss
Utley was thrown clear, the others
were pinned beneath the car. For
tunately no one was seriously in
jured. Mrs. Lawrence was consider
ably bruised and Mr. Truelove has a
cut hand, the others a few minor
hurts. The accident was caused by
unfamiliarity with the numerous
curves of the road and had the
driver, Mr. Truelove, not been ef
ficient and unusually composed, the
results undoubtedly would have been
tragical.
Mr. A. M. Cotten and family
spent the week-end with relatives of
Morrisville.
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News of the Week on
Chatham County
Farms
Another registered Jersey bull of
exceptionally good breeding, and out
of a high producing dam and sire,
as well as a high producing herd, is
coming to Chatham county. Mr. W.
H. White of Siler City is buying a
half interest in this bull, the re
mainder of the purchase price of the
bull to be paid by advance service
fees. The order for this hull has
already been sent in. This bull is
out of a dam that has milked as high
as 45 pounds of milk per day, and
has produced as high as 62 pounds
of butter fat in 30 days as a heifer.
The grandam of this bull was second
over the entire Island of Jersey as a
heifer, and made a register of merit
test as a heifer.
Mr. Eugene Walden of Moncure
reports good results from the use
of Cash tobacco on his farm. Mr.
Walden states that this tobacco is
superior to any tobacco that he has
grown, and also that it has diseased
less, and has finer quality. Mr.
Walden has already cured several
barns.
Those farmers who seeded les
pedeza No. 76, Korean and other
new varieties of lespedeza during the
past spring are well pleased with
their results. The agent has visited
a number of lespedeza seedings this
week, and all seem to be doing well.
Mr. J. J. Glosson of Bynum, Rt. 1,
has a fine stand of Korean lespedeza
on five acres. This lespedeza is now
almost knee high. Mr. Glosson also
has a fine stand of common lespedeza
seeded during the winter of 1928.
Mr. Glosson is curing two barns
of Cash tobacco, and is about ready
to put in two more barns. He is
highly pleased with the cash variety.
Mr. W. W. Lutterloh of Pittsboro,
Rt. 2, is well fixed in regard to pas
tures. Mr. Lutterloh seeded lespe
deza for pasture in 1928 and also
this spring. His two-year old les
pedeza is as thick as it can stand,
and is furnishing excellent grazing.
Mr. Lutterloh also has five acres in
lespedeza No. 76 that shows much
promise.
The second year’s growth of com
mon lespedeza seeded in 1928 is
really remarkable. In practically
every case, the second year’s growth
has doubled the growth made during
the first year, and is furnishing
cheap nitrogen to those farmers who
are growing it. It is interesting to
hear some of the comments that
farmers who are growing lespedeza
are making.
Mr. J. J. Glosson states that
“Lespedeza is a fine crop for a poor
man with poor land;” Mr. T. R. Lam
bert, Siler City, “Lespedeza is the
only soil-improving legume that I
have ever been able to grow on cer
tain soils on my farm;” Mr. James
Oldham, Chapel Hill, “Lespedeza is
rebuilding the fertilility of my soil.”
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FACTS FOR FARMERS
The Kentucky argicultural experi
ment station has conducted experi
ments with the use of acid phosphate
and lime in connection with the
growing of small grains and legumes
for a number of years. Their results
show the following—lime and acid
phosphate have made the following
increased crop growth:
Corn, bushels per acre 16.6
Soy Bean Hays 1593 pounds
Wheat 10.7 bu.
Clover Hay 2240 pounds
Let’s use some lime and acid phos
phate this fall.
The Tennessee Dairy Herd Asso
ciation, from the examination of
2,291 dairy records, have found the
following facts:
1. A cow that only gives around
2000 pounds of milk annually pro
duces a pound of butterfat at a cost
of 35 cents. In a year, a cow of this
kind only returns her owner $23.50
above feed cost —only 6 cents per
day.
2. The 3000 pound cow that
shows a test of 2.5 per cent pro
duces a pound of butter fat at a
cost of only 28 cents per pound, and
an income above feed cost of $46.
3. The 4000 pound cow paid $67
above feed cost, the 5000 pound paid
SB4, the 6000 pound cow paid SIOO,
and cows producing uptowards 8000
pounds, the return above feed cost
was $142.
The average farmer in this county
who keeps .several cows may ask
What relation these facts bear to
lis case. The relation is important.
To get out of the 2000 and 3000
pound class we need better dairy
sires. We may buy cows that pro
duce higher, but it is much less ex
pensive to get good bulls in our com
munities, and raise our own high pro
ducing cows. The old saying “The'
sire is half of the herd” is wrong:
The Maryland Experiment Station
has recently found that 70 per cent
of the qualities of the off-spring :
come from the sire, and this means
that the bull is much more than half
of . the herd. , ‘ ' v
The county* agent has an 1 oppor
tunity of buying three more hulls
from high producing dams and sires
that will greatly add to our dairy
industry. If you want one of these
bulls in your community, get in
touch with him.
WHAT ABOUT OUR WINTER
FEED CROPS?
The feed situation in this county
as was the case last year, is acute.
The corn crop is fully 40 per cent
short, small grain yields were cut
by unfavorable weather conditions^
Farm News
Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County Agt.
and the hay crop is none too good.
This means that those farmers who
expect to make enough feed for
their needs to carry them through
must plant winter forage crops.
Beardless Barley was a great help
to those who seeded it last fall in
making up for their corn deficiency,
and it can be depended upon to do
the same thing next year. There are
several mixtures of grain and leg
umes that are adapted td this coun
ty, and the county agent is giving
these mixtures below in the hopes
that some farmers will seed them
this fall:
MIXTURES
No. 1
Oats 2 bushels
Barley 1 bushel
Wheat 1 peck
Vetch 15 pounds
No. 2
Barley 1 bushel
Oats 2 bushels
Vetch 20 pounds
No. 3
Wheat 1 bushel
Barley 1 bushel
Vetch „„ 20 pounds
For Grazing: Abruzzi Rye—one
bushel; sow September 15th.
For grazing: Barley—one bushel;
sow September 15.
FOR SOIL IMPROVEMENT
Vetch, 25 pounds; Crimson Clover
20 pounds; Austrian Winter Peas 30
pounds; Abruzzi Rye 6 pecks. Fer
tilize with 300 pounds of 8-4-4,
10-4-4 or 12-4-4. For further infor
mation, get in touch with N. C. Shiv
er, County Agent.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NEIGH
BORING COUNTIES
Avery county farmers sold 140
lambs in a co-operative pool recent
ly at a good profit above local prices
offered.
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Beaufort county farmers are plac
ing their hogs in the corn fields as
quickly as the corn hardens suf
ficiently. These animals will be sold
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when and where you wish it. And while it
is on deposit here it is earning money for
you. Why not start an account today? It
takes but little, and then you are playing
safe.
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on the September market.
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Many fields of cotton in Nash
county Which normally produce a
bale of cotton per acre will not pro
duce one-fourth this year due to
continued rains.
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Union county farmers report the
most disastrous crop year in the pres
ent generation.
4-H CLUB NEWS
Activities of the Junior Club Mem
bers of Chatham County
Chatham County Calf Club mem
bers are busy fitting their calves for
the calf club show at Pittsboro, Fri
day, August 30. The county agent
visited a number of boys the pasts
week, finding the calves in excellent
condition, and beginning to get in
shape to show. Some boys are find
ing it difficult to keep blankets on
their calves, but if leather buckles,
or elastic buckles are attached to
the blankets and fastened to the fore
and hind legs of the calves, there
should be no trouble in keeping them
on.
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Fifteen Chatham County Club
members have already signed up to
attend the Club Encampment at
Jackson Springs, August 12. Others
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are expected to sign up this week.
Joe Ingle, son of Mr. J. B. Ingle
of Silver City, has a fine four-months
old heifer calf that he is fitting for
the show. Mr. Ingle bought this calf
from Mr. Braxton of Alamance
county.
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Six bulls will be shown at the
calf club show in addition to the
heifers. It now looks as though we
will have around 30 calves shown.
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“Gee! Dis Is a Cinch”
Mrs. O’Brien—“Was your old man.
in comfortable circumstances when
he died?”
Mrs. Finnegan—“No, ’e was under
a train.”—Judge.
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