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I The Mountaineers I Ifl J ?*fl I 'VJuffl III [IP I l^j fl Poultry Parasites Most ? Active In Warm Weather I While external parasites may in fect chickens at any time of the year, they are especially prevalent during warm, humid weather which often occurs In spring and sum mer, according to R- S. Dearstyne, head of the poultry science depart ment at Stat* College. He says that while such para sites seldom actually kill poultry, they retard growth in young birds and, unless checked, will materi ally retard egg production in lay ers. A heavy infestation nfay occur in a very short period of time be cause of the enormous rapidity of reproduction of the parasites. The common red mite hides in the cracks and crevices in nests, perch poles and walls of the house during the day and comes out to feed on the chickens at night. Dearstyne says poultrymen should detach several perch poles once a week in warm weather to examine undersides for mites. They appear as a reddish-gray mass. Should infestation be found, thoroughly clean the house. Clean out nests, burn nesting material, spray or paint perch poles and in terior of the house with equal parts used motor oil and kerosene or with carbolineum or coal tar stock dips. Repeat treatment in seven to 10 days. Lice dilT ;r in that they spend their entire life on the chickens and do not live long if detached from the body of the bird. Conse quently, effort should be made to detach the lice by dusting powders or nicotine sulfate spread on perches about 30 minutes before the birds go to roost. Repeat treat ment in a week. Estimated production of milk for all purposes in North Carolina during 1954 totalled 1,704 million pounds. This was the largest ai? i; nual output of record in the state. U. S. milk production this year is expected to be near the 1954 to tal of 124 billion pounds if weather is normal.< The early spring potato crop is ? expected to be marketed later than usual this year. Farmer Lauds Fumigation Of Tobacco Beds "This was the first time to gas my tobacco plant beds; it won't be my last." That emphatic statement was made by Henry Barfield. Golds boro. Route 1, farmer after his first experience with fumigation, according to Wayne County Assist ant Agent C. R. Greene. Barfield says that his wife and children haven't spent more than two hours pulling weeds on 400 square yards of plant bed. and that he has better plants than ever be fore, too. Mrs. Barfield says that because of the weed control given by fumi gation, she and her two daughters have had time to enlarge the pas ture. clean-up additional land, help others pick plant beds and do many other timely jobs that otherwise wouldn't have been done. "I know," adds Mrs. Barfield, "because previously we have spent from 20 to 30 days labor each spring picking tobacco plant beds." State's Peach Crop Destroyed By Late Freeze This year's peach crop in North Carolina will be too small to war rant a production forecast at this time, according to information re leased by the North Carolina Crop Reporting Service. A few isolat ed commercial and home orchards are expected to produce small quantities of fruit, but practically all of the trees are completely bare as the resutl of the severe freeze in late March. Production in 1054 was estimated at 1,150.000 bush els. and the 10-ycar ( 1944-531 harv est is placed at 1,742.000 bushels. The freezing temperatures were equally destructive in all of the 10 Southern peach-producing states where the crop was virtually de &J| CHECKERBOARD I*<1 CUNE-BRADLEY COMPANY Purina Bite-Size Checkers Help Cut Costs This year many poultrymen will grow replacement pullets for even less cost on the Pur ina Program. Why? Because ftirina's new Growing Chows now come in Bite-Size Check er form. Less feed waste nat urally means lower Cost and Bite-Size Checkers cut feed waste. There's less spilling, less billing, and less blowing. What little is spilled is quick ly picked up. Ask us to show you Bite-Size Checkers next time you're in. What Plan Is Best For You? Pullets grown on the Purina Growing Plan should be ready to lay at from 4V4 to Hi month* de pending on the breed. Whether I yon hare no grain or lota of grain, there la a Purina Plan to help yon grow uniform, well-developed pal lets. Ash about the plan best suit ed to your situation. You May Lose Pigs You Never Even See! You can see the quality of the ration fed a brood sow during gestation in the size, strength and condition of her litter, tt the is I not fed properly, small litters of ten result because, in an effort to maintain her body during ? pregnancy, a sow will actually resort some of the tiny embryos ? ... and the pigs farrowed may bo nnder-siaed. Watch the sow's weight and con ? dltlon carefully. The average 300 400 lb. eow should gain from 100 to 11S lbs. during gestation. We recommend hand feeding Sow & Pig Chow and grain ? 1 to 4 Feed good quality legume hay when possible and provide plenty of fresh water. It's a good idea to feed Purina Livestock Mineral free-choice. Purina Tubular Feeders Popular Many poultry men prefer Purina hanging tube feeder* to the trough-type unite. The Purina tube feeder la research-designed and is equipped with a feed-saving col lar guard that keeps birds out of feed, prevents contamination, and cuts down -toed waste. One feeder takes care of St pullets or layer*. Hold* approximately St lbs. of food. See it en display today.' HCAlTtlV\ jfc i "??*?> I V* DON'T LET WORMS EAT UP YOUR PROFIT! Now'* a good time to get worms on the run in pullets from 10 to 13 weeks old- There's no fuss of mum. Simply substitute Chek-R i Ton for tHe regular ration for 2 I days. Large roundworms will be removed without upsetting the birds. We spggest you plan on re peating the treatment before the birds are placed in the laying house, too. ? ? ? You may save a bushel of grain by spending 4c to. 0c when you worm pigs gt weaning with Purina Pig Wormer. No mixing, no measuring .,. just replace regular feed, with Pig Wormer for 5 days. Ask about this new product at our store. I CLINE-BRADLEY CO. f POINT0 HAZEL WOOD ?W.\\\\V.V.V. Secret of Radish Quality Sow Little But Sow Often The first radish he harvests thrills the home gardener more than the first robin. Three weeks, more or less, from the time the teed is sown, round, red. spicy roots are read? to serve, bring iM to the menu a seat which stimulates winter-jaded appe tites. Yet many home gardeners have trouble devising a radish program which avoids the waste that comes when a planting is too large, and only a fraction can be used before the roots I turn pithy, and must be thrown a way. The cause of this is the very short season that early radishes emaht edible. The earlier they ire the shorter this season, be cause they are growing fast, and quickly pass by the edible stage on their way to the goal of all plant Ufa, the production of seed. With radishes, as with other crops, yeu must sow according to what you need. Figure cut the number you will use in a week, and estimate that twelve early radishes can be produced in a foot of garden row. Then sow a week's supply of an early variety at a time. Midseason radishes will be usable ;[or two weeks, so two I weeks' -supply of them can be .own. The early varieties do not <row well In hot weather. If you want a supply all sum mer, sour a late, summer vari ety for that season. But fre quent sowings in small lots is a good rule for all except winter radishes which take two months to mature and remain good for six weeks. They grow very large, some weighing several pounds. On# way to grow early rad .shes is to mix them with the teeds of parsley, parsnips, ear ots and beets, all of which are slow to germinate. Not morr 1 I 1954 Drought Taught Waxhaw Farmer Lesson Clifford Howard, of Waxhaw, Route 3, is learning the importance of Weeping milk production and [ grain consumption records on each cow. But it took dry weather to prove the point to Howard. Union County Agent P. E. Baze more says that Howard was forced to sell some of his cows because of a feed shortage brought about by the dry summer. He figured that having fewer cows would cut into his net income pretty badly. To his surprise, the gross income was less, but there was very little difference in his net return. In effect, the dry weather and consequent feed shortage forced Howard to cull his low producers. Howard now thinks that record keeping will add to the value of his young stock. He says that by using artificial breeding and keep ing records, he will be in a posi tion to save his best cows fer re placement or at least he able to ask more money for tbem if be sells them. Either way, the r?*tilt will mean more money to him. State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: What are mm of the things for which "coot ahirtnr" help ia offered by A SC. ANSWER: Cost-sharing help is offered for such thing* aa filling gullies, securing high quality grass and legume seeds, preparing seed beds, liming and fertilising, if these are approved as part of a general project aimed at estab lishing or improving a protective cover for land QUJW1TON: I ean* aectn to (had oat what ia causing spotty damage to my lawn. Any suggestion? ANSWER: Spotty (tankage to lawns for which there is do ob vious cause may mean bentto Arabs. These caterpillars-like larvae de velop from eggs laid in tbo aod by adult beetles. Check for theae grubs and if many are foond, treat with chlordane by directions. QUESTION: la wool on lamb* and yearlings covered by the wool incentive program? ANSWER: Producers and others who own unsheared lambs and yearlings at least 30 days before slaughter are entitled to participate in the wool Incentive program provided the animals have fuli pelts, or If sheared, a tVi growth of wool at the tlmd of bole for slaughter or when slaughtered. bushels. Harvesting the first radishes gives heme gardeners a thrill. than a tenth as many radishes as the other seeds should be used. The radishes will germi nate quickly, "marking the row" where the other seeds lie. which will assist you in cultivat ing. Be sure to pull and eat the radishes as they mature before ftiey can crowd the slower crops. ' Two Henderson Queen Bees In Single Colony Two women are sometimes found living peacefully in one dwelling, but It's unusual to And two queens in the same realm. The situation in the beehive is typical with only one queen, the co-called "ruler," being present, according to W. A. Stephen, extension beekeeper at State College. He says that many good bee men have never seen more than one queen in a noeipal colony. Never theless, it does happen. Jim Holbert at Horse Shoe in Henderson County recently held a demonstration at his farm and all those assembled had an opportun ity to see two queens, both quite at home in the same colony. Stephen says that after Anding one queen, they spotted another one but thought perhaps the origi nal queen had gone quickly from one comb to another. But n?. On j going back the original was found. It was also apparent that both queens had been laying because of a decided difference in the appear ance of the brood. Close examination revealed that the Arst one was the older queen and that the second was a super sedure daughter. The reason for supersedure became clear when it was' noted that the old queen had no use of the feet on her middle | two legs. The bees in the colony had rais j od another queen to replace her! i Combined income from commer cial broilers, farm chickens, and egss produced in North Carolina totalled around $100 million dur ing 1954. or about 7.5 per cent less than in 1953. Hormone Spray Causes Tomato Blossoms To Set By ROBERT SCHMIDT It is a well-known fact that the early tomato blossoms or blossom clusters often fail to set fruits. This may be due to a number of factors but is usually due to cool temperatures early in the growing season when the first two clusters of blossoms appear. It has been found that applica tions of certain plant hormones to the blossoms will cause fruits to set. In many cases these fruits are seedless or almost seedless. Ex periments have shown that, in the case of tomatoes, it is only worth while to spray the hormone on the first two or three clusters. These hormones are now available at any seed store under trade names such as "Blossom Set," "Sure Set" and "Fruitone", They should be used according to the directions give? hy the manufacturer, otherwise they may cause damage or heavy wrinkling of the tomato fruits. The material should be sprayed on the open blossoms with an atomizer or fine spray. Since all the blossoms on a cluster do not open at one time it will require at least two applications for each cluster. Many commercial growers are now using fruit setting hor mones successfully and there is no reason why they should not be suc cessful in the home garden espe cially in cool growing seasons. The fact that many fruits would be seedless might be an added attrac tion or incentive. If recent intentions expressed by farmers over the state materialize, the acreage of all hay to be harv ested in 1955 will amount to about 1,130,000 acres 7^-fcSmii *J -Jr praciAJLl S3? 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