LIVE STOCK
FACTS
HIGH-CLASS HORSES NEEDED
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Weil-Bred Animals That Have Been
- Properly Fed and Brftken Are
Always in Demand.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The United States Department of
Agriculture calls attention to the fact
V that there is a market for high-class,
well-bred horses and mules. The
small unde^ sloped animal . of poor
quality is always a O.rug on the mar
ket, but the offspring of good brood
mares bred to pure-bred sires of the
right type, if prcperly developed and
broken to harness, nearly always find
a ready market.
Figures based on the 1020 census
show that about 200,000 fewer colts
were produced in the United States in
1919 than were needed to supply re
placements of horses and mules on
farms alone. About 225, (KX) high-class
animals are needed for annual replace
ment in cities, making a shortage of
more tluin -1(H), 000 horses and mules
produced in the United States in 1919,
below the number needed for replac
ing losses.^ * ?
The department recommends that
?farmers produce replacements enough,
in connection with general farming, to
be able to sell off the older work ani
mals each year. The market de
mands well-broken and trained horses
that will last a long period of years.
Therefore, if the colts are broken at
about three years of age and used on
farm a few years, these young
Horses, together with the breeding
stock, will furnish the power for the
average farm and the young stock will
be increasing in sale value. Horses
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Good Horses and Mules Should In
crease Income of General Farmer.
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reach their maximum sale %value at
about six years of age, and the sur
plus animals should be sold at this
time. Well-bred horses and mules that
have been properly fed, and well
broken are usually salable at a prolit
able figure and should increase the
income of the general farmer.
MATERIALS FOR HOG} FLOORS |
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Concrete Is Sanitary, but Often Cold
and Damp ? Animals Require
Clean, Warm Nest.
The agricultural engineering division 1
at University farm has been receiving
Inquiries concerning the construction j
of hog houses, especially as to the j
material to use for tloonj.
"The hog house floor is very Impor- .
tan: if the building is to be permanent
aud satisfactory," says I'rof. H. 13.
White of the division. "Hogs desire j
a clean, warm dry and well-bedded
nest, and this requires care in the j
choice and placing of the materials for
the floor.
"Concrete makes a sanitary floor, but
it is often cold and damp and not de
sirable for small pigs. A removable
fl&or of wood for the nest to be used
at farrowing time is a great improve
ment. Cork brick or creosoted blocks
ar? also used for the floor of the nest.
"Hollow building tile laid on well
drained gravel covered with about on^
Inch of sand and with the joints be
tween the tile filled with sand makes
a dry, warm floor. In some cases an
Inch of concrete over the tile Is pre
ferred, as It makes a more easily
cleaned surface, although not so dry."
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LIVE STOCK HINTS
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A good grooming costs no money
and Is equal to two quarts of oats.
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Engineer s> say that a horse can do
the work, of ten men.
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The brood sow does not need an ex
pensive atod elaborate hog house for
shelter.
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v Hogs, when fed a small grain ra
tion, will make rapid and profitable
growth on alfalfa.
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During the months that the farm
horses stand idle or have compara
tively light work to do, a saving can
be made til the feed costs by feeding
a greater quantity of roughage than
the horses get when at fceavy work.
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While the ewes are lambing, the suc
cessful shepherd watches the flock
closely and is always at hand to give
the ewe or lambs assistance when
needed.
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No farmer need hesitate In starting
with sheep because he has not suffi
cient barn room for them. In fact,
sheep do not do so well when housed
In a close barn with other animals.
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. A sow that has had proper rations
up to the farrowing time will be quiet
^ at the time of giving birth te.ber litter.
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By LAURA MONTGOMERY
((?). 1923, by McClifYe Newspaper Syndicate.)
D
ICK took out his letter arid re
read it us tlie train ueared his
station.
"Doesn't it seem odd, Dick, to be
engaged and yet to have been separ
ated so long that we shall have to be
come acquainted all over again? I
am greatly changed. I sometimes won
der if you will be terribly disappoint
ed and wish you hud waited to ratify
old old love affair. I'm coming down
to meet you, and so as to be sure that
you know me I'm going to wear a
red carnation 011 my suit. Sounds
silly, but I want you to take a good
look at me and if ? oh, I can't bear to
think of that contingency, but if you
have any regrets, why don't speak to
me."
The man's eyes were a bit misty as
lie read. "Ninu was always so sensi
tive," lie rellected, "sensitive and high
ly strung. She has brooded over her
changed looks until she's lost her
sense of values. Of course her recent
illness would pull her down, but a
few months will ? "
Pressing about the great Iron gates
were many people waiting to welcome
friends, and Dick's dark eyes roved
from woman to woman in search of
the face he loved. Nina would, of
. course, look much older, ? fourteen
! years makes a great difference.
Dick paused as his gaze lell upon a
mass of color, not one carnation but a
' great cluster of tliem/ He stood star
ing, a growing dismay turning his
eager anticipation into the gayness of
certainty. .The girl's face was partly
averted, biu the profile underneath
the spotted veil was palpably made
up. Layers of thick white powder
struggled for place with a red so
false that Dick was instantly remind
ed of the grotesque adornments that
the Africans used for certain cere
monies. A full, fringed cape with
crossed bands in front swung behind
her, billowed by the breeze. A great
black beaver hat, raklshly on one
side, adorned the masses of frizzled
bobbed hair. Nina Hart said that she
had her hair cut, but she had not
said that she had, also, touched it up,
and this she must have done, for her
hair had, formerly, been a smooth,
soft brown, while this was reddish.
Even her mouth was disfigured by lier
passion f(*r red, and sticky traces of
lipstick formed a cupid's bow that
would have been bold behind the foot
lights.
"Well, cutie," came a masculine
voice, "waiting to meet your sweetie?"
The frizzled head nodded gayly:
"He's coming home to marry me," she
answered, and Dick grew sick at
heart ; her voice, too, had coarsened
and her speech was punctuated by
pauses in which she chewed gum.
"I'll be dashed if I do any such
thing," decided Dick as he saw the
loudly dressed stranger lean down
and take a carnation from the clus
ter, and he tinned on his heel alertly
as lie saw the girl turn in his direc-'
tion.
He hurried out Into the gray. fog of
the autumn day and stood on the
bridge moodily. Dazedly lie tried to
co-ordinate Nina's letters that had
been tilled with beautiful thoughts,
sentences that showed clearly her
high ideals, and the incredible crea
ture who had smirked flirtatiously at
the stranger in the checked suit.
A small person with a pale, wistful
face and blue eyes stopped and re
garded him timidly: "It looks like
him, allowing for the tan and ? " she
thought and then flushed as his ab
sorbed gaze fell unseeingly upon her
? "no, it cannot be."
A fire engine clanged past, narrow
ly missing a taxicab whch, swerving,
nearly run down the girl.
"Narrow escape," cried Dick excit
edly, lifting her bodily and putting
her safely beside the rail of the
bridge.
"Why, Dick, is it you," came a low,
soft voice that took the man straight
back to the past.
And then he looked under the little
velvet hat that so becomingly finished
the smart blue suit with the snowy,
frilled collar, and saw Nina, the old
Nina of his dreams. "Why," he
gasped, "you wrote that you would
meet me wearing a red ? "
She laughed a bit breathlessly and
one tiny gloved hand Indicated a
small red flow'er among the lace frills.
"There was a blockade on the car
track," she explained; "that's why
I'm so late. I saw you right away,
but you looked so queer and stern
that I didn't dare ? that is ? '*
Dick took her arm and signaled to
a taxi. "I cannot bear to have you
look at her, sweetheart," he interrupt
ed ; "any one can buy a red carnation,
but there is no one who can look like
you ? "
"Then you don't think I have
changed so much 7" Mushed Nina as
the cab whirled them away.
He regarded adoringly the soft
brown locks that lent her an oddly
childish look. "I love it," he *ald
simply; "Nina, you are prettier than
you were when I left you. Some
| times," he added cryptically, "mis
takes make one appreciate what a
| man possesses," and smiled at her I
mystified expression.
Always in Evidence.
Baby was nodding. "The sandman's
coming around," #oftly sang the young
mother. . t . . - ?. 4
, Just at that point a vender in the
alley yelled, "Fresh spinach I" ? Judf*
[ hatching early pays best
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Pullets Should Be Mature by Novem
ber 1 and Begin Laying ? Maturity ?
May Be Hastened.
While some puJ^ts may start laying
early in the fail and molt during late
fall or eariy winter, and not resume
laying until spring, this will not be
characteristic of the entire flock.
With ? the general farming breeds,
such as Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes,
Rhode Island Reds, Langshans and
Orpingtons, little trouble will be had;
with fall molting of pullets unless the
birds are hatched extremely early.
By what is termed early hatching is
meant not later than May If). It takes
about six months to mature a pullet
of the above mentioned breeds. With
special care and management and in
some flocks where they have^been
bred especially for egg production, this
may be hastened to a little over five
months, but on the average it will ran
between six and seven months. .All
pullets should be hatched so as to
mature and ready to start laying by
the first of November. With Leghorns
and the smaller, quicker maturing
varieties one does not need to hatch
quite so early, as with these birds
maturity can be obtained by the first
of November with later hatching.
After very careful observation of poul
try conditions throughout the country,
Hens Take Good Care of Chicks Even
When Confined.
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substantiated by experiments in the
experiment station and others, it has
been found that June and July hatch
ing either from the standpoint of egg
or meat production is not as profitable
as t lie early hatching. In some in
stances where t ht> season is backward
and plenty of shade can be afforded,
and vermin cnif be controlled by rigid
i sanitation methods, June and July
! hatching can be made profitable.
: INSURE FERTILITY OF EGGS
j To Produce Hatchable Eggs, Breeding
Stock Should Be Well Fed ? Ex
ercise Is Essential.
Early hatches are desirable when
! one has facilities for caring for the
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; little ones, and when proper fertility
can be secured in the early eggs. Nat
i urally, eggs will hatch better in the
middle or late spring, but with proper
care the fertility can be insured earlier.
Breeding stock that is kept in the
oj>en air will produce hatchable eggs
earlier than those that are tightly
housed. In fact, such results can be
obtained from stock housed in open
front or scratching shed houses.
To produce hatchable eggs, breeding
stock should be fed liberally but forced
to exercise freely. Some meat and
bone are necessary in addition to grain
feeds scattered in the litter. It Is be
lieved by some that mash fed hens do
not produce good hatching eggs, but
there seems to be no foundation for
this opinion, as experiments have prov
en that there is no difference between
such eggs and those produced by hens
fed entirely on Whole grain and meat
POULTRY NOTES I
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0A hen will not lay eggs, no matter
how' well she is fed, unless she has the
egg-making material.
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Light in the poultry house ,1s one
factor which cannot be overempha
sized.
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Set only uniform eggs of average
size. Small, misshapen eggs and ex
traordinarily large eggs do not hatch
as well as the aggs of average size
and texture.
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Dampness Is fatal to success with
fowls, but clear dry quarters do not
have to be warm. Sudden changes of
temperature are to be avoided and the
flock should be kept from chilly winds
or storms.
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Geese can be fattened by forced
feeding with noodles and this la often
done for the highest class markets.
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' Oyster shell and grit must be be
fore the flock at all times. The oyster
shell furnishes the lime for the egg
shell, while the grit takes the place
of the hens' teeth.
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The last Important thing to remem
ber If good results are expected, is to
keep the poultry house clean. This
Includes the dropping boards, nests
and, most of all, the floor.
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