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Immature Lambs Are Not Wanted Serious Danger of Glutting Market With Low-Grade Product. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) “Unless young and immature lambs are kept at home for further develop ment and finishing there is serious danger of glutting the market with a low-grade product which can only re sult in severe price declines,” Is the warning sounded to shippers by the Committee of Trade Interests com posed of live stock commission men, slaughterers. retailers, railroads, stock-yard companies at Jersey City and New York, eastern lamb produc ers, and the United States Department of Agriculture, appointed last summer to bring about stabilization of the Jersey City lamb market. Receipts Have Been Light. The committee states that receipts have been light since the market movement of eastern lambs began in May and that there is a noticeable I tendency on the part of shippers to j market a large percentage of young and immature lambs because of the j rather high prices which such lambs have brought. These prices have influ enced country shippers to pick lower down in their flocks than usual, tl*ere hy increasing the percentage of light weight, immature lambs in the market receipts, it is said. Lower Prices Will Result. Recent arrivals at Jersey City in clude from 25 to 35 per cent of imma ture lambs, the reports show. Despite a rather strong demand receipts from western markets have been unusually light and prices have shown corre sponding strength. Rut if shippers continue to send immature and other wise inferior lambs to market during the period when receipts are heavy, sharp price declines will be inevitable, the committee says. Information received by the Depart ment of Agriculture indicated a heavy prospective movement of lambs from eastern and southern territory to mar ket during the latter part of June and ki July. This is the period when price fluctuations are usually most severe, the department says, due more to the quality of the receipts than to the volume, inasmuch as Jersey City and New York usually can absorb all the good lambs offered. Heavy receipts generally include a large percentage of inferior grades comprising “culls,” light weight and “bucky” lambs which cannot be moved except at a sacrifice, and this in turn affects the market for the better grades, it is pointed out. Scarcity of Good Horses Leading to Better Care R. W. Clark, specialist in live stock at the Colorado Agricultural college, gives some good advice to farmers con cerning the care of mares. An extract of his report follows : The foaling season has arrived and the mares should he carefully handled. The demand for good heavy horses can not be supplied and all good colts are needed. Heavy straining an'd extremes of exertion should be avoided. The mare can work every day to nearly foaling time if carefully handled and fed. The "Golden Rule” put into opera tion now w ill work wonders. At foal ing time the mare should be kept In a clean, comfortable place, and as much personal attention given as is possible to give. The colt’s navel should be treated immediately with a disinfectant to pre vent infection and the mother fed care fully and not put to work again too soon. When put to work, she should be allowed to “take It easy.” Cover Crops in Orchard Not Easy to Get Started In growing cover crops in an orchard, the grower should be guided In the choice of crops by his local con ditions and the age or size of the trees. Where the ground is complete ly shaded by the trees, it is difficult Iri many instances to obtain a stand of crops like vetch and clover. It is less bo with alfalfa and rye. While alfalfa has been the favorite crop with the growers, it has one drawback whic> should not be lost sight of. In the first place, the grower is generally un willing to turn under a crop of alfalfa and destroy the plants. He usually permits the alfalfa to grow in the orchard for several years. While the alfalfa tends to stimulate tree growth during the first two or three years, it soon has a bad effect upon fruit pro duction, and an orchard in bearing Should not be left in alfalfa for more than three or four years. Eecord of Cow’s Yield Is of Much Importance Pure bred dairy cattle breeders should keep official records on every cow’ in their heeds. These records to a beginner may not seem valuable, but later they will be worth many more dollars than It will cost to get them. Once a pail of milk is used or sent to the market without being weighed the chance for Including that milk in any accurate record of a cow’s production is gone. The records are not only valuable in singling out the cows that are falling to produce enough to pay their feed hill but they are of excep tional value when it comes time t<> Sell surplus animals, animals that are offspring of the cows on which rec ords are kept. Bulls with known records back of them are the kind <Iert dairymen are looking fo- today. ! Small Roosting Hou^e Suitable for Orchard Injurious Insects are Picked Up by Busy Fowls. Fmit and poultry may be grown on the same land at the sam# time by running chickens in the orchard, writes Herbert A. Shearer in the Los Angeles Times. Hens need some shade and some sunshine and the orchard provides both. Fruit trees are benefited by the droppings of poultry and the fruit crop is larger because of the added fertilizer. Insects that injure the trees, or the fruit, or both, are picked up by the fowls so the crop is benefited in this way. So far as known there is no ob jection to the plan except that pos sibly there may be more work in keep ing the hens diligently filling the egg crates. It seems as though the hens like their surroundings and try to en joy life the same i*s small boys in a city park on a holiday. There may be aether drawback when fruit is falling because some An Orchard Henhouse. liens will fill their crops with fruit and not leave roormenough to hold a richer ration to produce eggs. But orchard men who have tried the fruit-poultry combination seem well satisfied. If they get less eggs, it j takes less time to care for the flock, and the orchard does better. The illustration shows a small roost ing house suitable for orchard poultry. Nest boxes are placed on the floor to be easily removed for cleaning and spraying. This is important and should he done once a week. There is no par ticular size to build this orchard chicken house, but 12 by 10 feet would be a> good size for 30 to 50 hens. If j the flock is larger, more houses will be needed. Combination of Grains With Tankage for Hogs : Barley is an efficient feed for hogs when fed with tankage and is almost j equal to corn in fattening them for j market, say the animal husbandry men at the New York college of agricul ture at Ithaca. A recent feeding trial with six lots of eight hogs each showed that barley was more than 90 per cent as efficient as corn in feeding. Barley was found also to produce a good firm quality of pork. Two lots of hogs were fed corn and tankage, two lots barley and tankage, and two lots corn, barley and tankage. For three of the lots the feed was mixed before being put into the feeder, and in the other three the hogs were given their choice of feed available. The hogs allowed to follow their appe tites ate an excessive amount of tank age, but the combinations of corn, bar ley and tankage gave excellent feeding values. When barley is cheaper by the hun dred than corn, the cost of gain in weight may be kept down by forcing the hogs to eat more barley by mixing it with the corn and tankage. The barley preferably should be medium or coarse-ground, not fine; if it is not ground, it should be rolled or soaked; and if it is soaked, it should be fed only while fresln The lot which made the greatest daily gain in weight received a mixed ration of 46 parts corn. 40 pounds bar ley and 8 parts tankage. Pasture Is Considered as Cheapest Swine Feed The cost of gain on a pig until he weighs about 125 pounds determines in a large measure the profit to be made, say the live stock experts. Hog raisers can materially decrease this cost by having sufficient green for age available. Pasture is one of the cheapest hog feeds. As compared to dry-lot feeding, the amount of grain required to produce 100 pounds of pork may be reduced approximately 30 per cent by using good pasture. Blue grass, spring grains, winter wheat and winter rye are excellent pastures, but are short-lived and are of little value during the summer months. Al falfa and sweet clover make the best summer pasture. Rape Is a good sum mer pasture, and also a good fall pas ture to be used in the corn field where hogging“down is practiced. Good hog pasture means larger pork profits. Portable Hog House Is Considered as Sanitary The portable hoghouse largely solves the problem of keeping hogs In sanitary quarters. When a large num ber of animals are continuously fed in one building and fed in and around this house all the time, the surround ings are sure to become more or less filthy and unsanitary at certain sea sons of the year. But by using the portable houses they can T)e moved oc casionally to a fresh piece of ground and unsanitary conditions avoided. The portable houses can be used on any sized farm, as the number of buildings should be regulated to the size of the herd, so as to avoid any crowding or piling up. For the renter who does not find sufficient shelter on the farm for his herd of swine, the iSirtnhle house Is peculiarly advan iageous. since it can he readily moved when lie goes to (mother farm. mi OUR COMIC SECTION The Kid Had a Comeback I CANT 6LEEP \WU THAT youngster, making ALL That RACKET RIGHT UNDER MV WJINDO'U WELL, I CAN'T Sleep with you MAKING 60 MUCH RACKET tnUEfc, ou, >T6 just The Little. . STREET CALLING his POC-Nv. The -LEE.P WELL, WHAT DOES HE LET HIM OUT SO EARLY IN TuE MORN ING FOR. (— Y0UN6 MAH , 'YOU OU6MT IQ BE ASHAMED Of YOURSELF MAkIHO 60 MUCH NOibt AT This hour. YOU 0U6HTTA BE ASHAMED OP YOUR SELF t MISTER. TRYIN’ TO SLEEP AT THIS HOUR. He Filled the tVrong Tank SAM * WHEW \ ASKED NOO 'to Por A Bucket op vuateb IV4 VAT RAD>AToft, JOSt I WHERE 0\P TOO POT »T•? tV\R GASOLAUE. v Poor 800B' UAUJ* WA\W» 'WASS A. GtOOO OOK£ OM ME \ © Wotcrn Newspaper Uniofl _# HOW-= BRITISH BAND IS BEING TAKEN FROM CULTIVATION. —Great Britain would have been compelled to capitulate within eight or ten weeks if Germany had declared war in May or June, Instead of in August, when the English had started gather ing their harvest, is the belief of Sir Herbert Matthews, secre tary of the central chamber of agriculture. Britain is still reaping a little benefit from the land put under cultivation during the war. Sir Herbert states In the London Weekly Dispatch, but that land is rapidly passing out of culti vation. England today approxi mately consumes 35,000,000 quarters of w’heat a year, and of this quantity produces about one-fifth. I’rewar production was only 5,000,000 quarters for a consump tion of 32,000,000, and soon 7, 000.000 quarters will be an op- { timistic estimate of the English l output. The remainder must I come from the plains of Canada, the great spaces of the United States, from Argentina, Austra lia and India. Not quite so Serious is the po sition in regard to meat. About three-fifths of the meat ' con sumed by England is produced on home land. In a pinch, ix\ this respect, the nation coiftd carry on. No milk is imported, and the trade is prosperous, hut milk products are not encour aged in Britain, as the farmers are unable to compete with cheese from America and Hol land. Sir Herbert predicts that we may live to see the day when Britisli butter will be a thing of the past. His pacacea for these evils is some form of protection to encourage home growing. y'.iiiiiiimiiimHNin'iHitiHitiiiiiiMuiiiHaiiiiniiiKiiiMHiimimiKi'iiiniHiiiiiiiiiiHUMiimNmNtob TAPIOCA IN SOUTH AMERICA How Indian Women Turn Out Condi ment That Is a Favorite Article on Their Menu. How the Indians of Brazil manufac ture the starchy, jelly-like globules, called tapioca, is described by Sir. Charles W. Mead- in “Natural His tory.” The Indian woman, he says, takes a large piece of bitter cassaca root in both hands and rubs it back and forth on a board studded wilth hundreds of sharp pebbles until the root is reduced to pulp. When she has grated a sufficient quantity she presses as much water out of it as possible. For that pur pose she uses as a press a long, nor row tube of basketwork called a tiplti, with a loop at either end. She forces the pulp into the press, which she then hangs up by one of the loops. Through the lower loop she inserts a long, stout pole, which she runs under some convenient object, which serves as a fulcrum. Then she sits on the free end of the pole, and her weight stretches the press and forces the liquid through the interstices of the basketwork. The liquid is caught In a pottery vessel and is made into cassareep. the favorite condiment of the South Amer ican Indian. How Fox Farm Was Founded. Fifteen years ago Blake Vaunetter, a farmer’s boy at Georgetown, Ont., caught a pair of ordinary wild foxes on his father’s farm. Despite parental opposition he preserved them, and they became the foundation of the largest fox ranch in Ontario. The home of fox ranching Is Prince Edward island. There, in the seclusion and simplicity preserved by the tight Vttle island that serves as a guardian of the Atlantic coast, the art of fox < raising was begun many years ago by individual farmers who dug the pro genitors of the present purest silver foxes out of their dens in the woods. For a long time these pioneers worked in secret, and it was many years be fore the world knew, before their neighbors knew, tbeir source of reve nue or the methods they pursued In securing it. How to Escape Trouble. The following tips for world tourists are contained in a book just written by Rev., Frank Tatchall, vicar of Midhurst, England, a seasoned traveler: “If you are lost don’t worry about starvation. The ordinary traveler can live on ids own fat for a week, and he can sustain life by chewing pieces of his shoes. "If attacked by a dog, shove your hat at him and, when he takes hold, kick him under the chin. “If you get into a mob In the East, hurt one in the crowd, and hurt him quickly, and you will be able to slip away. “To drive away homesickness, blues and induce sleep, sing and whistle in bed and let out piercing yells with your head wrapped in the bedclothes.” -+ How to Remove Old Paint. Probably the best way to remove paint is to apply a solution of soda and quicklime In equal proportions. The ' soda should be dissolved first In wa ter and the quicklime added, the mix ture being applied with f brush. A few moments are sufficient to remove the paint, which may then be washed off with hot water. To remove traces of the alkali, the wood should be after ward washed with vinegar or some other acid solution. *3'lie best way to remove varnish is to apply a mixture of equal parts of ammonia and water.
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