The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-18
EXPERIMENT STATION TESTS
Chicken-Feeding, Fodder Crops, Ma
tive Plants and Melon Lice,

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tive Plants and Melon Lice.
! Guthrie, o. T., May 1.-THE Oklahoma
Experiment station has recently issued a
bulletin which reports feeding expert
ment with chickens in which some inttr-
esting results were obtained The object
4 of the expariement was to determine the
amount Of digestible matter in Kafir corn
and cowpeas when fed separately to
chickens.
The following summary from the bulle-
| tin gives the practical results:
L Chickens digested Kafir corn and
corn more completely when the grain was
! fed whole than when the meal was fed.
2. The Kafir corn and Kafir meal fed in
this trial yielded but 2 per cent less
total digestible matter than the GORE
spending corn products.
! 8 Kafir corn was a more suitable
ration, considering only the relative
amounts of growth-making and fat-form-
ing materials, for chickens than Kafir
meal, corn, or corn meal.
! 4. Cowpeas were digested reasonably
/ well and are desirable for growing chick
ems and hens. But little gain in diges-
! tibility was secured by grinding cow
peas.
| This bulletin and all of the publications
| of the station are sent free on request to
| the experiment station. Saltwater, o. T.
| A report of experiments with different
| fodder crops is made as follows. Kafr
corn, corn, two varieties Of sorghum,
black rice corn and milo maize were drill
ed in rows and cultivated. When matur-
ed. they were cut and shocked The
yield of each per acre was determined
and during the winter, the digestibility
of each of the folders was determined
each OF the folders was as follows:
Kadr, 6.116 ms per acre.
Corn, sos lbs per acre.
Small sorghum, 11,1o2 lbs per acre.
Large sorghum 1889 lbs per acre.
Black rice corn, 7,01s lbs per acre.
Milo MAIZE 1OO1S ms per acre.
When the sorghums and milo maize
gave higher yields than Kair corn. they
are not so valuable for feeding, especi-
ally to growing animals. The portein or
growth-making material, of the sorghums,
was uniformly low in this trial A full
report is made in the bulletin which will
be sent free to all who request it,
Those interested In the fora of Okla
homa should send for Bulletin No. 45 OF
the experiment station. This bulletin
gives the common and scientific names of
about 80 plants growing without cult
walton in the territory. Popular sum-
mary of the bulletin was issued but the
edition of this is already exhausted A
copy of the complete bulletin Will be sent
to all who request it.
OF the melon louise another bulletin
says: During the summer this inset
feeds on melons, cucumbers, cotton, mus
tard and perhaps other plants. 1t is al
together probable that the insect passes
the winter either in eggs laid late in the
fan or the female survives the winter
The eggs or insects are located on some
plant on which they may feed In early
spring. This may be on the foliage of
some plant that keeps green during the
winter, or on the roots of some plant that
loses its foliage in autumn or the eggs
may be deposited on the plants or fruit
late in the season. The plants themselves
may die or the fruit may decay. as the
melon, and yet the eggs may survive
When warm weather comes in the spring
and probably 1--we for time on some
wild plant until they obtain wings. If
the winged form has passed the winter
it feeds for a short time on some wild
plant In either case when the melons
have formed a few leaves these winged
female forms fly from place TO place over
the field leaving. not eggs, sut live young
on the plants ihey visit BY careful OBJ
seTvation II has been seen that one fe-
male individual viii produce FIVE or six
i've young in twenty-four hours and that
these young having inherited the repro
dUcdve propensity. being producing
young at a similar rate in less than a
weeks tine. Hence II viii be seen that
single louise that has succe ssfuIly pass
ed the winter can in a comparatively
short time establish several colonies in
the field BY a brief mathematical CAL
culation It viii be seen that one indivfdu-
al may become the ccmmon parent Of
million or more IN a single season For
this it viii be seen that preventive rather
than curative measures should be en-
ployed. Could the few that are trying to
pass the winter be found the destruction
would BE- easy enough. The best thing
10 be done IS TO destroy the probable
abode. THIS can best be dsns by destroy
ing all Old decayed or immature fruifby
letting hogs eat II II practicable II not
then Il should be hauled of a safe dis
tance from the melon field and dumped.
The old vines should All De razed To-
gether and burned Il possible. II not then
hauled away from the fad. After the
field has been cleared "a the fail as soon
as possible sfter the crop has besn har-
vested, i should BE- vel pioves and II
after thai any green thing tries 20 grow.
Il should be killed by narrowing ar Dig
Eing. FIR L may BE- that very few !iv-
ing pants On a large Aeid may har55r
the enemy We are after \ second meas
ure % Dreca1tioa would Be 70 nu-a a;
some tine during the winter as raca as
possible u the yseIs and grass for sew
eral rods around he proposed fed Since
the ioRse IS known 20 feed Oh the cotaon
plant Il s'o1id - best 70 aFosd As far 80
possible old ce;ton 1eld.. But wAzf is the
melon grower 10 d wha has u; tazen
care q hss fed during tie ~1rttrZ Care
IA watch should BE Esps for the coso.tss !
shat have started ard whea they are
fosnG. dsat-oy lie ice entirely exea a.
TIE sacrifice q p tsw Ellis q ns@scas
The 1sht shonIa begin IN The sAi ard te
kept ID urrI Ire czog Is planted IN tAs
spr1Eg ard longer Z zeesssAry-