The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-06

All lHluDlS poultry DEetueT HIS i've
White Wyandotte hens which have
laid .2223 eggs in one year. or an aver
age OF 233.4 each The eldest hen in
the flock. the mother of the other four,
laid 253 eggs in eleven months,
1t is a puzzer how so many kids sur {
vive the August period of dog day
soaks in swimming holes. green hazel
nuts and half grown apples, but it
seems that vast majority of them
do and are no worse for the ordeal.
Bugs doped with arsenic are said to
die of starvation. The important con
whatever the diagnosis. IS
that an effective kink is put in their
digestive apparatuses, which keeps
them from further chewing of trees,
fruits and vegetables.
A Fresno county (Cal) poultryman
has hen-breed not stated-which
has laid PA eggs in eleven months.
only seven less than the worlds rec
ord. At prevailing prices the eggs this
hen laid were worth about &c. The
cost of keeping was $1.44, leaving
net profit of $456.
Where limbs exceeding an inch in
diameter are cut from the orchard
trees the wound should be painted over
with white lead and Oil. colored with
nh vrh Evil
the wood from checking and becoming
a source of infection for the rot fun
gus.
Alfalfa background alfalfa hay
contains about IA per cent of protein.
2 per cent of sap % per cent of crude
fiber and per cent of ash. 1t is be-
cause Of the above ingredients that it
is worth. pound for pound. as much
as bran and sells for about the same
price on the market.
Kansas holds the blue ribbon for the
highest price ever paid for load of
of alfalfa seed bought by dealer at
Garden City. The load weighed TO-
100 pounus' Or o-ooo pusieis. ! ne
price paid was So per bushel, and the
value of the whole load was $2,63L 10.
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The Minnesota Agricultural college
has ascertained through experiments
that the cost of raising ten tons Of
green corn per acre and putting 1t INTO
the silo is $3.50. making one pound
of digestible nutrients cost % mills.
An acre of mangels yielding twenty
tons cost SILL to raise and harvest,
making pound of digestible nutrients
cost 93 mills. or nearly twice the cost
OF the sllage.
Among the many wonders of the in
sect world none is more marvellous
than the queen bee. She has been
known to lay as high as 5000 EGGS q
day. and during her life of about i've
years it is estimated that she salne-
times produces total of 25.0o0.O00
eggs Without the queen a swarm of
bees would become extinct in a short
time. Queen bees are scarce. and good
ones bring all the way from 81 to SlS
apiece.
Iexas mas been pasturlng lo.oo' sneep
during the present season IN 'he La
Sarge pasture near Raw Cit!. Okla
The nero IS divided INTO seven HOOKS
each peing ID charge OF Mexican
herder. VINO does MS WORK on Ioot'
carries smaii tent ana PROVISIONS
ABOUT with him. does MS own COOKING
ana moves MS nocK from pace 10
place under the direct1on OF the Amer
lean superintendent VINO mas charge
OF the outnt.
AL acre Vi corn win niiis 'l'vt iee'
uuee MY pusnens VI gar eoiii = 'he
s'aiks III each NIL prouuce Oh an aver
age pound OF corn. pa thes pro
uuce pound ana nan per an 'he
yieid "ouia oe seVenty-nve pasne's
per acre WINE II TWO POUNDS 'he sieio
"oulu De ioo ousheis' WINE ihe ''s'