The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-07-09


After selecting out my breeding
stock last summer fed the Gull cock
erels for about two weeks and dis
posed Of them as broilers. Then af-
ter losing about thirty chicks by over
crowding we ended up the summer by
housing about I'VE hundred Plymouth
Rock pullets and placed them in our
colony houses with ample run in the
orchard.
BY some means lice got start
among them and gave us great deal
Of trouble. BY persistent effort with
spray of kerosene and carbolic acid
we kept them in check but had great
difficulty in clearing them out. We
found the large body lice in great
numbers even when we thought we
had the better of them and they pre-
vented the proper development OF the
pullets, especially from the later
Matched. BY using all the different
insect remedies that we could get
our hands on we finally got rid of the
large variety of lice but it was not
very long until we discovered that
the colony houses were infested with
little red mite. We had been busy
about the fall work ON the farm and
supported that the poultry would be
all right without a great deal of at
tention. but that was where we were
mistaken. Upon close examination
we found the little red mites in great
numbers packed away in every crack
and crevice SO we Immediately pre-
pared a strong solution of carbolic
acid and used it literally.
While the red mite comes quickly
at times and comes in great num-
bers, it Is easier to dispose OF them
chan the regular hce because it does
not remain on the poultry during the
day time. The red mite is more
Hike a spider than a louise. It draws
the vitality from poultry at night bu:
leaves them in the morning to find
protection in out of the way places
about the chicken house.
sfy experience is that the different.
powders sold ON the market have
very little effect upon these mites.
A liquid disinfectant is the only sat
tsfactory remedy, I think mixture
OF carbolic acid and kerosene oil is
about the best for the purpose. The
solution must be strong because the
little things will stand a whole lot
OF abuse. use one ounce of acid
to 3 gallon of oil applied by means
OF q force pump and spray nozzle.
/ use it literally about the house and
on the floor. 1t is a disinfectant as
we'll as a mite killer Epitomist.
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Circular No. 629, from the United
States Department of Agriculture,
just issued, contains some very in
teresting facts regarding our beet
sugar industry; among them are
these: In 1896 the production of beet
sugar in this country was $4,000
tins; in 1905 1t had increased to 49,
900 tons, Is times as much. In 1896,
4l.000 acres of beets were harvested,
In 1905, $4,000, acres or more than
nine times as much were harvested.
Again the price Of beets has risen
from $4.10 per ton in 1896, to $5.35
q ton last year. The total capital
invested in the beet sugar industry is
now about $70,O0O,00O. Secretary
Wilson Is very hopeful OF the future
OF this industry and says.
Wherever factories have been sue
cessfully operated the values of farm
lands have risen very decidedly, es-
pecially lands under irrigation in the
far West. He says beet culture i'm
proves the land and educates the
farmer. The operation of a factory
leads to the investment of capital
in many industries more or less re-
lated to beet-sugar production. The
rOducts pulp and molasses-are
fed to stock, and their use has largely
increased the amount of live stock
kept and fed in most factory districts
Beet-sugar factories are now in sue
ceasful operations in sixteen States.
Colorado leads all other States en-
gagged in the industry, having sixteen
factories. In 1907 these produced
10000 tons Of sugar. or enough, II
&c had been passed around, to give
all the people in the United States
four pounds apiece.
Michigan has the same number of
factories as Colorado, but their prod
uct Is considerably smaller. Cali
fornia has only nine plants, but some
Of the latter are very large. From
year to year the production of sugar
is about the same in the two States"
FARM NOTES.
Whitewash the hen house once a
year.
sSever feed mash or grain in solid
feed troughs.