The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-09-10


Mississippi boasts Of one county il
which every white boy of school age
is working piece of ground with his
own hands as part of his education.
If more boys were mixing some OF
this work in the soil with what they
get from books they would develop
into more wholesome and useful mem.
bers Of society.
Wisconsin poultryman recon-.
mends placing chickens afflicted will
gapes in a barrel in which Il quantity
of Stacked lime has been scattered.
his contention being that, In its efforts
to fly out. the chicken will stir up and
breathe in enough lime dust to kill
the cape worms. which may then be
sneezed out. Care should be used that
the chickens treated do not get too
much lime, and the remedy should not
be used with chicks less than half
grown.
Omaha has students organization
that is known as the Alfalfa Hay
club. 1t is their belief that beef.
steak and alfalfa is balanced ration
and an excellent energy producer for
mental as well as physical exercise.
The alfalfa ration is given in the shape
OF gems. pancakes, mush and cake. the
tender and nutritious portions Of tho
plant being finely ground and bleach.
these college boys as for hogs and
beevs in the feed lot, they may be
counted on to get there with both feet
in the 440 dash and in wrestling with
Greek and Latin roots.
A precious lot Of the governments
money is still being wasted every year
through the printing and distribution
OF SO many thirty to sixty page bulle-
tins. which from the standpoint Of
value for the average farmer might as
well be written in Hebrew and San
skirt. Not only does the farmer not
have time to wade through them but
the average country editor does not. A
fair regard for the forest conservation
policy. concerning which so much is
just now being written. would seem
to suggest the propriety of boiling
down good many of these treaties
and thus sparing the trees from which
the paper is made.
Once in a while there Is an orchard
which is too thrifty to bear fruit. the
case being analogous to the farm ami
NAL which gets SO fat that it will not
breed satisfactorily This difficulty
with the orchard may be helped some
by removing. mulch If there is any,
blowing the orchard and growing some
crop which will remove surplus moist
ure and energy from the soil Another
way OF toning the trees down is to
prune heavily or to remove narrow
strips Of bark running parallel with
the trunk. This last expedient should
only be tried as a last resort and then
only by one who understands the lob
and will not overdo 1t.
The number Of mice which will he
on hand to threaten orchard trees
when the winter SHOWS are deep may
be materially reduced If piles of mulch,
hay or other litter are removed by the
first of September. Many of these
piles of litter will be found to contain
nests of from Owe to eight little naked,
squirming mice which are very easily
dispatched. The writer remembers
removing some ten or more cocks of
grass from the orchard about the time
mentioned and in almost every pile
there were just such bunch Of little
mice. which would have been able to
do world Of gnawing by midwinter
had they been left undisturbed.
Very little has been done as vet
along the line Of testing silage as n
ration for lambs. The Illinois expert.
ment station has. however. been con-
Quoting some feeding experiments
along this line and the results have
been very satisfactory. Six lots OF
lambs OF the same age and weighing
an average of ninety-three pounds
were in the feeding test One lot was
fed no silage at all. their ration being
LAP pounds Of corn and liz pounds of
hay per day. The other FIVE lots were
fed varying amounts Of ensilage with
lighter rations of hay and corn. At
the end Of the period it was found the
lot fed hay and corn only had made a
gain Of thirty-three pounds each. the
average cost per pound of gain being
AZ cents. The lot led the most silage
had ration Of 1.lS pounds shelled
corn. 1888 pounds silage and II
pounds hay, and during the period
made total gain in weight of 1854
pounds. with an average cost per
pound Of gain Of 81 cents 1t will be
observed that the lambs fed most
sllage made a greater gain than the
others and at Il cost of nearly a cent
less per pound. The feeding of the
silage was not attended by any in
furious effects whatever. The series
of experiments would seem to furnish
definite and valuable information for
Il good many who have been consider
ing silage as q possible ration for
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