The Greeley tribune., 1910-01-13

you must have lots of enthusiasm
ana no money to back 1t up. That
Is about the way Professor Vaplon,
the college hen expert, would put =.
In his advice to those intending to
go into the chicken business as
means of livelihood. To succeed you
must love the hen and be very en-
thusiastic. III you are enthusiastic
and have money to back 1t up, you
VIII spend your money faster than
you get experience, and you will so
broke before you learn the business.
According to the poultry books and
magazines all you need to get rich
in the poultry business is a couple
OF dozen hens and a vacant lot. Neith-
er experience nor fitness nor capital;
not even industry. Although the
business is a so-called small one, the
aggregate sum sent from Colorado
to Kansas and Nebraska for eggs
md chickens is greater each year
than the value of every ounce of sill
yer and copper mined in the state
rms money might just as well be
Kept at home. for, as a natural chick
en- raising state, we have many ad-
vantages over California, from one
little district OF which (the Peta-
luna district, about as big as Weld
county, $2,00O,000 worth of eggs
and poultry are shipped every year.
When a man gets the chicken rails
ing fever you cant do anything with
him. The hen will pay her way If
you know how, and have the neces-
sary patience and capacity for de-
tails. Go small. Learn. Double
up. Don't go beyond dollar a
| hav hn,, 4
easy to spend two or three dollars
year on hen and pretty hard to
get it back. | have the experience
of Petaluma poultryman who has
just sold out He had 1000 white
Leghorn hens, no males. raised no
chickens; just sold eggs. In ten
age of ninety-six eggs each The
month per hen. His thousand hens
cleared him just $1,000 in ten
months. Sure, there's money in the
business. but you've got to get it
out, and you've got to know how.
You can only learn by experience
and experience is dear teacher. 4 ~,
OF the country comes from the small
flocks on the farms
Harms to Beets
Professor Gillette enumerated this
afternoon some of the insects thai
are injurious to beets. The varioa,
bugs and worms were described
} their life history given, and in most
, cases specimens were shown. Cut
worms start earliest to do damage
and there is no practical remedy
: known, only a few helps. Fall plow
) ing is advised. If fall plowing i.
impractical then as early as possible
, in the spring.
J In low moist situations the alkal
beetle may bother. Paris green mixet
with -four busted on the plants j.
! advised. The insect is a native, ant
feeds on alkali plants.
, The flea beetle. little striped fel
, low with a jump on him that woult
. put an athlete tc shame. sometime
/, does bit OIL damage. mostly in tn
Arkansas Valley. early in the sea
n son. He eats holes In the leave,
j. and then attacks the crown of tn
d baby beet Cultivation disturbs hil
= and he can be chased onto you
t neighbor's field.
s The beet web-worm. so-called, oft
l en- does lot of damage when hi
!. second brood comes on, about tn
middle OF August. He spends tn
t winter as larvae. about one ant
V or e-fourth inches long, and in tn
$ spring he changes to worm. thel
: to a moth, and it is the offspring o
d this moth that does the damage. Fal
S plowng will dislodge a lot of tn
n larvae which the birds will then get
|. II they appear in too great number
t next summer use arSenate of lead
il eight pounds to 100 gallons of water
|. or a pound of Paris green to fort.
t gallons of water, and sprinkle th
beets.
| The beet louise is a little cream,
o yellow fellow that affects the roo
e of the beet, and because of its de
: Lilitating effect on the beet. stops
: its growth and cuts down the ton
e mage. No remedy is known. NJ
r insect ever comes in the seed. Al
I pests are in the soil.
= Fort Collins. Jan 6.-Proiessol
u Keyser's morning lecture on how tt
y increase the yield of grain crops con
a tanned much that has proven prac
y tical where ii has been tried out. Ac
1 cording to his experience there are
A two wavs to increase the grain yield
e His first way is to get pure stralr
Y of seed. one that will market best IL
p vour community. and grow only that
= sort He instanced the fact that both
g Kansas and minneapolis flour is more
sought after and at better price
than Colorado flour, no. because IL Is
e really better. but because 1t runs
: even every sack alike. The house
B.. wife knows that the next sack she
} gets will make just the same sort o'
f, bread with the same treatment as the
. last sack. The reason for this lies
1 in the fact that the Kansas and MIN
ueapolis mills take but one variety
= of wheat. with uniform flour as the
result.
A few years ago Kansas Hour ran
irregularly. The farmers were grow
ing all varieties of wheat. and the
millers. discerning the trouble, per-
. su,dad growers to plant only Turkey