Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20

Reports Of rains in the vicinity Of
Mckee Monday tel Of q good rain al
AuxvAsse. No rAin fell between here
and Moline, but good showers arrC
reportd south Of here.
J. D. Miller has an Irish potato
vine in his flower bed on the south
side Of the Court House that is fouI
feet high. Mr.. Miller says that il il
just an ordinary Irish potato, but he
has traintd the vine up on the side
of the building.
Here are some dandy mule coli
items: J. l. Pitcher, neal Long
Branch, sold a anre colt to Macs
Boyle for $40. Ross vanladingham.
near Rowena, contracted a colt 9 days
old to the same buyer for S125 al
weaving time. 1t was by the Heitz
Young Jack. Jack Hoffman and Har-
ny Trussell each refused s14O apiece
from the same buyer for mule colts
by the same jack. Boyle has contract
ed for 16 head Of fancy colts at an
average of 1920, which is afne aver.
age for weanlings. = Paris Appeal.
/ Farmers in the vicinity of Jones
burg have lost several calves from a
disease similar to blackleg, They
are having their cattle v~accinated as
a preventative.
LAddonia, Farber, Rush Hill, Ben
ton City and Fulton got some of the
rain Mexico expected Friday.
Sour milk should not be left out Of
the feed Of growing or laying fcwls,
winter or summer, if it a be procur-
ed at any reasonable cost. 1t is usu-
ally much cheaper and easier to get
on the farm than beef scrap or any
other substitute and no common sub
stitute except butter milk viii give as
good results.
Sour milk for egg production was
given a very careful test at the Mis-
souri, Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton for a year recently when three
25-bird pens of White Leghorn pull
lets were fed in almost exactly the
same way, except that n pen re-
ceived sour milk, another beef scrap.
and the third no meat Or animal food
whatever. From the sour milk pen
the station got S,275 eggs at a profit
Of S2s.26l from the beef scrap pen,
2,66s at a profit of sl9.7s; and from
the no-meat pen, 1873 eggs at a loss
of s1.OO on the pen for one year.
On many farms the no-rheat pen
would not have been regarded as los
ing money, because the chickens live
mainly on waste grain about the barn
lot, but on these farms the profits
would be so much greater if butter
milk or sour milk could be fed that a
large possible profit is being lost if
the chickens get only the grain and
grass they can pick up. They may
pick up insects enough to keep them
from being on an absolutely no-meat
ration but a part of the farm business
that can return an average of S122
a farm on the thousands of Missouri
farms should be systematically fed
on the right kind of food.
During the experiment only ordina-
ny good poultry-feeding methods
were followed. A little scratch feed
was sprinkled in the straw litter deep
enough to make the chickens take ex-
ercise in getting it. Water was Civ
en- in clean vessels and a pan Of sour
milk kept in the sour milk pen. At
noon, dry mash was measured into
the trough and green feed was often
given at the anne time, especially
during the winter. Two or three
times a week the fowls were made to
eat more Of the mash by mixing the
dry mash with some quid to make
a wet mash which xas fed at the rate
Of a handful for every four birds.
At night scratch feed was given
again and the birds were given all
they would eat to send them to roost
with full crops. This method of feed
ing keeps the hens busy all day, gives
them good appetites, and supplies all
the feed they will use. They should
eat about twice as much grain or
scratch feed as mash.
These Missouri results with White
Leghorns are exactly in harmony
with those secured elsewhere with
fowls Of various other breeds, except
that in some other cases the milk1fed
chickens hav laid about four times as
many eggs as those fed no meat in
stead Of only two or three times as
many as in the case Of those at the
Missouri Agricultural Experiment
Station.
The results of this test have re-
Gently been published in Circular 10
OF the Missouri Agricultural Experi-
ment Station.
In experiments recently conducted
at the Missouri Agricultural Exper-
ment Station and published in Bulletin
8 it was found that more rapid gains
were made hogs fed tankage in adj
'dition to wheat or corn or both than
II the tankage was omitted. Whether
the grains we're more economical 40
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