Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-01

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Reports on Game Birds and Animals
To gather up-to-date and reliable
Information on the present condl-
tion of game birds and animals in
the Western States, as compared
with previous years, the United
States Department OF Agriculture,
thru its Bureau of Biological Sur
vey, has sent blanks to thousands
OF hunters, and has asked that they
be filled out with as complete and
definite information as possible. Re-
Gently 1000 of these blanks were
sent to a selected list of hunters in
all counties of Washington state.
The information which will be OBJ
tained from the replies. together
with that supplied by the field rep
resentatives OF the bureau, will give
reliable information on the game
bird and animal population of that
state. The bureau has already is
sued reports regarding mammals
and birds, including the game spe-
cies of Wyoming, New Mexico, and
Colorado. Information for reports
Is now being collected for the states
of Montana, Arizona. Wisconsin and
Washington.
Why Not Have a Mutton Monday?
The average housewife would be
surprised to learn that in year she
buys for every person in the house
hold only about 5 pounds of mutton
or lamb as compared with about II
pounds of pork and 67 pounds of
beef II all American families used
sheep meat one day week in the
average daily amount of other meats
that would meal more than 20
pounds of mutton and lamb annually
per capita, or four times its present
consumption.
More than that, the head of the
family. who pays the bills, would no
doubt encourage purchasing mutton
and lamb in larger cuts, instead OF
merely a few chops at time, II he
were made to realize the greater
economy and the greater encourage
ment to production. In that connec-
tion a shoulder OF mutton or a leg
Of lamb, being smaller than the av-
erage beef Joint, should appeal espe-
cially to small families.
Plenty OF Profit from Good Fowls
The story of Reuben Lowe, of
North Shapleigh. Me-, illustrates the
possible profits from poultry keep
ing where careful management is
practiced. During 1918 this poul-
tryman. who devotes only 4 part of
his time to chicken raising, kept
R250 birds, which paid him a profit
over feed and cost of more than ST.
900, equivalent to 81 a bird. Incud-
ed in this amount are the sales Of
few eggs for Matching. about 30
cockerels sold for breeding purpos-
es at $3.50 to IS each. as well as
the market eggs, which were dispos-
ed of IN large quantity. Mr.. Lowe
keeps White Wyandottes of strain
that wins in the show ring when
judged according to either the STAN
dard of Perfection or utility stan
dard.
One pen of 20 pullets owned by
this Maine poultry raiser produced
eggs as follows: November, 1918,
ABB, December, 1918, 41S; Janu-
AIRY, 1919, $50; February, 1919,
I'326; March, 1919, 456; a total of
1898 eggs averaging 1896 eggs
per bird in five months.
1t pays to keep poultry of this
kind, and growers everywhere are
coming to realize that there is more
money in keeping better fowl and
feeding them properly balanced ra-
tions rather than in wasting time
with inferior birds.
Iowa Garden Clubs Increase
Garden club leaders in Iowa have
found since the war ended that in
terest in gardens has increased rath-
er than diminished, There are more
garden club members in the state
this year than last. The city of Des
Moines alone has 1000 more mem
bers this year than year ago. That
additional interest is being taken in
gardening thruout the state is shown
by the fact that 80 per cent of the
garden-club leaders are being paid
this year, as against so per cent
paid last year.