The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-07-08

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eggs during ahe season. Poultry
owners and home demonstration
,nts often ask for an explanation
Of this. and to clear the matter up
thoroughly, Mrs. Forbes quotes I. f.
QuisenbeTy, president of the Ameri-
can Poultry School, a recognized
poultry expert as follows:
Ceases where a hen shows a 200
egg capacity. appear to be perfectly
healthy and going on the nest every
day, but laying few eggs are quite
frequent in many flocks. If you
would kill such a hen and examine
her YOU woul find something wrong
with the egg organs. We had a hen
in our egg LAYING contest that meas
ured up we'll and had every indication
of being a most excellent layer. This
hen also went on the nest daily. but
she never laid a single egg. Upon
examination Of the hen after the con-
test was over. we found that she had
no ovaduct The volks would drop off
into the body cavity and would be re-
absorbed by the hen. This hen may
| have a rupture at some point In her
ovaduct or it may be slightly out Of
line so that the mouth Of the ovaduct
does not catch the yolk as they dron
off. Maybe an occasional yolk viii
be caught, but not sufficient number
of them so that the hon can maru-
facture any great number Of eggs.
"This is simply slir in the con-
struction of the hen. While it may be
due, as I said, to r1ntmra 'hat hes
since healed up, but still prevents the
hen from laying. That being true, it
would have nothinU to do with the
type or capacity Of the hen Her egg
organs are not functioning because
of some abnormal conditions. You
might have an automobile standing
out in the street. 1t would have
every appearance of being an auto
mobile, but if it had no battery or
was lacking in valves the automobile
would not move off and would rot
perform as it should The same
thing is true with this hen that YOU
have reference to in nv opinion"
Methods For Fighting Colorado PO-
tatO Beetles.
The oId4fashioned Colorado potato
beetles. or "hard shells" come out
Of the ground usually when the 20
tatoes are about four or five
inches high. These beetles them
selves do not do great amount Of
harm except that they lay clusters OF
yellow eggs on the under side of the
potato leaves. In a few days these
eggs hatch into soft shell beetles or
slugs rs thew are sometimes called. In
the soft shell or slug form the potato
beetle has an enormous appetite
and a COLONY of them will soon strip
the foliage from hill Of potatoes.
, Hand-picking is perhans the best
! method Of getting rid Of the hard
shell beetles. Thew may be killed by
either crushing them or dropDine
[ them into boiling water The slugs
: or soft-shell beetles can not be
( gathered to 50 good advantage. bui
) thew may be poisoned by sprihklino
the plants while the dew is unor
: them with a mixture consisting of {
heaping teaspoonful Of paris greer
: to pint of air-slacked lime or lane
|; plaster. The easiest method of ap
, plying thu mixture is to place it in
cheesesIoth or thin hurlap bag AM
dust the plants by shaking the bat
directly over them. 1t is not necessar!
to appley the poison to all the plants
but only where the bugs have mad
their appearance The plants shoul'
be inspected every day a. two to Sc
that the bugs are not getting start
Another method is to spray o
sprinkle the plants with water, t
which has been added one-half ounc
of arsenate of lead in the past forr
to gallon Of water. Thorough stir
ring is necessary to mix the arsenal
of lead with the water.
BTount County Calf Club.
County Agricultural Agent Abel
nathy, Of Blount county. has place
26 head Of calves among his clu
bows to be finished as baby beeve
this fall. Fifteen of them are pure
bred Aberdeen-Angus and the other
are high grades.
Last month C. L. Chambers. Of tn
United States Department Of Aer
culture at Washington, G. L. Herring
ton, boys club specialists for Tennel
see, and Mr. Alternately visited
bows and girls who are conductin
calf club work. Most of the calvt
were being pastured on red Glove
crimson clover, orchard grass, or
mixture of these They were bein
fed balanced rations made up fro
crushed corn, wheat bran. cottonsee
meal and wheat shorts. 1t was vel
evident that the boys were gettin
some splendid experience raisino the
calves, and Mr.. Chambers predic
success for them in the contest me-
fall.
Sullivan County Pig Club.
H. M. Cox. county agent, Sulliva
county. distributed 20 registered P
land China SOW pigs to his club mer
bers Saturday, June 49, In spite
the pouring rain his members can
from two to 20 miles, mostly in bu
gies or hacks. for their pigs. Tl
pigs were purchased from Beechda
farms, and were good. well develop
10 to 12-week- old pigs, weighing
to 10 pounds. They were well br
animals, rich in the blood of Gia
Buster, Gerstdale Jones and Manv
Jumbo. This project was financ
by the Sllivan County Livestock A
ISOLATION, which will get back tV
oboica y;r0 from the first litter