The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-10-14

Assistant Poultry Specialist

Requests for instruction In poultry
keeping have multiplied to such an ex-
tent throughout the state that the Uni
versity OF Idaho extension division has
employed Miss Harriette e. Cushman
as assistant to Prem Moore, extension
poultry husbandman. Miss Cushman
formerly had charge of the poultry
department OF the training school at
Vineland. \ j.. which has $500 White
I4eghorns on its farm She received
her instruction from Prof Harry r..
Lewis of the New Jersey experiment
station, burgers college. New Bruins
wick, n. j. Miss Cushman, since com
ing to Idaho, has been county club
agent of Washington county. The Wash
hngton county. team won the poultry
culling contest this year at the junior
state far. held in connection with the
idaho State fair
Win In Open Glasses.
Ffty-eight prizes i'm the open classes
We're won at the Idaho State fair by
calves, pigs and sheep belonging to
faim bureau Junior club members. The
gcand champion Polnd China boar was
exhibited by Harvey Wolfe, of Nampa.
Junior champion ON Jersey females
was awarded to the heifer of Elizabeth
Gearhart. Boise, and Arthur Fordyce.
flooding. won the corresponding award
en- Ayrshires
Trips For Pig Club Boys.
Harvey Letldington, Weiser. won the
SlI5 trip to Chicago offered by Armour
u Co. to the exhibitor of the champion
pig club pig at the state fair. He
will attend the International Livestock
show in December Seymour Lee. of
Nampa, won the trip TO the Pacific In
ternational Livestock show. at Portland
offered by the Union Stockyards of
North Portland to the exhibitor of the
prize pig IN the fat class in the boys
and girls competition.
All 80 Sires Purebred.
The Ada County Cow Testing asso-
citation reports 100 per cent purebred
sires This record represents some 3s
registered dairy bulls i'm tn association. |
The purebred sire campaign ana the
efforts of ID. l.. F0urt, association test !
ar, receive the credit for this achieve
nent. There are only two herds in the |
issocition that have not been tested /
Tor tuberculosis. The association is
working for a 100 per cent tubercu-
osis-free association.
80 New Ada County Silos.
Approximately 80 silos have been
.rected by Ada county dairymen and
tockmen in the last few months. Corn
$ used as a siIage crop in most in
tances SunfIowers were used as 4
eplant in many fields, and have in
reased the tonnage IN every case. One
lilo Is being filed with 'sunflowers
My. One field of 20 acres on the
'urkett ranch near Kuna is being har-
ested for seed.
k4andplaster Increases Yield.
On four acres of alfalfa on the farm
( L. ]. Payton Ada county, treat
d last season with 500 pounds az
for the first and second
ubtings the yield was 21.19 tons per
ere Of green hay, or 632 tons OF cur
| hay per acre. The untreated area
ielded 1912 tons per acre. green.
iuiyalent to 3.T1 tons cured. On the
irm of G. A. Head. southwest of ,
Ieridiai, five acres We're treated with !
po0 pounds Of landplaster and five
res with 800 pounds Of sulphur. The
ndplaster plot Yielded 1875 tons.
'een, 70 the acre, or Sis cured: thel
llphur plot, 1887 tons green, or 5.4S
ired the untreated area. 1911 tons
zen. or 3.61 tons cured. IN
New Madison Club Agent.