Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-03-30
The Van Camp Condensory
FARM BUREAU MEETING

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FARM BUREAU MEETING
The, regular meeting of the Clinton
Township Farm Bureau was held at
the Township Hall, Monday evening,
March 9th, with the following pro-
gram:
S. P. johnson was first introduced
and gave a splendid talk on the hatch
ing and rearing of chicks. Some Of
the important points brought eout in
Mr.. Johnson's talk is as follows:
Heredity is one of the greatest
causes for good or poor results.
Eggs for Matching should be care
fully selected and should not be held
over two weeks before being placed
in the incubator. They should be
turned twice daily.
Poor fertility is largely due to the
individual hens. There may be some
hens in the flock whose eggs will not
hatch at all.
Mr. johnson favors a brooder house
which is easily cleaned; which has a
fair amount of light and which has a
heating system which is easily con-
trolled. A portable brooder house is
preferred because the ground is like
ly to be infected where chicks are
raised on the same ground, year after
year. Not more than four chicks
should be placed in a brooder house
for each square foot of floor space.
The house should be thoroughly
cleaned and disenfected before plac-
ing the chicks in it, plenty of feeders
should be supplied for the chicks and
the inverted type of waterers are
desirable.
Mr.. johnson uses ground limestone
or an oyster shell on the floor and
covers this with about two inches of
alfalfa leaves. Great care should be
used to get alfalfa leaves entirely free
from mustinsss.
Chicks should not be placed in the
brooders until forty eight hours after
Matching and then Mr.. johnson gives
them a drink of water containing
just enough potassium permangate. to
turn the water red. The second day,
pinhead or rolled cast are fed and
after the third day, scratch feed con-
sisting of equal parts of cracked corn
and cracked wheat. Sour milk should
| be fed is available and green feed of
sprouted oats or dandelions. Great
care should be used to keep the chicks
from chilling because this is usually
followed by diarrhea. Mr.. johnson
recommends a teaspoon of soda to a
pint of water as a remedy for leg
weakness.
/ Mr.. C. B. McClain was next called
on to talk on the care and manage
ment of brood sows at narrowing time
Mr.. McClain recommended that the
brood sows be placed in her narrowing
pen week or ten days before she is
to farrow, and that the pen be cleaned
and disinfected thoroughly and bedd-
ed with clean straw. The sow should
not be fed any corn for g we X or ter
days before narrowing, but should
have plenty of laxative foods, such as
bran and middlings: After narrowing
I nothing but warm water should be
i given the sow for the first twenty
four hours after which she may be
gradually gotten on to feed, starting
with small amount OF bran and not
feeding any corn for several days
after she has farrowed.
The attendant should be very quiet
j in caring for the sow, so that she will
not be nervous when he goes into her
pen.
I A talk on corn root rot was next
given by r. A. Cave, who stated that
in 1921 tests made at the State Uni
versity showed only fifteen to eighteen
per cent of corn effected with corn
root rot. While the tests this spring
show forty to fifty pre- cent of the
corn effected. Corn effected with the
corn root rot will show poor germina-
tion tho many times it is not SO badly
effected but what it will grow. If il
does grow it will usually be stunteG
throughout the year and produce only
nubbins or no ears at all.
/ The means of control are early
selection of seed from healthy stalks
care being used not to select ears with
broken shank or from stalks which
are leaning over or which have dried
up prematurely.
Since it is too late to consider tht
selection Of the seed for this year, the
only means of eliminating the diseas
ed ears is by the individual ear test
The modified rag doll method is re
commended for testing and onl!
those ears should be selected whose
kernels produce strong sprouts ant
roots free from mould or discolora
ton.
= The pooling of twine orders wa
taken up and of the twenty-five mel
present, twenty signed up for tw,
thousand and twenty pounds Of bind
Ter twine Mr.. Heist being presen
n submitted prices on standard McCor
S mick binder twife. -
d M. w. McConkye, President
WANTED MEN FOR STEAD,
WORK. A GOOD OPPORTUNITY
# FOR ACTIVE MEN OVER l
i YEARS OF AGE TO LEAR.
It EITHER MOLDING OR COR
MAKING. ALSO HAVE 'WORl
FOR LAB0RERS.
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