Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-07-12
alfalfa pasturage.

alfalfa pasturage.
/ The second trouble, according to
G. S. Vickers, field man on poultry,
might be called "hollowcraw." When
summer comes and eggs are cheap,
people say they can't afford to keep
feeding mash, and the flock is left to
live on bugs, worms and such grain
as can be picked up. The trouble
with this, Vickers believes, is that
the ration is not balanced, and
hen that has to live on it goes out of
production and cannot be brought
into laying during late July, August,
and the early fall months when eggs
are scarcer, and higher. Pullets
similarly left to fend for themselves
can never be developed to their best
capacity, he adds.
Cooperation Aiding Dairymen
Organized effort on the part of
milk and cream producers Of Ohio to
improve marketing conditions is
bearing fruit, judging from reports
received from E. D. Waid of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, who
is secretary of central committee
representing these groups. These
reports indicate that almost without
exception dairy products are being
better cared for on the road to, and
( in the markets for such products in
Ohio. Representatives in the var
ious regions of dairy production re-
port higher level of prices paid to
producers from cooperative asso-
Citations, with little if any change in
the consumer price. Higher prices,
they say, can be paid by buyers and
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operatives in getting products to
them.
Cream producers, in sections
where cooperative stations are hand
ling a large share of the product, al
so report favorable markets. Eff
forts of the associations to place a
better quality product on the market
are having their effect, according to
reports. Much of Ohio's cream, par
ticularly that which is properly pre-
pared for market, is selling well
above Chicago market prices based
on high score butter. Reports from
many cream producers give the CO.
operatives credit for increasing their
cream prices from two to 10 cents a
pound.
News Briefs
Reports from Ohio counties on the
June drop of fruit indicate that the
loss was somewhat heavier than US
ual, and in spots was particularly
heavy. 1t becomes doubly neces-
sary, therefore, to put as much size
as possible on the apples left on the
trees. One excellent way to do this,
say horticulturists at o. S. u, is to
get up to the fruit every possible
drop of water that falls on the
ground A grass mulch, they add,
checks evaporation and sends up
through the trunk and into the fruit
much water that else would evapor-
ate into thin air.
Early blowing of stubble or sod
ground for wheat gave larger yields
than disking or late blowing in |
tents made at the Ohio Agr. EXP.
Station. In the experiment tract
was plowed July 20 and other tracts |
16. Tracts were disked once with a |
double disk Aug. /, and plowed at !
later dates; and still other tracts |
were disked thoroughly Aug. 1, Aug. |
IS, or Sept. 16, and seeded without
plowing.
When dairy cows begin to de-
crease in milk and flesh as pasture |
fails, it is a good practice to feed
grain The amount which may be /
fed with profit, according to c. c.
Hayden, Ohio Agr. Exp. Station, will |
depend upon ondition and produc- |
tion of these cows.
Forty-two rural preachers, attend
ing a special three weeks pastors
summer school at o. S. u, cast off |
clerical collars for two hours at least |
each day, and cavort around Ohio |
field, playing handball, baseball, and
other games with all the abandon of |
the youngest and happiest bunch of |
college freshmen you ever knew.
Of purebred beef cattle in Ohio,
25,502 strong at last census, 1924 |
were Shorthorns.
Sam says: when a boy comes |
home from college still asking ques-
tions, l figure he's getting an edu-
cation"