The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-02-08
BREEDING PENS
RESULTS EXTRA
GOOD LAST YEAR
Hens i'm Breeding Pens Laid as Many
Eggs as Twice the Number Of Hens
i'm General Flock. Increase Over
100 Per Cent.

The average egg production is Al
per hen per day. This should give
Il strong reason to every farmer ana
farm woman for providing house
and yard facilities for a breeding
pen. When chickens are Matched
from eggs produced by the general
flock. some of them are from the
lowest prOducers-others from the
highest producers. The offspring OF
the high producers will continue to
be high producers.
The only wise step is to select the
high producers, place them in a
breeding pen with Il good male bird
from high producing hen. About
twelve females should be used with
one male. The Improvement to be
gotten i'm one season is surprising. A
fair example is to be gotten from
the experience of Mr.. A. w. May,
of Starkville Miss. Last season he
requested that the agricultural eX-
tension force select pen of white
leghOrns primarily for egg product
ion. The hens in the breeding pen
laid as many eggs as twice the num-
Der of hens in a general flock. Our
experience shows that in three years
,he increase will be over one humid
red per cent. The results obtained
from Mr.. Mays breeding pen last
year could best be given in the form
of photograph. However, it might
be stated that his poultry house is
on hill with ii little southern slope
and that he has one hundred white
leghorn puIlets raised from last
years pen.
At this time. these pullets are lay
ing 81 eggs per day. all of uniform
size and color. Surely they inherited
this laying quality. Mr.. May has
asked the Poultry Specialist of the
A. K NJ. College to select his breeding
pen for this season. This time show
qualities will be added to egg pro-
ductiOn qualities.
Orchard Notes.
Prune your orchard Immediately.
Give it general cleaning of all
limbs. dead trees, dried up fruit, etc.
Thoroughly spray with concentrated
lime sulphur if you haven't already
done 50. Take bererS out of peach
trees by first digging the dirt away
from the roots, tracing the borerS out
with IA KNIT. being careful to take
away as little bark as possible and
replace dirt back around the trees.
If the orchard is not in a cover crop,
break it as soon as the soil is dry
enough. Prepare for spring spray
ing or else wa will have little fruit.
The barrel Spray pump is the only
practical one for small orchard.
See your county agent.
February Garden Suggestions.
Apply liberal amount of compost
or barn yard manure or equal parts
of cotton seed meal and acid phos-
plate at the rate of 1000 lbs. per
acre and prepare the (seed bed
thoroughly. Incorporate into your
garden plans, companion cropping
and rotations. Plant in February,
spinach, carrots, cabbage plants,
onions, turnips, English peas,-beets,
asparagus, radish, mustard and let
tuce. Also plant cauliflOwer and
Irish potatoes anywhere in the
State with the exception of the
northern counties. Plant in these
counties the latter part of the month.
Plant egg plants and pepper in
hot beds and cold frames. Give at
tention to cabbage and tomato plants
that have been planted.
A good garden fence is a prerequi-
site.
Let the children have their gardens
too.
Gardens have been important ever
since Adams day.
Poor seed is a cheap investment.
Figure out on paper exactly where
every vegetable is to be planted.
Are you planting rose garden?
Leave out corn il your garden is
not large.
A good garden the year round goes
a long way towards keeping the
doctor away.
According to the Information Blu
reau at Washington, YazOO County,
Miss, canned more meat in 1922
than any other county in the South.
People throughout the State are be-
coming very much interested in meat
canning. The cost of equipment is
reasonable. The work is farr reach
ing. Don't forget to look UP your
home demonstration agent If you are
interested.
1t is surprising what can be done
through organized community eff
forts. Try it.
Are you planning to standardize
your canned fruits and vegetables in
1922 That means much in the de-
vel0pment of a market.
Attala county women last season
( purchased twenty-five steam pres
stlfe cookers for their home use. If
lnu llse one only once, you wouldn't
! ID Without it.
There has ben established by the
home demonstration agent of Gren-
ada q ladies rest room and demon
stration kitchen.