The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-05


convinced that alfalfa can be success
fully grown in Stearns county an
that it will prove a profitable crop.
Mr.. Lauer reports the following re-
turns secured from five acres of al
falfa on his farm during the summer
of 1922:
Approximately fourteen tons of hay
were secured from the first and sec
ond hay crop. Twelve hundred
pounds of alfalfa seed were secured
from this approximately five acre
plot which Mr.. Lauer has sold for
$3.50, or at an average price of close
to twenty-six cents per pound. Fig
uring the alfalfa hay at ten dollars
per ton, gives gross return from
these five acres of $470.
Mr.. Lauer feels satisfied that
farmers generally throughout Stearns
caunty can grow alfalfa successfully.
John Smith of Avon township, a
breeder of Single Como White Leg
horns, reports a net profit Of $92.52
maze on 225 -Leghorn hens in his
= flock from January LIST to March 14th
inclusive. Mr.. Smiths record Of his
225 hens shows an egg production for
January of one hundred forty-eight
dozen, which were sold locally at
prices ranging from thirty to forty
cents dozen. Eleven dozen being
sold at forty cents, twenty-eight doz-
en- at thirty-five cents and one hun
dred nine dozen at thirty cents, max
ing a gross return for eggs sold dur
ing January of $47.0S.
During the month of February, one
hundred thirty-nine dozen eggs were
sold from the flock of 225 hens at
prices ranging from twenty-seven to
thirty cents per dozen. The total
egg sale for February amounted to
$44 So.
From March 1st to 14t.l, nine dozen
were sold at the rate of Twenty-Five
cents per dozen and twenty-four set
tings at the rate of fifty cents per
dozen, making a total egg sale from
March 1st to 14th. inclusive, of $751;
90. This makes a total egg sale from
January LIST to March 18th of $129.-
So. Mr.. Smith has estimated his
cost of feeds fed during this period
at $37, making total net gain for
the flock of $92.52. e ...
The ration fed was made up OF
sixteen pounds of oats and dry wheat,
ten pounds of corn, four pounds of
sprouted oats, eight pounds of dry
bran, six pounds of bran mash, three
pounds of oyster shells. The total
daily allowance of these feeds, COM
pounded in the proportion given, was
forty-seven pounds. The forty-seven
pounds. of this ration, which were fed
daily, cost him forty-four cents, to
which he had added a charge Of six
cents day for oyster shells, making
a total daily feed cost of fifty cents.
This gives the cost of feeds from jan
uary 1st to March 18th of $1,000.
Mr.. Smith considers poultry cul-
ture, featuring winter egg production,
as very profitable side-line.
A.
Mites must be destroyed in poultry
houses and lice on poultry if poultry
culture is to prove profitable. 1t is
practically impossible for a flock OF
hens to make a creditable record IN
egg production when they are feed
ing upon their body hundreds and
thousands of lice during the day and
housed at night in coops infested wlpl
mites, which get in their work during
the night hours by sucking blood from
the hens housed in mite infested
coops. Sometimes poultry houses are
so oyer-run with mites that hens are
driven from the poultry houses and
forced to roost on trees and FENCES IN
order to escape the torment.
Mites belong to the bed bug famlly
and live and breed in cracks and crew
ices in the coop. To destroy mtes:
the entire coop should be disinfected
at least once a year. White WASH
With carbolic acid makes good dis
infectant. Kerosene, crude petroleum
or cresol all make good dlsln1ceIants
for killing mites. A mixture OF tnree
narts of kerosene and one part crude
carbolic acid is a good mite DESTROYER.
Carbolineum Or other tar preparations
are effective. Nests, roosts and Drood
coops should be thoroughly palnted.
The paint shuld be dry before the
coops are used again.
Lice feed on the scurf OF the sian
and fluff of the feathers. Unhke
mites, they live and breed on the
bodies of chickens. They are found
On the feathers under the wings ana
in the fluff below the vent. Lice
breathe through the pores on the bodv
Any fine powder or greasy substance
which will close these pores will Kill
them. A dust bath is quite effective,
EQUAL parts of road dust and wood
ashes makes a good mixture. Sodium
Aorid is also giving good results as
lice destroyer. One pound Will
treat about a hundred hens. This
compound can be purchased at any
drug store. It can be applied dry us,
mo the pinch method. rubbing sman
ninches on various parts of the body
r. Il can also be applied using the
y d;nninp method, taking one ounce Oh
sodium fiorid to each gallon OF water:
Heat the water to a temperature OF
Is to 80 degrees, place in large gal
yan;zed tub or barrel and dip the
birds midday when the sun is SHINING
ond temperature reasonably high.