Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22

Nitrogen is the most expensive
fertilizer there is, but a crop OF
sweet clover when plowed under
will add without cost good supply
of nitrogen taken from the air.
Sweet clover forage is also high
in protein, which is an expensive
element in livestock feeds. A sec
ond seasons growth of a biennial
sweet clover may be grazed as pas
ture from early spring until the
plants are too woody to be palatable
which is usually about the end OF
July. There is no other plant that
will furnish as much grazing as a
stand of sweet clover in its second
season. This crop will grow al
most anywhere, provided there is
sufficient lime in the soil and
enough rainfall.
Dairy utensils can be sterilized
efficiently and at little cost in a
galvanized iron box sterilizer
where a steam boiler is not avail
able. This sterilizer consists sim
ply of a box with a tightly fitting
lid, which can be made at reasonable
cost by any tinsmith. The box is
set on a gas or oil stove, or on a
concrete, brick, or stone foundation
to serve as a fire box. A little wa
ter is placed in the box and the
utensils put on a Slated rack high
enough to hold them out of the
water. If enough heat is applied
under the box to boil the water,
steam will be generated and the
temperature within the box will be
raised high enough to kill practical
ly all the bacteria.
Don't use good feed to produce
lice eggs. Get marketable hens
eggs instead. The food the louise
sucks from a hen is subtracted
from the supply available for egg
production. Look for body lice, for
head lice, and for feather lice. You
can kill any or all by dusting with
sodium fluoride. A dozen "pinches''
of powder on each grown fowl will |
do the business. The application |
of sodium fluoride by the pinch |
method" or by dipping, the Depart
ment of Agriculture experimenters
have found, is the best method
known of combating poultry lice.
None of the louise medicines" to be
used in the drinking water will
control the parasites. 1t is not so
easy as that, but time spent in
lousy fowls with sodium
duoride is profitable. All the fowls
must be treated or the lice will soon
spread from the infested to the
clean fowls.
One of the most effective sub
stances to prevent the house fly
rom breeding in manure heaps is
During the summer
months fly breeding goes. on most
Lctively and the farmer is often too
,usy at this season to haul manure
way regularly. The best form in
which to buy the hellebore for this
purpose is as a powder. Add IL
Dound to every 10 gallons of water,
tir it, and then allow it to stand
A hours before using. Ten gallons
f the mixture should be applied to
very cubic feet of manure. This
reatment will destroy all but a
cry small percentage of the fly
arvae. The composition and rot
ing of the manure is not interfered
With by the hellebore and there is
no injury to field crops
ertilized with the treated manure.
Tho noirv RuIT II
It is a comparatively simple
natter to increase the production
f dairy herds through the use of
urebred bulls until the herd aver
ges 300 pounds of butterfat year
er COW. AS production increases
rom 300 to 400 pounds, it becomes
lore difficult to find bulls that are
ood enough to increase production. II
. study of 200 dairy bulls each hav-
lg five or more daughters whose
early milk and butterfat records
ould be compared with the yearly II
lilk and butterfat records of their
ans showed that of 8 bulls which
-ere used in herds where the dams II
veraged yearly 200 pounds of but /
erfat or less, every one increased Il
ne production of the daughters
yer that of the dams of the daugh- /
srs. OF the 40 bulls which were II
sed in herds that averaged be-
veen 200 and 300 pounds of butter L
1t, A increased and 5 decreased Il
reduction. Of the S5 bulls used in L
erds that averaged from 300 to 400 L
Ounds of butterfat, 81 increased E
nd % decreased production. OF II
le 81 bulls used in herds that av- Il
ragged 400 pounds of butterfat or E