Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
FARM NEWS

FARM NEWS
II the dairyman is to get fair re-
turn on his investment and labor
his dairy herd must average 300
pounds or over of butterfat a year
Figures show that COWS producing
100 pounds of butterfat year return
only S14 over cost of feed, while
cows that produce 300 pounds of but
terfat return $96, or almost times
as much.
Small or medium weight cabbage
is the most desirable market size.
Heads of pointed cabbage weighing
from 2 to 4 pounds and heads of
Danish and domestic cabbage weigh
ing from to pounds are prefer
red. Cabbage for immediate ship
ment should be trimmed to 2 to 4
close fitting leaves. The green leaves
protect the head and may be remov-
ed at the destination, if necessary, to
give the cabbage a fresh appearance.
Leaves showing appreciable damage
from insects, disease, or other cause
should be removed.
Rats appear to have strong aver
sion for certain odors, sucn as cleo
sote. carbolic acid, and otner coai
and wood-tar derivatives, Kerosene
and peppermint and wintergreen
oils and this fact may be taken ao-
santiago of in protecting stored gram
from the rodents, or in preVentlne
raoccupation of old rat burrows
wake napthalene scattered on tne
floor and over the bags OF sacKeu
grain will keep away the rats ana
won't iniure the seed. Non-odorous
compounds that rats avoid can be
used where an odorous material
would be Objectionable, as Where
foodstuffs are kept. Among these are
powdered sulphur, lime, lye, and
copperas. Sulphur particularly mas
been found to be excellent in pro-
tecting stored grains from the raw
ages of rats.
Feed For MOlting Hens
The same poultry feeds that give
good egg production are best adapt
ed to grow new feathers. During the
molt, mash, which is the egg-pro- |
ducing part of the ration, should be
fed freely. Scratch feed should be
fed sparingly so that the hens will
eat more mash than scratch feed.
The mash should make up from one
half to one-third of the total feed.
Increased mash consumption may be
induced by feeding one light meal OF
moist mash in addition to keeping
dry mash always before the mems.
Mixing the moist mash with milk IN
stead of water increases its palata-
biIity and tends to increase mash
Sudden changes in the
ration or in the method of feeding
should not be made, as this may
throw the hens into a premature
molt. Such changes as moving them
to a ne whouse, or closely confin1ng
The matter being on free range also
tend to induce molting.
More Milk From Fewer COWS
The number of milk COWS on the
farms of the United States mas
only slightly in recent
wears. The number increased from
21 .4OS 900 in 1921 to 22,52S,oOO IN
1925. and then decreased to 2l,Sz4'-
400 last year and 21.S20,0OO on Jan
uary /, 1929. Production has kept up,
largely because of better breeding
and feeding of the smaller NUMBER
of COWS. The number of yearllng
heifers and heifer calves kept tor
milk COWS is now larger than LOT
last year, but is less than one per
cent larger than the number ordl-
1arily required to maintain the pres
ent number of milk cows. Changes
in the number of cows milked dur
ng the next two years will depend,
says o. E. Reed, chief of the Bureau
If Dairy Industry, United States De-
oartment of Agriculture, largely on
he relation between the price of
beef and the price of dairy pro-
lucts, for this affects both the age at
which milk COWS are sold for slaugh-
er and the number of beef-type
,ows MIXED.