The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-09-21
County Agents
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by Walter L. Click

A word of warning comes from
John Dodge, extension horticul-
turist, to the effect that potatoes
should be fully mature when they
are dug and placed in storage With
holding irrigation and cutting off
the vines will help mature the tu-
bers if the vines are still in grow
ing condition when harvest time
approaches. Immature tubers will
rlpen in storage if they can be kept
at go degrees with humidity of
IS per cent for ten days.
After rlpening, potatoes should
be stored in fairly cool PLACES
to 40 degrees is best. A fairly
moist storage room is important,
although the tubers themselves
or even the sacks containing them,
should not come in direct contact
with moist dirt walls or floors.
Any potatoes showing decay,
frost injury or other. unhealed in
juries should be sorted out for i'm
mediate use so they won't spoil
the sound tubers kept in storage.
Many questions of great interest
to livestock men, particularly about
feeding, will be answered at the
second annual Livestock Feeders
Day on October 6 at the State col
lege in Pullman.
This event is sponsored by the
animal husbandry department, and
will include reports on much of
the livestock experimental work
under way at the college. Several
well-knoWn Northwest livestock
men will also put on practical dem
onstrations of different practices
used in raising stock, says DR.. M.
r. Ensminger, head of the animal
husbandry department.
Col. Edward N. Wentworth, di-
rector of the livestock bureau for
Armours & Co. will be the featur-
ed speaker. He is an educator and
recognized authority on livestock
production and is keenly interested
in the development of this indus
try. His topic will be "The Ma
tional Situation in Beef Cattle"
Coffee grounds as substitute for
part of the grain rations for chick
ems are not good feed, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture expert
mental work shows.
"The U. S. D. A. made compare
tive feeding tests in which coffee
grounds were substituted for part
of the grain in the standard diet,
and two sets of tests were enough
to convince them this substitute
was not satisfactory" reports Fred
Frasier, extension poultryman at
the State College of Washington.
Chickens fed on mixtures con-
tanning coffee grounds did not
grow as rapidly as with standard
rations, and the higher the per-
centage of grounds the more the
growth Jagged.
Information obtained by your
County Agent from the state poul-
try and governmental fuel officials
indicates that petroleum briquets
for brooding purposes will be very
difficult to secure for the 1915
burning season. However, it is
suggested that those poultry.fa farm
ers operating brooders requiring
briquets Immediately place their
order with an authorized dealer
in their locality. If this is done
every effort will be made to obtain
a sufficient amount for the 1915
season. 1t is further suggested
that all users of petroleum bri-
quets accept delivery of their sup
ply when and if available.
Over $4,000 farm workers will
be needed during the remainder of
October and part of
to harvest food crops in
Washington, Arthur F. Kulin, State |
College of Washington Extension
service farm labor supervisor, pre-
dicted today.
"Sizing up the job ahead It looks