Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
FARM NEWS
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
SERVICE

DR.. K. G.. Mckay, extension Spe-
cialist IN veterinary science. has
warned California livestock men tC
be on guard against screwworm
outbreaks. Prevalence of the para
site is normal in California but live
stock men should take precautions
He said the bureau of entomology
and plant quaranteen in cooperation
with the extension service of the
U. S. department of agriculture had
made surveys that show infeStatlons
approaching a major outbreak in
several southwest states. A major
outbreak that occurred in 1885
spread over 20 states
DR.. Mckay suggested stockmen
treat every case with Smear g. and
contact the farm advisor for fur
Their information of control meth
DDS. Operations involving surgical
wounds. caStration. docking. and
dehorning should be avoided during
July and August. the peak period of
danger.
MORE CHICKEN
Farm sales of chicken in 1913
600 pounds. Fifty-one per cent of
this total was young chickens. Sales
were one million pounds above 1886
when the total was 1885 $50 GOO
pounds.
AS a result of better feeding prac-
tees and more feed per bird. farm
ers produced eight per cent more
meat per bird in l943 than in 1886
FREEZING MEAT FOR
HOME Use
How to get the most benefit from
frozen food lockers. directions for
boning. trimming and packaging
meats. aid other valuable informa-
ton for farmers with freezer lock-
ers or home freezing cabinets is
contained in new l6-page folder,
Freezing Meat and Poultry Products
for home use.
The folder deals principally with
the preparation of beef, pork, and
lamb for freezing, but also includes
information on poultry, eggs and
fish. Directions are given for freez-
! ing eggs in liquid form or with
| the whites and yolks separated.
Brief tables are given to show the
meat yields of cattle, hogs, and
/ lambs in terms of steaks, roaStS, and
! other cuts.
The folder is available at the Of
flee of the farm ad ,1sor court house,
FL Centre. California.
BETTER HAY TEST
Tests completed by the depart
ment of a griculture show that al
falfa cut when one tenth in bloom
produced nearly twice as much beet
as when cut in the seed stage.
Four lots of steers were fed al
falfa hay cut at different stages.
when it was in bud, when it was one
tenth in bloom, when it was IN full
bloom, and when it was in the seed
| stage.
i Twenty-one hundred pounds OF
+ the tenth bloom alfalfa produced a
/ hundred pounds of gain on steers,
but it took 80 hundred pounds OF
alfalfa cut in the seed stage to make
a hundred pounds of gain.
BRIEFS
! Professors and freeZers ceiling
I OFFICES Os OAAitN Va
price administration and the war
food administration for canned and
frozen apricotS will average S89 per
ton for the growers.
g., Maximum prices formerly apply
ing to alfalfa hay in the eight wes-
tern states and part of Texas have
now been made nationwide, accord
ing to the office of price admins
tration. New ceilings. in these wes-
tern states, will average SIPS per
ton higher than the basic price now
in effect.
Dried egg production in May was
"a per cent above last year at the
same time. 1t was the largest
month on record The total was 35,-
234, 900 pounds. Storage holdings
on June ! were the highest on rec
ord for that date, 293, 1873 900 pounds
compared with I'll ,823,000 June !
average of l939-43.
Out of an estimated pack of D.
100000 tons of dried figs, some 3D.
$4,000 tons have been allocated to
civilians