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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938 V ' OUR COMIC SECTION Snoopie ^ Farm 1 Topics 1 PULLETS DO BEST IF HOUSED EARLY Ample Space, Cleanliness, Good Ration Necessary. By H. H. Alp, Poultry Extension Specialist, University of Illinois.—WNU Service. With higher egg prices in pros pect, poultry producers will find it doubly important to see that pul lets are in their winter quarters a week or 10 days before laying be gins. Failure to observe this funda mental rule has many times result ed in lowered egg production when pullets are confined to winter quar ters. If the poultry house is in good shape, if the pullets have ample space, at least four square feet a bird, if the house is kept clean, if there are ample feeders and if a good ration is provided, well- matured pullets can be confined to houses all the time and maintain good production. In the event that the poultry house is not particularly satisfactory and where a good clean range with plen ty of young tender green feed ad joins the house, pullets might well be allowed outside at least the latter part of each afternoon until snowy weather arrives. However, confine ment following range privileges and during good egg production is likely to cause a drop in production. Once pullets become accustomed to being kept in they can be expected to lay well if properly fed. All things considered, gullets will usually do best when they are kept separate from older hens. Many poultry houses can easily be divided into two rooms by using poultry netting as a partition. I’M FRIGHTFULLY RUN DOWN DOCTOR. WHY DON'T YOU GO FOR A WALK ? Off-Flavor of the Milk Not From Well-Fed Cows If the milk from cows becomes off-flavor because they eat weeds, the remedy lies in providing feed other than that in the pasture, ad vises W. B. Combs, member of the St. Paul university farm dairy staff. Experiments at University farm indicate that cows may not eat enough weeds to flavor milk if other palatable feed is available. In work ing with well-fed cows, it was nec essary to starve them to the weeds, says Combs. When pepper grass flavor occurs in milk or cream, the cow has likely consumed as much as 80 pounds of the weed daily. University dairymen believe, for it was difficult to obtain more than a mild off-flavor in milk or cream by feeding 60 pounds of pepper grass. This would indicate that when pep per grass flavor occurs in milk, the animals are receiving little more feed than the weed itself. When cows eat such weeds as French weeds, wild onion and pep per grass, the milk they produce becomes almost worthless. This not only leads to a loss for the individ ual dairyman, but to the industry as a whole, since in products from weed-flavored milk and cream, the off-flavors are intensified. Combs reports that if pasture is supplemented by a grain ration, and some hay or silage, cows are less likely to eat enough weeds to flavor the milk. S A T T E R P O P By C. M. Payne •WHO “Do you ever feel cheap?” M I have seen the time when you could have bought me for a cent, wholesale or retaiL” A Little Different “Well, my good man, what brought you here?” asked the sym pathetic visitor of the prisoner. “Borrowing money, lady,” replied the prisoner. “Borrowing money!” she echoed, “but surely they don’t put people in prison for borrowing money!” The prisoner shrugged his shoul ders unhappily. “1 know,” he re plied, “but 1 had to knock the man down three or four times before he would lend it to me!” AS IT IS DONE “He’s a lawyer? Does everything to uphold the law, I suppose?” “No; does everything to hold up the law.” Group Pullets by Ages When pullets in the same stage of maturity are placed in the one pen they are much easier to handle, and produce better results than when birds of various stages of maturity are mixed. Because pullets all of the same age can be fed to better advantage, production will often climb to 70 or 80 per cent, because they are all laying at the same time. When production begins to drop the whole pen may be given the same change in management at the same time to bring the pullets back into laying. Thus a change to artificial lights, wet mash or any other phase x>f management may be made to better advantage. Sore Shoulders on Horses Clean cold water is very effective in washing sore shoulders on horses. Where animals are troubled with tender skin, advises the Indiana Farmer’s Guide, it is possible to bathe the troubled areas noon and evening with a mild astringent wash as follows: Lead acetate 4 ounces and zinc sulphate 3 ounces in 1 gal lon of water. This solution should be shaken well before using. At first an attempt should be made not to work the horse too hard for a time. Frequent curryings and brush ing, clean collars, well-fitting collars and constant attention will do much to keep shoulders in working condi tion. Laying House One has a considerable invest ment in the pullets raised this year. And a little bug or two can upset the profit cart so easily, says Hoard’s Dairyman. The laying house should be given a pretty thor ough going-over inside. Use a lye solution or other good disinfectants. And don’t neglect the feed hoppers and water utensils. They need a real cleaning up. Repair nests and put in new shavings or other nest ing material. Shavings usually keep eggs cleaner than straw. Look Young By Striving For Posture By PATRICIA LINDSAY C Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. T HE way you carry yourself Is not only indicative of what sort of person you are, but it either adds years to you or makes you look younger. • When wealthy ladies pay high prices for courses in self-improve ment in the leading salons, the first lesson they get is a posture les son. And the course does not pro ceed until the women have learned Wrong posture, right posture. how to walk correctly and to sit correctly. “Walk proudly,” “grow tall from the midriff” and “tuck in your buttocks” as if you had been spanked, are the three most simple rules to remember as you walk. “Sit in the entire seat of a chair,” “tuck in your tummy while sitting,” and “don’t cross your knees,” will take you far in sitting posture if you will but remember them.* Authority Advises These Exercises From one of the leading salons, that of Miss Dorothy Nye, I secured these two corrective exercises, which, if practiced daily, will firm the abdominal muscles and give flexibility to the hip region. Both are necessary to acquire an erect and agile carriage. EXERCISE 1 1. On back with right knee pulled hack to chest and both hands clasped around knee. 2. Swing left leg back over head as far as you can, then come to sitting-up position. Pull from hands around knees and flatten back, keep neck and head high. Repeat with right three times. Then left three times. Twelve times altogether. EXERCISE 2 1. On knees, head back, hands clasped back of body and stretch downward. 2. Bend slowly forward, keeping head up and back flat until sitting on heels. Drop head to floor and relax. 3. Keeping head down, round the back, pull in abdominal muscles, and slowly raise the body. Move ment begins at lowest vertebrae and slowly lifts thighs away from heels at same time. Head and shoulders rise last to original position. Repeat five times, working up to fifteen times altogeth er in a few days. Not difficult are they? Try going through them every day for a month. HINT-OF-THE-DAY If a child possesses his own aids to body health and cleanliness he is more likely to use them. “My very own hair brush”—“My very own tooth paste” — makes him proud. If he is taught how to use them and why he must use them, a mother will have little difficulty in getting him to do so. Of course all children go through that obstinate age when any sug gestion is vetoed, when every re quest calls forth a lengthy argu ment. But even during this stage of growing pains the child is quite likely to slip off and do what he has been told to do after he has satis fied his ego by displaying his obsti- nance, that is, providing his earlier years have included a daily groom ing routine. •Ask Me Jlnother 0 A General Quim The Questions 1. What people are considered the most law-abiding? 2. What is the highest state in the Union, in average altitude? 3. How high above sea level is' its principal city? 4. What do the letters I. H. S. stand for? 5. A township is composed of how many square miles? 6. What is St. Elmo’s fire? 7. What sports event attracts the largest crowd? The Answers 1. Generally speaking, the Fin landers are the most law-abiding. 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