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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938
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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.
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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.
A police system is not necessary.
2. Colorado.
3. Denver is one mile above sea
leveL
4. Jesus Hominum Salvator
(Jesus the Savior of Men), more
correctly IHS, the first three let
ters in the name Jesus in Greek.
5. A township is composed of 36
square miles.
6. A flame-like appearance oc
casionally seen during storms and
other atmospheric disturbances is
suing from pointed and elevated
objects.
7f The world’s, largest sports
gallery is that watching the an
nual Tour de France, a 2,755-mile
race in which the field consists of
around 100 professional cyclists.
More than one million spectators
line the route of the race.
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