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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922.
RIGHT ELEMENTS
FOR DAIRY COWS
Lime and Phosphorus Have
Much to Do With Milk Pro
duction and Unborn Calf.
BEST RESULTS FROM FEEDING
Not Profitable Practice to Neglect An
imals When They Are Running
Low in Milk Yield and When
They Are Dry.
(Prepared by the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
Lime and phosphorus, although they
are found in relatively small quanti
ties in feeds, have a great deni to do
With milk production and building up
the body of the unborn calf. If the
cow does not have enough of these
elements in her ration she will draw
on the supply In her body for a time,
and heavy producers commonly do
this. Therefore, says the United States
Department of Agriculture, It is a good
practice to feed cows well when they
are running low in milk yield and
when they are dry, so that they may
store up these elements as well as
others In their bodies for use when
the large demand Is made.
Must Have Reserve Supply.
The common view is that dry cows
need only enough feed for main
tenance, but experiments carried on
by the department show that this Is
not true. The cow is a milk-manufac
turing plant, and. like many factories,
she must have a reserve supply of ma
terials to draw on when heavy de
mands are made. A cow that has been
well fed when dry and has stored up
this reserve is able to produce more
on full feed than a cow that has been
given only a maintenance ration dur
ing that resting period. In this way a
cow can utilize her capacity the year
round, although site may not be giving
milk all the time.
In keeping up the necessary lime
and phosphorus supply It is well to
keep in mind the fact that certain
feeds are richer than others In these
Legume Hays Contain the Most Need
ed Supply of Lime.
elements. The feeds which contain
the most lime are the legume hays,
which Include cowpea, alfalfa, soy
bean, the clovers, and some others. Os
those mentioned cowpea hay contains
the most lime, and the others are
named here In the order of their rich
ness in lime. The lime content of hay
depends to a great extent on its qual
ity. Leafy alfalfa hay contains more
lime than coarse, stemmy hay, and the
same is probably true of other hays.
Contain Most Phosphorus.
The common dairy feeds that con
tain the most phosphorus are wheat
bran, cottonseed meal, standard wheat
middlings, and linseed meal, In the or
der given. Less common feeds that
are high in phosphorus are, In order,
sesame-oil cake, rice polish, buck
wheat middlings, rice bran, sunflower
seed cake, rapeseed cake, buckwheat
bran, and malt sprouts.
No grain or other concentrate con
tains anywhere near so much lime as
the legume hays; and no kind of rough
age contains phosphorus In quantities
comparable to those found In the con
centrates mentioned above. Grass
hays, corn silage, and corn products
with the possible exception of those
made from the germs are low in both
lime and phosphorus.
NEXT SUMMER’S ICE SUPPLY
Material Stored Thia Winter Will Be
Greatly Appreciated During
Hot Weather.
Thoughts of ice cream, lemonade and
eold drinks are apt to start shivers
along the spine at this time of year.
But ice stored this winter will be
greatly appreciated next summer when
the temperature climbs toward a hun
dred.
The old ice house Is likely to need
some attention and a good many folk*
would like to make any necessary re
pairs before the weather becomes too
cold. If no house is available, an in
expensive one can be constructed. A
house double-walled, well roofed and
properly insulated throughout, is
worth the extra cost, because it will
keep the ice better. However, n very
Inexpensive building in which the Ice,
Is properly packed will save about
two-thirds of the supply, and where
the farmer desires to make only tem
porary storage or where It Is neces
sary to economize, an Inexpensive
iHJildJng will surve.
MORE EGGS SECURED
BY ELECTRIC LIGHT
Yield Increased in Winter Months
When Price Is High.
An Average Day of From 12 to 13
Hours Gives Best Results and as
General Rule Only Profitable
to Use Mature Pullets.
(Prepared by the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
Although the use of electric lights
in the poultry house does not greatly
increase the total annual egg produc
tion of hens, says the United States
Department of Agriculture, It does
Increase the yield during the winter
months when the price is high and
is therefore profitable. In experi
ments carried on by the department
during the full and winter of 1920 and
1921, lights were used from November
1 to March 20.
Each year a flock of 50 pullets was
used. The first year, during the pe
riod when lights were used, the light
ed pen produced 50 dozen more eggs
than the same number of pullets
in an unlighted house. The second
year the pullets in the lighted pen
laid more than 00 dozen eggs in ex
cess of an unllghted flock of the same
size and quality. One 75-watt light
was used for the 50 pullets for 2H
hours daily for 140 days. It was
turned on at 4:30 In the morning and
allowed to run until daylight, being
turned off by the poultryman when he
came to work. It was turned on au
tomatically by an alarm-clock device.
An average length of day of from
12 to 13 hours gives the best results.
Adding the ex.:ra lights In the morn
ing is the most convenient method, al
though some poultrymen use lights
both morning and evening. The hours
added to the hens’ working day should
be the same in either case. Making
the day longer than 13 hours forces
the birds too much.
When lights are used in the evening
some arrangement for dimming them
is required so that the hens will go
to roost before they are turned out
entirely.
When artificial lights are used the
hens must be fed more. In fact, the
object of the plan Is to give the hens
an opportunity to eat more, with the
tesult that they will be forced to
lay more eggs, provided they are of a
laying strain. Dry mash should be
available «t all times and scratch feed
should be used In deep litter to make
them exercise. A feed of grain should
be put in the litter at night so that
the hens can go to work as soon as
the lights go on In the morning.
It is Important to have plenty of
fresh water Randy so that the hens
can got it whenever they are eating.
In the winter when lights are turned
on automatically In the morning some
provision must be made to keep the
water from freezing when it As kept in
I the house all night. The department
uses an electric light with a carbon
bulb immersed in the drinking water.
The bulb Is tightly covered with a
piece of cloth, so no light is thrown
into the pen.
As a general rule it Is only profit
able to use artificial lighting on pul
lets, and the best results are obtained
on well-matured pullets. Hens to be
used for breeders should npt be forced
for egg production with electric lights
during the period just preceding the
breeding season, as forced laying at
that time is apt to cause podrer
hatches and produce weaker chickens
than would be obtained from hens
kept under normal winter conditions.
BREEDERS FOR NEXT SEASON
Farmer Trying to Breed Up High-
Laying Strain Cannot Afford to
Use Whole Flock.
The farmer who is endeavoring to
breed up a high laying strain of poul
try cannot afford to breed from his
entire flock of hens and pullets. IX
pays to make up a special breeding
flock each spring using yearling hens
or other birds In the flock. It Is eas
ier to pick these birds now than it
will be In late winter or early spring.
One way of doing this is to go over
the flock just as it is done for culling.
J
It Pays a Farmer to Use a Standard-
Bred Cockerel in Building Up His
Flock.
but pick out the best birds rather than
the poorest. These hens can be marked
to go Into the breeding flock next
spring.
Many farms still have a larger num
ber of cocKgrels on hand than will be
eaten or can be used for breeding pur
poses. In most cases the cockerels
take up more room and feed which
should be given to the pullets than
they will pay for in extra weight or
price if held.
LIVE STOCK
FACTS
Idle Work Horse
The Idle work horse will live
I; through the winter and rema’n i ’
iu good condition on roughage <■
j alone. If of good quality. One- ;■
half of the roughage should be
: composed of clover or alfalfa, ;
Y while the other half may be corn
J; stover and straw. If no legume Y
: hay Is available and timothy and /
other carbohydrate roughages
; must be depended upon for the :j:
: : horse’s feed, he should be given
;: a small amount of oats, say from '
five to seven pounds a day, oth- :
: erwlse his strength and vitality <
will suffer. With these non- ?
legume roughages one should
not feed corn in place of oats be- ■ j
cause the former lacks protein. ;
While oats are not rich in this
constituent, they are neverthe- ;
less much better than corn.
FAVOR SMOOTH-TYPE MERINO
Will Produce Good Mutton Lamb
Without Sacrificing Appreciably
Fineness of Wool.
(Prepared by the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
Sheep breeders of eastern Ohio,
western Pennsylvania, end the Pan-
Handle section of West Virginia, are
leaning more strongly to the smooth
type, broad-backed. Delaine Merino,
which will produce a good mutton
lamb without sacrificing appreciably
the fineness of the wool. While the
lambs cannot be marketed so easily
as those of the down breeds, says the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, they are ready for market before
they are a year old. In some cases
the breeder waits until they are a year
old, shears them, and then sells them
In good flesh, thus getting a double
return.
Sheepmen In those sections have
found that they usually can get a wool
of longer staple and of less shrinkage
with the smooth-tvne Merino than
Smooth-Typo Merino Ewe.
with the wrinkled type, at the same
time it lias sufficient fineness to make
a very salable wool. The choice lambs
produced by these sheep, together with
the gain in the length of staple and
gain in net yield of clean wool, more
than offset a slight sacrifice in fineness
of wool, and promise to make the
Delaine sheep more popular in most
sections than his wrinkled cousin.
PASTUrFrEQUIRED FOR HOGS
Sufficient Grass for Sow and Her Lit
ter Should Not Be Expensive to
the Farmer.
The economy of having plenty of
meat, lard, sausage and other products
from hogs seems not to have occurred
to many fanners, else more would raise
their meat. But it Is a fact In some
communities very few hogs are raised.
For best results pasture is required
for enough pigs to he raised for meat
enough to do the average farmer. But
sufllciei.t for a sow and her litter
should not be very expensive. A small
area of land fenced so the land may be
sown to two or three different crops
will go a long way toward furnishing
economical pork for the farm home.
GIVE CATTLEGOODSHELTER
Windbreaks oi Bimple Sheds Are Bet
ter Than Nothing—-Breeding
Herds Need Care.
Simple sheds or windbreaks of some
kind are better than no shelter at nil.
Protect your breeding herds. The
breeder who la ever fortified with the
necessary feed and shelter, enabling
him to give the proper care to his
cattle from the time the snow begins
to fly until all signs of frost have dis
appeared in the spring, never experi
ences the dr**ad of an approaching
winter.
Fall F’ock Management.
Autumn management of the flock Is
quite an outstanding part of the sheep
raising business. Next year’s profits
will depend largely on the care and
management from now until winter.
Successful Stockman.
A successful stockman must under
stand feeding, breeding, buying and
selling, as well as the science of crop
production.
Ground Bone for Hogs.
Experiments show ground bone fed
to growing pigs results In much strong
er skeletons.
Ration for Work Horses.
During the working season when
pe:*formlng heavy w’ork horses need s
UVeral ratlou of grain and roughage.
"Rintf Oui the Old,
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Laurlger Horatius, quem dixlsti verum
Fugit Euro citius tempus edax rerum.
Temnora mutantur et nos mutamur in Illis.
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
SHE Lutin has a terse
and forceful way of
r putting things. Now,
the first quotation
above lias been ren-
i dered in free-and-easy
style:
j Old Man Horace, sprigged
? with bay
Truly thou dost say, sir,
Time speeds faster on its
way
1 | Than the swiftest racer.
7
Clever, but the Latin says it more
forcibly : Crowned-with-laurel Horace,
what you say is true: Flies than the
southeast wind faster time the devour
er of things.
Ami the second quotation above
neatly supplements the first by say
ing: Times change and we are changed
In them.
All of which suggests most forcibly
that time has destroyed the old-fash
ioned method of observing several ol
our American national holidays; that
the times have changed and we in
them.
Now, there’s the Fourth of July, for
example. The old-fashioned Fourth
is so entirely gone that we don’t quite
know what to do with the day. In the
old days we used to twist the Lion's
tail when we didn’t know what else
to do, but since we fought side by side
with the British in the Great War,
that seems as out of place as do fire
crackers and the casualty list of small
boys.
And it’s just about the same with
New Year’s Day. About all that’s
left us is to listen to the whistles blow
ing at midnight and to make good res
olutions. And what changes the day
lias seen since first Americans began
its celebration!
America’s celebration of New Year’s
Day owes nothing to Puritan New
England. In the North New York, be
ing Dutch, was the center of New’
Year’s gayety. The South, being Eng
lish, but not Puritan, also celebrated
enthusiastically. The custom of mak
ing calls probably is as old as civilized
man; it is likely that it originated
independently in almost every clime.
Old-time European chieftains used to
set “New Year’s’’ apart as a day on
which they would condescend to re
ceive substantial tributes from their
underlings. Queen Elizabeth re
ceived New Year’s calls every year,
and there was always much rivalry be
tween her ambitious courtiers as to
the quantity and yalue of the gifts
they should bestow upon the virgin
sovereign. It was on a New Year’s Day
that Sir Walter Raleigh gladdened the
queen’s heart with a memorable pair
of silk stockings—the first ever made
and worn in England.
In Holland the custom of making
New Year’s calls had been general
long before the settlement of New
Amsterdam, and the natives of the
Netherlands who came to live In the
New World brought the practice with
them. And, of course, they had
plenty to eat and drink —for who ever
heard of Dutchmen who did not take
good care of their stomachs?
Up to the beginning of the Nine
teenth century the typical New Year’s
observance was a neighborly custom.
7 hen it became an observance decreed
by fashion and was observed In every
city of any size in the country.
The younger women of such house
holds as had daughters w’ere the host
esses, and great was their rivalry, one
with another, in respect of richly load
ed refreshment tallies and elegance of •
Wings of Birds and Fishes
IV studying the wing structure of
flying fish, an authority on the flight
□f birds has found that their wings
ire some four or five ttinM as efficient
for soaring flight ni the wings of
birds. He attributes this to the fact
hat the fin rays formed projected
•Idges on the under surface of the
’ngs. By experimenting with models
I hloned on similar lines, he found
I at the flr My caused u sheltered
‘ x 'C'
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toilet. The “beaux,” and "dandles,”
and “gallants" attired themselves in
their best and starred out early in tire
morning, calling first at the houses
where matrons received, and afterward
upon the younger ladies. The drinks
that were offered at every house of
any prominence were ardent and di
verse.
It was not until about the middle of
the century or thereabouts that the
abuse which finally led to the cus
tom’s decline began. For years the
dandies rivaled one another in the
length of their calling lists, and the
calls soon came to be nothing more
than hasty gorgings of cake and gulp
ings of wine.
Then the ladies —the matrons as
well as the young women —began to
vie with one another in the number of
their callers. This led to the most
extraordinary practices. Callers were
recruited, drummed up. Cards an
nouncing that Miss Thls-or-That would
be “at home” on January 1 were sent
out almost indiscriminately. The Sun
day newspapers began to print lists of
those who would receive, and the
houses of those mentioned In the lists
were sure to be besieged by numbers
of men whom the ladies hud never met
er heard of and desired never to meet
again.
Men would go calling in couples
and parties, and even In droves of 30
or more, remaining as short a time at
each stopping place as possible, and
announcing everywhere how many
calls they had already made, and how
many they expected to make before
they finished. At every place they
drank. The result was a most ap
palling assortment of “Jags" long be
fore sundown, aud a crowding of the
police stations at night.
This New Year’s observance finally
became so abused that it was called
a “national evil,” and was attacked by
i eformers everywhere and ministers
thundered against it from the pulpit.
Finally fashion set its face against it
and it died a gradual death.
Its place was taken after a while by
eating and drinking in the restaurants,
and by the street carnivals.
If Croesus himself had coine back
to earth and had visited New York—
<»r any big city in the country—ln 1005,
he couldn’t have got a seat in any
restaurant of note after ten o’clock the
night of December 31, for all his
fabulous wealth. In fact, he probably
couldn’t have got inside tiie door.
Every table was engaged—at big j '
prices and long in advance. Diners I
• had to get out at nine o’clock and I '
I area to appear back of the ray when
the model moved through the air. His
conclusion is that this sheltered area
act* as a force to drive the wing
ahead when soaring.
“Saint Tammany."
St. Tammany, the tutelary genius
of the famous Tammany Society of
New York city, was a famous In
dian chief, about whom many fancied
legends have gathered. He Is said
to have been a native of Delaware.
After attaining his majority, St. Tam-
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guards at the doors saw that none ex
cept those with credentials got in. Dur
ing the last hour of the Old Year the
people feasted, and at the first stroke
of the New Year everybody in every
restaurant arose, wine-glass in hand,
and drank a health to the New Year.
It was comparatively quiet indoors,
but the people in the streets made
noise enough to scare, young 1900.
Every sort of noise-making implement
known to man except cannon and dy
namite bombs was in active use.
“Get your horns and ticklers 1” was
the prayer roared by thousands of
fakers all evening. Trucks and
wagons were halted at the curb, load
ed with tin horns and thin sticks with
a bunch of hackle-feathers at the tip.
If you were a real devilish New
Year's humorist you proceeded like
this: First, tickle some stranger un
der the chin with the feathers; then,
as he turned to protest, you blew the
horn in his face.
A universal custom of New Year’s
of those days was the carrier’s New
Year’s address. This was often in
rhyme if the carrier or any of his
friends could string the jingling
lines together or find an old carrier’s
address to copy. Such verses us these
were popular:
This day devoted now to mirth.
To open house and social hearth.
New friendship mounts on airy wings
And gives her tuneful harp new strings.
While plenty spreads a festive board.
Os wine and food and ample hoard.
In idleness and laughter gay.
To spend the hours this happy day.
All save the carrier, whose snowy feet
Still must pace up the snowy street.
So give to him a moment's heed,
Since he alone this comfort needs,
And to your ample, jovial store
Let him not find a closed dcor, etc., etc.
By 1914 there were strong indica
tions of a saner celebration of New
Year’s. The feasting in restaurants
New Year’s Eve was still in full blast,
with singing and dancing added. But
most of the large cities had ordered
the police to enforce u “sane” celebra
tion on the streets. In consequence
there was less noise and rowdyism out
of doors. Chicago, for instance, for
bade horns, confetti and ticklers.
Cleveland probably had the “sanest”
New Year’s Eve in 1914. That city
gave the New Year a “community
greeting,’’ in keeping with the spirit
of community Christmas celebrated a
week before. Twelve bands, with 280
musicians, were massed in the public
square. To an audience of thousands
they played hymns and patriotic airs.
Announcement by the police that the
midnight closing law would be en
forced rigidly cut hotel and restaurant
festivities down markedly. In Cin
cinnati the police had the promise of
every hotel, case and saloon keeper to
close promptly at midnight. Similar
conditions prevailed in Detroit and
Indianapolis.
Then came the Great War. And
then prohibition.
So at present the celebration of New
1 Year s Eve and New Year’s Day is be
twixt and between.
What will it be ten years from now?
And what a century hence?
nfhny removed to the banks of the
Ohio, where he became the great
sachem of his tribe, and acquired a
wide reputation for wisdom, fimmess
and moderation. According to tradi
tion, he signed the treaty with Wil
liam Penn, and w s chosen by tiie
troops of Washington as patron saint
in place of St. George. His princi
pal maxim was “Unite. In peace for
mutual happiness; In war for mutual
defense.” For what reason he whs
called “Saint" does not appear in any
of the literature about him.