Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 8, 1919, Page 10

7 i . Learn Thrlft' You can shine your shoes 50 times with a box of SaworA. 52 shines would cost you $5.00 or more. Well shined shoes add to your personal appe ance. SmmoA makes ar- shoes wear longer as the wax and oils protect the surtace, keep the leather soft and pliable. It pays to give your shoes good care when they . cost so much, ‘SunOLA HomE sET Makes Home Shoe Shining easy and "mvenient. How ford rda R Gonn. White Wyandattes Lan B Allen, Sulliva: BARRED ROCKS MAINTAIN | THEIR PLACE AT TOP ord; Merrythought rf{rm, o, BRGNP Rhode Island Reds. rel Hill Farm, Br 45— Deer . Brook Short I paries H Poultry s, N.<EL . Lane, White Leghorns 81—J. ¥ Dub ank K top Poultry ~Yards, 1d, Conn. Miscellaneous hickatawbut Farms R “anton, Mass ... Pequot Pouitry Farm Whit Southpo e Lenzen, Mass. .... pe n 7—Al T. | tleboro, Con: I uther of r this 9 o'clock Winsted. in St. hurch Southboro, Bast Ly up Bros, Mattituck, N. Suf. a’ Hart- 1693 1578 Nicholson, 1450 1421 idgeton, 1740 | Farm, 1692 1618 nn, 1784 1758 7 (Wh. o7 I n.." 1527 North At- ... 1397 Mulcunry, Muicunry and Winsted (Wednesday) Joseph's REG. U.S. me- OFF. For Constipation Slckness- preventron Wik AGRICULTURAL _I_NTERFSTS BETTER FARMING— BETTER HOMES Total enroliment for last year at Connecticut Agricultural coliege was 203 students. Shortly after school opened this fall 320 students had reg- istered and applications were still be- ing received. An increase of more than fifty per cent. in one vear is significant. Allow- ing for minor causes, it indicates that a greatly increased interest in agri- culture has arrived for Connecticut. War brought home to all of us the fact that the trained man has the ad- vantage in all human endeavor. This is as true with farming as other vo- cations. Farming, too, has been given a afnity and importance in the pub- ‘mind that it has always been en- Tic, but bas only recently ac- titled to quired. Fifty-nine of the 320 are youns women who are studying home econ- Home-making, too, has a new omics. significance now that more persons know that it is neither romance or drudgery but a real business. If we have another war there won't be so much need of a Hoover. Increased attendance has stretched the dormitory facilities of the state college to the limit. Further growth depends upon what arrangements the state makes to provide for the young men and women who want to study agriculture and home economics In Connecticut. THE COST OF MILK. re the most costly} Feed prices and labor | while tie in- to Feed and labor items in milk production. have increased Si.4 per cent has increased 114 per cent. price of milk to the consumer ha d 66.7 per cent. from 1914 1919. 1f vou want to know what it costs te produce milk in Connecticut write| Yor Bulietin 13 of the Extension Ser- | vice at Storrs. This publication takes up farm costs and distribution costs and is based on a careful survey made during the summer. In 1914 the Connecticut farmer co raise a hefer to two years of age at a cost of $30. ow it costs $160. The United States Department Agriculture recently estimated the ost in another castern state at $1 indicating that the Comnecticut con ditions are not exceptional. The bulletin is intended as an im- partial consideration of the question| as to whether milk prices are reason- able. SCRUB SIRE'S FOES LINE UP. | Reports from many parts of thel country indicate that the nation-wide rusade for better live stock through he use of pure-bred sires of good Guality is continuing to win enthusi- a recruits. Arizona has attested its| interest asking for 1,000 enroll- ment blan A professor_of animal { husbandry in Kentucky writes that, though he lives in the midst of a blue- ass country, far famed for its fine eedinz, he feels t there is need for the crusade in his locality and of- fers to help drive out the scrub sire. South Carolina estima that about 300 livestock owners will banish scrub!| from their farms within the next emblem granted to all who and use only pure-bred sires the name and of the ock owner, date enr and al number signifying the total imber signifying the total number| of emblems issued to date. Tt meas- ures § to 10 inches, is printed in two | colors. and carries the seal of thel United States Department of Agri- culture. Below the seal space is left the signature “The federal and state agencies promoting this move- | ment for better live stock emphasize! the fact that this emblem is an offi-| cial token of Uncle Sam’'s direct in- terest in the work of every man seek- ing to improve his live stock. It al- so indicates that the sovernment ree- ognizes that quality is of .greater im- portance than quantity in o far as the betterment of live stock is concern- ed. Officials of the Bureau of Animal In=- Qustry expect that stock raisers will take spesial pride in displaving these| emblems. Later, when the enroll-| ment becomes larze, it is predicted they will point to (he low numbers on their emblems as cvidence that they were among the -early recruits to the campaign CHEAP FEED NEEDED IN RAISING HEIFERS importance of providing cheap and prac- brought out The feed for growing heifers ticing thorough culling is by the results of feeding experiments recently ‘completed by the Diary Di- vision, United States Department of Agriculture. In these _experiments groups of calves were fed from birth o one year and two vears of age and a record kept of all feed consumed. In one experiment, 11 heifer calves were gaised to the age of one year. The amount of feed consumed by each .calf was as follows. Hay, 571.8 pounds; grain, $85.5 pounds; _silage, 3.693.1 pounds: milk. 110 pounds; skim milk, 2,414 pounds. Estimating the hay at $30 per ton, grain at $60 ; and silage at 8 per ton, milk at four cents per pound, the cost of rais- ing each heifer to one year of age was $72.42. Five of the calves from the first experiment were then fed for one more vear. During this second vear each calf consumed on the average 1.117.8 pounds of hay: 1.2216 pounds of grain; 8.031 pounds of silage. Using the same figures for computing the cost of the feeds consumed during this second year. the total cost of raising a heifer from birth until two years of age was $157.96. These fig- ures emphasize the necessity of pro- viding cheap feed for heifers such as pasture and silage, and bring out the importance of carefully culling the heifers to avoid raising those which will prove to be inferlor cows. DO NOT BURN LEAVES IN FALL. By P. G. HOLDEN. Leaves from trees and bushes, which litter the ground in the fall, should not be burned, as they will aid meterially in preserving or building up the fer- tility of the home garden. Leaves are especially worth sav- irg for fertilizer in the large cities where stable manure is often hard to secure. A good soil must con- tain nitrogren, potash, phosphorus and lme, and for vegetable growing these plant foods should be applied to the soil each spring. One ton of leaves contain about 15 pounds of nitrogen, six pounds of potash and three pounds of phosphorous. A compost pile provides the best | manner of furnishing fertilizer for your back-yard garden and the fall| is the proper time to prepare your compost pile. To make a compost pfle. place a well-rotted stable manure in or near your garden spot: cover the manure with a laver of soil: place on top of this a layer of leaves, straw. grass clippings. meat wastes, ground bones and such other organic matter as you may have; add an- other layer of soil and then another layer of organic matter or manure. ‘This mass should be twice turned over during the winter and will be well decomposed by spring. Compost is ome of the best of ‘should be duz in brizht Towed to dry out before and all suspicious -ones i They should then be stored, at least temporarily. in very shallow piles. in + dry, cool place with good ventilation. ic lawn fertilizers and helps vegetable growth when scattered over the ground around young plants. Wood ashes as well as leaves, straw and dead grass should not be wasted. Wood ashes contain a large per cent. of potash and may be put in the compost pile or scattered over your garden spot from day to day during the winter. SOFT ROT OF POTATOES. There has been mdch complaint re- cently of a soft rot of late potatoes. This trouble is due primarily to the late blight fungus which first got started on_the vines the latter half of August. The wet weather of late July and of August favored the develop- ment of the blight so that by the end of August most of the vines were killed. The spores falling from the leaves on to the ground were washed in con- tact with the tubers and the charac- teristic reddish-brown rot of mu.'ht’ soon developed. This blight is rather superficial and shows by slightly sunk- en places in the skin. 1In itself it is not a serious rot, but it opens the way for bacteria which develop the soft, {ll- smelling rot so characteristic of blight- ed vines. This year the rot is the worst for some time, some of the fields hav- ing half the tubers rotted. Tnless there is a profitable market for immediate sale, it is best to leave | the potatoes in the ground and let them rot there; digging and early requires too much han remove the rotten tubers Tf thought desirable, a little air-slacked iime can De dusted over them to help e up the surface moisture.—G. P. on. Conn, ut Agricultural Bx- periment Station, New Haven. WHAT IS A SIRE WORTH? w50 a western agricultural | ght a young boar of the! breed, payinz $90. His Hampsihre blood lines were good but his value as a breeder hadn't been demonstrated and the price was considered fair. Just the other day the same animal sold for $1.000. Man 500d bull or a good boar has gone to the block simply because the owner failed to wait until his off- spring could prove his worth. On the other hand. a young animal has been varchased at a fancy price simply be- caused heJooked good and his ancestry was satisfactory. Tn livestock breeding the best sire 1s the one that the best offspring. Buvers are coming more to an appre- ciation of this fact. } HOW MUCH GRAIN TO FEED POULTRY Specialists of the United States de partment of agriculture advise poultry keepers to feed about one quart of scratch grain and an equal weight of mash (about 1 1-2 quarts) daily to 13 hens of the gemeral purpose breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Isinad Reds or Wyandottes, or about 16 hens of the smaller or egg breeds. This would be about 7 1-2 pounds each of scratch grains and of mash daily to 100 Leghorns and about § 1-2 pounds | of each to 100 general purpose fowls. If hens have free range or large vard containing green feed, a zeneral pur- pose hen will _eat about 75 pounds of feed in a vear, while a_Lezhorn will consume about 55 pounds in addition to the green stuff which she eats. LOOK HEN IN EYE. All yellow skinned varieties of poul- try should carry a surplus of yellow pigment or fat previpus to the time they start laying, und uniess decidedly out of condition, ure bght yvellow in al of the above named parts. The surplus of color pigment or fat iss lowly depleted by production, the color changes being apparent first where the Llood circulation is most rapid. The tissue around the vent ex- pands with production, and the veliow color disappears after a very few eggs have been produced. If production con- tinues, the vent becomes white and. | ter long extra heavy production. a | sh white The edze of the evelld or eyerinz is next to fade, losing all trace of vellow | after a few ‘ezgs have been produced. Tt seems far-fetched to say that vou can look a hen in the eve and tell if she is laving: nevertheless. it is easily done. The earlobes fade next. becom- ing white after a few weeks of produc- tion. The beak fades after fwo or three months of production. The fad- ‘Lg starts at the base of the beak and works out toward the tin. The shanks are last to lose color, and do not as a rule fade until after several months of production. Heavv production removes euch quantities of fat that the skin becomes white and appears very loose and plia- | ble. All heavy flesh around the pelvic Dbones, across the abdomen and either side of the breastbone disappears. The ichanks not only fade out white, but they become very flat and thin. The slacker has round, full shanks and yel- low color throughout her entire body. Yellow skinned varieties having black shanks usually show fading on the bottoms of th®- feet. Breeds showing black or brown color on the upper side of the beak show fading under the beak The size of the hen and the condi- tions under which she is kept have considerable effect on the rapidity of fading. A Leghorn weighing three to four pounds will fade out much more quickly than a Plymouth Rock weigh- ing six or seven nounds. because she has less material In her hody to draw from. Hens confined in houses or al- lowed onlv bare vards with no litter or zreen food fade much more quickly than hens ket under more favorable conditions.—Rov E. Jones, Poultry Specialist. Extension Service, Connec- ticut Agricultural College, Storrs. bl FALL FEEDING OF POULTRY. Profitable egg production is largely the result of properly balanced ra- tions of wholesome feeds. A balanced ration is a combination of feeds fur- nishing just the necessary amount of nutrients to produce the highest and most economical egg vield and main- tain the body requirements at the same time. A good egg-laying ra- tion should include a scratch mix- ture and a mash composed of pala- table feeds containing som .eanimal protein and considerable bulk. Corn and wheat are the best grains for Doultry feeding. although wheat can be fed alone better than corn which is inclined to be fattening. Oats and barley, on account of their higher fiber content, are as good as corn and wheat, ' while rve 1s not well relished by fowls and is seldom fed. Moldy grains shou'd never be fed poultrr, _although wheat screenings or slightly damaged grain may some- times be used to advantase. A good mash consists of 16 ponnds of cornmeal, six and a half pounds of meat scrap. one nound of bran ard one pound of middlings. which should be fed supplementarv to the scratch mixture of one pound each of cracked corn. wheat and oate. Another good mash consists of two povnds of barley meal, one pound of you buy atire here,another there, you cannot expect uniform tire mileage :and service. ; Making Firestone Gray Side- wall TFires standard. for your car means you can forget the tire question. And after that decision, the renewal question | will come up far less fre- quently. You can easily prove this by equipping with Firestones now. Tirestone TIRES Most Miles per Dollar pounds of cracked corn, ome pound of ture consists of nine pounds of corn-|nenhouse, feeding about one-third of oats, or one pound of wheat or bdr- |meal five pounds of middlings, four|the mixture in the morning and two- ley. A third valuable mash consists|pounds of bran, two pounds of cotton- | thirds in the afternoon. The mash may of three pounds of cornmeal. one|seed or gluten meal, two pounds of | o fed dry or wet, aithough the dry pound of wheat or barley. A mh—dlmc.u scrap. two per cent. bonemeal, | mash is more common, it being kept valusble ~mash consists’ of = three|fed in conmection with a séraich com-|constaniy before thé towls in ihe pounds of cornmeéal, one pound bination of two pounds cracked corn,|hopper. If hens show a tendency to meat scrap, which Shouid be fed infone pound of wheat one pound of oats|become too fat, make them work for combination with the scratch mixture of twoe pounds of one pound of oats another still practical mash cracked corn and | mix- their feed by feeding the scratch grain The scratch mixture should be fed | in a deep litter. by feeding lesa scratch twice_daily, preferably in litter from |srain, and by reducing the quantity of 310 5 inches decp. on the floor of the | meat scrap in the mash. and one pound of barley. middlings. one pound of meat or fish scrap. which should be fed in emnbl mation with a scratch mixture of New Footwear for Fall —Shoes as pleasant to wear as they are charming to look at Never have we had so attractive a collection of new models for early showing. New combinations of material and color! different ‘style touches here and there! 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A recently patented from a single sheei of T s0 folded and pressed into thero are no weak Joints leakage A thief alarm inven: rope I8 small enough to be carried ir . pocket and explodes ward the bottle mad pe to permit any object under which it is lald ¥ moved. Early establishment of transat lantic radio telephone serv 3 ex pected as a result of successfu iments in talking between No co tia and Ireland Contrary -to popular belief, th 116 square miles embraced in the are of Greater London are not owned b &, few, but by thousands of landlord. —33,200 in all In calm wenihiér 2 pigeon can fly at the rate of atds a minute. With the help of a .m erate wind it wiil attain a speed ¢ 1,430 vards, and- before a high win /000 yards. -haired people, savs an au- get married sooner than falr haired 'individuals. He has = shown by’ statistics that an overwhelming m Jority of those women who live and die spinsters have fair hair, The exports of butter from Ire land to Great Britain h. creasing for the past few year: 1916 they were 40,000 tons: in 1918 20,000 tons; and this year it is re ported that there is a further reduction It is officially stated that the total number ‘of women employed in th several departments of the British gov ernment (temporary as weil as per manent) was 45,000 on August 1, 1914 230,000 on November 11, 1915 and 179, 000 ox July 1, 1919, A “prominent designer and impor ter’ of .women's zowns declared tr films have had an important effect o the deand for certain styles, par ticularly gowns of simple, class'c lne and “intriguing fabr: and a drug gist reports the sale of cosmetics has Increased 25 per cent. since movies became .popular. From the Consular Reports. Admi; The 1 line of Pacific ste ships-has decided (0 extend iis opera tions to Shang| Osher branch o fices have opencd at Man 0 \gKoHnN; Singupore. . Kole Viadivost This 1lne 15 to start a mon beiween Seaitle and (he of the Orient, and a service once ever 8ix weeks from Poriland, Ore The Britlsh imports of for and colonial ‘wool for the first six months of 1919 totaled 1,686,112 baies, the amount for the corresponding period of 1923 having hu 809,457 bales. %