January, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 39 



fined. Any food of this kind that is succu- 

 lent will serve the purpose but one of the best 

 is sprouted oats. To provide these, the poul- 

 tryman should have a number of shallow 

 boxes which have been provided with drain- 

 age holes. The oats should then be soaked 24 

 hours and spread in the boxes. They should 

 be sprinkled night and morning and fed 

 when the sprouts are two to three inches 

 long. A block of sprouted oats six inches 

 square is considered enough for 10 fowls. 



ally take all the roosts do 

 boiling soapsuds. 



\ m n and wash with 



Poultry Notes 



The right ration and warm quarters will 

 bring the eggs. 



The dark and damp poultry house often 

 brings the roup. 



Poultry relish a little moistened food in ad- 

 dition to the fact that it helps increase egg 



production slightly. 



To assist in keeping the poultry house free 

 of mites sprinkle some ashes or air-slacked 

 lime on the floors. To kill the lice, occasion- 



Odds and ends from the kitchen and green 

 foods such as cabbage, alfalfa, silage and 

 turnips will help increase egg production. The 

 scraps from the kitchen, however, should be 

 sorted, banana and orange peel and mouldy 

 bread and cake are liable to produce bowel 

 trouble. 



Drinking utensils for fowls should be kept 

 clean and in cold weather filled with warm 

 water several times during the day. 



You should keep your dusting box in the 

 scratching shed and not in the roosting house. 

 The dust will settle more quickly in the shed. 

 Fine road dust is the best for the poultry 

 house and it must be fine enough so that any 

 insects on the fowls will be smothered. 



Now is a good time to study up on the in- 

 cubator question. Incubators pay well to those 

 who know how to handle them properly, and 

 any person who will give sufficient time and 

 study can learn. 



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Feed and care are the two essentials to the 

 successful handling of poultry in the winter. 

 When looking after your fowls this is a good 

 thing to remember. 



Hen manure is one of the best of fertilizers 

 for berries. An analysis shows that poultry 

 manure contains 2.43 per cent phosphoric acid, 

 2.20 per cent potash and 3.85 per cent nitro- 

 gen as ammonia and organic matter. 



0. A. C. Horticultural Notes 



Although yellow Newtowns and Spitz- 

 enbergs seem to bear on alternate years, 

 proper fertilization with tillage, irri- 

 gation and pruning, produced three suc- 

 cessive crops in orchards used in 

 farmer-O. A. C. cooperative trials. Con- 

 tinuation of these favorable conditions 

 may bring these varieties into the an- 

 nual bearing class, the college horticul- 

 turists hope. 



Nicotine sulphate is a powerful pepel- 

 lant for tent caterpillars, but if they do 

 eat foliage sprayed with it they are 

 killed almost instantly. With soap 

 added the nicotine solution is an almost 

 perfect codling moth egg destroyer. 



Not all the arsenate eaten by cater- 

 pillars feeding on sprayed foliage is 

 assimilated, but part passes through the 

 digestive tracts. Less is lost this way 

 when the acid lead arsenate is used. 



Peach growers bothered with peach 

 leaf curl can get rid of it by spraying 

 with bordeaux mixture 6-6-50. The 

 spray is best applied between now and 

 February 1. The trees must be sprayed 

 thoroughly to obtain best results. 



Notwithstanding the advance in the 

 price of nursery products it is profitable 

 to plant fruit. Pears, cherries, berries 

 and nuts are looked upon as some of the 

 most promising varieties to plant. 



The demand for the gooseberry is in- 

 creasing. With the selection of the 

 right variety according to the section of 

 the country they are to be planted in, 

 gooseberries pay well and commence 

 to yield at an early age. 



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