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The Farmer's Wife , March, 1920
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BARNUM PUT ITSELF ON THE MAP
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ized a co-operative association in order
that they , could buy their feed by the
carloads, arid realize quite a saving.
Let us see what some of the individual
poultry women are doing in this community.
Mrs. A. Nasenius, has a flock of White
Leghorns, numbering about 100 hens.
Mrs. Nasenius gives them good care. She
does her hatching by incubator and the
young chicks are reared in brooder houses.
She believes in hatching early so that the
pullets will begin laying in the fall, hence
insuring early winter egg production.
For the twelve months ending Octoberl,
she sold 19,346 eggs from her flock of 100
hens, the total receipts for these being
$734.80. During the year she has purchased
feed amounting to $214.70, leaving
a net profit of $520.20. Her average egg
production was 193 eggs per hen.
Mrs. J. P. Peterson has a flock of about
200 hens. For the year ending last September
1, her receipts were $1,122.19.
Of this $495.68 was spent for feed, leaving
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Sick Baby Chicks?
There is only one way to deal with baby chicks
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or more chicks Is mighty discouraging work.
It's pure carelessness to lose more than 10i per
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lose 40 per cent to 60 per cent, and even more. No
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spelled success for Barnum in poultry'
raising.
your dealer today..
\Conkeys\
her a profit of $626.51. In April her egg
\, ^Original ^ ' Think this over ; do not merely admire Black Silk Stove Poli.h Works, Sterliig, III.
J^ checks amounted to $155.76, in May to Barnum, but begin today—now, to plan
$146.22. Her total income came almost a bigger flock of poultry next year and
entirely from the sale of market eggs. then find your Mr. Hanson; and remember
Fred Bauer lives in the village and has a that this is not a new theme but an old one
poultry farm composed of two building worked out on a new scale.
lots. In April 1918, he bought 600 baby
She. ^oVes^^k
chicks for $75. From this flock, having
raised nearly all of them, he sold $500.40
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worth of stock and $1,443.13 worth of
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eggs. Total receipts stock and eggs, ly, smoothe it, sprinkle on, the seed as
being $1,933.53. During the year he purchased
all of his feed, which amounted to soil with the hand or a board, and sift a
thickly as you want them, press into the
¦She loves Sl^rpard'a "Famous" Anconaa became of
¦their beauty, vitality and ability. They're heavy $861.64. This left him a profit of $996.89 thin layer of sand, or soil over them. They
¦winter layers of lane white eiwa—and the cheapest
M btida tofoed.
for the year ending April 1, 1919. His should be thoroughly watered and kept
m Ideal Farm Birds average production per hen was 155 eggs.
^ because Mir layers. They thrive and shell out the
damp till they germinate. A piece of- burlap
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Mr. Hanson now ships all the eggs produced
in and around Barnum; his records the moisture but it must be removed as
Jingle Cash in the Egg Fund Purse
%/coal or wood. Cooks and oakes better
Also, they're tbo world's eteaoJeat winneis of tor>
ootcb prizes, having captured more firats and seconds
,Ay than coal or wood fn the eame stove.
than combined competitors for twelve consecutive show the names of 350 farmers or poultry-
soon as the seeds germinate or they will die.
men as compared to 30 in 1908. Now
how has this all been brought about?
There is but one answer—education.
So great had become the interest in poultry
•in that section that on September 6,1915,
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at a meeting at Barnum , the entire community
voluntarily voted to place its poultry
work under the direction of T. F..
Chapman, poultry specialist at the Minnesota
Experiment Station. They agreed
to follow suggestions offered by Mr. Chapman,
and Mr. Chapman was anxious tn
co-operate in proving what can l)e done
with poultry; not alone for the town of
Barmim but for the country at large.
Mr. Chapman frequently sends poultry
specialists into the community to advise
with the farmers, to help them with their
records and to aid them in meeting any
problems which might arise.
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Mr. Chapman advises units of 100 hens.
It has been proven that in order to be sure
of 100 strong health y pullets 400 eggs is
the necessary number to incubate. Consequently
the 390 egg incubator has. been
adopted by nearly everyone in the community
as being the one most fitted to
their immediate needs. Brooders arc
used in rearing most of the hatches and
colony houses for the young stock are in
general use. Culling is rel igiously practiced.
This community has no sym pathy
for the lazv hen.
There is still another to thank for his
contribution (o the success of poultry
raisins in this ccnimiinitv. He is Hugo
Anderson. This winter Mr. Anderson
has a flock of 4,000 purebred White Leghorns
and for several years has sold baby
chicks to the surrounding district. He
has incubator capacity for 14,000 eggs
and during the year 1919 he sold 50,000
baby chicks—nine-tenths of them in the
Barnum community. Mr. Anderson has
all modern buildings on his farm and many
of them are used as model poultry houses
for that conimunity.
So we have four factors contributing to
the development of the poultry' industry
around Barnum. First there was Mr.
Hanson who came forward with the marketing
scheme, which practically built
Lawn Seeding. There is not much danger
of frost interferring with the growth of
grass. Lawn seed should be sown as soon
as the frost is cut of the ground. Blue
grass requires several -weeks to develop,
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and unless!it is sown early it will lose the
advantage of the spring rains. If you miss
the early rains, it is very often better to
wait for.another rainy season later in the
season than to try to seed in the drouth
period which so often follows the spring
rains.
To develop the besf lawn , one with a'
soft, springy turf which will resist drouth
and stay green in the heat of the summer,
only land on which a cultivated crop has
been grown for one or two years should be
used. The next best thing is land which
was plowed or spaded deep in the fall , left
rough over winter and raked smooth in the
spring. If greater speed than this is desirable,
the ground may be worked deep
in the spring and seeded at once. This
does not make as good a lawn, but the
grass will grow and may do fairly well if
the summers are not too dry. Two or
three inches of black topsoil is a big help
but not always essential. Some fairly
good lawns have been made on sand or red
soil without black dirt or previous cultivation
but it is an emergency makeshift
and not a good practice to follow.
Do not walk or drive across your lawn,
either new or old , when it is just thawing
out in the spring. Rough tracks and ruts
made at this time are verv hard to get out.
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