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Thursday, September 8, 1932
THE PADUCAH POST
OPEN SEASON NOW
FOR WAR ON PESTS
Get Rid of Mites and Collect
More Eggs.
By r F PARRISH. Extension Poultry-
man. North Carolina State Colli rc.
WNU Service.
During the rush season. owners
of farm flocks of poultry forget the
birtls nntl as a result mites ami lice
(jet to work with' a resulting tie-
crease in the number of eggs laid,
anil tile elTnrt of the chickens to
roost on a tree limb rather than in
the poultry house.
This Is the season when (lie an-
nual war begins between mites on
the one hand and eggs on the other.
Poultrymen net ns spectators hut
pay a stiff admission price to wit-
ness tile battle. Neglect of the flocks
at this time invites enemies of good
poultry husbandry to get busy, and
chief among these is the well-known
mite. The Insect infests poultry
houses, usually hiding away under
the perches during the day hut
preying upon the birds at night,
sucking their blood, lowering their
vitality and thereby decreasing egg
production.
Mere are some of the ways In
which mites may he eradicated.
First, do not nail down the roost
poles f.ast to the supports. If they
are nailed, knock them loose. Then
spray the roosts, and the whole
house. If needed, with old burnt cyl-
inder oil mixed with ctpial parts of
kerosene.
Second, paint or spray the roost
with carholineutn, as recommended
In Farmers' Bulletin SOI of the
1'nited States Department of Agri-
culture. Past history shows that
miti*s have won every war in which
they have engaged unless outside
aid Is given, and now that every
source of farm Income Is needed by
the owner, time should he given to
eradicate poultry parasites to the
extent that the birds may give their
highest production.
Hatcherv Pest Method
of Maintaining Floclt
There are three principal ways by
which poultry flocks are maintained
from year to year. These are: the
sitting hen. the farm Incubator, and
the hatchery: and the most satisfac-
tory source of chick supply is the
hatchery, because of the fact that
the whole problem of brooding,
rearing and production, being on a
highly uniform basis. Is simplified.
A farmer Is not really in the poul-
try business until he has at least
100 laying pullets. A flock of at least
this size makes It possible for him.
particularly If located near a large
market, to sell his eggs direct to
the retailer, getting the benefit of
higher prices than are possible when
eggs are sold through the usual
trade channels.
To ensure a pullet flock of 100
birds in the fall it is necessary to
start with around 250 chicks. Where
chicks are purchased from the
hreeder hatchery or the commercial
hatchery any desired number can
he stnrted at a given time, and the
problem of management, brooding,
rearing nnd feeding is simplified.
What is more important, the pul-
lets In the flock mature at the same
age and go into the laying house In
a condition suited to high produc-
tion.
Poultry Hints
Poultry and eggs possessing a
Standard type are meeting with in-
creased demands on the consuming
market.
• • «
Prevention Is the safe way to
raise turkeys. Keep the old birds
away from the young. Match eggs
In an Incubator.
• • •
The demand for young pullets Is
Increasing every year and the trade
In them can he made highly protit-
table to the producer.
• * *
If eggs are gathered three times
a day. there will be fewer broken
nnd soiled ones, nnd the eggs will
retain their fine nunllty longer.
• • •
While there nre records of pullets
which laid eggs earlier, the time
when thev should hegln to lay Is
between the ages of five and six
months.
• • •
Resistance to disease can be In-
creased hv hreedlng from strong un-
related birds nnd by the use of i
good feeds and good feeding
methods.
» • •
Provide roosts for the young
growing birds. When these nre
nvnflnhle they will not pile up at
night and smother In the hot cor-
ners of the brooder houses.
• • •
There Is no profit In feeding hens
which do not lay, and this Is the
season when many decided to go on
vacation. I-earn 'to pick out the
slackers and sell them for meat.
• • •
Providing plenty of shnde for the
yards la on* way of protecting the
flock from the hot weather. If there
Is not sufficient natural ahado. arti-
ficial shelter can easily bo provided
with boards, canvas, or brush.
Crops Cost Least
on Manured Land
Intelligent Soil Treatment
Results in Profit for
Farmer.
r
By F. TT. CRANK. College of Agriculture.
University of Illinois. — W NU Service.
Pointing the way to wider margins
of profit for the fanner, results from
50 out of *20 Illinois soil experiment
fields show that crops have been
grown at the lowest cost under a sys-
tem of soil treatment which included
manure. On 10 of these 11) fields ma-
nure and limestone have been the most
profitable soil treatment.
Manure ranks as the best general-
purpose fertilizer. 'Hie manure from
one horse or cow during a year con-
tains as much nitrogen as a half ton
or more of nitrate of soda, as much
’phosphate as 125 pounds of super-
phosphate, and as much potash as 200
pounds of muriate of potash.
Results for the past 20 years, not
only from Illinois hut also from Ohio.
Pennsylvania and elsewhere, agree re-
markably well in establishing a figure
of $2 to $.3 a ton as a reasonable ami
conservative value for a ton of uia
nil re. These values are based on its
performance in Improving crop yields.
Taking tlie Illinois experiment fields
as a whole, manure has increased
wheat yields three and a half bushels
an acre, corn yields ten bushels an
acre, oats yields seven bushels an
acre and hay yields one-lhird of a ton
an acre.
Manure is an effective fertilizer on
dark-colored soils as well as on light-
colored ones, and Is especially so on
sand and alkali soils. On the Aledo,
Hartshurg, LaMoille and Minonk
fields, representing highly productive
dark-colored soils, manure last yea?
was worth $1.50 a ton as a yield im
prover. On medium productive soils
it was worth 82.-1* a ton. It had value
of 8f.40 a ton on the badly eroded hill
land of southern Illinois and a value
of more than 8(1 a ton on sand land,
such as is represented#by the Oquawka
field.
Expenses of Cow Testing
Really an Investment
I Some formers feel that joining a
(row-testing association would only be
an additional expense—an expense
and not an investment, us it should
be regarded.
Any business man would be willing
to increase his Investment if It would
Increase bis net returns materially.
Your cow-testing association can hard-
ly Increase your cream prices, bit In
many rases it can cut down on your
costs of production so that your net
returns will be greater. Can you pro
dace Imtterfnt at a cost of 11.4 cents
per pound? One dairyman in the Boca
hontns (Iowa) Cow Testing assocla
tion did and others in the associa-
tion aren't far behind itj their costs
of production. The average of the en
tire association was four and a half
cents below the average price received
for their butte-fat. These dairymen's
herds still are on the “good side” of
j the ledger.—Kenneth Littlefield, In an
Iowa testing report in Hoard's Dairy-
man.
Care of Sows’ Udders
Failure to wash the udders of sows.
An important part of the swine sani-
tation plan, resulted in the loss of 100
I pigs on a Whiteside county (Illinois)
farm, reports Farm Adviser Shuman.
The farrowing houses and pens hud
been thoroughly deuned and scrubbed
with boiling lye water. However,
when the pigs came they lived about,
; 72 hours and then died. Kxauilnatlon
\ failed to reveal the cause, but at the
| suggestion of Mr. Robert Graham, Uni-
i versify of Illinois, and State Veterl-
! nnrian W. II. Welch, the udders of
1 the sows that had not yet farrowed
were washed with soap and water and
then painted with Iodine. The pigs
they farrowed have been successfully
saved. The swine sanitation plan,
when completely carried out, Is a rem-
edy for a large number of diseases.—
Prairie Farmer.
Soybeans Helpful
At the Michigan experimental sta-
tion it has been found that cull beans,
when valued from one hnlf to two-
thirds of that of grain nnd the cost of
cooking does not exceed one-quarter
of their cost, produced pork, Just as
cheaply ns did corn and tankage. The
nutlike flavor developed in cooked soy-
beans also stimulates the porcine ap-
petite, leading to faster growth and
cheaper gains. At the Ohio station it
was found that cooking this crop re-
sulted In a saving of 115.7 pounds of
feed for each 100 pounds of gain and
after 30 weeks of feeding, pigs that
reeclved raw beans averaged 1*)8
pounds in weight as contrasted with
an average of 247 pounds for those re-
ceiving the conked beans but limited to
the same amount of totnl feed as the
raw bean group.
Potato Yield Doubled
Yields of late potatoes were In-
treased 102 per cent In Cook county,
111., by five applications of bordeaux
mixture. This treatment Increased yield
of No. 1 potatoes In the early crop 27 per
cent and the total yield 56 per cent.
The season was dry and foliage diseases
gave little trouble. Moat of the bene-
fit was from control of leaf hopitera.
The teats were supervised by special-
ists for the Illinois experiment station,
according to an article in Cappers
farmer.
<John Marshall
Theodosia
Burr
Thomas Jefferson
John
Randolph
Hog1 Cholera Hazard
to Be Kept in Mind
Preventive Treatment Only
Safe Precaution.
The germs u liich cause hog chol-
era pay no attention to economic con-
ditions. They will kill hogs during a
depression just as quickly as during
more prosperous limes, says a writer
in Hoards Dairyman.
He fore hog cholera serum and virus :
were available for protecting pigs i
against this disease, one could, in the
fall of the year, count the farms in
a given community on which the dis-
ease was raging, hy the smoke from
fires burning dead hogs. Uarmers
were helpless. They might just as
well have tried to stop a cyclone. The
discovery of hog cholera serum virus
made it possible to stop most, if riot
all. of this enormous loss. The pre-
ventive treatment is no good in a bot-
tle; it must he properly injected into
the animals for whose benefit it was
made available.
Tiie important question for each
swine producer, who lias not already
Immunized his pigs, to decide is i
whether he can afford to take the risk
of losing his hogs. In these times,
notwithstanding tlie price of pork,
farmers can ill afford to h*se their
hogs alter they are nearly ready for
market. Uarmers should keep close
watch of their hogs. All farmers in
a given neighborhood should know im-
mediately when and if there is an out-
break of cholera in the neighborhood
The Trial of
Zealand there nre already 3,000 farm
ers—expert graziers all of them—who
nre applying nitrogen
fertilizers to their grass land.
Hay Cures by Burning
Curing hay In sweat stacks by let
ting It heat is really burning part of
the hay to make heat to dry the rest,
the United States Department of Agri
culture says.
When the hay heats in the sweat
stacks a type of combustion takes
place, although there is no actual
name. This method, used where there
is so much rainfall there is little
chance to sun-cure the hay, produces
what Is known as “brown hay.” A1
though it may he relished by live
stock, hay cured tills way is Inferior
to properly made sun-cured hay. as
the heating produces a degree of de
terloration, the department says.
Agricultural Notes
Remember, Hies will breed anywhere
in filth.
• * •
One Important phase of a county's
agricultural extension service is to
teach the more successful farm metli
ods.
• * *
Ten and six-tenths per cent of the
New York state farms grow dry beans.
Iteana represent one and eight tenths
the state.
* » •
Losses of both life nnd property
from fires on farms and III rural com
munlttes lire Increasing.
Aaron Burr
i ^vuriroom oesne nz joo
ns ( FROM THE PAINTING fey CW JEffERYS
in "THE PAGEANT of AMERICA”
Courtesy vale university press)
Aaron
Burr
Grass Land Made More
Valuable by Fertilizer
A book by Sir Fr**«K*ri<k di-
rector of research for the Imperial
Chemical Industries Lid., gives some
of the remarkable results obtained by
the application of fertilizers to pas
tures. English farmers are endeav-
oring to improve their luxuriant pas-
tures hy getting earlier and more eon
tinuous growth. Uesults of 4!*2 trials
made in England are reviewed by Sir
Frederick. On PI per cent of the
farms the grass was ready from 1 1
to 2.8 days earlier on plots treated with
nitroehalk at the rate of 145 pounds to
trie acre, it is (minted out that then*
is a considerable gain when live stock
can be turned out a fortnight earlier
and the cost of expensive concentrated
feeds saved.
It is shown by charts that while
grass land is under present conditions
the Inferior of arable land as a pro-
ducer of food, it is possible hy supply- "ii trial for his lit - and the charge against him
ing nitrogen and mineral food to more v';-s that ot coiaiuittiiig a crime which was a
than double the quantities of crude tflreat to the saleiy of not just one person or a
protein, nearly treble the digestible group of persons hut to the safety of the whole
protein, nnd about a third more total nation, the crime ot high treason,
food measured as starch, than are AltM-.iurh Burr was acquitted by what was
contained in the oat crop. In New substantially a Scotch verdict of "not proven,
my lord," and historians are still doubtful as to
whether or not the famous “Burr Conspiracy”
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Ml I i UN DU ED AND TWENTY-
fi\* \ears ago the eyes of the whole
nation were turned toward Kich-
moud. Va.. for there was taking
place one of the most dramatic
event.*? m American history—what
has lu'i’ii called “the greatest crim-
inal niai in American history and
oi;c of the notable trials in the an-
nals of the law.” No less a person
than Aaron Burr, hut. lately Vice
I To- ’lent of the United States, was
ami phosphatir was actually a treasonable scheme, the name of
Aaron Burr has come down in popular belief
among our “galaxy of scoundrels” second only
to Benedict Arnold. Whether or not he has been
Soybeans for Hay assigned such a place justly or unjustly is a
If you are going to he short of hay, matter over which again historians disagree,
seed soybeans broadcast and cultivate Id the I're-ddential election of 1800 Burr and
them with a harrow or rotary hoe lhomas .lefierson, the Democratic-Bepublican
until they get a good start and ahead candidates, each received 73 electoral votes, a
of the weeds. The soybeans will yield tie which threw the election into the house of
a heavy tonnage of high-quality feed, representatives, which was strongly Federalist,
lust about equal to alfalfa In feed After balloting for a week, ten votes were cast
ing value. With seed cheaper this tor .lefierson and lour tor Burr, and under the
vear than ever before, a small field Constitution as it stood then this made Jeffer-
of beans will not he a heavy invest s,,n President and Burr. Vice President. I le-
nient and the return will he as great cause of political Jobbery with the Federalists,
as from any crop on the farm. The I I»urr lost whatever regard the leaders among
soys should be put in about corn- the new party held for him. lhen he became
planting time, but If necessary can involved in a bitter struggle for supremacy In
wait until the corn Is out of the way. New York politics and because of the antagon-
Soybean hay will stand n lot of i*m of Jefferson all the patronage was thrown
abuse at harvest time, and though if ; lo Edits rivals, the (lintons and the Living-
stands in cocks for a long time, will I stuns. Accordingly he accepted Federalist sup-
come out all right so far as feeding U^rt in the gubernatorial race of 1804. an alli-
value is concerned.—Prairie Farmer ! ance which was fought bitterly by Alexander
Hamilton. The result was the defeat of Burr,
who held Hamilton chiefly responsible for his
humiliation. Then followed the famous Burr-
Hniullton duel in which Burr's pistols ended the
great career of Washington's secretary of the
treasury and made Burr a political and social
pariah.
Discredited in the Fast where he had been
a leader. Burr turned to the West to recoup
his fortunes, hoping to capitalize on the unrest
among the Westerners where talk of disunion
was rife, crossing the Alleghenies he arrived
at I'.lennerhussett's island in the Ohio river
where lived Harman Bleunerhassett, a wealthy
Irishman, wlm had settled there in 17118. To
Blennerhassell Burr proposed a wild scheme of
raising an ........ force in the Old Southwest,
driving the Spaniards out of Mexico and estab-
lishing a great southern confederacy composed
of these conquered Mexican possessions and
the American territory west of the Alleghenies
where the sentiment for disunion seemed so
strong.
Bleunerhassett was enough Impressed hy
Burr's scheme to mortgage his vast possessions
to furnish the necessary money. They also
hoped to gain the aid of Great Britain in car-
rying o^t their scheme and. further to insure
lio- success of the plan. Burr won the support
of Ccncral Wilkinson, then governor of Lotiisl-
ana territory, commander of the United States
armv and "as two-faced a villain ns ever served
Hie United States government.”
Throughout istia and INiKi Burr developed his
per cent or the total crop values of plot which hccamc well known throughout the
West. The federal authorities, however, seem
lo have heen strangely blind to what was tak-
ng place until at last Wilkinson betrayed the
scheme to .IcITcrson who on November 27, 180.1.
issued a l‘residential proclamation cnlling for
n,.r,.si of all those Involved. Wilkinson nnd
,lj(. ,,iii,.rs. to save their own skins, deserted
"arr and. in the modern parlance, he was made
■ lie L'eat of the whole affair. Attempting to flee.
Barr v:d arro led In Alabama nnd brought
a,,, I, to Virginia for trial on the charge of trea
Richmond. John Marshall, chief Justice of the I nornnssetUs Island could not he regarded a?
Supreme court of the United States presided Ids act, even granting that he had advised if,
over the trial. Luther Martin and Kilmund Ban-1 for, said they, advising war is one thing but
dolph were counsel for the accused and William levying it is quite another If this interpretation
Wirt was counsel for the government. The was correct, then no overt act of levying war,
foreman of the grand jury which brought the either within the jurisdiction of the court oi
Indictment against Burr was the waspish but stated in the indictment, had been or could be
brilliant John Itamlolph of Itoanoke. And not shown against Burr.
the least of the great figures In this case was Next Chief Justice Marshall handed down an
Burr's charming daughter, Theodosia, of tragic | opinion accepting virtually the contention of
fame later. Burr's attrne.vs and when the prosecution was
Although Aaron Burr was upon trial on the unable to produce two witnesses who had actual-
most serious charge which can he placed against ! I.V seen -Barr procure the assemblage on the is-
the citizen of a country, in reality he was i'ttlc hind, it allowed the case to go to the jury,
more than a pawn ill what was at the trine Shortly Ihereatter the following verdict was
regarded ns a test of strength between the Up- j returned: “We of the jury say that Aaron Burt
publican President Jefferson and the Federalist I'* Prt'v<’11 10 ll(* Ptdlt.v under this indictment
filler Justice Marshall. The trial lasted from ! evidence submitted to us. We therefore
March 27 to September 7. 1807. and the full Hud him not guilty." At the order of 111" chief
story of the legal maneuvers executed hy the justice this Scotch verdict was entered on the
two clashing forces would require a hook for records of the court as a simple not guilty.
The results of tests show that the
first 400 pounds of fertilizer produced
an Increuse In yield of almost one
pound of seed cotton for each pound of
fertilizer used.
Better fertilisers are obtained when
doloniltlc limestone Is used as tiller
rather than aome Inert substance like
■and, say North Carolina farmers who
have civen such fertilizers a trial.
His case was tried in the United States dr-
•tiit .-••■iii sitting at Richmond anil never, per-
n, American history has there been gath
red ton ther In n courtroom such s galaxy of
,guides a assembled in thut little room In
Acquitted. Burr became an exile and an out-
cast. The man who came within one vote of he
ing President of the United States wandered
borrowing small
amounts, attempting dubious promotions, urg-
ing (lie French to seize Louisiana in 1810, anil
finally returning to his own land with a false
...... ..... --I ,vij, niul whiskers. Shortly after his arrival lie
encountered the breaking of the one tie that
held him to the earth when Ills beloved Theo-
dosia, who had stood ley him when the whole
world seemed to have turned against him took
ship from the South to meet him in New York.
The ship on which she sailed never reached
port and what her fate was is to this day an
unsolved mystery. One of the most tragic pic-
tures in all American history is that of the
broken, disgraced Aaron Burr, a devoted fa-
ther whatever else he may have heen, going
down to the battery every day for years, search-
ing the horizon for the sail of a. ship which
never came—the ship bringing hpek to him his
long lost daughter. And then as a final touch
to hii Ill-fated career was his unfortunate mar-
riage to the famous Madame Jumet who divorced
him ou the day he died.
i® by Western Newspaper Onion 1
the telling.
Under the Constitution, treason against the
United States consists “only in lowing war ... ...
against them, or in adhering to their enemies. ............. .................
giving them nid and comfort," and no person
may be convicted of It “unless on the testimony
of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on
confession In open court
case against Burr was whether or not on a oer
tain date (December 10. 1SiK!) Burr had actual
ly “levied war against the United States" hy
assembling an armed force on Blennerhassett's
Island and on the day following had set in mo-
tion this same armed force In an expedition
against the City of New Orleans.
The proseeutlqp produced a scries of wit-
nesses, mainly servants of Bleunerhassett. to
prove this point. Then It announced Its Inten-
tion of Introducing evidence to show Burr's
connection with the assemblage on the Island,
whereupon the defense sprang a surprise whlctr
turned the tide in Burr's favor. Developing the
fact that on the night of December 10 Barr had
not lteen present at the Island, hut had heen 200
miles away In Kentucky, they contended that
under the Constitution the assemblage on Blen-
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