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farm equipment at W. Arthur Kite’s farm in Culpeper today. Invitation from Marvin Bates, county agent, is extended to all those interested from Rappahannock County. The program gets underway at 10 a.m. Free lunch wfll be served.
With changeable weather at hand and most pullets being in full production it may prove worthwhile to <heck on conditions in the laying house and your flock ration. Keep the litter as dry as possible, prevent draughts, check for lice and keep the body weight up, check the weight of several pullets weekly, keep scales liandy to the laying flock; such is just as much of a must to the poultryman as it is to the cattleman. Keep mash, grit and oyster shells before the flock at all times and abundance of good grain ration is necessary to maintain body weight and thereby have insurance Against many of the diseases that will knock production cockeyed. A mixture of 40 pounds of corn, 40 pounds wheat and 20 lbs oats is satisfactory. Feed 121 to 15 lbs per 100 hens per day in addition to the mash; or a couple to three quarts per 100 in the morning and all they will eat for an hour before going to roost. One grower reported 60% reducton in eggs in a weeks time as result of colds. In this particular case his egg receipts arc about $3 per day less. Don’t let this happen to you.
Rappahannock Day on WCVA is now every Tuesday, 12:00 noon 'til 12:15 pm.
Copies of the new bulletin “Fertilizer Recommendations For Virginia" are now available at the office. Let me know if you’d like one.,
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