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rovement In Nation’s Poultry Industry Is Forecasted

Authority Answers Berry Questions lUpba of E. W. Towosend of Md. to N. J. Grower*

Black, of Bridgeton, aak* uoesilon why the G»Ddy Mtrawbcrrr will not produce u well now as H did twenty years

Answer—The Oaady will pr quarts of be as It did whi

Taylor Talks To Poultry Associationi Emphasizes Importance of ◦eaniineu—Outlines Important Point*

C P. A. Elect* Officer*

leTt to thamssleM will In production of fruit It Is only by constant selection of the breeding plants, can any rariety be kept up to si ' Am eery sorry to aay that the a rerage strawberry grower, as well as the average plant grower, falls to make proper selectlo propagating stock plant*

better craps thaa when

originated. This Is done by selecting only the largest crown

Over forty Cape May County poul-

auapiees of the Poultry Association and the Poultry Project Committee of the Board of AgriThe program consisted of the election of officers to serve the County Poultry Association during lt». and a talk on sanitation h> J. C. Taylor. Estensloc Specialist In Poultry. The following men wet

Amendment To Hottest Pack Bill Displeasing Now Rexb Th*l Top of P-lase Noe* Be Bui 90 Per Cent. Representative of Whole—Farm Bureau and Grange Declare Single Tax BUI Unconrtitutkmal

trend la tractor farming. In the counties of Burlington. Camoetu Gloucester. Salem. Cumberland.' Cape May and Atlantic, last year this firm placed M f s. During U» first ten u __ this year they have already booked orders for 45 tractor*. '*

which are for '

Tractor Sales The Legislature U apparently trying to make the farmer the Joker at this session from the way It treated the Honest Pack BUI." when It was brought to the Boor of the Assembly for a vote.

Senatol Arthur Capper -bo hat Just Introduced a bill which furnishes what he calls a -practical

agriculture." It asks for Federal aW to extend the agricultural education of boys and girls oo the farms.

Crotter. Dennlsrille-.

_ _ . . Harry Shall. Cape . . selection Is followed year, May Court House; rice president, after year any rariety can be im- John N. R ine. secretary; D. C. proved as to prod action On the Tudor, treasurer, other band If plants for breeding | j„ his talk on sanitation. Hr. stock are taken from the middles Taylor, stated that the New Jer-

He said tbi' since there are no laws for cleanliness In poultry plants as there are tor cleanliness

In dairies, poultrymen do not know what a dean poultry plant Is. and

this

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botoreth* heavy laying f Vmotth is to be avoided taSury K^Ucc, rccotn-

* 'T the -vage War onl

- *“- aae" caunpalgo 1 by the pou!i In rvaiing W* 19** crop

Fuel Economizers Appear On Market

Deugned To Make Any Hatting System Efficient

soil should never produce under 5000 quarts an average year. If Mr. Black la not getting at least 5000 quarts per acre there is romethlng wrong with his piant-

s stock.

Mr. Berrcll. «f Cape May Court House wants to know If there la anything to the Mastodon, overbearing strawberry. And In what way It is an improvement over the Progressive and Superb? Answer—There Is rosily someilng to the Mastodon strawberry. It Is ss much Improvement

trytnan to be successful with c

over the Mitchells early. In Mastodon compares favorably with the very Urgent standard strawberries such ss Chesapeake. Lupton. Big Joe. etc. Mastodon. Is a strong hardy grower making very Urge healthy plants. The pUnto are stron i.^dgh that they may be allowed to fruit the first season after cutting blosson.r off only once, same as with stanUrd varieties. They continue to fruit from July 15 In New Jersey lion until November, the firvt year plants are set Size of fruit holds up in site the season through last picking being as Urge

larger than the first

The following pring Mastodon,

produces at fine a crop as any of •he standard varieties, and fruit equal to the beet I repeat that their It really something to Mastodon. and that In my opinion It

Is the be«t money maker list today. I want to sU

that you will Bud Mastodon much more profiUble If It U grown ■-

hill system. Plants may be

in rows three and a half feet apart and plants set 24 Inches

apart and use a circle runner

ter to keep off surplus plants, or belter sUll tor a larger field to

in check rows three feet

way and cultivate each way, using the runner cutter Just the same. In this circle around, the hill will be left from six to eight plants. These form In a solid

bunch. Removing the surpli

ner plants, with the cutter, leaves a space all around this clump to gel plenty air. The roots of the clump get all the moisture, where If grown In matted rows the surplus plants get their part and many of the surplus pUnts are only drones I picked severs I limes last fall a piling pint basket of berries from a single hill at one Cme. I am sure New Jersey growers will make no mistake

growing Mastodon.

fact

sanitation

prise the way to uefnat d It makes not so much difference what system of re-.rtng chicks Is

' labor must be — In cleaning up labor will be the be*

money on the budget. Mr. Taylor spoke of H. C. Hlxon. of Spart*. N. J_ as having a clean sanitary poultry farm. “Mr. Hlxon." 1h said, “1* not worried about pool try disease*. HI* business runs

no risks In that direction."

Mr. Taylor enlarged on seven points which the Extension Service Is stressing In It* Sanitation Drive or 1U “War on Worms and Disease." Under the first point of “Hatch or Buy Chicks Early." he said that the most important point, other than hatching birds

before May 15. — * “

crop In the bottom of the bosket. It off with the finest that he found and still It has the O K of the New Jersey DegUUthat It la an honest packed

Point four arc

Yot-ng Stock Separ-:.' the old birds will Infect the young five was to keep the dropptngi in a screened the farms where < - more birds are kept On the ■mailer farm* the droppings should be spread on the land dally, according to Mr Taylor, avoiding spreading where poultry win i

In gening the bill before the seembly. It was a ■*-* * m that the top of the be M per cent representative of the entire contents- Under agee the farmer to hide the inferior and little potatoes In the bottom of the basket and to pass It on to the consumer as a pack that has tbs backing of the State Department of Agriculture ss an booest pack. In the opinion of farm leader* who backed the bill. It protects the dishonest pecked octal ner and createe a condition hat encourages the putting up of jroiuce with more culls and Inferior produce than has been put up la the past and the public already knows what to expect when It buys a basket of New Jersey fruit* or vegetables.

Single Tax BUI

I<- the stogie tsx Mil now before the Legislature becomes s

further taxes

need be cleaned out often. Potnl six “Wire Dt

Board* ' is dangerous advice according to Mr. Taylor. Too many, who have wired to keep the bird* away rora the dropping*, neglect to clean often, causing dampness as well as allowing fly larvae to hatch. Bo point seven followed to "Clean Dropping

„ llu . Boards Dally. Whether Wired or rss sslvstj: rrr.7

law. there will be

on personal property. Under the terms of the bill, all personal property. Including automobth

Counties

it i der the bill that radical change* in our taxauoa system are tw sary to correct existing evils thev plan to place all of the burden on the land This Ml! i. being fought by the Farm Bureau and the Stale Grange a* unconstitutional and equally as dlstasteit aa the personal property exoption on automobiles that fa

jw In force.

Baylsg Rare Traetsr* Tractor sales me on the In rea^e In South Jersey The farmer* are apparently planning to use tractor* to save o* labor more this season than In the past. In sn Interview with the field BABY CHICKS HATCHIXG EGGS CUSTOM HATCHOTO W. E. MOUNTENEY East Are., at Wheat Soau Vineland. M. J. Custom Hatching Opening our ISth Besson. Now booking apace. Reserve

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KAETDI LALLY E. Sherman Ave.. 8. Vineland (Phone «l-R-5. Vineland)

} c/ Success ' ‘f^Chick*

owner's labor could handle the whole plant to a sanitary f*s v ‘~- Nineteen Cape May Ci poultrymen enlisted In the tension Service War on Worms

d Xb^re bT^rSl* - ^' tor a IVnnUvHle poullryrblch have been culleu aoo i* i lor hu dean dropping

and cement, but also that the inter should be changed every five days after the birds are pul In and the floor carefully swept and new litter put down Some of the audience objected to the cost of such frequent replacement* of litter. a* well as i rotesting at the labor used, but M Taylor, speaking from the standpoint of cheapness in producing flock* of healhty birds, held to his ground that money for litter and labor In this direction was practical, necessary and not excessive. He rather approved Utters of bated shavings white chicks were >

straw or hay. Pest

doubtedly warm and absorptive under the little chicks, but poultrymeu are prone to leave It down

It ■ _ week to tbe brooder bouse, in his OP Under the third point of “Provide Clean Range or Cioae Confinement." Mr. Taylor only advocated the latter where the former was Impossible of attain men'. He said. "Don't raise birds in confinement until forced to do it You must be * very clever poulLARGEST SUPPLY OF Farm Machinery and

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planning on brooding thirty thousand chicks. They will receive aid from the Extension Service and in return will report mortality of chicks. A public meeting next fall will summariie the result* of the campaign. That future meeting will be awaited with Interest by the poultrymen.

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Sunldst Farm Hatchery CUSTOM HATCHING Baby Chicks. Leghorns from C. W. Brown’s Prise Cockerels. y-i" Road. opp. Elmer Road Vineland. B. J.

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SEEDS Now Booking Order* For ONION SETS Harry Solof, Inc. Farmer*' Supplies. Fred*. Coal. Fertilizer and Lime 19-21 E. Main Street Millville, N. J. Phone :!I6 Headquarter* For Everything on the Farm

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