TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIVE HEALTH
DEPARTMENT HERE
S. F. Clements from the Territor
ial Deportment of Health at Juneau
has just spont a few days in the
Valley, surveying the sanitation
condition in regard to milk and
foods sold, also sewage disposal
on the farms. Mr. Clements advis
es us that his department in Ju
neau will be more than willing to
cooperate with the people of the
Valley and furnish tested plans
for sewage disposal, and other
valuable information for our bene
fit,
Mr..Clements also advises us that
it is quite possible to groutly
improve sanitation conditions on
the farms, install septic tanks
and comply with milk and food
laws at comparative low cost to
home owners. This is an oppor
tunity to obtain valuable infor
mation and assistance from the
Juneau office and wo are glad to
announce that definite information
will bo received and printed from
time to time for the benefit of
h^r.io owners who wish this service.
START GULLING THE LAYERS
Culling usually starts in earnest
in July in most laying flocks of
poultry. Any hen that does not
produce during July is unprofit
able and should be fattoned and
sold according to ,tho leading
poultry journals. They tell us
to get rid of any birds that have
already stopped laying before the
middle of July. Such birds ass
show indication of having stopped
laying by their shriveled-up combs
and heavy yellow pigment should be
removed from the flock as quickly
as they are discovered and sold
for meat. The rest of the flock
will do better without them.
Culling, to be most effective,
should be a constant procedure,
for the quicker a cull is remov
ed from a flock and disposed of,
the less it costs to keep her.
Most people think of -culling as
going over the birds once in the
summer and letting it go at
that. However, it should be done
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every couple -of wcelcs luring tho
summer and early fall. Ordinarily
starting in Juno, some birds go
out of production, and through the
summer and fall, more and more stop
laying, until late in the fall and
winter, very few old hens are lay
ing, except those few that molt and
lay at the same tine or those on
which lights are used.
The whole basis of summer culling
is that the early moltcrs, or those
that stop producing the earliest,
are the poorest producers*
The American Legion will hold a
KI-YU-SKOOKUM iii dance Saturday
Aug. 6 , in the Community Hall at
Palmer. A grand good time is guar
anteed, bring your best gal and if
she won't come bring your nei0hbors.
Slim has a date with a lady (not
his wife ) and I'll bet the outcome
will be funny. Bingle won't be
-there to collect the bingles,
police patrol will keep law and
order, lunch will be served,
DON'T IilSS IT IF YOU HAVE TO PAY
TO GET IN.
MAINTAIN STEADY GROWTH'
One of the important jobs for the
poultrymnn and flock owner' is to
keep the pullet flock growing.
This applies both to the early
hatched birds and to the flock
that ’ as only recently been put on
range. Some of the things that
are necessary for tood growth are
a good growing mash kept before
then all the tine in hoppers sup
plemented by grain feedings night
and morning, sufficient feed hopp
ers and waterers so all pullets
will have a chance to get enough
to cat and drink, cockerels .-and
pullets kept separate, and only
enough pulletfe in the range houses
so all growing birds v/ill have ’
plenty of room and not be crowed.
At 12 weeks of ago Leghorn pullets
should weigh approximately 1 and
3/4 pounds each and heavier breed
pullets between 2 and 2|- pounds
each. Since the birds body is
more than half water, it is extre
mely necessary that fresh drinking
water be available at all times.