Poppy George’s Farm Advice: Dairy Animals’ Diets, Homemade Rope, and Ticks

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PHOTO: FOTOLIA/MARGO HARRISON
Take 6 to 12 strands, attach them to a snap (with a swivel), and braid them into a rope. You can make the rope as long as you wish.

“Poppy George” Plitt graduated from college with a degree in agriculture in 1932 During the years that followed he made good many friends and a name for himself (as a gentleman, inventor and executive) in the field of bird and animal husbandry and care. At various points in his career, Mr. Plitt served as Director of Nutritional Research and Field Services for two of the East’s larger grain mills. He is also the originator of Pride of the Valley Wild Bird Food and Kleen Kitty cat litter. Mr. Plitt now raises and trains standard bred horses and keeps a wide variety of other birds and animals on a New York farm. “Poppy George” is now sharing his experience by giving MOTHER EARTH NEWS readers down-to-earth farm advice on the care and feeding of homestead livestock.

QUESTION: My wife and I are buying some acreage in the
northern “neck” of Virginia and expect to move there
sometime this year. We like the area very much . . . except
for the ticks, which have bothered us a great deal on

  • Published on May 1, 1975
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