Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-11
1H CITIZEN
MISCELLANEOUS.
Agricultural.

Dig up the dahlia roots before frost and
store them in the cellar in boxes, the roots
covered with dry sand.
Farmers should bear in min d that any
night may bring frost at this season OF
the year, and they should be fully prepar-
ed for the danger.
Your pear trees that have blighted will
sometimes send out shoots low down near
the roots. Such shoots may grow and give
the encouragement of new start, but 1t IS
better to dig the trees up and put some
thing else in their place.
Garden preparation should really begin
in the fall. Gardens, as rule, contain
more weeds than any other plot on the
farm They should be moved down, rak-
ed eff and burned. The plot should then
be plowed, to remain in the rough condi-
tion for the frost to penetrate. 1t will
render the cultivation easier in the
spring.
SOME DAIRY PROBLEMS.
The dairyman must study the market
demand for his products, whether these
are butter, cheese, or milk, and keep COWS
adapted for that want 1t would be finan-
cial suicide to sell Jersey and Guernsey
milk to the city milkman, when twelve per
cent of solids constitute "good" milk, or
keep o-called cheese COWS from which to
,,aIa b,ttar limo Of doirvin0 must be
decided upon. and held too, for frequent
change in dairy methods will never bring
reputation, nor very great prosperity.
Then the COW should be treated and
cared for as mother, and fed a mothers
food, not the food of bullocks. This feed
ing and care should commence with the
calf The stunted calf that has been OBJ
lged to rob its bodily growth to keep from
freezing, or spend its summer lighting the
"gaunt wolf" has had its energies misdi-
rected, and in after life it will rarely ever
pay to try to make a profitable COW of it.
The calf that is raised for a dairy COW
should be abundantly-not lavishly-fed
on good grass, clover hay, oats, bran and
other protein foods. Corn meal should be
discarded. Milk giving is function separ-
ate and apart from beef making, and to
first induce the beef habit by feeding fat
| formers, like corn meal, is to train the
heifer in that way, and at last, when
COW, and you wish to "feed her up" the
| extra food will go to four-cent beef, in
stead of thirty cent butter, and big loss
is met with; for the food that is turned
into butter is sold every day, and there is
| only one sale for the beef
Our heifer calf should be well fed, well
housed, and kept warm in the winter, for
in stable of good light and pure air, she
will develop the kind of hardness that
dairy cows need, the oats and bran will
give solid and strong muscle and nerve.
and also build up the embryo life that she
must otherwise rob herself of to supply, or
| leave incomplete. Then our heifer, if milk
ed as long as possible the first year of her
dairy life, generously fed to make good,
rich blood, out of which to make good
milk-for milk giving is first blood secre-
ton covered by nerve force-we shall, as
a rule, find we have profitable dairy
| COW. This COW should be retained as long
as she proftably pays her keep, then sold
as ''sausager" for what she will bring; for
we hold that no man ever fattened an old
dairy COW to profit. Better by far put
this food into COW that does give milk,
and get pay for food consumed. d.-Ameri-
can 4griculturist.