River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-17
AFTERNOON SESSION.

ADVISED by some, as well as planting
in drills.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session was opened
by some very practical suggestions
relating to the dairy by Mr.. Gabrielson
of Iowa. Begin dairying with such
stock as you happen to have and i'm
prove on that as you can. Straw sheds,
cheap buildings, ordinary stock, cheap
dairy appliances, may all be used and
make dairying successful. Rapid cool
Ing Immediately after milking is the
essential thing to secure the cream,
whether it be in submerged cans or
otherwise. Kicking cows usually be-
long to kicking owners. Vermin in
cattle may be cured by the apblica-
cation of road dust, saved when dry
for winter use; also powdered salt
applied along the back of cattle. If
vermin infest the stables, fumigate
with burning sulphur. Give the cattle
sulphur, salt and ashes, in the ratio
of Id. each sulphur and ashes to 5
lbs. of salt every week. Cure garget
with tincture of acOnite-l0 to Is
drops three times a day till cured
it is specific for the disease. Milk
fever may be avoided by judicious
feeding; feed well when dry; avoid
heating food before calving; be care
full not to remove the calf immedi-
ately after it has come; avoid giving
very cold water. Favors the use of
the fixed stanchion after trying many
other fastening devices. He believes
in warming water for cattle but not to
more than go degrees.
The next topic was by l.. II. Adams,
on the silo-its construction and use.
A fine model of one "a feet square by
10 feet high was used to Illustrate its
construction. Use no partitions; avoid
corners so that all may settle in a solid
mass. Cover the ensilage with foot
OF chaff or paper and sawdust, or even
marsh hay. Weighing the ensilage
when put in the silo is not necessary.
Glover cut when free from dew or
water and at once put in the silO
makes good food; afterwards fill the
silo with corn ensilage if you wish.
Second crop clover is also good for
the silo.
Mr.. Beach, in reply, said the silo
meant economy of room in storing
feed, economy of labor in handling
the corn crop, and economy of labor
in feeding He sustained dairy of
forty cows, together with four horses,
from the produce Of forty.six acres;
fed fifty pounds of ensilage and eight
pounds of bran per day to each cow.
Glover is a better balanced ration for
cattle than any other single product
of the farm.
Mr.. Youpggreen followed with a
talk on flax culture. Sow 8 pecks or
% lbs. to the acre; sow about the 10th
of May. The yield on good land is
from II to Is bushels per acre. He
raised thirty.nine acres of flax the
past year; cut it with a harvester and
threshed with vibrating machine.
This was followed by paper on
Twill it pay to raise roots to feed in
the ST. Croix Valley" by r. j. Wilcox.
This closed the afternoon session.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session was devoted to
listening to some very interesting pa
pers; first by Prof. Ewing on "Insects
Injurious to Agriculture, " follwed by
a paper by Miss Shultes ON Farmers
Daughters and their Opportunities,
next paper by Taylor Frye on Light
ming and Lightning Rods, followed by
Mrs. W. P. Marshall with IAN Open
Letter to Farmers Wives" followed
by a paper by Mrs. Horace Barlow on
The Home the Citadel of the Repub
lie" To say that these papers were
interesting and profitable very poorly
expresses the sentiment and elevated
thoughts with which they abounded.
WEDNESDAY .-NoRNING SESSION.
The session opened with very In
teresting paper by Mrs. 5. Haycox on
"The Requirements and Possibilities
of the Farmers of to-day" 1t called
forth discussion, participated in by
Messrs. Arnold and Beach, which made
the time allotted pass quickly and
proftably to all.
Swine breeding. raising and feed |
ing, by Geo. wylie. was the next
topic discussed. Theselection of stock
and the Importance of choosing by the
essential points. rather than by within
and noa-essentials. was forcibly illus
trated. The loss of pigs by allowing |