The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-05-30
Poultry Notes and News.

LlhoCCo AiSdi, d y t~cuS ooulu
to four fowls every other day, will aid
in CLOSING their plumage. Sunfower
seed has the same effect.
Ducks and hens should not be kept in
tho same quarters. They should have
separate houses by all means and, if
possible, separate yards.
Feed ducks from troughs, never on
the ground.
Vegetable rubbish may not look we'll
when thrown into a poultry yard, but
hat is the place to put it il the fowls
are confined there.
Mrs. Borden of Cawker City, Kan,
sod during the month of March 40
dozen eggs. She gathers from 1856 to
225 eggs a day, besides taking care of
her family.
Small farmers and villagers may pro-
duce one-half Of their meat supply in
the poultry yard if they will give the
subject proper attention. 1t is worth
while to make the attempt.
Currant bushes afford agreeable shade
in the poultry yard. If the fruit is not
wanted by the owner the birds will be
glad to have 1T: if it is wanted the fowls
must be turned into another yard until
it is gathered.
Fowls that cannot be kept in a yard
by a fence of ordinary height, should
have the fight feathers of one wing cut
short Leave three or four at the tip of
the joint SO that the wing will fold up
nicely and the bird will not be disfg-
ured.
Why should a farmer have stables and
a barn yard for his cattle? The reason
is plain enough: it pays, to say nothing
OF the convenience and humanity of the
thing. Why should the same farmer
have only an old rickety shed for his
poultry and no yard at all? We give
it up.
The average farmer thinks the fowls
can take care of themselves in hot
weather. Yet he will COOP a brood of
chicks in the open field, subject to the
direct rays of the sun, and deem them
we'll cared for. You must learn better
than this; success will never meet your
efforts half way.
Dairy Notes.
Stingy milk is caused by the coagula-
ton of the albumenoids, the casein or
choesy part.
mover raised a cali that made a kick
ing COW. The kickers and hookers are
not unlike humans, they show their
bringing up.
A great many herds of COWS barely
squeeze into the requirements of the
law where the standard is lowest, IL per
cent. of solids, and the amount of milk
required for a pound of cheese is in.
creasing.
There is no such thing, from a com
mon sense standard, as a cheese COW.
The butter fats and casein must be bal
anced to make good cheese. There may
he such a thing as 1.-THE milkman's cow
She is closely related to the pump.
1t is hard on a cows nerves to keen
her brush still while being MIXED and
the flies and mosquitoes are bad. O.!
you keep right on milking if two or
three mosquitoes are singing in your
face? Not much! Then have some
patience with Mooley.
A good COW is not necessarily a pure
blood or a high grade, but she has the
capacity to make cheap milk from good
feed, and that is all any 20 can do SC
far as performance is concerned.
Keep the barn yard we'll bedded, both
on account of the cows comfort and the
saving of manure. A COW does no,
want to stand up all day, neither does
she like to lie down in the mud and
manurc
Remember that while it is your duty
to give your COWS good care, it is a dut,
that, well done, pays well; and while
you shouldn't do your duty for the pay
you get for it. yet it is pleasant to think
that there is the dollar following a good
act