Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-21
FARM AND GARDtN.
Way in Which a Dairy Barn
Should be Built.
THE EARLY-HATCHED PULLET.
Carefully Breeding and Selecting to
Secure Fall and Winter Lay
ers-ShOrt Pointers.

l wish to give as briefly as possible
what l have learned by experience in
carefully breeding and selecting to secure
fall and winter layers, as our egg market
here in Central New York is the best as
to price during these months, says COR
respondent OF Farm Journal. | used to
think that pullets Matched in June were
Just as good for winter layers as those
Matched in April, but the last four or five
years | have by careful selection and
comparison found that the early matched
pullets are more profitable, taking the
year through, than late matched ones.
have found that the June pullets gener-
orally did not commence to lay before
the last OF January or the first OF Feb
ruary, even when the conditions were
favorable, while the April matched ones
would commence to lay by the last of
September or first OF October and con-
tinue to lay until next March or April
without showing any disposition to set,
giving me a very profitable return for
feed and care bestowed upon them. 1t
is ell to have a few pullets Matched out
late for the next summer egg-laying if
one has variety oil fowls which alter
laying all fall and winter do not lay as
well the next summer. My pullets which
were Matched out year ago last April
have laid well this summer. OF course,
| have had to break them up from set
ting two or three times, but that is easily
done; just shut them up few days in
small coop, and they will get over it and
90 to laying again in a few days. As you
ask about the varieties | keep, would
say in reply that l first tried the White
Leghorns, and found that Apri-hatched
pullets OF that breed would commence to
| lay about October l and continue to lay
until the next April or the very last OF
| March before wanting to set, thus hay
ing nice profit during fall and winter.
The last two years | have used a cross,
dams, Dominick and White Leghorns.
of eggs. | had a few pullets which were
menced to lay about the middle OF Sep
tember the same season, This year
have a cross between the Houdans,
White Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks,
and they promise to prove equal to the
others.
BUILDING A DAIRY BARN.
The Practical Farmer says: Within a
few days the writer has received several
letters seeking light in regard to barn
building, with special reference to the
keeping OF dairy and a possibility Of
winter milk. When one takes expense
and convenience into account, with the
influence that barn has in the keeping
of stock well, which means light, dry,
clean and well-ventilated stable, we m
cline to the idea that the barn should be
the ration barrack, and the cows should
be stabbed in an l. to that barn, ex-
tending to the south, so as to get sun
light abundantlv on three sides OF it ;
that it should be of lumber, double
boarded, so as to have a dead-air space
; in the walls, good-sized window for
each three cows. The stable should not
be less than thirty-four feet wide for
two rows of COWS and nine feet clear on
the inside, and each COW should have at
least three feet four inches of space to
! stand in, and a half partition between
each COW if possible, and one between
every other COW in any event, and these
cows tied either with halters or sus-
,, pended stanchions. Such a stable, with
loft for hay or straw, ready for the cows
. can be built for not far from $l6 per COW
and is in every way better for dairy o
COWS than it is possible to construct q
basement stable; and when once made
it can be kept dry and free from chilli.
, ness, which is the "damper" on profit.
able mik-making in the winter. In oul
opinion the great castle-like barn has nc
place in the economy of the modern
dairy. What is wanted is a perfect as
possible stable, and the barns that al
ready exist may be cheaply made to hold
, and protect the feed for the stock in the
: more concentrated form of silage, clover
hay and the grains that are now consid
4 cred essential in making up the balanced
ration.
PRACTICAL POINTERS.
Better grow into dairying than 90 int
it.
: A rough hide is sign that somethin!
3 is wrong.
!, A safe rule to follow is to cultivate al
=; newly-planted fruit trees the same as ,
: crop OF corn or potatoes.
Some people are not very particula
: about eating dirt, but they all object t,
. paying for 1t at prices OF butter.
: Inspect fiocks often during warn
+; weather to see that maggots do not ge
J. on the animals. They cause trouble.
!, Do not breed from grade sires if it cal
J. be avoided. They always give the prog
9 eny greater chance to inherit "scrub
qualities.
!, The progressive dairyman cannot al
ford to use anything poorer than A first
, class bull. The future of his herd de
y pends upon him.
One OF the principal points in maxim
success in dairying is that OF produc
!, ing uniformly first-class product dur
!, ing all seasons OF the year.
Cover the pits OF blackcaps now If vo,
:, wish them to root. Better plants will
be obtained this way than il they ar
left to do their own roofing.
{ The money expended for pure-bre
male animals is one OF the best invest
n ments that can be made, and gains com
pound interest in a short time.
u 1t takes a Christian to properly han
I die good COW; a philosopher to teac
her calf to drink, and bandit to do ius
= tice to the male ancestor OF the calf.
An apparatus for spraying will SOC
It be counted necessity where fruit
o grown. 1t is the only successful wav {
: lighting many insect and fungous pests
e Fast-walking horses should be classe
: as breed and records made in order I
encourage the breeding of them fror
n pedigree stock. Such breed would b
q in demand everywhere.