The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-10

consulted Aurelia AGAIN.
"Never!"
FARM NOTES.
We want persistent all year mixers The
first year tells the story.
You annot afford to have your butter ma
chimes left idle from four to six months.
Cows are not kept for their company there
fore why let them go dry four to xix months
out OF the year?
Watch the heifels. Don't let them form
the habit OF drying up early. Give them
extra feed and care.
good mixture for LAYING hens is a mix
ture OF meal, bran and ground oats and corn,
alternating at night.
Do not expect to sell butter at extra prizes
to private customers unless it is of extra
quality and flu, st flavor.
1t is the comfortable COW which fills the
pail with milk and the milk with butter fat.
Remember this is your profit.
Save the poultry droppings by placing
them in barrels or boxes and keeping them
from contact with the rain or snow.
OF course every dairy farmer has laid in
supply Of ice for next summers use 1t is
something you need in your business.
A creamery, when rightly conducted, is q
blessing to any community, but it takes a
good while for some farmers to see the point
spring, or weight and pulley, on the
COW stable door is a good investment, as it
insures against leaving it open some cold
night
One important point in the care Of poultry
is sharp giit, and unless fowls have this grit
to properly grind their grain food, sickness
will ensue.
The making OF fine bu tes is an attra tive
line Of work for young women. 1t is health
ful, profitable, and the profession is not
overcrowded
Keep your laying hens busy. That is, give
them exercise by throw, ,h.ir grain feed
upon the floor and cov,ing with chaff, cut
straw and the like
The best farmers today are those who are
the best students, who are trying to UNDER
stand some OF the principles which underlie
Gee ssful agriculture.
The farmers OF Wisconsin are the most
prosperous OF any in the United States. For
years farmers Institutes have been held reg
ularly in every county in the state
Professor Henry shows by experiment that
j. costs $2.61 TO produce 100 pounds of gain
with lambs, and BOB to produce the same
gain with pigs Of about the same age
IL is the dairyman who has provided an
abundance OF goud winter feed for his cows
no will pocket the difference between winter
and summer prices for dairy products. In
this lies the profit.
1t is often misfortune 10 have others do
for us those things which we can do for our
selves. 1t is wel-known law of develop
ment that it is what we do for ourselves that
does us the most good.
We have seen farmers kick their COWS with
out mercy. How much more sensible it
would be for them to kick the stable door,
and the same result would be attained-they
would give their wrath vent.
That the dairy should "pay it's own way
in winter" is not enough. 1t should be max
ing money, and will do so ii properly man
aged. Dairy products bring better prices at
this season than any other.
This is the season of the year when the
farmers should be thinking over their plans
for the coming season, and nothing is of
more value thar the systematic keeping OF
accounts, so that the person may know Just
exactly how his business stands.