The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-08
FARM NOTES.

A good grade cow is good thing, but
avoid grade sires-
AS soon as cold nights, or cool nights,
come stable the cows.
Rational care is what the cow needs,
she does not need pampering.
The tobacco pipe should never be al
lowed about the barn or the milk pail.
We have had corn and grass for king
in this country, but the COW is queen.
Just little better care and feeding Of
the cows may turn an Improbable herd
into a profitable one.
For steady income under all crop con-
ditions, nothing except a mortgage note
beats a we'll managed dairy.
The best way 10 feed is to give about
one-half as much as you suppose the
fowls require, in the morning. Then
scatter millet seed (about tablespoon
fuD in leaves or little. 50 as to make them
work by scratching. This will keep them
warm harden the flesh and promote
their appetite. At night give them all
they will eat. When each hen has enough
she will walk away from the food. When
the last hen has finished her meal re-
move the food that Is left.
What farmers are looking for today
is something that will yield an income
outside of their farm. Bees would
make quite an item in the income of
the farmer and would be made from
what is going to waste every year.
Many an article could be bought with
the honey for the bees. Honey can be
readily sold in any market for 13 to IS
cents per pound.
This is a good season to wash the in
terror of the coop, and if you put an
ounce of carbolic acid in every pail of
wash you will serve a double purpose
killing the remaining lice, and disinfect-
inc the premises.
The profitable dairy cow is one that
gives a good flow of milk, rich in but
ter fat, has a long period of lactation
and produces at moderate food cost.
These are the points that the dairyman
should keep in view.
The best time to weed out unprofit-
able cows is now. no matter what the
season, but the fall of the year is an
especially good one. 1t is the poorest
kind of economy to carry a poor cow
through the winter.
Yes said the inventor. "I think 1 see
millions in it if do can Only get b the d thing
ing friend. What have you in mind
now?' "a scheme for conflning cyclones
in bicycle tires Sec? There is your ideal
motor at merely the cost OF capture. -
Memphis SciIntar.
AS alfalfa is perennial and to occupy
the same part of the farm for several
years without change or cultivation II
will pay to expend time and labor in
preparing the ground selected by grading
and removing all inequalities so that if
irrigation is used, all parts may be cove
cred by flooding and thus secure uni
formity in stand and yield
Alfalfa contains lime for making egg
shells as well as the albuminoids for
flesh and muscle forming much in ex-
cess of corn. At the same time, as a nj
trogenous food. it equals wheat. By ac-
Z,
Wheat. corn. bran, chopped alfalfa and
vegetables form the bulk of the egg food.
leaving corn as a. means of supplying
animal heat and producing fat.
DR.. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the d.
vision of ornithology of the agricultural
department, has just made report on
the results of his examination Of the
contents of the stomachs of hawks, owls,
crows, blackbirds and other North
American birds that are supposed TO De
the popular notion about hawks and
birds, for the slaughter of which many
states give bounties, are altogether err
roneous. Ninety-1iVe per cent. of their
hoppers, crickets, etc, which are in
tinitely more injurious to farm crops than
they.
Buttermaking is practically trade
to be learned, if it is made a success.
1t requires patience, cleanliness, good
judgment and hard work. Feeding of
the COW is the first important factor.
for if the cow is not well fed and well
sheltered. she will not do well at the
pail or churn. Cleanliness is the next
factor From the time the cow is born
to the packing and shipping of the but
ter every effort should be made to in
sure cleanliness.
At the Colorado agricultural college
bees are put into winter quarters Oc-
tober 10 in the following manner: The
hives are left on their summer stands,
about four inches from the ground.
The upper story is filed with chaff, to
absorb the moisture which always
generates in the hive during the win
ter, and the hives are then banked
with dirt all around, closing the en-
trance so that only one or two bees
could come out at a time. A better
way is to have a double-walled hive
filled in with chaff all around, as this
serves to absorb all moisture, while
forming warm and equable protection
( for the bees during the sudden chang
es of temperature during the winter.