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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
DAIRY GOSSIP.

Why keep cows except for profit?
How large a percent are known to be
profitable? asks John L. Shaver in
Farm and F!reSide.
A late report states that the average
amount Of butter a COW produces in a
year in the state of Indiana is but 125
pounds. This is a very small amount,
but there are some excellent cows in
Indiana that make several times that
amount in a year; hence there must
be q great number of cows that are be-
low the aYerag e. The great state of
Ohio makes a still worse showing, ac-
cording to the statistics, and who is to
blame for such conditions? Not the
cows, surely, for they are possessed of
certain capacity for production from
birth.
The trouble is we are not careful
enough in selecting our cows. We Sc
lect more from the symmetrical APP
pearance, judging too often, even then,
from beef standpoint rather than
from any idea as to capacity for but
ter production. 1 believe that no COW
can be profitable to the owner that is
not capable of producing at least $50.
pounds of butter in a year. They should
produce 800 pounds or more.
On cheap pasture land or when fed
upon cheap feed though the feed
should be OF he best quantity, a COW
may prove profitable as a butter-pro-
Queer il fancy prices are obtained for
her product. But fancy prices for but
ter are not overly numerous this year.
cow that produces $50 pounds of
butter which commands such a price
as to leave profit of $40, is only half
as profitable as one which, on the same
feed and care, produces $50 pounds, be-
cause the last eighty pounds are all
profit
But how are we to know if our COWS
are always profitable? By Investigate
ing into the facts with each individual
COW and wedding out the poor ones. How
are we TO get at the facts when we
milk ten cows and make 1000 pounds
of butter a year? BY applying the
churn test on. using the scales and
chemical test with each individual of
the herd.
First, you find five cows that give a,
good quantity of milk for a few weeks,
| but gradually diminish in amount so
that they average 1000 pounds of milk
year. They test from 2 to 4 per cent
They make 400 pounds of butter year
They should make more, you find, but
somehow it does not materialize. Next
you find FIVE cows that give a moder-
ate flow of milk but are persistent in
keeping UP the aow for several
months They test from 4 to 5 per
cent They make 600 pounds Of butter
You decide the first five are not pro-
ftable, and sell them to the butcher.
The five remaining are given a little
better care and a little more feed. and
you are glad to see you have almost as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
pTcNIYGs FROM TEE YARD.

The following facts and figures, says
Poultry Monthly answer many queries
which reach poultry editors at least
once a year. 1t would be a good idea.
to carefully preserve them for future
reference. They are not given at ran
dom, but have been carefully compiled
and edited:
1t takes about three months to grow
a broiler.
No brooding-pen should contain over
fifty chicks.
Broilers shrink about a half-pound
each when dressed.
The shell of an egg contains about
fifty grains of salt lime.
Build the house 10 by 10 feet for ten
fowls and the yard ten times larger.
Ten dozen eggs year is the average
estimate given as the production of the
hen.
About four dozen eggs are given as
an average for the annual output of
the turkey.
Thirteen eggs are considered a set
ting, though many breeders are now
giving fifteen.
Eggs intended for Matching should
not be kept over four weeks. They
must be turned every dayj or two.
1t Will require seven pounds OF
skinned milk to equal one pound of
lean beef for fesh-forming qualities.
One dollar per head is the average
cost of keeping a fowl a year, and the
same amount is a fair estimate Of the
PROFITS.
The eggs of the white Leghorn, black
Minorca and Houdan are about the
same weight as those of the light Brah-
ma.
In an egg of 1000 grains, 600 belong
to the white, 300 to the yolk and 100 to
the shell.
For good results in egg production
the henhouse during the winter should
not be allowed to become colder than
az degrees.
In 100 parts of the white of an egg
about "a per cent is water, 121a per
cent albumen, 1 per cent mineral mat
ter, and 212 per cent sugar. etc
Poultry manure contains 2-43 per cent
of phosphoric acid, 2.26 per cent potash
and 325 per cent nitrogen, as ammonia
and organic matter.
If properly kept and judiciously ap-
piled to land poultry manure is worth
one-hah the cost of the food the fowls
get, and yet little account is taken of
the droppings when an estimate is
made Of the profits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
The Trne Remedy.

w. NJ. Repine. editor Tiskilwa, H.,
Chief, says: I'VE won't keep house with
out DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. Coughs and Colds. Expert
mented with many others, but never
got the true remedy till we used Dr.
Kings New Discovery. No other rem
edy can take its place in our home, as
in il we have a certain and sure cure
for Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough,
etc" 1t is idle to experiment with other
remedies, even if they are urged on you
as just as good as DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. They are not as good, because
this remedy has a record of cures and
besides is guaranteed 1t never fails to
satisfy. Trial bottles free at z. c. NJ. /.
drug dept
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
TOOK JOHNNIE TO THE SHOW.
Poor little Johnnie longed to go
And see the Sbou,.

Poor little Johnnie longed to go
And see the show;
Like any simple, trusting lad
Who viewed the walls in pictures clad
OF men who lived on horses backs,
Or climbed each others heads in stacks
Or drivelled dressed in stripes and spots,
Or tied themselves in double knots,
Or metamorphosed into wheels,
Or swung each other by the heels,
Or, placid, led unblemished lives
Amid fusillade of knives
Or punched the lion while he roared,
Or with their heads his mouth explored
You would yourself have longed to go
And see the show
Then Johnnie's father said. although
| loathe, abhor and hate the show,
| feel that little John should go
The curious animals to see;
'TWould never do-se little grown
For him to wander round alone;
My little boy shall go with me-
And Johnnie's auntie felt the same;
And Johnnie's Un6le Lemuel,
His second cousin, Samuel,
His older sister Mary,
And Susan Ann and Sarah,
His brother and his brother-in-law,
His fathers cautious mother-in-law,
And others, went along with him
To see that noughI was wrong with him;
Twas not sin to take, you know
Poor little Johnnie to the show
AS any one might be afraid,
Twas very hard, with all this aid,
For little John to see the show.
They hustled him. they jostled him,
They pulled him to and fro;
When one of them would chance to see
knot of friends, then he or she
Would grasp the urchin by the hand,
So all the world would understand
That they had simply come, you know,
With Johnnie to the show
And Johnnie's heart was breaking,
His heightened arms were aching,
His pulse was wildly throbbing,
His little breath was Sobbing,
When with new and different ache
In every separate toe,
He lay at night-in his own charge
A dreary, poor and lonely one,
And murmured, Pm the Only one
OF all the family, small or large,
That didn't see the show
Will Carleton in Every Where.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
TAKE NO RIskS.

When considering the possibilities of
loss from any source. always give your
self the advantage of the doubt. That
is, if there is something 10 be done to
the poultry-house for the comfort of the
fowl, and which you may suppose is
rot absolutely necessary, the better
plan is to do it and take no risks II
you desire to add more hens TO your
flock, and know nothing of their breed
ing or freedom from disease, be govern
ed by the doubt, and do not buy them
unknowingly, as you may destroy your
entire flock by a single mistake. Hun
dreds of poultrymen fail because of
overlooking the apparently unimportant
details, which are the key to success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
THE FOoD REQ UIR ED.

One quart of wheat or corn is consid-
cred by some as about the proper guam
THY of food per day for a dozen fowls,
but if an experiment is made it will be
found that the hens will not eat the
same quantity every day. Large hens
require more than small ones, and if
one kind of food is given principally,
they will eat but one-fourth the guam
tity after a while. There is but one
way to give a full ration, and tlGt is to
place food before the hens and let them
eat until the last one leaves. 1t Is not
a safe way to feed, however, as the
method is too fatteuing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
RYE FOE POULTRY.

Among the grains. rye is not regarded
as a very important food for poultry,
but it may be used as variety how
ever; a mixed grain diet, composed of
wheat, oats, corn, rye and barley, is
better than the use of any one Of the
grains. Rye is excellent when given
once or twice q week, and will be rel
ished by the hens as a change. 1t may
be stated that as the warm days are
now on the feeding of any kind of grain
should be done judiciously, as there is
greater liability OF loss from diseases
due to too much grain in summer than
from any other cause.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO STORED
GRAIN

An interesting series of experiments
have been carried ON at the Texas, Elk
pertinent station to determine as to- the
best method OF preventing stored grain
being injured by weevil. Carbon bisul-
phide will kill all such injurious in
sects and if not used severely will not
injure the terminating power 1t
should be used carefully as it is exceed
ingly inflamma bic.
Naphthaline sprinkled freely in the
bins and over the grain will prevent
the weevils from getting hold. and
with this and carbon bisulphide it is
possible to keep the loss to stored grain
from Weevils and similar insects to a
minimum.
Naphthaline is usually sold by drug
gists as moth balls,'' and is quite ex-
pensive, but can be purchased in ten
pound lots from wholesale drug houses.
California Cultivator.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
The reason

your tea isn't good is: you
get the wrong tea and you
make it wrong.
Boiling makes bad tea worse
and good tea SO bad thatyou'd
better drink water or anything
else.
The right way is this: bring
your water to the boiling
point, take it off the stove;
put in your tea; let it stand
six or eight minutes no
longer; then pour 1t.
The right tea to use is
SeAtI7lmg's Best-whether you
drink Japan, CeylOn, Oolong,
English Breakfast, or the de-
licious Ideal Blend.
Good food, good life; SchilEng's
Best coffee, baking powder. soda,
spices, seasoning, hay6ring extracts
pure and money-backod.
Il SthlLliAg & Company .San Francisco
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

on hand, I offer them extra. wages for
some specific work, and in this way l
have enlisted them and each one viz
tually pays his own expenses, and buys
what he wants if he works. The two
oldest buy stock sometimes; I advance
them money enough TO make the pur-
chase; when, il is sold they deposit it
with me, which / place to their credit.
Farmers, try ir-pay your boys for
what they do, and charge them with
wha6 they get, and they will not be
anxious to leave the farIn.-T. A. Cook,
Fleming county. Kentucky.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
NOTES IN SEASON

When the plows are done for the season
it is good plan to cover the steel or iron
parts with thick limewash. This keeps
them from rusting and is Immediately
worn off in the first furrow. Machinery
should be first cleaned from oil and gum
and every bearing then covered with
palm oil and black lead 1t should be
stored in some weather-proof building
and covered with some kind of sheets to
protect 1t from dust.
A few panels of portable fencing are
handy to have about the farm, and often
save much labor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
HERALD MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7. 1895.

much butter at the end of the year as
when ten cows were kept. You notice
cream rises on the skim milk, and de-
eide to test this on the testing ma
chine. You find you are losing 20 or %
per cent of your butter. You take part
of the money received for the five cows
sold, and purchase a separator
and save adj the work of setting the
milk, pumping water, warming milk for
calves, etc, and find you get more but
ter from five cows than formerly from
ten.
1 have Travelled the road and have
lee ned some of It's turns If the read
er lnds anything worth considering,
let him pcpGsr it we'll. We must learn
TO make the r,ost of the opportunities
Within our reaS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
FOUR REASONS NUR FALL PLANT
ING

First.-Plenty of time in the fall. Other
work does not crowd SO hard then as in
the spring and the planting of trees and
plants can be more thoroughly and salts
factorily done.
Second.-Nearly year gained. By be-
coming well established before winter sets
in they are ready for early and vigorous
Third.-Fewer failures Through the
certainty of late fall rains. planting is
more sure at that season. Ninety per
cent. of the failures come from late spring
planting when followed by unfavorable
drouths
Fourth.-No time in spring. In this
climate our springs are of such short
duration that much intended work is left
undone. Never a season goes by but some
one says, Il intended planting this spring
but l could not get around to it until too
late" Nearly al hardy stock except ever
greens can be planted in the fall.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

there must be knowledge Judgment,
tact, order. foresight, skill and plan
ming, and it goes without saying, HON
esty. There are places for hundreds Of
such men. The dairy schools are do
ing their share and doing good work,
but it wants young men who are faith
full and can be trusted to run dairdes as
well as creameries. In a late paper
were notices of five men wanted 10 fill
such positions as we have mentioned
and in the want columns of another
paper Twenty-Five young men had
cards calling attention to the fact that
they could be engaged for genGeel EN-
ploymen, l. E., places where not much
would be required of them Cannot
some inducement be set forth that will
cause few young men TO filt positions
upon dairy farms, not as mere laibOrers,
but as competent assistants and good
mana gerS-PracticaI Farmer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
SOCIAL FARM LlF7.

The social features of farm life, says
writer i'm Colmans Rural World very
truly, are not as attractive to the young
as they should be. Town people make
a study of their social life, and they are
constantly working and planning some
new feature of pleasure and enjoy
ment. The parents plan for their chill
dren and their chi1drens friends, and
they spend both time and money for
the advancement of social culture.
Why not incorporate more of this idea
into our farm life? It is surely worth
trying.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
AS anv one might he afraid
SELL DIRECT TO CONSUMERS.

The importance of this cannot be over
estimated: yet there are two sides to the
proposition, says Farm and Home. Many
farmers, furit growers and truckers are
today engaged in selling fresh fruits and
vegetables direct to families in our towns
and smaller cities, having worked up a
profitable trade. Yet the fact must not
be forgotten that peddIing from door to
door is liable to antagonize your town
merchant, to whom you expect to sell at
least a part Of your surplus. Be guided
by circumstances. If he pays you about
all the market will stand. it is at times
best to sell to him, so long as he treats
you well. Common sense and good bust
ness judgment must be used here, as well
as in other departments of farm work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
TREAT TIE HORSE KINDLY

The man who never pets or praised
his horse, or rarely gives him an ap-
pie or sugar, ETC., is unworthy of
horses services. Horses appreciate
kindness. and suffer from harsh words
and abuse, as much as men do. The
best horsemen now discharge grooms
for harsh or even loud talking to their
animals. "A groom's angry tones will
send culver of fear down a whole
row of stalls!"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
DRY EARTH FoR FLOORS.

1t is during midsummer, and when the
earth is very dry, that the supply of
dry earth should be stored. Use bins,
old barrels or hogsheads, and sift the
dirt. Store as much as possible, as it
costs nothing, and will be found inval-
liable in winter 1t may be used in the
stables as an ASSORTMENT, as well as
en- the floor of the poultry-house-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
GARFIELD BEACH.
Directive August 81

IEItCIIVt AUGUST OH
Trains between Salt Lake and Gar
field Beach run as follows:
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Salt Lake Garfield. Garfield Salt Lake
*7:45 am. *S:45 am. 100 pm. l 40 pm
1000 am. 1870 am. %3:05 pm 1900 pm
2:15 pm. 2:55 pm. Sis pm. 500 pm
*Daily except Sunday.
Fare for round trip, so cents.
OIson's orchestra in attendance ev-
ery afternoon and evening. Bathing.
boating. dancing.
Depot corner First South ard Fourth
West D. E. Burnley.
General Manager.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
N,I|fs Pouffry YarS.

If there are pullets or cockerels in
some of the broods that grow much
faster than the rest, mark them to be
saved, not to be sold. This method will
build up the stamina of the flock.
A good ration for eggs in the morning
is cornmea1 one part. wheat bran one
part, ground oats one part, ground beef
scraps one part. Mix with boiling
water and slightly season with cayenne
nepper-Se2ttle Poultry Journal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
BuckIen's Arnica sa1ve.

The best salve N the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton or money refunded. Price % cents
per box. For sale ty r. C. NJ Z drug
dent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

Which is worse Imprisonment for life
or a lifelong disease like scrofula, for
example? The former, certainly, would
be preferable were It not that Ayers
Sarsaparilla can always come to the
rescue and give the poor sufferer
health, strength and happiness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
LABOR DAY EXCURSION.
and :, Union Pacific.

SepfeTnber o ana q, CHIoH FacIHc-
Sunday and Monday the Union Pa
cific will sell round trip tickets to all
points in Utah at one fare, good until
Sept. 8.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

And then go ahead. If your blood is
impure. your appetite failing. your
nerves weak, you may be sure that
Hoods Sarsaparilla is what you need.
Then take no substitute. Insist upon
Hoods, and only Foods. This is the
medicine which has the largest sales;
in the world. Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the One True Blood Purifier.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

Hoods Pills are prompt. efficient. al
ways reliable. easy to take, easy to
operate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

and nearly all of these materials are
recovered in the manure. Such meals,
being rich in protein, balance the siiage
If hay is fed with silage, it should be
clover or peavine hay.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-02-29
4: Orfo1.r. las

power and sadness. These North Euro
pean people look at the world through
colored glasses because the sun on the
snow dazzles their eyes. They lack a
sense Of distance. Something is wrong
with the perspective. Ibsen's dramas
are subjective. influenced too much by
the hard conditions OF life in country
where the Winters are twice as long as
the Summers. A long residence in
English green and daffodil fields would
affect Ibsen's philosophy as surely as
Nebraska's sun flowers will change Mr..
Newbranch's hereditary views and &C
quired philosophy or way Of looking at
things. 1t is all question Of environ
ment the authors OF Norway, Denmark
and Sweden present the horrors OF life
Provence sings and dances. For the
completeness Of literature we need them
both but let me be a Provencal.
"Veni, Vidi" has the fascination OF the
correct solution OF a puzzle. 1t proves
that character can be fully presented
by the use OF environment alone.
Professor Edgren's pathological article
Evolution by Metaphor as Illustrated
by Sans krit and English is a simple
statement Of an abstruse subject. 1t is
foxy OF the Professor, though, to make
his subject seem so simple. He flatters
his readers by making them think they
might do it themselves. Whereas phil
ology requires more judgment and
learning to the square inch than any
other science.
The miscellany under the heading
"Shavings from Several Shops" 10 cafe
mir or q sip Of Cog lac after banquet.
s. B. 81.