Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-23


the milk rank odor and flavor. Stock
should therefore be left in the new pas
ture but part of the day at first, if the
feed is much better than in the old
pasture. Epitomist
A correspondent writes:-I feed
about bushel a day of sliced turnips
to each Of my COWS without the slight
est injury to the milk Many claims
that that cannot be done. but the
trouble is they don't know how to do
it. Turnips should be fed in the morn
ing Immediately after the cows are
MIXED, then there will be no tainting
OF the milk. That is the whole secret
OF feeding them. 1t is important that
dairymen should know that. as lars.
crops of turnips can be raised in dry
seasons like that of 1891, and they
prove great help in the line of food
for stock when other crops fail
Milk, sweet or sour. is the best poul-
try food. 1t may be fed in several diff
ferent ways. 1t is excellent for laying
hens. Hens should be killed when
three years old, as they lay less eggs
every year after the third. You should
never give your fowls bad fright, as
it Injuries them, and it will cause a fall
ing off in the number of eggs for a
few days. 1t costs no more to raise
the best breeds of poultry than the
common barnyard fowl while the re-
turns are double. Get q setting of eggs
from some reliable breeder and con-
vince yourself of the fact
1t is we'll no doubt to set up a STAN
dard temperature for churning. but
better still for the operator to investi-
gate his particular surroundings and
lind out for himself just what his case
calls for. A correspondent in Hoard's
Dairyman writes:-I find thermom-
eters vary considerably, often three
or more degrees and then find that in
warm room or temperature, it is well
to have the churning commenced at a
colder temperature than would be re-
quired if the temperature of the room
were colder After being satisfied of
the character of my thermometer. T
make it a point to churn at as warm
a temperature as I can and have the
butter come in free granules. If the
granules seem to dun or cling together
L consider the cream was too warm
when churned, but if the granuIes
prove free when cold water is added
&c wash the butter no harm is done
from the cream being Churned a little
above the orthodox temperature. At
this season, or in the cold season, I
nnd that sc degrees is allowable in nv
dairy, measured by the thermometer
[ am using
Cow and pig manure are less liable
to heat than stable manure. and it is
good plan 70 make a pile consisting of
alternated layers of these three
manures, or, if there is nothing but
stable manure, some weeds or sods or
clayey soil should be mixed with it
Prde sand will not answer. At any
rate, it is known that clay mixed with
liquid manure will check decomposi
ton, while sand increases it. AS a
rule, sOds, either fresh or more or less
deComposed, are the best things to mix
with stable manure. Put a layer of
manure at the bottom a foot thick and
then six inches of manure and six in
ches of sod on op of it, and so on till
the heap is five feet high. It is usual
to make the pile five or six feet wide.
There is no danger of such pile "fre
fsnglng." 1t should be made out of
doors. 1t is a rare thing to have rain
enough to more than saturate it. And
there can be no loss unless the water
that falls on the pile teaches through
1t and runs away. Such a composition
IS valuable not merely for the plant
foo1 that it contains but for the bac-
terra or nitrifcation germs or 'veast''
which will grow in it and which when
spread on the land will, in favourable
conditions, cause nitrifcation and 9TH
er desirable changes in the plant food
of the soil.