Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-10-07
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WINTER oNavaNG "a pAKoTk.
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g. Pays Even when .ha Thermometer I,
| Below Zero.
Tho barn was not an expensive one
but would hold 100 head of stock and
was cut into bank with slope so that
| ihe drai,age WAS perfect. | jot down
what the dairyman told us during the
afternoon while he was caring for his
stock. Every COW seemed to know her
owner as a friend-no haste, no rude
noise, startled her Last summer, said
the farmer, II RAISED some corn fodder,
millet and oat AMI pea hay. with some
carrots and sugar beets for a change OF
food. contract carly for my bran and
buy it cheap. Ny COWS all come in fresh
in September and October, going dry
through hytime. | begin feeding them
at once to Ieep mp their flow of milk
while butter is high. Inever sell for less
than 25 cents, and often 40 cents pei
pound.
II put my cows up nights as soon as
frost comes and feed millet, hay and
bran. Now. during the cold of winter l
get up at half past in the morning, go
to the barn and give the COWS their
grain feed, consisting of bran, ground
oats and peas in tie proportion of eight
quarts of bran. four Of oats and one %
peas, or often change to one of new
process oilmeal. Then at o'clock we
milk, running the milk through hand
separator. feeding my calves and pigs
the new sweet skimlnilk. Then give a
good feed of corn fodder ard let my
cows alone till noon, W hen water them
they finish mp all the fodder or millet in
their managers and lie down to chew
their cuds till half past 4, when | again
feed them smaller grain ration supple
mented with four quarts of chopped
roots, and at half Iast go to milking.
finishing in one hour,
Myself boy and hired hand do the
milking treat the milk as in the
morning and then fiji the managers with
millet or oat and en- hay, first cleaning
ont every lit of rubbish left in their
managers, using it for bedding neg.
lected to say clean tbeir stables every
norning, hauling the otfal and litter ont
On the field and scattering from eacl;
load"
He was asked if his COWS ought not tc
be fed oftener. NO" said he, COWS
with their quadruple stomachs, need
much longer to digest their food Nei
ther do rouse them up at or O'Clock
in the morning. find from observation
those hours are their very best for sleep
ing Neither do let them out through
the winter unless it is on some especial.
ly bright, sunshiny day. Then find
they are ready to return to their stalls
for their evening meal"
But do you not find yopr feed pretty
mo, not vnry. feed about 40 pounds
per day of rongh stuff. One-half is cheap
straw, costing nothing but the hauling,
as | thrash the CATS and peas out to use
for grain. figure that my grain feed
and roots cost me 90 cents per day; hay,
cents-a total of 25 cents per day. My
skimmilk and manure more than pay all
care and other expenses. | feed extra
heavy, for this is a cold climate, and
want much milk for my calves. My
cows average me 500 pounds of butter
per year, besides a fine calf. They are
all high grade Holsteins, crossed up from
the best dairy COWS l could find. clear
$50 on each COW yearly. My pigs, calves.
chickens, ETC., pay all expenses, so l car
lay up for my work about $4,000 per
year. Besides my farm is getting better
yearly from the large amount of manure
spread each winter. w. P. Wade il
American Agri.ulturist.
domestic Protection.
Ono day in the Cumberland noun
tains, as rode up tho bench of hill,
| came to house with Il genuine cy.
clone pit III the front yard. At first
thought it might be springhouse or a
cellar, but a little closer inspection only
confirmed tho original conclusion. 1t
was a cyclone pit and nothing else, but
what was it there for? The man of the
house was hoeing corn i'll the field ad
joining, and hailed him. "By the
way" l said to him after asking how
far it was to my destination and the
nearest way there, sis that cyclone
pit there in the yard?"
He gave queer little nod of affirma.
ion.
"You don't have any cyclones up here |
n the mountains, do your" asked in
evident astonishmont
well, no, mister. not perzackly."
''Then, if you please, I'd like to
Know what the dickens you have the pit |
or -
He came over to the fence and put
lis hand up to his mouth as II sort of a
peaking trumpet.
~ reckon you never SEQ my wife, |
mister, he said aid dcdgod back to
he row he was hcciNS ~ II somebody
nd thrown skillet I'd al lin, do
roit Frto Press.
The Difference Slight.
whats this?" demanded the guest
to one Of tho side dishes the
waiter had brought.
"Sausages. sir, answered the waiter.
81 didn't order any.
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