The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-01
arm and GARDEN
NOTES IN SEASON.

NO4ES LIN SEASON.
You cannot feed a poor-producine
COW so as to make her profitable. That
IS one Of the best proven propositions
in dairying.
profitable COW can be made more
profitable by good feeding, because it is
her nature to convert her excess OF
nourishment into milk and butter fat.
Save the wood ashes carefully this
winter, and apply to the garden and
orchard another spring. There is
nothing that will be of more value.
If you appreciate the canned fruit
your wife put I'D, and the supply is
limited, resolve to enable her to in
crease it by planting more small fruits
another year.
Never allow fowls to go without an
abundance of grinding and egg-fOrm-
ing material. Fowls sometimes actu-
ally starve because they cannot di-
gest their food properly.
Experiments at the New York sta
ton show that flock of hens viii pro-
duce 80 per cent more eggs unattended
by rooster than with one, and that
the unfertilized eggs keep longer.
The farmers institute season should
not be forgotten by any farmer. LAS
licn sharpeneth iron," so the institute
lectures and discussions whet the wits
of farmers and give edge to the appe-
t1te for filling the soil.
The value of air-slacked lime in the
poultry house can hardly be over
estimated. Tt will make a damp house
cry and viii kill the germs Of roup
and help wonderfully toward keeping
lice from the premises if used literally
and frequently
We find that our fowls that are en-
closed are very fond of turnips We
taught them to eat the turnips by
chopping them UP, but now they go
rlght into them without any prepar-
alton. and eat peel, tops and all with
great relish.-Indiana Farmer
There is nothing truer than that
kicking cows are not born, but made,
and are hurt when first MIXED. In
TACT, vicious habits in any animal are
the outcome of vicious handling. Man
age them carefully when breaking
them in and much future trouble will
be avoided
fast walking team is always desir-
able. If we are striving to have such
there IS much in early training. Put
the colt by the side of a good brisk
walker and require to keep his place
without breaking into a trot. He will
soon know what is wanted and act
accordingly.
Fields which are tramped with live
stock in open weather in the winter
will work UP cloddy next season, and
the permanent injury to the soil will
be found to be very great. This should
lead TO close confinement of stock in
iced lots eXcept when the ground is
frozen hard.
Denmark. with her little 5000 square
miles. makes $3.50 a head for each of
her 100000 of population every year
from her sales of butter. This is the
result of careful study and diffused in
struction in the best methods. We
might make better butter and at less
cost than Denmark, but we do not.
Never lose sight of one important
fact, some matters belong absolutely
to home and have no concern whatever
with other persons, therefore do not
let your tongue cause them to leave the
sacred precincts Gossip is always dis
tasteful, but when home affairs are the
topic it cannot be too strongly depre-
Gated.
Manure should never get on a COW,
much less get to stay on her No one
ever saw a COW select a filthy bed.
Filth is against all the cows instincts.
II she is tied in a filthy stall. therefore.
and compelled to stand and lay in firth.
the COW cannot be comforta BILE: she
cannot be contented. and will not do
her best at the pail
To horse owners and more especially
sta.blekeepers we would say now is the
proper time TO cover bits with leather.
The frost in the bit takes the skin
from the horses mouth and tongue.
making them sore, and eating is a
painful operation. Your horse. instead
of being "off feed" may be nine times
in ten victim to your own thought
lessneSS or cruelty.
Never allow COWS to drink water that
from common COWS when grass fed
contains nearly 81 per cent water. The
COW has no filter in her to purify water.
and if the water is impure the impuritv
goes straight into the milk If a COW
drinks 100 pounds of impure water. 81
per cent of the impurities of that water
viii be found in the milk
If roots. ensilage or other succuIent
food is not provided for the COWS in
winter the results of dairying will not
prove satisfactory. The milk from dry
feed may be richer in fat, but the flow
is too scanty. The best substitute for
roots and enSilage is cooked hay and
Stops. With a good cutter and steamer
such a ration is not difficult to pre-
pare.
Because the private dairyman can
control the COWS, their feed and care
and the milk from the time It leaves
the COWS until the finished product /
goes on the market. he should be able
to make q finer and more uniform !
product than the man who has not
this control. and yet the great mass /
which comes from the farms sells for /
less than creamery butter today
Take a long. narrow glass tube. hold /
ing a pint. and graduated at the upper ,
end; into this put a half pint of milk
and a half pint of cold water. In three |
hours all tire cream will have risen. /
and will show on the measure the
quantity of cream and value of the
COW for butter. The owner may change /
his opinion of his herd and find that /
the last is first and first last in value
HOW TO GET RICH.