Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-01

First your fowls require WARM
quarters, not necessarily heated by axti-
hcial heat but well lined with warm tar
paper, foored with boards and proof
against draughts and cold air. This is
good antidote for frozen combs, feet and
shivering bodies. Second. they must take
plenty of of healthy exercise-not neces-
sariiy by the use of turning poles. dumb
bells, or punching bags, but by scratch
pile of hay, straw, stubble and manure,
into which sprinkling Of oats and
wheat with an occasional grain of corn
is placed, early every morning and at
midday.
Third, they must have warm break
fast of mash foods heated as warm as 1t
can be comfortably eaten. Such a mash
to consist, If possible, of little meat,
potato, bread crumbs egg, milk, some
farinaceous food, and small quantity
of bone meal Fourth, they should have
little green material. which is positively
essential to egg formation; such as cut
clover, lettuce, or even sprinkle of
celery or raw cabbage. Fifth, they
should be given a small quantity of corn
just before roosting time. Add to these
recommendations some fresh water, un-
frozen, and occasionally a little raw
meat, fat or gristle. Let the diet be
clean, free from hot soapsuds, vinegar,
coffee grounds and all such ingredients,
even to chickens palate.
l wish some of our estimable house.
wives would learn to leave these acid,
oily and greasy ingredients out of the
mash fed to the chickens. Just because
these domestic servants are dumb. and
cannot express in words their preference
for a good, clean, wholesome diet, we
continue to mix up their rations with
dirty dish water, nasty acids and other
filthy stuffs which were never known to
increase egg production, or raise the
standard of health. How many people we
hear boasting of their long-continued ex-
perience with domestic fowls, who never
yet have stopped the vicious habit of
mixing compounds and authorizations in
the chickens mash which are admirably
adapted to promote diseases and give rise
to malarial conditions
Dairy By-Products.
Lakefield Standard: Buttermilk AND
whey are as valuable as skim milk for
hogs, but for quite young animals 1t is
not so suitable, as it deranges their d.
gestive organs and causes scours and
other troubles. 1t should, therefore, be
fed with care. As poultry food
SKINNED milk has been tried at SIS per
ton, side by side with meal scrap and
animal meal at $40 per ton, and
the milk has been found the cheaper. 1t
is protein food and will take the
place of meat scrap, and many dairy
man who also keeps poultry can turn
his skim milk into eggs and stock and
sell it in that form at a nice profit. Last,
but not least good, sweet, skimmel milk
is an article not to be despised as a
human food, Notwithstanding the
Cranky laws of some of our town
and city councils and boards of
health, which won't allow a dairyman
to sell his SKINNED milk for what it is,
1xrIoi 10 Mill 1or w mi Tx
for whole milk, and the wiseacres say
they protect the people SKINNED milk
is quite a nutritious substance and easy OF
digestion. Ii, of course, does not have
the fuel of whole milk, but II Is Just
as rich in blood and tissue making sub
stance, and will, all by itself, make on
excellent lunch III warm weather.
SKINNED milk cheese of course, is not
the best, but all dairy products are
graded and there is market for the
high and low grades. There Is no
reason why people who cannot afford ia
purchase the first grade of products
should go without, and we know there
are many people in that condition. There
fore the manufacture of SKINNED milk
cheese should not be entirely discouraged
Furthermore, it is quite an income to
many a dairyman.
The manure products by the dairy nerd
can properly be called a by-product OF
the DAIRY. quite lulely dll SADSi iiiVh'
station issued a bulletin on fertilizer
values by practical application Barn
yard manure gave value of SEQ per ton
Tho United States department. of rg-i'
culture gives the value of COW manure
at 81 per ton and COW Will produce
thirteen tons OF manure per year, will
proper feeding and necessary bedding
That would place he value of the manure
produced by each COW at S20.
We have concluded that the value Of
manure produced by one cow per yea
is $50 Many ordinary dairy farmers
keep twenty cows. That manure care
fully saved and applied would be worth
as much as $500 worth of commercial fer
tilizer, but by a little negligence arc
carelessncss $780, Or more, is annual!
lott, some going down stream ant
some escaping into the atmos
phere No business on earth car
stand such loss. Time was when !h
farmer could bear It, but that time is NJ
more. Only eight years ago butter wa!
quoted in New York city, in August, a
rs cents per pound; last year 1t brough
16 cents per pound. The time has COM
for us to stop some of the largest leak
or we will sink.
Piclxings FROM the Papers.
| He is already ri oh who has found tina
he can be his best self while strugglin
! fer fortune.
Look over the seed potato pile carefully
If there are scabby potatoes pres7nt tina
| is disease. Don't plant them.
Cow culture has more to deal with tina
| cow rations. If the COW is given plent
l of sound food and pure v alter in clean
warm stall, she won't ask questions abou
| the name of the food.
While the soil is to be cultivated care
| fully and diligently we must not forge
that the soil is only incidental to huma
affairs. The wise man will cultivate him
self.
Fourth of July will come on schedul
time, and it will be hot enough to max
the man who failed to store an ice suppl
engage in the wholesome exercise O
| kicking himself over the back fence.
There is nothing better to stop the leak
on the farm than blank book and lea
pencil. Instead of putting the pencil 1
the leak put it in the book, point down.
Protect exposed places in the whea
field with a mulch of stable manure O
straw. The alternate freezing and thaw
| ing of this season makes such protectio
| especially necessary.
Do not throw dead rats where hog
might get at them. A hog is general
too genteel to eat such a thing; but l
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