Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-08-02
Of INTEREST 70 FARMERS.
The Iowa State Agricultural Colleges
Makes Several Very interest
ing Announcements.
SUGGESTIONS MADE TO THE oAIRYMEA.
Penalty for Allowing Gambling at
County Fnirs-Working for the
Soldier Doys-Bids for State War;
rants Called For-othcr State NewS
of Interest.
Especial correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, July 25.-Attention
has been drawn to the state agricul-
tural college by. two important an
nouncements from that institution, be-
sides the opening of the summer term
last week. Prof. j. LsBudd, for % years
head of the horticultural department
of the college, has resigned to take
effect December 81, 1898. He retires
solely because he desires to complete
the important literary enterprises
which he has long had in mind. AT
this time there is no dispute that Prof.
Budd is the highest authority on horti-
cultural subjects in the United States.
He has done more to develop horticul-
ture in Iowa, and particularly to in
troduce fruit culture in the northern
part of the state, than any other so
men in iowa 1t was he who intro
duced and championed and demon
strated the usefulness of the Russian
fruits. For about 20 years he was
secretary of the Iowa Horticultural
society. He is we'll known among the
horticulturists of Europe, where he
has visited and made Investigations.
The late Charles Downing. of New
York, then the leading horticultural
authority in this country, bequeathed
his entire private library and all his
notes and papers on horticultural sub
jects to Prof. Budd and requested the
latter to revise and prepare a new edi-
ton of Downing's famous work,
"Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, !"
which is a standard reference work.
To this task Prof. Budd will now de-
vote himself, and will also bring out
other works.
farmers Excursions.
The most important announcement
that has come from the college for
some time is the provision for an ex-
cursiop, or several excursions. of farm
ers to the experimen station and farm
in connection with the college. Farm
ers will be brought from about 70
miles on-the Northwe.tern railway
and will be given an opportunity to see
what the experiment station is doing
for them. They will spend day at the
college and will go away with better
opinion of the experiments being car
r1ed on there.
The experiment station and agrieul-
tural department of the college are
now under the direction of Prof. c. r.
Curtiss, who was associated with Prof.
James Wilson before he became secre-
tary of agriculture. The last bulletin
of the experiment station is treatise
on the Russian thistle, prepared by
Prof. Z. II. Pammell, of the college. He
gives much Information about this
troublesome post, tells where it has
gained a foothold in Iowa and how
to eradicate 1t.
Numerous Suggestions.
State Dairy Commissioner Gates has
issued pamphlet to the dairymen of
the state in which he makes numerous
suggestions as to the care OF cows,
cans, the testing of milk and the man
agement of cpeameries, The pamphlet
also contains the dairy laws. Some of
the general suggestions made to dairy
men are as follows:
l. 1t Is good thing to know how to do,
Out II Is b ldT pelleI llliN6 ~ ~ iS nEbA
as we know.
2. Each dairyman should strive to pro-
duce the best and sweetest milk, then see
to 1t himself that It Is delivered to the
factory In the best possible condition.
8. Let each patron uppopt bis own
creamery, and do all in his power to make
1t successful. successful and paying
creamery business can hardly be built up
without the patron and the manufacture
working in unison,
4. Own and milk good cows. II you have
poor ones, send them to the butcher.
s. Never use or sell milk from diseased
or unhealthy cows. 1t is dangerous even
to feed 1t to the pigs
6. Keep the COW warm and dry.
Z. Feed clean, bright food in variety to
produce good results
s. Do not allow a cow to drink water you
would not drink yourself
9. Keep the COW clean by using plenty OF
clean, bright bedding.
TO- Milk With cleaa, dry hands. and as
quickly as possible.
H. Strain milk through cloth thick
enough to retain any particles OF dust OF
litter that may be in it.
u. 1t takes as much muscle TO Milh
one hard milking COW as 1t does TO mill
four or five easy mixers Gel! her.
49, Treat COWS quietly and kindly eN.
citement affects the quantity and quality
of milk.
IA. Remember when filing cans with
skinned milk at the creamery. that 1t is
not always tho other fellow that need:
watching.
10. The cornstalk, either shredded or i.
ensilage, is one of the best foods for tn,
COW. Hundreds of thousands OF dollars
worth Of this feed are annually lost II
iowa.
49, In freezing weather scald milk pal
covers just before starting the milk 70
the factory. Then cream will not sticl
and freeze in them. Also cover cans.
II. Wish you would write me what tn
| cash value of skinned milk or whey !
cheese factory.
AS Mr.. Gates is practical dairymal
himself, these suggestions will be wei
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