Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-07-28
The Iowa State Agricultural College
Makes Several Very Interest
ing Announcements.
SUGGESTIONS MADE TO THE DAIRYMEN.
County Fairs-WOrking for the
Soldier Boys-Bids for state War
rants Called For-Other State News
of Interest.
Especial correspondence

tural college by two important an
nouncements from that institution, be-
sides the opening of the summer term
last week Prof. j. L. Budd, for % years
head of the horticultural departments
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 well known among the
horticulturists of Europe, where he
has visited and made Investigations.
The late Charles Downing, of New
York, then the leading horticultural
F,
his entire private library and all his
notes and papers on Horticultural sub
iects to Prof. Budd and requested the
latter to revise and prepare 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. -'
..s.r Farmers Excursions.
The most important announcement
that has come from the college for
some time is the provision for an ex-
.cursion, or several excursions, OF farm
ers to the experiment station and farm
in connection with the college. Farm
ers will be brought from about IS
miles on the Northwestern 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
ried on there.
The experiment station and agricul-
tural department of the college are
now under the direction of Prof c. F.
'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. L. Fl. 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 it.
.f. Numerous Suggestions.
State Dairy Commissioner Gates has
issued a 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 creameries. The pamphlet
also contains the dairy laws. Some Of
the general suggestions made to dairy
men are as follows:
l. 1t is a good thing to know how to do,
but it is far better thing to do as well
as we know. t.-Ee E.s
,, @ Each dairyman should strive to pro-
educe the best and sweetest milk, then see
to it himself that it is delivered to the
factory in the best possible condition.
8. Let each patron support his 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 manufacturer
working in unison. = #Etta5
A. Own and milk good cows. If you have
poor ones send them to the butcher.
5. Never use or sell milk from diseased
or unhealthy cows. 1t is dangerous even
to feed it to the pigs.
6. Keep the COW warm and dry.
n1a bright food in variety to
produce good results.
s. Do not allow cow to drink water you
would not drink yourself
9. Keep the cow clean by using plenty of
clean, bright bedding.
10. Milk with clean, dry hands, and as
quickly as possible.
II. Strain milk through cloth thick
enough to retain any particles of dust or
litter that may be in it.
II. 1t takes as much muscle to milk
one hard milking cow as it does to milk
four or five easy mixers. Sell her.
Is. Treat cows quietly and kindly; eN-
citement affects the quantity and quality
of milk.
IA. Remember when filling cans with
SKINNED milk at the creamery, that 1t is
not always the other fellow that needs
watching.
15 The cornstalk, either shredded or in
,ensilage, Is one of the best foods for the
cow. Hundreds of thousands OF dollars
worth of this feed are annually lost in
Iowa.
16. In freezing weather, scald milk pan
covers just before starting the milk for
the factory. Then cream will not stick
and freeze in them. Also cover cans.
II. Wish you would write me what the
cash value of SKINNED milk or whey is
to you as returned from the creamery or
cheese factory.
AS Mr.. Gates is a practical dairyman
himself, these suggestions will be well
received.
Gambling at Fairs.
The new law which prohibits any
sort of gambling devices on the
grounds of any county or district fair
which receives aid from the state has
been construed to prohibit cane racks,
baby racks and any and all schemes
: where the element of chance figures,
There is probably not county or dis
trict fair in the state that has not had
some of these money-malsing DEVICES
in operation upon its grounds during
fairs. IL they are continued, the So
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