Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-01

The movement in this direction is al
ready on and the cement floor has be-
come very general. Especially in the
en- floor absorbed moisture and odors
and gave out the latter again rein
forced. The wooden floor has been
found impossible to keep clean. :. is
so constantly wet that it has no
chance to be purified by the air. The
same is largely true of the floor in
the private dairy. In the largest milk
selling establishments in Chicago the
cement floor is considered an essential.
as a large quantity of water is daily
used in flooding the floors to ensure
cleanliness. In the long run the ce-
ment floor is cheapest, for it will out.
live several wood floors that are daily
soaked with water.
This week a Wisconsin farmer called
at the Office of the Farmers Review.
Incidentally he mentioned that he was
trying to make living producing milk
and cream. Inquiry ELECTED the fact
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cows. A few of them are grade Jer-
seys and grade Holsteins, but the
larger number are simply COWS"
There is dairy bull near, put he pre-
fers a shorthorn bull and is trying to
get up herd of good mixers by grad
ing up with Shorthorn blood 1t is
very difficult thing to convince such
men that they are on the wrong track;
that they are breeding away from the
dairy instead Of toward it. Shorthorns
are good for beef. and now and then
an exceptional mixer is found among
them, but as a general principle they
are not the animals on which we can
depend when we want to raise deer
and persistent mixers.
applied for the purpose of washing
the buttermilk from the granules. and
to make the body of the butter firmer.
The water when applied should not be
warm, but both the butte-milk and
the water that is to wash it out should
be in the neighborhood of so degrees.
Too much water should not be used.
One rule is to use one-third as much
water as there is buttermilk. The
washing will be completed when the
butter is placed on the worker. The
buttermilk should have been previous
ly drawn off. AS soon as the water
for washing is put into the churn
the latter should be revolved a few
times, il a barrel churn. and If the
old-fashioned dash churn is used, the
work should be quickly doue with the
dasher, and the water drawn Off
This is necessary If as much flavor
as possible is to be retained in the
butter. Two washings of this kind
are sufficient to wash all the butter
milk from between the butter gran
ules. Remember that the butter must
never be allowed to soak in the water.
else the butter when made up will
lack favor and become fiat and some
times tallowy.
Poultry Briefs.
Grit is good thing for the poul-
try and it is good for the poultryman.
The man that lacks grit will never
amount to much as a poultry raiser
We have never heard of any success
full poultry producer that did not in
his early experience sustain losses
that would discourage a weak-minded
man.
Our poultry industry is still in a
crude state, when compared with that
of the older countries in the world. We
have tried to civilize our birds too
much as to the class OF food they shall
eat. In state of nature the diet OF
the fowl is exceedingly varied. and con-
sists very largely OF grass and insects.
To get the best results from them We
must be guided by the instincts of the
fowls for these very things.
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One poultryman says that he keeps
lice out Of the nests by sprinkling in
them coal ashes that have had some
crude carbolic acid on them. He says
that to saturate the ashes he puts about
a bushel of them in a tight box and
puts in two or three spoonfuls of crude
carbolic acid. This box ne keeps shut
for some days, when the ashes are
thoroughly permeated with the smell
OF the acid. We have never tried this
but it will do to test
We heard some time ago OF a young
man that solved the question of meat
food for his poultry by feeding them
on rabbit meat He trapped the rab7
bits. killed and skinned them. and
hung them up where the hens could
get at them. The result was that he
supplied eggs to the market in winter
time when they brought so cents per
dozen. This might not be bad idea
in localities where rabbits are super
abundant. and bring little or nothing
for human food.
Once In awhile we find people that
complain about their non-success with
incubators. The answer is always
ready: they have tried to raise chicks
by means of an incubator without un-
Outstanding the principles on which
they arc working. Let no person sup
pose that they can succeed in any
branch of farming without a certain
amount of knowledge acquired by ex.
perience. A man that takes to rails
ing chicks in incubators and with the
assistance of breeders should expect
to sustain some losses in learning how.
We notice in an exchange a model
poultry house with yards. From the
Illustration we judge that the yards
are about four times as large as the
room devoted to each flock in the