Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-02
Agricdltural lore

basement facing the south and east.
The sunlight can get into this and be
of untold benefit in keeping the sheep
quarters in good condition. It is
also very desirable to have the sun
light for sheep and lambs during cold
weather. If you have one hundred
ewes, divide your barn space into four
parts. When the lambs begin to come
transfer the eve and lamb to another
pen and keep filling up the pens as
fast as the lambs appear. keeping the
older ones together. This will pre-
vent injury to the young ones. See
that the pens are we'll bedded with
straw and that the ewes get plenty
of salt and fresh %ater Silage from
corn is probably the best feed for
sheep. 1t should be cut after the
corn has glazed. Feed this morning
and night and at neon feed roots and
hay. Do not give more than the sheep
will eat up clean every time.
The lambs should begin to come
about the middle of December or
January /. The basement should be
warm enough SO that the temperature
will reach IS degrees during the warm
part of the day. OF course, sheep
must have plenty of fresh air, but he
sure that draughts do not strike
them. Let the lambs run out in the
yard as much as possible, and when
old enough to wean put them into a
pen by themselves and give them
cornmeal, bran and all the silage they
will eat. BY this treatment the lambs
will be ready for early spring market.
William H. Stage, in American Agri-
culturist.
Dairy Gleanings.
1t is not always the man with the
biggest herd of cows who clears the
most money from his dairy.
Gilt edged butter is more to be de-
sired on the average customers plate
than any delicacy of the season.
The reason some farmers never ex-
tract the latent gold in dairy cows is
that they persist in looking to the
grain and corn fields for it.
The dairywoman who churns before
sun up in the morning often makes
grained butter without the use of
ice.
1t is curious fact, and yet true,
that some of the most profitable mo-
ments any one engaged in dairying
can spend are in repeated washing of
the hands.
1t is a parody on cleanliness to
try to strain filth out of milk when it
might have been obviated by the ex-
ercises of the most ordinary precau-
lions.
Despite all of the laws to the con-
trary skinned cheese is yet sold for
full cream" and oleomargarine for
real butter. Where is the remedy?
Those people who consider milking
irksome will never make good dairy
men.
While it pays to raise hogs in con-
junction with the dairy, it never has
or never will pay the mandatory to
keep the swine quartered near a
creamery.
In the writer's experience, the aver
age man cannot milk more than ten
COWS with profit at one sitting. The
reason is that tired muscles cannot
extract the milk from the udder with
proper facility. Moral: Do not hug
the delusion that you are economizing
when you throw a large amount of
work onto your mixers.
1t is wanton waste to throw fodder
corn in the whole stalk before cows,
especially if the canes are spread
about the fields. The cattle will de-
stroy with their hoofs at least half of
the fodder SO fed. It will always pay
to cut the canes up and feed them
from a manger.
Now and then we run against people
who can be taught nothing more in
regard to dairying. These are in
variably the ones who are not making
more than two-thirds possible profits
out of the business.
butter once week is to be commend
ed, but the one who can make it uni
formly good every day in the week
need look no further for a profitable
vocation.
Some consumers like butter sailed
more than others. and the wise pro-
Queer will always consult the tastes
of his customers in this regard.
Color is only skin deep in a COW;
go more by the contour and size of
her udder. | once knew a dairyman
who never purchased new COW until
he himself had sat down and MIXED
her. 1t is needless to add that he sell
dom made a poor purchase.-George
E. Newell. in Nebraska Farmer.
CRANBERRY INDUSTRY is BIG.