Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-12-01

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folio wing plan and see how nicely 1t
works, particularly in the cellar. which
Is usually cool. From the beams sus-
pend Il number of long wires with one
ED bent into a long hook n on these
hooks hang the pals of milk. If n 10
cation neal the middle of the cellar is
or mice to get at the milk. Anything
else nay be suspended from these
hooks in the ain manne by first
placing 1t in a pail or tying it into a
package; any way in which the hook
may be attached will swe The IL
lustration shows how simple this
plan is.
SELECTING SEED CORN.
While the writer believes that the
selection of the SEED corn should be all
through the growing season rather
than at the time of ripening, if this has
not been done ii is an excellent plan to
save the seed corn at the time of husk-
Ing or soon after. If selected at husk-
Ing time much labor is saved later.
Most of my neighbors have a basket
into which they throw selected ear
as they husk: these ears are placed
later by themselves In n portion OF the
barn where 1t is warm and then leisure
days are spent in reselecting. going
over the pile and selecting the very
choicest ears. These are then removed
to another portion of the barn or some
place reserved for seed storage, where
1t is dry but not sufficiently warm to
shrivel the kernels. If the corr is
damp after this second selection 1t
mould be spread u on the o and
we'll dried out before being placed In
the store room. This meInod OF Sc
Letting and caring for the seed corn is
not hard and the result will be a splen-
did Int 0F rood vr,l2@I ILL 4-~ .-~~7
crops.
FEEDING COWS LITERALLY.
1t has been demonstrated time and
again that in order to make the dairy
COW pay she must have heavy feeds of
we'll balanced rations. Indeed, statis-
tics show that a cow fed on about thir-
teen pounds of digestible material daily
made a profit of 3 cents a day for her
owner, while II fed on nearly sixteen
pounds made q profit Of nearly % cents
a day. While this MAJ not seem rea-
sonable 1t is so when we consider that
each animal requires 81 certain amount
OF food to enable 1t to exist in good
health and the amoun the COW eats
beyond this she into milk. If
the amount received beyond what is
necessary for her existence is small
the milk return will be small: il the
amount be liberal the milk return will
" aCSidA III CSCIy All VI lIllS au-
ditional food counts heavily i'm the net
result. This is why it is found that
heavy feeders among cows are the
most profitable. 1t is worth while for
any dafryman to work out this prob
lem for himself along this line. bearing
In mind h a the COW hat Is a heavy
eater is also a heavy drinker, and wa
ter, clean and fresh. with the chill re-
moved In winter. should be supplied
literally. If handled in the manner
suggested together with n clean, CON-
Portable stable, it will be surprising
what results will be obtained. 1t may
q to reduce the herd in order to dc
this liberal feeding at not too much
sacrifice. At any rate II is worth con.
sheraton.
HIGH CORN, BETTER HOGS.
Whenever the crop of corn is high
enough so that the grower is tempted
to turn n part Of his crop into money
then he is forced to feed his hogs
something besides corn. with the result
that they are the better for it. The
writer had an experience OF this kind
when floods destroyed his corn crop
n 1t became necessary to buy grain
for all the stock. Not until that time
would 1t have been possible to persuade
us that any feed was better for hogs
than corn. AS the feed had to be
bought we concluded to test the, to us
theory and the ration that year con-
sisted of about third corn until we
approached the f%attening season. Dur
Ing the season the hogs had the range
n their indoor feed was all sort
OF grain mixed, whatever could b.
bought at lowest prices, not the very
best way to feed, Of course, u 1t was
apparently, better than the all corr
diet. A close record of cost was KEEP
n we GUN that by reason of the
fact thai we were able to market Tho
hogs considerably earlier owing to thu
ration. the expense OF raising them wa.
less h when corn was cheap. Since
then we have sold a portion of the corr
crop for what 1t would bring and pu,
h cash into q variety of grains; ther
loo, we have grown and fed root crop.
and found that helped the profit yer,
materially by reducing the cost fo]
grains.
BUILDING CHEAP POULTRY
HOUSES.
Attention has been called to IN,
necessity for comfortable poultry house.
and the lack of necessity for anythint
beautiful in the form of architecture
One OF the best poultry houses tn.
writer ever saw was a dug out in tn.
hillside. This vas selected becaus,
the owner had a certain amount o.
lumber he could use, but It was no
In shape to make even q passable look.
ing house II built in the open. Els.
pecial care was taken In this case Il
have the house dry and warm and a,
1t faced the southeast glass window.
let In all the light that was needed
A run of considerable size. partly shelf.
cred by a portion Of the hillside CAV,
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