The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-03-09
THE INSTITUTE.
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ull1k her yourself before you MAKE a
purchase. And be guarded against an
other very serious fault, yet not often
found. of the COW sucking herself.
Have the cows milk tested.
would never attempt to select a
general purpose COW, as I would ex-
pect to fail at both ends. Select the
best breed suited to your condition and
the breed you are most in sympathy
with. and with proper care and plenty
of food; if you fail, mine times out of
ten it will be your fault more surely
than that of the COW.
Speaking Of foods and feeding s..
@. Raynor said that there were three
things which makes food valuable,
viz; its digestibility, its composition
and its manurial value.
The dIgestibility of the fodder crops
we grow is largely in the hands of the
farmer. Our cured folders are quite
digestible when cut and cured about
the blooming stage, and all our hay
crops come under this head,
Mixed grain crops used for hay fod-
der should be cut when the grain is il
the milk stage. Buta the corn plant
might.be considered an exception, in
that its feeding value is best when the
corn has reached the glazed condition.
In the full flush of pasture, it is
found that grass will grow all the
wants of our animals. Then if we
could make June conditions all the
year around, we would have the best
possible conditions for feeding stock
But naturally we don't have them. SO
we attempt to initiate them as closely
as we can.
This is accomplished in July and
August by growing a soiling crop or
supplementary food. such as mixture
of peas and oats cut and fed green.
Later on green corn may be used in
similar way.
In winter time we initiate summer
conditions as much as possible by pro-
viding some succulent food such as corn
ensiIage or roots, or better, some of
each. The succulent food helps the
animal to digest the dry and bulky
foods to advantage. as well as to keep
the body in healthy condition.
In oats we have the illustration of a
balanced food, and is generally recog-
nized as being about the best single
grain a farmer can feed. Oats and
bran are good for building up the bone
of growing animals. There are some
other things to be taken into consider
alton in feeding animals, such as shell
ter, exercise, individuality, succulence,
variety, regularity, etc.
HYGIENE OF THE HOME.
DR.. Mary Milestone and Miss
Blanche Maddox entertained the
ladies at the Methodist church on the
afternoons of Monday and Tuesday.
DR.. Milestone lectured on the hygiene
of the home and said that situation or
aspect can only be remedied by pulling
the house down. The best situation
FIR house is on the slope of a hill
near the top, facing south, southeast or
east, and if no trees grow on the loca-
ton chosen FOR your house, lose no
time in planting some, but not SO near
it as to shut out the sunshine. No
matter on what kind of soil you build,
lift is not possible to put cellar under
the whole house, then remove the sur
face soil, put on a layer of charcoal,
then one of cement under that portion
of the house where there is no cellar.
Plan your house SO that the sun may
enter the rooms occupied the most
hours during the day. Plan for a
piazza enclosed with wire screens in
summer at front and rear of the house,
accessible to dining room and kitchen.
The construction of stairs in houses re-
! quires more attention than they usu-
ally receive. This is particularly true
of the cellar stairs. Al rise of six inches
and football ofeleven inches is about
right. OF all the rooms in the house
the functions of the kitchen are most
essential to the family welfare. In
planning a house see that the kitchen
is WelI-lighted in all kinds of weather,
with good ventilation and roomy
enough to work with comfort Have a
hood or sliding ventilator constructed
over the stove and connected with the
chimney, SO as to carry off the heat
and od0rs. For convenience the wood
shed should adjoin the kitchen If the
kitchen floor is not of hardwood it
should be covered with lineoleum or
paint. Provide the kitchen "wet
sink' with both well and cistern
pumps by it and conduct the waste
/ water awav from the house r. a suunv