Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-12-02

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following plan and see how nicely II
works, particularly in the cellar, which
is usually cool. From the beams sus-
pend q number of long wires with n
end bent into 81 long hook and on these
hooks hang the pals of milk. If a To-
cation near the middle of the cellar is
chosen it will be difficult for the rats
or mice to get at the milk. Anything
else may be suspended from these
hooks in the same ann by first
placing it in a pail or tying ii into a
package; any way in which the hook
may be attached will answer. The IL
l~ustration shows how simple this
SELECTING SEED CORN.
While the writer believes that the
selection of the seed corn should be all
through the growing aso rather
than at the time of ripening, IL this has
not been done it is an excellent plan to
save the seed corr 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 ears
as they husk; these ears are placed
later by themselves in a portion OF the
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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
it is dry but not sufficiently warm TO
shrivel the kernels. IL the corn is
damp after this second selection ii
should be spread out on the floor and
we'll dried out before being placed in
the store room. This method OF Sc
lecting and caring for the seed corn is
not hard and the result will be q SPLEEN
did LOT Of seed which viii bring good
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
well 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 one fed on nearly sixteen
pounds made a profit of nearly 25 cents
a day. While this may not seem rea-
sonable it is so when we consider that
each animal requires a certain amount
of food to enable it to. exist in good
health and the amount the COW eats
beyond this she converts into milk. If
the amount received beyond what is
necessary for her existence is small
the milk return will be small: if the
amount be liberal the milk return will
be liberal and every ounce OF this adj
ditional food counts heavily in the net
result. This is why 1t is found that
heavy feeders among cows are the
most L e -.c-.H .-h:ic ssor
any dairyman to work out this prob
lem for himself along this line, bearing
in mind hat the COW that 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. a clean. com
Portable stable, it will be surprising
what results will be obtained. 1t may
pay to reduce the herd in order to do
this liberal feeding al not too much
sacrifice. AT any rate it is worth con-
sideration.
HIGH CORN, BETTER HOGS.
Whenever the crop of corn is high
enough 50 that the grower is tempted
to turn a parl 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 1t. The
writer had an experience of this kind
when floods destroyed his corn crop
n IL became necessary to buy grain
for all the stock. Not until that time
would it have been possible to persuade
us that any feed was better Tor hogs
than corn. As the feed had TO be
bought we concluded to test the. to us,
theory and the ration hat year con
sisted of about one-third corn until we
approached the fattening season. Dur
ing the season the hogs had the range
and their indoor feed was all sorts
of grain mixed, whatever could be
bought at lowest prices, not the very
best way to feed, of course. but ii was,
apparently, better thar the all corn
diet. Al close record of cost was kept
and we found that by reason of the
fact hat we We're able to market the
hogs considerably earlier owing to the
ration, the expense of raising them was
less than when corn was cheap. Since
then we have sold a portion OF the corn
crop for what it would bring n put
the cash into a variety OF grains; then
too, we have grown and fed root crope
and found that helped the profit very
materially by reducing the icost for
grains.
BUILDING CHEAP POULTRY
HOUSES.
Attention has been called To the
necessity for comfortable poultry houses
and the lack OF necessity for ANYTHING
beautiful in the form OF architecture
One OF the best poultry houses the
writer we saw was a dug out in the
hillside. This was selected because
the owner had a certain amount OF
lumber he could use, but 1t was no
In shape TO make even q passable look
Ing mousse If built in the open. Es-
peciai care was taken In this case To
have the house dry and warm and as
IL faced the southeast glass windows
in all the light that was needed.