Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-09-08
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| crops from which they hope to make mon-
ey they would find they were profitable.
On the other hund a hundred or two barn
/ yard fowls, a mixture of fifty strains left
to care for themselves will generally re-
suit in failure, and If the farmer had to
buy the food they ate instead or raising
It there would be no barn yard fowls on
farms. II there were any they would be
of decent breeds. Loo into this matter
il you are inclined to ascertain II there
is money In poultry.
KEEPING OLD SOWS.
We have no patience with the man who
makes II a business to kill off his old
sows each year for the few dollars he
will get for the carcass. Good breeders
are not over plenty and when one hnds
such a. treasure he should hold on to II
for three or four years, or until she be-
gins to have weak filters, then put her
in shape for market. One might have
more of such good breeders if a little more
attention was given to keeping them in
good shape by proper feeding care. Give
the good breeding SOW a chance on the
range, good food and water when in the
pen and she'll prove profitable.
DISlNFECTING STABLES.
Even though the stables are arranged
with cement troughs which carry off the
excrement and the solid manure il
cleaned out daily, more attention in the
way of dis.nfecting is necessary in order
to have the milk as free from ain as II
should be for human consumption. Many
dairymen disinfect the animals as well
as the stables which Is an excellent plan.
For this purpose nothing Is better than
creoIin, which may be safely used OF
stock in a one per cent. solution; that is
a tablespoonful to each half gallon Of
water. This is applied TO the headquarters
Of the animal with a fine sprayer and is
done three times a week. The same dis
infect, four times the strength, should
be used on the floors and in the gutter
two or three times weekly. The walls OF
the stable should also be disinfected and
this is readily tone by first spraying on
them a strong solution of creolin and the
next day embarrassing them, putting the
lime on thick. This requires time, of
course, but there is al immense amount
OF satisfaction I'm having clean stables and
animals to say nothing OF the heaTthful-
ness OF this condition.
CURING LIMBER NECK.
The writer is one OF the ~poultrymer who
does not temporize with the disease
known as limberneck, but cuts Off the
heads OF the animals when II is discovered
and buries the carcass. Possibly if we
had a less number of birds we would not
take such drastic measures, but we can
not afford to take any chances. Usually
limberneck is contracted by eating spoiled
meat in which the eggs Of maggots are
concealed. These are taken into the crop
and they affect the brain so that the bird
staggers and twists its neck, hence the
name. The t~urpentine remedy is a good
one and were our focks smaller we would
use it. 1t consists of pouring a tablespoon
full Of turpentine into the crop and then
Immediately after several tablespoonsful
Of water as warm as the fowl can stand
il. Hold the head of the fowl up and with
the hand work the crop around as much
as possible. Then let the fowl eject az
much Of this as 1t can and then fill the
crop as full Of warm water as possible,
hold the fowl by the feet, head downward
and work out as much Of the contents OF
the crop as possible. Fill the crop again
and a third time If necessary in order that
all OF the maggots and eggs may be eject
ed. The stuff that comes from the crop
should be buried so that no other fowls
can get at it and thus contract the dis
ease.
INVESTIGATE HAND SEPARAToRS
When local conditions are such that IL
pays to take the milk to a creamery then
1T may be policy to save the cost of a hand
separator, but where one has worked on
this plan for a number OF years and COTTON
but little out Of 1t the hand separator
question ought to interest them. Here
are some of the advantages of this ma
chine OF which there are several reliable
makes on the market. There is no vast
ing of the butter fat as when the separa-
ton IS done by hand in the old fashioned
way. You get the warm sweet milk to
feed TO swine and poultry instead of cart
LIZ home a lot of MIXED skim milk from the
creamery as now. The amount of butter
you can make and sell will net a much
greater return than will be received from
the creamery. We believe that If one has
six cows or more and a lot of poultry or
swine that the cost OF the machine will
be saved in the value OF the sweet milk
for feeding purposes saying nothing at all
about the increased value of the butter
product. Better look into the matter,
friend.
MOVABLE HOUSE FOR TURKEYS
Following along the line of argument
advanced in these columns many times In
favor Of keeping the poultry on the range
as late in the fall as possible, the reader
will be interested in the movable poultry
house here described. The runners are
formed by the fastening together of two
heavy planks n the ends are trimmed so
as to turn upward a trile. Then a hole is
bored through the end of each runner
through which q chain may be slipped to
be attached to a whifie-tree so that when
the horse 1t attached the house may be
drawn to any portion of the range desired.
The house may be made any dimensions
desired, six by eight feet or eight by ten
feet, being the average size. When made
for the use of turkeys only the sides are
Of solid lumber, the backs and ends be-
ing covered with strong wire netting to
permit free ventilation. The roosts are
placed as high as is possible for turkeys