The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-15

ing for IA COW is the one which permits
her to move her mead in any direction at
will. and with Il fastening sufficiently
long so that She may lie down or step
around a little. OF course il will. not do
TO give her rope enough so chat she will
get in trouble herself or get other COWS in
trouble. Arrange the feed. both the grain
and the roushage. so that she can reach
1t readily. Yet not SO she can get at and
trliAplc 1t under her feet. Any sort of All
arrangement which will enable the COW to
live in the manner described is an ideal
ARA ngr whether ii be Il box stall
Of black walnut or i fence stall such as
recently described with a stout rope to
tic the animal. a good alSc and a feed
ing rack. Try and plan something of this
nature and place the stalls. whatever they
may be. so the cows will get a ray OF sun
night through th" window, ut lcas; occa-
sionally.
INSIDE CURTAINS FOR POULTRY
HOUSES.
No matter how comfortable the
poultry house is ordinarily, il 1t has
any glass in it some provision should be
made for covering that glass during cold
nights ii the necessity arises. An excellent
and Il cheap way of doing this is to provide
curtains OF heavy unblcachcd muslin. bur-
lap or 4 strip of carpet. Flsten the lower
end to a roller, using an old broom handle
IL notnlng better offers, and lacking the
upper edge TO this window frame. Then.
oy sewing 4 loop or lacking it to the roller
ana having a nail in the upper part of the
window frame it il easy to roll the curtain
up out OF the way during the day. In the
event of the poultry house having a consid-
cradle eXpanse Of glass something Of this
kind is absolutely essential even in the
middle sections of the country if the fowls
have large combs and wattles. We have
an ~arranscmen similar to this in front of
the roosts and have found that it has saved
more than one comb from becoming FROST
ed. Another thing we do when a cold night
is to be expected. Tn floor of the house is
covered quite thickly with straw: THIS is
done that the fowls may have something
warm to walk over and peck through in
the house early on a cold morning and find
a number of fowls cuddled down in the
straw. Be assured that anything you do
FOR the comfort of the birds pays well.
CLEAN FEEDING DISHES.
1t is very much easier to care for poultry
and have them bring one satisfactory re-
turns If the dishes they use for feed and
water are kept clean. Manufacturers are
now putting on the market a cheap dish.
an Imitation Of the high in price enamel
ware, which car be used for u long time in
the poultry houses and which are much
better than those of wood or tin. AS these
dishes are made in several shapes it is easy
to buy such as meets ones wants. We
have a number of dripping pans which, as
the reader probably knows, are shallow
and fifteen inches long by seven or eight
inches wide and having d bale a: either
end. These are ideal pam for soft foods
and by using Il number of them one
avoids the ov~er-crowding of the fowls
which always takes place when a regula-
ton trough is used. Water is given in
4 smaller n n1 1aaTNpr. 1ncit,c ,,,J all of %1.
vessels are taken to the house daily and
washed with scalding water then set in the
sun, If possible. for u few hours. In this
manner things are kept absolutely clean
and the fowls eat with much more zest
than would be possible if the dishes
smellcd musty or sour. The grain food is
always scattered through the chan on the
floor which makes the fowls do the neces-
sary amount of scratching needed for exer-
else. This grain food is never fed in any
other way unless it is Il part of the soft
mash. Mixed dinners. as we call them,
consisting of mixed grains in Il mash
warmed and mixed with bits of potatoes.
cabbage, apples and any other green food
are also fed in the clean dishes and hence
none of it is wasted.
FEEDING COTTON SEED MEAL.
Many mistakes are made in the feeding
of cottonseed meal. feeders forgetting for
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trated food and needs u pretty strong
soTiac to handle II: hence It should be
fed sparingly to young stock. AS a food
by itself 1t will not do for any consider
able period. but as one of a mixture it
has great value even at a price as high as
a ton provided the other grains used
are not too high in price. A fine mixture
is corn meal. the grinding of the corn and
the cob together and the cottonseed meal.
Or, bran may be used when the corn is
ground with the cob, but in the latter case
the ratio should be two parts of the cot
tonsecd meal to one part each of the corn
meal and the wheat bran.
THE WALKER APPLE.
First shown in any quantity at the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo. the Walk
err apple has since been tried in various
sections and found all that was claimed for
1T. Its exceedingly attractive appearance
makes 1t valuable as a market sort and it
has the added merit of being of fair quail
ity although not by any means a first class
apple in this respect. However, it is much
better than Ben Davis and quite as attrac-
tive. In size 1T is a little above the Medium
and in color Is particularly attractive being
striped with brilliant red. Under test It
proves to be only q fair bearer but this
may be improved as the trees grow older.
Mention of the variety is made in this de-
partment only because the variety is .,
promising one and seems worthy of genera
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