Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-07-19
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Mr. WiEelDtou Gives Some Piaiu. Practical Truths
Ab,ut Farming ard DairyIug.

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! are net contented but want more land
Let's see You raised last year an aver
! age 33 bushels corn to the acre and 50 Of
oats your hay gave you p ton ard a
/ quarter TO the acre. your potatoes 95
! bushels, you got $50 from your poultry
/ your cows returned you $50 each sor
/ cream sold, your steers sold good way
under the top of the market and the on
I ly full blooded thing you have on the
1 farm is n shepherd dog. which followed
/ YOU home from town one day. See here
/ Yon don't watt any more land Ii you
/ had more sures TO work yOur crops
| would be stillsmaIer The trouble Ia
the acres you have want q coat of
| brains We passed your place the other
| day and sag your stock eating up and
wasting poorly builL stack of what
| was last July fine timothy and clover
| hay; we saw your miIch cows one cold
morning. out In the cornfield foTaging
among the stalks AMI noticed toward
! night that your hens roasted IN Trees
around the barn. We also saw your
| wife, with shawl over her head. dig
/ ging around the wOod-pile to get little
| dry wood to cook your supper with, and
| you recollect we met You in town loaf
| irs' on a dry goods box and cussing the
government You know that Your hoy
| was pulled before the mayor for getting
| drunk and raising Cain one night lately,
and that about that time one Of your
| best horses was ruined with 8 barbed
| wire cut because the halter rope was
! rotten and the barn door off the hinges.
You don't want any more land The
more you have the worse you be off,
Better stop and have a good thinking
spell all by yourself and see if you cant
better Yourself under existing condi.
tions II is entirely possible for you on
| this farm to donble your present income,
and that's no joke either Brains and
work will make the old farm give vou
| 60 bushels of corn TO the acre two and
| a half tons Of hay, 55 bushels of oats,
| you can get $500 income from your
| cows and youT poultry yard should give
| you $3.50 if properly managed Run ia
! debt, if need be, FOR a manure spreader
| tomorrow, and get those 400 loads Of
manure which makes a bog Of your
/ baruyard, ont into the fields. Test those
cows and fife the uuprot able ones
/ get $3.50 bull at the head Of Your herd
SOW st !, ,st twenty acIes of clover this
spring and every spring hereafter Ro-
| tate your crops, build silo save your
corn fodder, get dry wood handy r
! your wife quit loahng in town. fiji your
home with good reaGing matter and
| quit cussing the administration and
wishing for more land You viii think
| inside Of three years, yOu nave more than
| you can work.
The foregoing is perhaps not very
nicely said, but 1t is the truth with a lot
Of farmers. You viii find it the same
in all Glasses Of business Keep salt
where the stock can get It, When they
go on grass they use an unusual an Nunt
Of it, They like their greens favored
! Remember that cloth milk strainers do
not improve with age. Smell of them
and they are old. really stink. Get 81
new one every three or four times q
| week, Use plenty Of washing powder
| when waahln your separator and uten.
sils II is dlsinfectant and cleanser.
| Candle your eggs before you take them
10 the store. got twelve rotten ones
Cor dozen the other day. Do not lei
/ the sun get on your cream cans while
| going to the creamery. after you have
! zone 20 So much trunhle keeping 1t cool
! a. home Skim about q 30 or 80 per
cert cream, There is no use bringing
so much skim milk Ia the factory. We
I
| so per cent every since the creamery
! started
Some Of the patrons ask why their
! test varies ST the creamery as some as
| serted Il aid from year 30 year or month
to month In the first place, no one can
| tell in all cases why COW or a herd var
iee, as they undoubtedly do. in the
/ amount of their test from month TO
I 1vFfh "a ysyn
/ produce this variation but all Of them
| we are not able 10 discover An expert
/ dairymau who gives his herd constant
care. who knows they are receiving good
even care and good even feed and espe-
cially If they aue watered regularly with
| pure water at q temperature which they
| ike, can sag with considerable certain
| ty that the herd will not vary very
much from day 90 day No Cne but the
| dalryf9au who has constant care Of the
herd can tell anything about tie varia-
| ton Is is useIess 20 ask the buttermak'
| er at the creamery why there is a ditier-
| euce In this test because be can know
| very little Hb0ut the herd X COWS which
he is testing. He is simply able to tell
| the patron the exact amount of the test
| Of the MIX 0r cream and u is strictly
up 20 the patron to tiud out about wny
| this difference exists The buttermaker
can neither make the test good nor poor
| unless ha is ,ljshonest Il Is q matter of
indifference to him aud the patron must
not think Ii is the creamery which
makes the amount Of the test, but the
| patron himself is the one who does this
! II y0ur tess rnus lower than last time,
do not go 70 the buttermaker showing
your teeth, but think back the last two
/ weeks and see If you can't find the
/ cause Yonr separator did not work ~
it shgnld someone else ran IT, You
will find the cause at home somewhere.
! N WfGGINTON
Bloomingdale, July 10