Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-15

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and on a most economical basis. Those
who nave tested root crop feeding proper
ly, without materially cutting down the
regular ~rations, know the value or them
and would not think of cutting them out
of the regulation feeds.
THE VALUE OF SKIM MILK.
The feeding value of skim milk to calves
or pigs depends much on what the ami
mails are TO be used for. If one Is raising
a fine pig or calf the skim milk has a
greater value than if the animal is to go to
the block. Further, some skim milk is OF
such little value that it ought not to be
fed at all. Indeed, il may be fairly said
that If the skim milk is, not fresh and
sweet it's main value is that of so much
mixing fluid. 1t seems to those who have
experimental with the feeding of skim
milk that it has its greatest value when
given to poultry; beyond a question it is
one of the greatest 81 producers that can
be fed either by itself or mixed with bran
and other meals forming mash. Unless
one has pigs or calves that it is desired to
raise 60 add to the herd 1t is advised that
the bulk of the skim milk that is fresh and
sweet go to the poultry; at least give
them all they will consume. BY careful
watch it will be sene that such feeding is
an economy even though it did not largely
increase the egg production, which 1t does.
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The writer is thoroughly in sympathy
with the strong trend toward country life
as shown by many city residents but there
are many conditions so different from the
old life which must be met in the new,
it is hard to advise just what to do under
all circumstances. An anxious city man
writes that he is earning nearly $50 a week
in his city work and asks if it would be a
wise move for him to throw UP his job,
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$1,000. Here is a case where we can advise
strongly to the negative. The unfortunate
part of the proposition is that the man in
question says he is able to save but little
money. This being the case he had best
do some rigorous pruning on the expense
side of his affairs. Many men are similarly
located, in a large city but within daily
reach of his business, though few of them
enjoy such an income. In similar cases it
would be an excellent plan to buy a small
er farm near some live town and within
easy reach of the city SO that he could go
back and forth daily. Keep the city posi-
ton, move the family onto the farm and
use a portion of the income to hire a good
farmer to run the place. This can be done
and, if he and his family are fairly econ
omical, he will find his weekly salary will
readily cover all expense assuming that
the farm yields no income, which would be
a supposition hardly fair. This plan would
enable him to have a general supervision
of the farm night and morning, his family
would be healthier and happier and soon
the farm would yield a fair income. I'd
like such a proposition if l were but 40
years old with a family Of but four. A
young friend on a salary of $50 a week is
doing this same thing and is paying for his
farm out of it's returns together with the
saving from his salary over previous ex-
DanSpS others can do II If thew go about
1t right.