The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-09

inc CHICKS TO get Cnllied. IL tney get too
cold they have the brooder to go to. This
shed is lighted SO that any sunlight there
may be gets into it. Each compartment
is so divided that the chicks have the
several kinds of food, a place to scratch in
tcovered with clean dry sand and even
shallow dust boxes, for we believe in
teaching the chicks to dust as early as
possible. In each yard, so called, is
everything the chick would find out of
doors, except animal food and green food.
For the former It is best they wait until
turned out but for the latter we give
them. occasionally, a few bits of raw po-
tato chopped very fine Treated in this
naaf1iicr the loss Of bTooder raised chicks
Is scarcely greater than hen raised chicks.
CHANGING FOOD FOR ANIMALS
r 1t may be q radical departure from time
honored methods to advocate a consider
able variety in the food of farm animals.
but the idea is based on common sense
| and hence worthy of consideration. HUI
mans could not thrive on the same food
day in and day out. We admit this, yet
why should an animal be expected to do
it? The dairyman says such an idea is not
practicable because on a certain ration his
cows are giving him a certain return; if
| this ration is changed there is a falling
off i'll profit. True, but what of the life
of the animal? If under a balanced ration.
so called. generally a ration heavy in con-
centrated foods, a COW lives and gives
milk at a profit for five years or so, if
the ration be frequently changed so that
she has more variety and as a consequence
there is a small falling off in the milk
supply, but she remains a profitable milk
er for ten years, which Is the better plan.
Think 1t over.
THE WIFE ON THE FARM. @
A reader of this department told the
u,rttar ,.a0nrtlxy chat hn nroo 40 |-y,tlr-
ested in our efforts to foster the growing
OF poultry among farmers. He had had a
nice flock of hens and a good market for
both broilers and roasters, but his farm
| work proper kept him busy and mis- wife
! positively refused to dress the fowls. Her
reason was that her housework took all
iler time. Inquiry revealed the fact that
our friend boarded two men six or seven
months in the year in addition to the
school teacher during the fall, winter and
spring terms, but that his wife had no help
in the house. Is it any wonder that she
refused to dress poultry for market? AS
a matter of fact the average farmer will
hire all the help he can afford, oftentimeS
more than he can afford, to help him In
the farm work and deny his wife any as
sistance in the house. Yet such men eX-
pect their wives to do much that is not
strictly in line with her homework and
growl because she will not. 1t is not a fair
deal, as any man knows who will observe
the labor required to care for a horne and
a family, especially if there be a number
of small children. Deal fairly WITH your
~Womankind and you will find them more
than willing to enter into your plans for
success and more than willing to take
their share of the load. On the other hand,
any self-respecting woman will refuse TO
be made the family pack-horse.
RAISING THE BACON HOG.
Outside Of what is known as the corn
belt farmers will make more money in hog
raising by putting animals on the market
of moderate weight than by the heavy
weights which nave long been so popular.
The streak of lean and streak of fat hog is
the most profitable one today, but to raise
such an animal requires a radicals depart
ure from the old methods of close pens
and an almost exclusive corn diet. Oats,
barley, skim milk al:i plenty of good pas
ture during the summer enter very largely
into ths makeup of the bacon hog. Soae
corn Is fed, but mainly at the finishing off
period, the main dependence being placed
on the other grains with the pasture. In
the case OF the latter good pasture must be
supplied, 1t will not do to turn the hogs
on amy worn out strip Of grass land. The
pasture Of mixed grasses must be good
and the results will be better if a range of
rape is used by way Of variety. Then. let
the hogs follow the harvest in the fall
particularly in the corn field and they will
pick up nearly all the corn they shnuld
have during the period of growth.
TESTING VARIETIES OF CORN.
One cannot do better the coming season
than to devote small portions of their
farms to testing corn. There is much COM
plant regarding. small returns In one sec
ton from varieties which nave brought
splendid results, under almost identical,
conditions. in other sections. indi-
Gates the unsuitability OF the seed or the
variety to one section. Which it Is can
only be determined by experiment. Take
a small plot in different sections and test.
say five varieties. from seed obtained near
home, then on another plot test the same
five varieties with seed from other sec
tons n note results carefully for they
will be such as will well repay you for
the time, labor, and money invested.
HAND MILKING APPLIANCES.
AS the readers OF this department are
Eaware the writer has had much to say
on cleanliness in the dairy; cleanliness in
the barn, the stables, the cows and ufen-
sils used. Next to the cleanliness of the
! stables and the animals the pail used in
a milking Is of the greatest Importance. The
Il old Fashioned open pail Is a filth; catcher
I. and should be discarded for the modern
fpail which is covered except for a rather
Iwide and long spout, similar to that Of 8
j. florists watering pot, which is covered
next the pail proper with fine wire screen
! The milk is directed srom the teat int
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