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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12

of the business up to point where he
can make success of real dairying
says Kimballs Dairy Farmer.
Nothing Beats Cow Keeping.
For the young and energetic man
who wants to start out right, make
money, keep up the fertility of his
farm and win a reputation as sue
cessful farmer there is nothing that
beats cow keeping.
Not an Easy Job.
Now, gloss II over as slick writer's
and persuasive takers may. the fact
remains that dairying is not a business
Of moderate demands To succeed at
1t, even with the very best of special
tools and the most refined brand of
dairy knowledge, requires that a man
shall put vast amount of his life, his
energy and his Individuality into it,
w. +. McSparran.
Two Pounds of Honest Butter.
Let me say as emphatically as posi-
BILE, any COW that In her prime will
make two pounds of honest butter a
day for thirty days is a good COW. and
Jersey that will not make ten pounds
a week or give over ten quarts of milk
a day with her second calf at three
years old is not worth keeping, says
writer In American Agriculturist And
do not forget that fawn colors or solid
colors, with black tongue and switch.
do not make Jersey pure bred, nor
does a COW with white-and lots of il.
too-sometimes make COW grade.
A Vital Question.
With the advent OF creameries, skim
ming stations and hand separators the
question of successful and economical
raising Of calves on skim milk Is one
Of growing Importance and vital con
Germ to every creamery patron and
private dairyman. AS land increases
In value we can no longer afford to
keep a cow the entire year for raising
one calf to be used as feeding steer
ID. III. Otis. Kansas.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
Dairy Talk Of Today

No matter how square the dealer
may be, he Is but human, and the
buyer will find 1t dollars In his pocket
to be good judge Of cows. Veteran
dealers are past masters In the art Of
making the cow put her best foot for
ward, so to speak.
Beware the Gentle Bull.
This Is a poor time Of year for fu-
nerals. Better not leave the care Of
the bull to grandpa and the kids"
ny the Common Sense Route.
II the average farmer is to become a
good dairyman he must learn the bust
ness by degrees. Let him take the
common cows he has on his farm, and
by careful breeding and selecting let
him build his herd and his knowledge
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
Minimum Standard.

The New York state dairymen's con-
vention passed resolution favoring a
minimum standard not only for milk.
but for cream, butter and cheese, and
provision for the higher standards I'M
der registration with the department
OF agriculture, higher standards to be
labeled and signs to be displayed on
wagons, In places Of business, etc. and
q sufficient penalty for false registra-
ton. If some encouragement of this
sort could be offered. 1t would seem
that more milk testing above per
cent might be sold. Then, too, there
would be some chance for farmer to
sell on test basis and not be COM
PEELED to sell 8 per cent or 6 per cent
milk at the same price that is paid for
8 per cent milk, says writer In Ma
tional Stockman.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
The Pleasing Garden.

II you have garden it carries with
II the satisfaction of going out early In
May and gathering radishes, lettuce,
young onions apd spinach. A few
weeks later early peas and beets are
there for the taking By the Fourth
Of July early potatoes, sweet and nut
ty. after fashion never found In any
store, can be dug In succession fol
low snap beans. crisp cucumbers, to-
matoes, corn that is sweet in some
thing more than name and muskmel-
ons. fragrant. mslting, delicious.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
BUYING FEED.
Experience With the "Feed Only
What You Raise Theory.

what You Raise" Theory.
The advice so often and persistently
given TO farmers by the agricultural
press that they should raise all the
feed they use has done and is still do
ing vast amount Of harm. \ large
number of farmers regard the buying
of feed as a si-n of improvldence. Ii
not actually criminal. says a writer in
Ohio Farmer.
Visit almost any farm and one finds
stock of some kind that TO use the
general term. is being ''roughed" for
lack of time, shelter or feed or the lack
Of proper feed, and the excuse given is.
as rule: I'VE feed them only corn
We know they should have some bran.
oats or oilmeal, but we cannot afford
to buy it, and we have plenty of corn.
We grow this ourselves"
The most important lesson the writer
ever learned was from his experience
In feeding dairy cows. We had for
years fed and practiced the feed only
what you raise theory, and at the end
of the year found but meager, II any
methods or work for the fun we could
get out of raising feed
Instead of continuing to play at a
losing game we discarded this method
and raise such crops as are best adapt
ed to our SOIL no matter what they are
and then buy the elements lacking in
our home grown feeds.
buy load of bran, oilmeal or cot
tonseed meal, knowing that when fed
to balance ration with our home
grown grains. etc, ii enhances the feed
value of our grain from so to 100 per
cent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12

The story of the perennial celery
which Mr.. Bolton of Canada has just
sold to Michigan nursery firm and
which will be offered to the public at
not less than dollar plant sounds
exactly as II II had originated In the
imagination Of city reporter hungry
for news. This celery Is claimed to be
a true perennial, having round and uni
formly crisp stalks which do not rust.
OF course 1T will revolutionize celery
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
Sllh0uetfe.

Silhouette was the name of French
minister who endeavored 20 raise the
revenues by taxing the nobility. In
consequence he became very unpopu-
lar. and, the fashion Of profiles In
black coming In about the same time.
they were called In derision silhou-
cites, the nobility claiming that they
had their portraits done in black be-
cause they were too poor to have a full
picture taken.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
champion Chee.e county.

The Sheboygan county (Wis) dairy
boards Of trade sell annually 100000
pounds Of cheese, or almost one-half
Of all the cheese sold In this great
dairying state Of Wisconsin. But this
Is not all. OF the 116 cheese factories
In Sheboygan county only sixty-Ave
sell their product in the county. All
elements considered. $500, 900 is paid
annually for Sheboygan county cheese.
National Magazine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
To Get the Most Out of the Churn.

To Get the Most Ont of the Churn.
Taking the barrel churn as best for
the farm buttermaker, he should know
how to get the most out Of It, In this
form of churn the conclusion of the
cream necessary to do the churning Is
secured by the fall of the cream as the
churn Is revolved. The faster the
churn Is revolved the greater number
of conclusions per minute will be Sc
cured. But If the churn is whirled so
fast that the centrifugal force crea ted
holds the cream from falling no churn-
Ing will take place.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
"Tick Worry. shrink. Mnk.

The cattle tick Is not only the carrier
Of the Texas fever infection, but is a
parasite which deprives cattle Of much
blood. retards growth, reduces the milk
Ing capacity and induces an irritable
state known as ''tick worry" The
shrinkage in the milk production Of cat
tie harboring many ticks has been esti-
mated to average quart per day.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
TO COVER POTATOES.

should be about twice the distance be-
tween the rows. The plank should
have a strap Of iron at the bottom In
front for cutting edge and to pre-
vent wear.
The tongue should be fastened to the
plank at right angles and securely
braced. The handles. which may be
taken from an old pillow or walking
cultivator, should also be fastened and
braced to the plank. We let each horse
walk in a furrow, but 1t Is better to-
use long doubletree or shafts and
but one horse. SO the potatoes do not
get moved and tramped. The scraperi
carries some ground ahead Of 1t. which
It pulverizes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
Clover and Lime.

When the common red clover, after
taking root In the spring, is found lat
er In the season to be making no
growth and finally disappears In patches
or altogether, then the need Of lime is
indicated. The appearance of the
plant known as sorrel. or horse sorrel,
is a further indication of the need of
lime.-Ohio Experiment Station.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
circumventing Late Frost.

Last spring our early potatoes had
their tops completely blackened by a
late frost. Very early the next morn
ing. before the sun shone upon them,
we had the tops moved or level with
the ground. In a short while new foil
age grew up, and the yield from this
field Of potatoes was very good. We
heartily recommend this method Of
treating frosted potatoes. says Farm
Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
NESTS FOR EGG EATERS.

q portion of the floor. The roost Is
placed over a platform on the nests.
The hens cannot reach the eggs from
the floor, and if the nests are only
twelve inches high they cannot stand
up In them to eat the eggs. The darker
the interior of the nests the better.
This arrangement gives the fowls the
whole of the space on the floor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12


town" market at cost of 10 cents per
pound The two heads weighed some
thing over three pounds together.
These cabbages had been received
by express In barrels from the vicinity
Of New Orleans, where, we are told,
they are largely grown during the win
ter by Chinese syndicate. Almost
every large city has its group OF Chi
nese truckers near by. growing the
vegetables demanded by their conpa-
triots. New York's supply comes chief
ly In summer from Long Island, but I'm
winter the south Is depended on.
These cabbages are much used as an
addition to soups and meat stews, evi-
IDENTIFY being added at the last moment,
as they are so lightly boiled that the
green color of the leaves and the crisp.
pungent mustard-like flavor are well
retained. Thus prepared by competent
Chinese cooks they are exceedingly
palatable and doubtless more digesti-
BILE and nutritious than our species AZ
generally cooked. There are considera-
BILE wastes In overlooking certain veg
etables.
These Chinese cabbages are on sale
all through the year and are compare
lively cheap in summer, as they arr
easily grown. Fakchoi appears to be
the favorite. Ii does not head, but has
many smooth, dark green. wavy leaves,
with broad ribs springing from tho
root-Rural New Yorker.