The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-12-13
FARM FACTS.

ant crops. Bik crops induce Hperh
feeding. and feeding Keeps up
/ the land. The whole scheme works IN
perfect unison. n one will work SEN
| sibly. A wise merchant instructs his
| buyers To keep I'm advance OF the de-
mand for certain lines OF goods. While
his competitors are discussing whether
a certain lire will be profitable. ne IL
making hay by creating the demand
| The farmer must keep his eyes peeled
| all the time. To keep just a little ahead
! OF the procession. over COO Wisconsin
farmers are growing n new variety OF
/ barley this year. which they are selling
TO their neishbors for seed Mt LIS per
| bushel. A few years ago these same
] farmers were selling all OF n certain
variety Of oats they could raise Mt 70
cents n bushel.
| 1t Is not profitable 10 winter young
stock on coarse hay or fodder. Many
seem TO think that their stock cattle
\ ought To lay on enough surplus fat
during the summer grazing season To
| carry them over winter. Young cattle
| may be wintered with very little grain.
/ but they should be fed literally on good
| hay and fodder. They should never 60
| back. but should hold their own during
winter. come out thrifty In the spring
| and In fine condition to- make gains
! during the summer. 1T In poor economy
Z To- bring calves through the winter on
skimp rations. Keep them coming. and
whenever the coarse food will not do
Il. feed grain.
| Is n any wonder that cornfields which
have been put into corn for ten or
more years without break. are yielding
| less every crop now? Just think what
a means to take crop OF nifty bushels
| OF corn OF OF an acre OF ground ten
years I'm succession. IL means you
have removed from that acre OF ground
| about $50 pounds OF potash. about $50
pounds of phosphoric acid. In addition
to the nitrogen. When your crop yields
begin To decrease II shows that the
robbery OF soil constituents has been
too great.
Four years ago Professor Moore. OF
| Wisconsin. secured some seed corn from
! Eossuth county. Ia. and began breed
1 ing Il up. How well he has succeeded
On best told by the big yields I'm that
state this season. At the experimental
farm this new variety OF corn yielded
| .5 bushels OF sheiled corn per acre. In
walworth county a farmer reports get
ting 90 bushels per acre. The new
! consin No. Z.
The mich COW In at her best right af-
D., ter calving. II she freshens during the
winter months II Will require liberal
feeding TO keep up her body require
met as we'll as TO keep up her milk flow.
/ The fresh COW also makes better USE
! OF her feed than she will later on. IL
| In claimed that n cow. In her last stage
Of lactation. returns only about three
/ fourths as much fat for feed consumed
as she did directly after caiving.
This IL the way an Indiana farmer
/ found out how much cream he was los
Ing: He was induced TO try a cream
separator and he was allowed To make
his owl test: he had been using the
deep can system For several days he
! raised his cream I'm the cans. and after
/ sklmming would run the milk through
n centrifugal separator. He found he
| had been losing about four pounds OF
butter n week.
II never pays 10 bring a sick or dis
cnsed animal on TO the farm. When
buying "a bunch OF sheep or calves, II
! sometimes In necessary TO take the tall
ings. a poor. healthy animal may come
out: but kill or give away any dis
cased animal. Sheep buyers especially
I should watch out for animals afflicted
with the foot and mouth disease.
| During the winter season some have
| trouble I'm getting the butter To gather.
/ The trouble comes from churning thin
/ cream. churning at a low temperature.
7 or churning from cows that have been
I milking eight or nine months. The
thing TO do is TO raise the temperature
OF the cream by adding little warm
/ water.
/ Cows differ Ia the churnability OF
I their cream. ON the farm when only
/ two or three are kept for family use.
n kh...F IN h..a a m "A u
! that H. In the time Il takes the cream
4 20 rise and the time taken for churning
| the cream. Another advantage In. the
same feed and care will produce similar
, results.
| Mrs. G.. s., OF Story county. refers TO
recent article and asks whether there
r. any way to train heifsr TO become a
persistent mixer. Feed her well and
regularly and milk her at least ten or
eleven months her first season. Persist
, ent mixers are made the first year.
A hole cut in the ice In hardly an ideal
drinking place for the mich COW. The
/ watering tank should be handy. where
cows can drink at VIII. Tests show that
| when cows are compelled TO drink Ice
cold water they fell or from TO s
per cent. In milk yield.
Don't be stingy OF the manure. Put
plenty on the garden and around the
shrubs and small fruit plants. II you
have n row OF peonies give them heap
ing measure. You will be rewarded by
n mass OF bloom that you cannot set
I'm any other way.
Not every one can raise n good calf
on skim milk. Tine trouble comes from
feeding so ns TO disturb the digestive
system. Feed a little faxseed with the
skim milk. II scours are bad. feed new
milk until the trouble II overcome.
The dairy cow should be In her prime
when from 10 years old. Yet the
best time TO buy her Is when she IN
fresh the first time. Then you can es-
tablish the habit OF keeping up her
milk supply through the year.
Don't compel the stock hogs 10 get
their entire living from the cattle drop
pings I'm nasty feed yards. Clean out
the feed boxes daily and throw the corn
which the cattle have rejected out on