The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-23
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er Injuries the crop; then run the two
horse riding cultivator, as you have
more complete control Of the depth
to cultivate according to the variable
ness Of the ground. always cult
vate shallow, as deep cultivation will
surely cut OF immense quantities of
roots, to the detriment of the plant. I
do not cultivate as long as many do.
as l think the cultivator will cut OF
so many roots that are put there for
the purpose Of the plant, but would
rather cultivate oftener earlier and
get thesameresults without injury to
the plant. hill potatoes up slightly
as they are easier dug, as the potato
will set nearer the top of the ground,
and there will be fewer tubers stick
ing out of the hill, but corn l never
hill up; leave thepiece as level as pos
sible, and at last cultivation seed with
grass. In extremely wet weather l
would cultivate about the same, only
little more shallow. l do not think
1 would use pillow after the corn is
up. &
Commonsense Talk About Milk.
The current American Cultivatcr
has some timely remarks touching the
milk problem which, with the opinions
that are printed along with them
might we'll read by health officials
who seem In some cases over-anxious
to put unnecessary expense upon pro-
ducers and dealers as we'll in the in
terest Of their personal notions. Clean
milk, clean handlers, and desirable
quarters for stock are always in order,
but these can be had without extreme
and burdensome regulations that in
the end really have little to do with i'm
proving the conditions. The "Cultiva-
tor" says:
The trouble with the health officials
is that they are trying to force their
own notions to q certain degree re-
CARELESS of practical conditions, and
with q wrong emphasis on certain
DDS. 1t is believed more could be ac-
precautions, which everybody who has
elected, and which account for the
most of the trouble with milk
1t is a pleasure to note that certain
eminent milk experts are taking this
view. Thus the following from re-
cent utterance of Prof. Jared Van
Wagenen, jr.:
3 Most of us have to be content with
selling just good, plain milk. So what
we need most is not instruction re-
garding ideal care so much as teach
ing concerning few simple. mex
pensive precautions which shall tend
to raise the general grade of the great
bulk of milk. The removal of the
manure from the stable every day,
COWS bedded we'll enough so that their
TANKS are not coated with manure and
their tails soaked with urine, and
brushed enough so that hairs and
flecks of manure and dandruff scales
are not falling In constant shower
into the pail-these are some of the
simple things that go to make good
milk.
The Massachusetts, state dairy agent
has long taken a remarkably prac-
teal and sensible view of this sub
ject. Mr.. Harwood has himself been
a milk producer and understands the
conditions which surround production
and is able to place them in the right
prospective. He is not the man to
advise producer to rebuild his barn
without first being sure that the real
trouble is not due much similar
causes than the construction or ar
rangement of the farm buildings. He
is we'll aware that careless hired man
can work more injury to the milk
town could remedy by putting in floors,
lean-tos, particians. yentilators. etc.
II am not going to decry separate
stable for the cattle. or the wing at
tachment to the hay barn. the modern
idea," remarks Mr.. HARDWOOD. These
are al right if properly constructed.
and the owner can afford them. But
the man with the stable in the first
floor of the hay barn. with cellar
underneath, thus combining under one
roof, saving expense and labor, need
not give up the ghost as far as the
production of clean milk is concern
ed. If he will keep effilu reduced to
lowest terms and out of stable. and
dirt out of milk by adopting the best
known methods of milking. and take
his milk at once from the stable upon
drawing, remembering that whether
his milk is clean or not depends upon
him and not upon his wealth or cost
ly buildings, or upon extravagances
or luxuries of any kind. he will meet
with success. 1t is great mistake to
copy after wealthy fancy farmers any
costly or unnecessary device"
If some of the health board officials
had their way there would be no limit
to the cost settled upon the milk pro-
Queer, and mostly for requirements.
The need of which is very doubtful
so far as concerns the sanitary quail
tiles of the milk.
Roots for Stock.
A writer in the current Rural
New Yorker" mentions the excellence
of beets, particularly the sugar var
iety. for all kinds of stock. including,
also, poultry. He recommends Golden
Tankard as the best of the mangel
wurtzels, and Lanes Imperial Sugar
as the most satisfactory Of the sugars.
He would plant some of each, but most
of the former. The objection to this
crop, the writer says, is the amount
of labor required to keep them free
from weeds, the early part of the sea-
son. Some hand wedding will be nee
essary. Unless this labor is at hand,
at the critical time. beets will be
Disappointment and a failure. Any
land that will grow good corn will
grow beets, but friable loan is the
best. It should be very rich. If
heavy dressing Of stable manure has
been applied the year before 1t will
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