Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-01-26

A good way to ascertain the standing of
each breed is TO get the records from tlc-
different breeders having stock for salel
and carefully compare them I'm the respects
that must be considered in dealing with
your own local conditions; In this way one
is not likely to make any serious mistakes.
FEELING COWS OIL MEAL.
Several complaints have been received,
that oil meal fed to mich cows leaves arr
oder or faint in the butter. This Isl;
doubtless true If quantities Of ii are fed
although some feeders give more Of ii
than others and without bad results. Like
anything else which is apt TO faint the
milk, oil meal should be fed directly after
milking for in this way any odor is abb
&cr5ed through the system before the ncxtI
milking period and the milk will not bG
tented. The best authorities on feediag!
recommend that not over three pounCi
daily to be fed to cows ana, as a rule. II ~
fed mixed with other grains ard e~quallsf
divided for each feeding but In every case
being fed after milking. Others who feed
grain three times daily leave the oil meal
out of the noon ration feeding 1t just after
milking in the morning and just after
milking at night: when this interfcres with
the hour of milking the portion of food.
designed for each meal Is divided in half
and fed just at milking, if such Is the prac-,
tice, and just after milking. There is no
doubt but that oil meal in the quantity
named is very beneficial to cows and that
1t can be fed without injury to the milk
will be demonstrated by careful trials.
FERTILIZERS FOR ORCHARDS.
While the fruit bearing tree naturally
demands from the soil all three of the
essential plant foods it is well known that
ii uses up nitrogen the least rapidly ana
therefore care should be used in applying
this to the soil As n rula frIft troas uaoJ
it in very moderate quantities and. in
some soil conditions, lit is a positive
menace rather than 4 help. Often times
the needed nitrogen can be supplied by
blowing under some leguminous crop better
than IN any other way and the money that
would be % erwise spent for nitrogen in
some form turned to the purchase of
potash which the trees will use I'm greater
quantities. One of the best fertilizers foS
apples is a yearly application of bone meal
and muriate of potash in the proportion of
three 10 one and at the rate of 500 pounds
per acre.
FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZATIONS
The writer recently asked a member of a
fruit organization, one organized
70 market fruit to the best advantage and
one which has been successful from the
beginning. concerning the secret of their
success. His reply was: I'VE work to-
gether and stick together" This means
that every member of the organization Is
willing TO take all OF his best products to
the pool, be at shipping points on time and
take his shares of the low prices as calm
~ as he takes his share OF the high prices.
There Us no one grower who thinks he
ought to r things A competent man
ager is hired and he IL responsible TO the
organization as a whole. Every member
knows that his fruit win return to him
the highest price it's grade will bring and
no more. The trouble in most organiza-
tons of this kind is the fool notion some
members have hat the organization ought
TO be able 10 dispose OF inferior products
at high prices and because this result Is
not obtained they get provoked and pull
out. There Is no reason why fruit growers
in any section where the product will war
rant IL should not organize and conduct
a cooperative company successfully but IL
can only be done when every member
works heartily for the success of the or
ganization AZ a whole and sticks to Il
even when conditions. beyond the control
Of the organisation. bring q season OF
prices lower than wa hoped.