Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-02-01
FEEDING COWS OIL MEAL.

several Complaints nave been received
that oil meal fed 10 mich COWS leaves an
odor or faint i'll the butter. This is
doubtless true if quantities of it are fed
although some feeders give more of it
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 alb
sorbcd through the system before the next
milking period and the milk will not he
tainted. Tho best authorities on e.ding
r"c0mmc that not over three pound
daily TO be fed 10 cows ana. as Il rule. il is
fed mixed with other grains and equally
divided for each feeding but in every case
being fed after milking. Others who feed
grain three times daily leave the oil meal
ont of the noon ration feeding it lust after
milking in the morning and just after
milking nj night: when this interferes 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
j; can bc 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 il Is we'll known that
IL uses up nitrogen the least rapidly ana
therefore care should be used in applying
this 10 The soil. As II rule fruit trees need
II IN very moderate quantities and. in
some soil conditions, i: is a positive
menace rather than u help. Often times
TN" needed nitrogen can be supplied by
plowinG under some ~leguminous crop better
than in amy other WAY and the money that
would be otherwise spent for nitrogen in
some form turned to the purchase of
potash which the trees will use in greater
I Gla1ltltltS, one of the host fcytjIiy.r. gar
apples Is Il yearly application of bone meal
ana muriate of potash in the proportion OF
three TO one and at the rate Of 500 mounds
per acre.
FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZATIONS
Inc writer recently asked a member of a
frult growers organization, one organized
to 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-
gethcr and stick together" This means
that every member of the organization is
willing to take all of his best product 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 is no one grower who thinks he
ought to run things" A competent man.
ager is hired and he is responsible to the
organization as a whole. Every member
knows that his fruit will return to lin
the highest price its grade will bring and
no more. The trouble in most organiZa-
tons of this kind is the fool notion some
members have that the organization ought
TO be able TO 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 it should not organize and conGuc;
a cooperative company successfully but i;
can only he done when every memp,y
works heartily for the success of the or.
ganiZation as "A whole and sticks 10 !,
even when conditions, beyond the contro
OF the organization. bring q season Of
prices " than Was hoped.