The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-12-13
FARM


Good farming means more than doing
one thing well. 1t means keeping every
department Of the farm up to concert
pitch. Good fields will produce abund-
ant crops. Big crops induce liberal
feeding. and feeding keeps up
the land. The whole scheme works in
perfect unison, If one will work SEN
sibly. A wise merchant instructs his
buyers to keep in advance of the de-
mand for certain lines Of goods. While
his competitors are discussing whether
a certain line will be profitable, ne is
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 500 Wisconsin
farmers are growing new variety of
barley this year, which they are selling
to their neighbors for seed at 81. % per
bushel. A few years ago these same
farmers were selling all of a certain
variety of oats they could raise at rs
cents a bushel.
1t is not profitable to 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 go
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 is poor economy
to bring calves through the winter on
ski1np rations. Keep them coming, and
whenever the coarse foo will not do
it, feed grain.
Is it any wonder thai cornields which
have been put into corn for ten or
more years without break, are yielding
less every crop now? Just hin what
it means to take a crop of fifty bushels
of corn off of an acre Of ground ten
years in succession. It means you
have removed from that acre of ground
about 7S0 pounds of potash, about $50
pounds of phosphoric acid, in addition
to the nitrogen. When your crop yields
begin to decrease it shows that the
robbery of soil constituents has been
too great.
Four years ago Professor Moore, OF
Wisconsin, secured some seed corn from
Kossuth county, Ia, n began breed
ing it up. How well he has succeeded
is best told by the big yields in that
state this season. At n experimental
farm this new variety of corn yielded
20 bushels Of shelled corn per acre. In
Walworth county a farmer reports get
ting 80 bushels per. acre. The new
variety is called Silver King, or Wis
consin No. z.
The mich COW is at her best right af-
ter calving. If h freshens during the
winter months it will require liberal
feeding to keep up her body require
met as well as to keep UP her milk flow.
The fresh COW also makes better use
of her feed than she will later en-. 1t
is claimed that q cow, in her last stage
of lactation, returns only about three
fourths as much fat for feed consumed
as she did directly after calving.
This is 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 own test; he had been using the
deep can system. For several days he
raised his cream in the cans, and after
skim1ning would run the milk through
q centrifugal separator. He found he
had been losing about four pounds of
butter a week.
It never pays to bring a sick or dis
| eased animal on to the farm. When
buying a bunch of sheep or calves, it
| sometimes is necessary to take the tall
ings. A poor, healthy animal may come
out; but kill or give away any dis
eased NINA Sheep buyers especially
should watch out for animals afflicted
with I've foot and mouth disease.
During the winter season some have
trouble in getting the butter to gather.
The trouble comes from churning thin
cream, churning at a low temperature,
or churning from COWS that have been
milking eight or nine months. The
thing to do is to raise the temperature
of the rea by adding a little warm
water.
Cows differ in the churnability of
their cream. On the farm when only
two or three are kept for family use,
they should be as near alike as possible;
that is, in the time it takes the cream
to rise and the time taken for churning
the cream. Another advantage is, the
same feed and care will produce similar
results.
Mrs. G. s.. Of Story county, refers te
a recent article and asks whether there
is any way to train a heifer to become 6
persistent mixer. Feed her we'll AND
regularly and milk her at least ten OF
eleven months her first season. Persist
ent mixers are made the first year.
A hole cut in the ice is hardly an idea
drinking place for the mich cow. The
watering tank should be handy, where
cows can drink at will. Tests show tina
when COWS are compelled to drink ics
cold water they fell off from 6 to
per cent. in milk yield.
Don't be stingy of the manure. Pu
plenty on the garden and around tn,
shrubs and small fruit plants. If 70,
nave a row of peonies give them heap
ing measure. You will be rewarded b,
a mass of bloom that you cannot ge
in any other way.
Not every one can raise a good cal
IN skim milk. The trouble comes from
feeding so as to disturb the digestiv,
a system. Feed a little faxseed with tn,
skim milk. If scours are bad, feed ney
milk until the trouble Is overcome.
The dairy COW should be in her primr
when from 6 to 8 years old. Yet tn,
best time to buy her is when she 1
fresh the first time. Then you can es
tablish the habit of keeping up he
milk supply through the year.
Don't compel the stock hogs to re
their entire living from the cattle drop
pings in nasty feed yards. Clean gu
the feed boxes daily and throw the cor
which the cattle have rejected out OF
some clean spot for the hogs.