The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-01-25

indicate that the milk is rich in butteri
fat. While the 1airyran must largely
decide the breed for himself according!
with the conditions he must meet on thei
market, in changing from a mixed or,
scrub stock to graded stock the merits of
til" fioiStcins demand full considerations
A good way TO ascertain the standing of
each breed is 10 get the records from tho
diI1crcnt breeders having stock for sale,
and carefully compare them in the aspects.
hat must be considered in dealing With
your own Local conditions; in this way one,
is not likely to make any serious mistakes.i
FEEDING COWS Gil MEAL.
Several complaints have been received,
that oil meal fed TO mich COWS leaves an,
door or faint in the butter. This Isl
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 m@al should be fed directly after
milking for IN this way any oder is abb
scrbed through ,hc system before the nextl
milking period and the milk will not bet
tainted. The best authorities on fecding]
recommend that not over three pound
daily to be fed to COW and, as a rule, it isl
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 iai!y leave the oil meab
out Of the poon ration feeding il just after.
milking in the morning and just after.
milking at night; when this interGlres within
the hour of milking the portion of food.
designed for each meal is diVidcd 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
it 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 il is we'll known that
it uses up nitrogen the least RAPIDLY ana
therefore care should be used in APPLYING
this to the soil. AS a rule fruit trees need
it in very moderate quantities and. in
some soil conditions, it is a positive
menace rather than q help. Often times
the needed nitrogen can be supplied by
plowing under some leguminous crop better
than in any other way and the money that
would be Ctx spent for nitrogen in
some form turned to the purchase of
potash which the trees will use in greater
quantities. One of the best fertilizers FOL
apples is a yearly application of Done meal
and muriate of potash in the proportion of
three to one and at the rate of 500 pounds
per acre.
FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZATIONS
The writer recently asked a member of q
fruit growers organization, one organized
to market fruit to the best advantage and
one which has been successful from the
beginning, concerning the secret Of thei,
success. His reply was: w work to,
gether and stick together" This means
that every member of the organization is
willing to take all of his best products. tc
the pool, be at shipping points on time ant
a Tx his shares of the low prices as calm,
~ as he takes his share of the high prices
There is no one grower who thinks h,
ought TO run things A competent man
ager is hired and he IS responsible to tn,
a organization az a whole. Every membe,
knows that his fruit will return to hin
i, the highest price it's grade will bring an,
no more. The trouble in most organiza
: tons Of this kind is the fool notion SOM
, members have that the organization ough
! to be able to dispose of inferior product
at high prices and because this result i
not obtained they get provoked and pul
out. There is no reason why fruit grower
i in any section where the product will war
4 rant it should not organize and conduc
: a cooperative company successfully but
4 can only be done when every membe
works heartily for the success of the or
ganizaton as a whole and sticks to
t even when conditions, beyond the contrc