Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-05
For Practical Farmers

,,,;,, give. on fairly good WINDSOR
No., coil not less than fifty busheis
.ha,lcd corn to the acre ana OFTEN
.ixty or seventy.
Eeed your cows good, bright corn
fodder once a day and do not obilge
them to eat up all the stalks. You can
,,et along with some of coarsest OF the
staIks in the manure better than 10
make the cows get along with thehi.
Give the cows the equivalent OF all
the meal that grew in the fodder they
eat. You will feed some corn to hogS
and hens and possibly eat some your
self. and for that amount, grind as
much oats with the corn for the COWS.
Always shell your corn and not sflno
any cobs. Always pay for your Sriho-
ing in money or otherwise ana save
all your grain by not having any
grist tolled. Do not keep cows in the
barn all the time in winter, nor most
all the time. You cannot raise goou
calves from cows SO kept. Let them
out in the yard at least five or SIX
hours day, except in stormy or very
cold weather. for sun and air, water
and salt, and exercise.
Do not have poor fences. Do not
have rubbish anywhere on your farm;
burn or pile it somewhere out of sight.
Do not let weeds or brush grow along
the highway across your farm, nor
elsewhere in your fields. Nov your
pasture if necessary to keep down
weeds. Have everything look slick
and neat about your, premises. Do the
chores at the barn by regular pro-
gram by daylight and not by lantern
| light, and always on time. Make pers
of your calves and keep up the ac-
| Quaintance and have them pets when
cows.
At morning chores in winter. first
| fodder Your cows. then go open the
door and windows and clean out the
| stable, adjust the unused bedding,
card cows then with soft. broad.
short handled broom, brush the cows
clean of all dust and dirt and the last
| loose hair and make a clean job of
milking. The stable ought to be
sheathed and painted overhead as we'll
as the walls; however it is. sweep II
overhead once a week. Do not use
tobacco in the COW stable nor elsewhere
on the dairy farm.
| Make your own butter by the tin
pan process. There is no such great
bug-bear of enslaving. degrading hard
work for women folks about butter
making on the farm as vendors of
| cream Separators would have one
| think. Your women folks need not
NEEDLE with it. You can do all the
work yourself and in less time than
| it will take you to carry your milk to
the creamery and bring back the skim
milk and thereby save time for work
at home. You are allowed to work
| in one pound of water and salt with
every four and five-Scvenths pounds
| of butter in estimation of government
officials; but, do not do it. Carefully
| reWOrk your butter twenty-four hours
after setting it and get out most of
the water; you will shrink it ten or
twelve per cent. and make it in the
best possible condition. Customers in
the city will pay more for such good
private dairy butter than creamery
butter sells for and transportation
charges beside.
If you start with good COWS, and
YOU must rot keep any other kind of
COWS, by this management they viii
average to make not less than 500
pounds of butter per COW per year. and
your yearly income will be from $15 UP
from each COW. An occasional old COW
fatted and sold for beef calves. pigs
pork, poultry. eggs. garden truck and
apples should support your family,
and your income from your cows for
paying debts farm and home improve
mcnt educating children. putting at
interest etc, will be from five or six
COWS greater than is found on 20-cow
farms with hired help, phosphate. bal
anccd rations and cooperative butter
making.-New England Farmer