The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-31

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has lone all the work OF attending to
the stock and neVe allowed the anure
to accumulate from the stables to be
hauled in the busy days of spring. The
only exception TO this rule Was where
there was sraiu tina Was useful to the
hogs and there was no hog tight field
that needed the fertilizer. Ii YOU do not
have a wagon load or q Spreader load
each day, then pile it UP back of the
stock until Il load is ready then get
rid of it for the last time. This may
seem cold days to the man
who is putting in the time and drawing
wages, bu the farm owner who wishes
to succeed is willing to do strenuous
work.
At his season of the year there are
frequent complaints about bitter
cream. especially when cream is kept
around the house for several days. or
until enough is accumulated for churn-
ing. The bitterness is not noticed
while the cream is fresh, but it de-
VelopS after the cream stands three or
four'daYs. 1t is pretty difficult to keep.
cream in nice condition for a week.
The bitterness may come from keeping
cream at too low a temperature, or it
may be from mixing the milk of fresh
COWS with shippers. The remedy is
obvious: Try the effect of keeping the
cream at a higher temperature, keep
the milk of shippers separate from
others, and churn more frequently.
The Ohio experiment station has been
esting the value of ensilage as fed to
dairy cows. When over half the dry
matter in the feed was contained in the
ensilage fed there was more than dou-
BILE the net profit that there was when
most of the feed was in grain. The
ensilage produced both a greater
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where hay and grain were fed. Are not
many of our Iowa farmers about ready
TO put up silos n thereby winter their
stock at so much less cost than by
the present method? Keep your mind
open to consideration of this subject.
1t has been found that scours in
calves is caused by fermentation in the
milk. 1t is almost impossible to keep
milk chemically pure, but good results
are obtained by adding formalin to the
milk, at once after separation. in the
+ proportion of one part to 1000 parts of
milk. This may be obtained by pouring
% ounce of formalih into 1876 ounces
OF water. One teaSpoonful of this solu-
ton is added to each pint Of milk fed
the affected calf.
VIII it pay to buy a cream separator.
Just do a little figuring. Say first cost
of machine is 500, annual depreciation
Sl5. Against this put your time saved
IN hauling whole milk to the creamery
every day, time wasted at the cream
cry waiting to unload, and value of the
fresh milk right at home for feeding.
Figure it out for yourself.
Young calves a be dehorned by
the use of caustic potash. When the
calf is about a week old, clip the hair
closely around where the horns will
come through. Ruiz the stick of caus-
tic potash over these bare places until
the skin becomes red. Care should be
taken in handling SO that the fingers
will not be burned.
You can't keep milk sweet that has
been MIXED into a dirty pail. Just to
snow now quickly milk sours, a dirty
pail was used for one milking and a
clean pail for another. The milk in the
alrty pail kept sweet only a few hours,
while the milk in the clean pail re.
manned sweet for four days.
Professor c. S. Plumb says be sure
70 select a good dairy bull. He is the
pig half OF the herd. He should come
from a family of big milk and butter
producers. The first crop of calves will
contain half his blood, and they must
pc good ones If they greatly improve
the nerd.
More than half of all butter is still
made upon the farm. The best way
. Increase the demand for it is to make
a nlsher grade product. Farm butter
makers can easily increase the value
OF their products rs per cent by closer
attention to details of making.
A we'll known veterinarian recon-
mends pure carbolic acid in the
f~ood-one-half dram each day-night
and morning, to pregnant cows For
abortion. 1T may be used first by mix
ing IT with water, and afterwards with
the feed. W."
Water the dairy COWS at least twice
every day. The chill should be taken
on the water, n the animals should
not be hurried. Sometimes q COW is
rushed away from the tank before she
has really as much as she needs.
Cows Of the same weight do not al
ways consume the same amount Of
food Some may be wasteful eaters.
n some have finical appetites. One
to going right.
Saving now on the heifer's feed bill
will more han likely cut the profits
When n becomes a COW giving milk.
Feed her now to develop a strong BODY.
and capacity to use up feed to the best
advantage.
Never use a rope on a heifer to pre-
vent her from kicking. If she will kick
and you can't Goa it out of her. better
put her out of the dairy. Time is too
valuable at milking to fool with kick
ers.
The most trying thing in he dairy
business Is buying good cows. There is
an urgent demand for cows that viii
do something, and a real good one sells
Tor more none h a a fat steer.
The dog has no place around tbe
GARY coWs. II any one thing is worse
Than others to irritate the COW it Is I
nipping at her heels every tina
she comes n from the pasture.
Don't feed the cows hay O., foras e RE
any kind Just before milking. Feeding
usually stirs up the dust and it fakes
some time for this to settle.
Don't start IN feeding a whole LOT
OF cows without knowing what thew
are likely to do with rms fnnd rat !.