The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-07-18

utensils. Soda is good to use on the
woodenware, and some cleaning powder
Is best to use on the tinware. The best
thing for cleaning Is q good stin brush.
Make every cow in the herd stand
upon her own record If she fails to
make good, move her on to the butcher.
Al few poor cows will pull down the
average OF the herd. The thing to do
is TO fiDd out which ones are the board
Z erg. thca get rid of them.
with good cows and the best of feed,
1t stlll requires skillfull handling to
get the most out of them. Cows Will
nearly always do better for women
milkers than men, simply because wom-
en- are gentler and pet the cows.
The cows should get the finest quail
NY OF clover hay. Just keep in mind
that the quality is all in the making.
B. When clover hay is put up in cocks in
the tield for curing, 1t should be put
up as carefully as IL II was being
stacked Spread each forkful and lay it
flat. 1t will then shed rain.
Never has there beEl SO much work
with and for dairy farmers as there
IL today. The idea now is to go right
to the farmer, show him how to test
his cows how TO feed them and how
Il
work Is bound to raise the standard of
products, and 1t will start many on
the way OF making some profit out of
their work
If there is a good creamery near
months, instead of making 1t up at
home. The women have their hands
full now. without making butter.
Customers like to receive butter in
nice prints, but during this season, OF
the year 1t Is safest to put il up In
8 Jars or wooden packages. Neatness goes
long ways in holding customer.
one of the best things to use about
the dairy Is a large dipper strainer. Use
It for straining the cream into the
churn. the buttermilk from the butter
and much Of the other work. 1t should
be made nine inches across the top
nine inches across the bottom and 81,
inches deep. Have a handle ten OF
A twelve inches long.
The coming month will be the hard
est one Of the year to get butter to Gus
toners In good condition. 1t is apt t
be soft. Where 1t is shipped any dis
tance the utmost care should be takeT
A la getting It handled quickly.
Al young man who mas just gone int
the dairy business asks what he shoulC
do with his milk from Saturday nigh
\ 10 Monday morning. as his creamer.
does not receive cream on Sunday. TIL,
cream should be kept cool until Mon
day, or it may be made into butter 10
the home supply.
How to keep up the milk flow. That
the problem that every dairynan is VI
against now. So long as grass hold
out there VIII be no trouble. and tn
man who has not few acres OF earl.
corn or other aid crop coming on. ha
only himself to blame.
Many suppose that alfalfa is unlil1
clover that Is, its feeding value doe
not decrease as the crop natures. Tn
very opposite is true. Alfalfa increas
es In dry matter until full bloom
reached. afterwards its value decrease
very rapidly, even much faster tha
timothy or clover. 1T Is important tina
be cut at the right stage.
While many sections are well Gdapte
to dairying. and while the best crop
can be grown for producing milk. ye
N these sections are not money maxim
because they are not feeding their crop
10 the right class OF cows.