Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-10-30

No farmer should be content unit
his boy has had the privilege of Q
course at some agricultural college.
The old COW will give better results
IL regularity and good care are OBJ
served in her feeding and manage
ment.
Have you put the stables and other
buildings in shape for the winter:
IT'S better to be beforehand than be.
midland.
The well-bred, well-trained dog is a
good farm adjunct. He will do much
toward providing protection against
the tramp nuisance.
The hens like variety as well as
of the human family. Try
cutting out the mash for while and
feed whole or cracked grain.
This worth trying II you are trou.
bled with warts. 1t is said they will
disappear If touched daily with a sat.
urated solution of sal-ammoniac.
Oiled up the harness lately? Money
IN your pocket to keep il in good con-
iition, for If Il gets dry it cracks and
then you know what comes next
Some milk is more fit to go to the
cemetery than the creamery, and a
great deal of milk which gets to the
cities paves baby road to the GENE.
terry.
Excitement is harmful to geese, and
hey do not thrive il attended by a
luick-tempered. rough or excitable
person. They need TO have full con-
Edence in the keeper
Tie the seed corn ears together by
he husks, two by two, and hang over
wires stretched a foot or more apart
across a room which is dry and has
4 good circulation of air.
Before putting up the barn, hog
house or other building on the farm,
sit down and figure out where 1t can
be located to be most convenient for
Ill purposes for which it is to be
used.
Burning corn for fuel was the prac-
lice years ago in Nebraska, and a
good many farmers today continue to
burn corn by keeping the stock to
which they feed the corn in place
which is cold and drafty and lily ven
tilated.
If you did not select your seed corn
in the field the task of securing the
highest quality is made harder. The
best growers invariably now pick
their seed corn in the field where they
can see the plants and the way the
ears stand on the stalk.
The Maine experiment station, af.
ter careful figuring. finds that the cost
of food for hen averaged s1.455 per
year. while the hens laid 144 eggs on
the average. What happens when the
feed bill remains about the same while
the egg yield drops to 75?
If the care of the cows Is in the
hands of the hired man don't trust too
implicitly to his care and judgment
Drop into the stable during milking
time; see how he does it. See how HI
handles the cows. Let him use nj
profanity or harsh words in handling
the COWS.
The experienced hog raiser knows
that there is more real profit in grow
ing one litter of pigs from a mature
hog than two filters from an undevel
oped dam. Some people have had {
large number of fine old sows anC
many times failed to appreciate then
until after they were sold.
The only horse which really needs
breaking is the horse which has beer
neglected during its youth. The train
ing of the colt should begin from the
very first. 1t should become &C
customed to being handled, and /
should early learn the lead of thu
halter. the touch Of the harness ant
should be taught to start and stop a
the word of command.
There are still those who believ
that the churn test is better than tn
Babcock test in determining the valu
of cream, but the following reason
can be advanced in defense of tn
Babcock test: First, the BabcocI
test determines the actual amount O
fat in cream, while the churn ties
determines the amount o. butte
made. but without any indication a
to the amount OF fat and water 4
butter, second. the Babcock test PROF
erly used always gives the same r.
suits on the same sample OF cream
The churn test gives varying result
according to (D the thoroughness G
churning; that Is. the amount of IA
left in the buttermilk, and CD IN
amount OF water retained in the bu
ter. Third. the relation between IA
in cream, as determined by the Bal
cock test. and the amount of butte
OF average composition that should b
made from the cream is fairly un
form. while the amount of fat a
measured by butter yield Is very vi
riable. Fourth, as a rule. the averae
amount OF butter that can be mad
from a given cream may be found b
multiplying the number of pounds Z
fof In the rroa,u nv On