Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-12
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One of the largest and most success
full dairymen in this country is Horace
L. Bronson of Cortland county, N. Y,
whose dairy business is conducted on
the same plans as a modern depart I
ment store. In a recent issue of the I
American Agriculturist Mr.. Bronson
tells of the Importance of light and
ventilation in the COW barn as follows:
Cows are infinitely better off in a
cold, dry stable with plenty of light /
and good air than in an overheated /
dark room. l never knew a COW to
get pneumonia or tuberculosis from be-
Ing in cold, dry, well lighted quarters,
but l have known whole herds to be /
affected and destroyed FROM overhead
ed, Ill lighted stalls. The component |
parts of air are oxygen and nitrogen.
Oxygen supplies life to the animal
kingdom and nitrogen to the vegetable. |
Without oxygen animal life cannot be
maintained, for the reason that when
pure air is taken into the lungs the
oxygen is appropriated to vitalize the
blood.
There are people, l believe, who
wrongly suppose that all cold stables
are supplied with fresh air. This is
mistake, and you should see to it that
your COW barn is supplied with intakes
through which fresh air from the out
side shall be introduced in front of the
cattle, and then provide central shaft
leading from near the stable floor, up
through the stable and through the
roof. This is an outtake and will main
tain a moderate current, drawing the
impure gases from the bottom up
through the shaft and into the open
space.
If your stable is not well lighted
by that l mean thoroughly lighted.
simply put in more windows, suffi-
cient to give your stock a room as we'll
lighted as your own living room. Do
not minimize the Importance Of sun
shine, for it is one of the most eff
fective germ destroyers in nature.
Thirty minutes of sunshine will gen
ease germs. An abominable, poorly
lighted and ventilated stable can be
changed over into a model one at
trifling expense. This can be done
generally by the farmer and his help
without employing skilled or high
priced labor.
Land plaster should be used liber-
ally. Sprinkle it over the drop when
filed and again after it is cleaned.
The mixing of the plaster with the
compost induces a change wherein the
nitrogen or ammonia becomes fixed.
Without this the ammonia will to a
large extent escape and float off into
the surrounding atmosphere. indie
| pendent of the health of the animals,
! permitting the ammonia to escape is
a waste which no farmer can afford.
Bear in mind that this ammonia is the
most expensive fertilizer that you
have to buy. In the form of nitrate of
soda, it often costs us $35 per ton,
while muriate of potash can be bought
for about $40, sometimes for about
$35; phosphoric acid about $45 per ton.
Again, the plaster Is generally worth
its cost If applied directly to the land.
l generally buy the plaster in carload
lots, costing from $3.50 to So per ton.
If you haven't used it in the past, try
it and just see how nice it will seem
for you to sit down to the milking in
a clean, sweet smelling stable.
Regularity in milking and feeding is
necessary for best results. Many farm
ers pay little heed to either point. Gen
orally farmers are compelled to depend
to a greater or less extent upon hired
! help to do their milking In all such
cases the farmer should be careful to
see that his hired men are good milk
ers. There are plenty of shiftless fel-
lows, who, when left to themselves
will ruin the best COW by bad milking
A poor mixer is an abominatlon. Nc
COW can keep a sound udder for any
considerable time unless she is milked
clean at least twice daily, and ever
this does not quite cover the ground
She must be MIXED quickly or else she
becomes a stripper-that is, she will
: hold back her milk for awhile, and theI
1t Is but a short time before she has
lost one or more of her quarters.
Fine HOIstein.
: One of the finest HolSelns in this
country is Pletertje Josephine Abber
kerk. This COW took first prize at thu
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