Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01

only TO lIlS IulS was NANAN
there was grain that was useful to the
hogs and there was no hog tight field
that needed the fertilizer. If you do not
have a wagon load or a spreader load
each day, then pile 1t up back OF the
stock until a load is ready n get
rid Of 1t for the last time. n may
seem strenuous cold days TO the man
who is putting in the time and drawing
wages, but the farm owner who wishes
TO succeed is willing to do
work.
At this season Of the year there are
lreuuent complaints about bitter
cream, especially when cream is kept
around h house for several days, or
until enough is accumulated for churn-
ing. The bitterness is not noticed
while the cream is fresh, but 1t 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 1t
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 q greater
amount Of milk and higher test tina
where hay and grain were fed. Are not
many of our Iowa farmers about ready
to put up silos and thereby winter their
stock at so much less cost than by
the present method? Keep your mind
open to consideration of this subject.
IT 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 1900 parts of
milk. This may be obtained by pouring
0.5 ounce Of formalin into 1916 ounces
Of water. One teaspoonful Of this solu-
ton is added to each pint Of milk fed
the affected calf.
Will it pay to buy a cream separator.
Just do a little figuring. Say first cost
of machine is 500, annual depreciation
SIS. 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 may 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
Gonna through Rnh thn ctiolr nf re
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
show how quickly milk sours. a dirty
pail was used for one milking and a
clean pail for another. The milk in the
dirty 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
to select a good dairy bull. He is the
big 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
be good ones If they greatly improve
the herd.
More than half Of all butter is still
made upon the farm. The best way
to increase the demand for it is to make
a higher grade product. Farm butter
makers IA easily increase the value
of their products rs per cent. by closer
attention to details of making.
A well 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.
Water the dairy COWS at least twice
every day. The chill should be taken
off the water, n the animals should
not be hurried. Sometimes a 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
and some have finical appetites. One
must watch these cows and get them
to going right.
oaNhiS wv VII ZIG ilCllCE - IeSQ OIL
will more than likely cut the profits
when she becomes a cow giving milk
Feed her now to develop a strong BODY
and capacity to use up feed to the bes'
advantage.
Never use a o on a heifer to pre-.
vent her from kicking. If she will kicl
and you can't % 1t out of her, better
put her out Of the dairy. Time is to-
valuable at milking to fool with kick
ers.
The most trying thing in the dair,
business is buying good cows. There /!
an urgent demand for COWS thai vii
do something. and a real good one sell,
for more money than a fat steer.
The dog has no place around tn,
dairy cows. IL any one thing is wors,
than others TO irritate the COW IL is
dog nipping at her heels every tim,
she comes in from the pasture.
Don't feed the cows hay or forage o
any kind just before milking Feedin
usually stirs up the dust and ii take
some time for this to settle.
Don't start IN feeding a whole 10
OF cows without knowing what he