Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-03-13
SUGGESTIONS THAT MAY
HELP

A cow, by actual test giving six. quarts
of milk at. each milking, taken away five
miles and housed In strange stable gave
less than one quart at the evening milking
and only four quarts at the next morn
ings milking
She was driven On the journey very
feed and drink. She was treated with the
utmost kindness, yet the irregularity Of her
daily routine life decreased the milk yield
on per cent for the day, and nearly 20 per
Dairy cows should be fed and MIXED
with elock-like regularity They should be
given the privilege, and induced, to drink
freely, for the flow Of. milk will be gov
crned largely by the amount of water cen
sqmed::
Avoid unnecessary change of water with
DAIRY cows, because may will not drink
from strange well until they are starved
to 1t.
No domestic animal should be compelled
to drink ice-cold water in winter. That
pumped from a deep well and given to the
stock Immediately is about the right tam
perature.
The hog by nature loves water, and shade
during the summer, but it should have dry
and very warm quarters in winter.
Where insufficient protection from storms
and the cold are given. and many are in
one pen. hogs will lie in heaps one upon
the other in order to keep warm and the
weakest suffer and often perish
The hog by nature cannot stand dust.
When hogs cough, ii the pen be. dry, sprinkle
IL 10 Settle tue DUST AVOID DeQQlng with
musty or dusty material.
Winter is the very best time of the year
to move and transplant large shade trees.
Take them up, with a large ball OF frozen
soil which holds without injury an immense
number of feeding roots.
Drag down stalks and tall weeds in win
ter when the ground Is frozen or dry. In
this condition they will catch the SHOWS
and rains, become rotten, make blowing
easier, and sooner become available plant
food when turned under
On hilly land inclined to wash, watch the
soil during winter, and I'LL depressions and
gullies with stalks. straw and any rubbish
that Will hold the soil and catch any that
may be washed in from roads and adjacent
fields.
Keep the barn. stables, hog peas, and
poultry houses clean oil litter and manure
The department OF trade and commerce
of Canada has issued statement that the
western wheat crop OF that country win
be S5.000,000 bushels. OF this only one
fourth will grade No. hard.
Missouri are selling their land from 500
to $125 per acre and are going farther west
in search OF cheaper land.
Railroads of the south are making great
efforts to induce farmers in the con north
ern regions to go down there. Although
there are thousands of improved farms that
have been allowed to deteriorate through
bad management there is practically no
wild and vacant lands to be had in that
country
The scarcity OF squads has induced certain
interruptions persons to substitute very
young chickens and palm them off on the
public as pigeons The reason squads are
SO scarce is because SO many of them are
sold as quail
Ten OF King Edwards English Shire
horses are being exhibited in this country
although not for competition. These horses
are the descendants OF the great Shires
that were once ridden by the knights at the
wars and tournaments OF England.