The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-30

oGCOll1S. lItcll SOW ClSII pOuliuS u IC0-
top and four pounds of alsike clover
per acre.
DAIRY NOTES.
Get the milk out of the stables just
as 500 as possible. Empty the pail
after each COW is MIXED. It's a bad
practice to keep the pals or cans set
ting around inside the stable an hour
or so until all the COWS are MIXED.
The quicker he milk is gotten away
from the lust and doors Of the stable
the better.
Because the skimmik is to be fed to
the calves, don't be careless in handling
1t. The same care should be taken to
keep it sweet md wholesome as if 1t
was to be used for domestic purposes.
Feed the freshly separated milk in the
mornings, and if any is left over for
feeding at night, keep it cool until it is
wanted and then warm it up.
From all owe Iowa come reports that
1T is too dry for grass and grass seed
sown this spring is making a very poor
stand Where grass seed has been
5own with oats or barley, the thing to
10 is to get off the grain crop as soon
as possible, thus giving the grass
plants a chance to max some growth
before fall.
A hand separator is a necessity on a
large, well managed dairy farm, or on
The product sold. But %unllappily the
machine will do good work wherever
1t is put, and too often it is put in the
barn, where it gets all sorts of dust
and doors.
Good breeding always pays. The
breeding OF scrubs is more or less of a
gamble. A scrub COW ma be q good
nlilller, but there is no surety that she
will produce a good dairy calf. 1t
takes something more than good looks
to transmit dairy qualities.
BY having the COWS come fresh along
in the early fall you receive rs to 35
cents a pound for o u butter for six
fresh during the spring months your
best product must be sold for from 10
TO % cents a pound.
Save all the work possible. Put in
handy things to make work lighter. A
proper arrangement OF storage for
grain and fodder will easily save the
work of one man at feeding time. Put
IN a litter carrier, to carry out the
manure.
Glover was injured this year during
February and March. Alternate thaw-
ng and hard freezing is disastrous to
clover roots. A good job Of rolling,
pressing the roots back into the
ground, would have helped the clover
prospect.
Maybe one Of your COWS are mong
that five million which the department
Of agriculture says do not even pay for
taeir keep. But unless you are sure,
better put the whole bunch to test and
weed out those that nave been spong-
i'm.
1t will always take brains as well as
muscle to make dairy products. For
this reason the man or woman who is
willing to put these into the business
will find it growing more profitable
every year.
Grass is a mighty good thing, but
the COWS will not do their best on grass
alone for some time yet. Don't forget
that the cows every want has been
satisfied all winter. Keep up the daily
care.
Most dairymen seek to increase their
output by buying more COWS. Better
Gaie ana Delter 1eeQlllS OF the cows al
ready in the dairy viii bring the same
result, and it is not nearly SO costly.
The field of corn which is to be cut
for silage should be as near the silo
as possible, SO that the time and labor
of hauling will be lessened. This is a
job where quick work counts.
1t is too carly yet to cut down very
materially the grain ration of the mich
cows. Grasses are not very nutritious
get, and about all the good they do is
TO whet the appetite.
Clover or alfalfa. cut when the plants
begin to bloom. makes the best hay fer