The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
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hens.
Give the sows kept for breeding
plenty of exercise.
Sows can real W filters a year.
Keep them working for you.
A good place for the hog which eats
chickens is in the hog barrel.
Give the sheep plenty of pure water.
Snow is not a good substitute.
You can get rid of the mites in the
chicken house if you just keep after
them.
Man eats oysters during oyster
months; hens enjoy oyster shells the
year round.
The man with the cheap land has a
sure thing in futures if he sets out
the land to trees.
Are you getting some proportion Of
the high prices which are being paid
for milk in the large cities?
The ~badly-shod horse is the one
which has its efficiency materially cut
down. Be particular on this point.
There are three kinds of cows-the
special purpose, the dual purpose and
the no-purpose. Which kind do you
keep?
Study your neighbours failures as
well as your own They teach valu-
able lessons, more so, often times,
than the successes.
A small stack of wheat or oats in
front of the hen house will give you
a happy family of chicks this winter
and fill the egg basket as well.
Some farmers like the dual-purpose
n purpose cow, but where is the
farmer who believes in the no-purpose
cow?
Keep a sharp lookout on the stock
this time of year 10 see that they are
growing satisfactorily. Change of
feeding system from pasture to stable
often acts as a check.
Now don't let the manure u
late around the barn this. winter as
you did last. 1t is worth more on the
field than in the barnyard. Plan to
haul it out every day or two.
Did you eat an apple, plant an apple
tree and care for the old apple tree on
National Apple day, October Is? If
not, mark the date on your calendar
for next year and do better next time.
One successful stockraiser a y his
methods are to buy his calves in the
fall and carry them over two winters,
the first winter the feed being milk
and grain and hay as soon as they will
eat it.
Mashed turnip is not the only way
to serve them. Give wife this recipe:
Cut the turnip in small cubes and
cook in as little water as possible,
then add five or six spoonfuls Of
cream and a we'll beaten egg and serve
at once.
In some recent tests made by the
Indiana experiment station it was
found that in the northern section the
average yield per acre of winter wheat
ranged from 1858 bushels for Mealy to
30.4 for Rudy. Two lots of varieties
tested in the southern section varied
in yield per acre from 27.3 to 32.1
bushels for the one and from 26.S to
29.4 bushels for the other.
The extra good milk COW is a scarce
animal to find. She is not picked up
at every sale and cannot always be
had at private sale. Wherever or
whenever she is found, the price, COM
pared with that of common stocker
cows, is calculated to scare one. Yet,
as cows 60, it is often cheaper to buy
the COW that costs $40 to SIS more
money. for she soon puts that differ
ence in the cream can.
We are going to again insist that no
milking should be done except through
a sterilized cheese cloth cover. Just
a strip of cheese cloth big enough to
cover the top of the pail and sag down
in the middle SO as not to make the
milk splash when it strikes the cloth
is ali that is necessary. Tie a string
around the bucket to hold the cloth in
place and there you are. When the
milking is done you will be surprised
to e how much fine filth you have
prevented from falling into the pail
to be taken up and absorbed by the
milk. Perhaps you will say that you
strain the milk through a cloth after
milking, but that will not accomplish
what milking through a cover will.
stuch of the filth which gets into mill
cannot be strained out. bu. Is d,<.