The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-02

Cement floors in the hog pen are
good If covered with plenty of good
bedding.
Generally cows that consume the
most food, produce milk and cream at
the lowest rate
The horse is made or marred by his
first year. Start him right, and keep
him going right if you would make
horse raising pay.
feed Tor "a to 30 sheep for three
months. Did you grow any? A mis-
take If you did not.
The hired man has rights. Try to
give him "A square deal and he will
appreciate it and generally do the
square thing by you.
Don't worry over the thing you
can't help and don't kill yourself try
ing to do what you have not time and
strength to accomplish.
The reason "A woman makes sue
cess of poultry raising as a rule is
because she is careful. watchful and
mindful of all the small details.
Clean up the garden plot and burn
up all the rubbish. This will make
the place look more tidy and will
destroy host of insect pests and
weed seeds.
Pluck off the smut balls from the
corn and burn them. Corn smut
spreads rapidly if the smut-balls are
thrown on the manure pile and the
manure spread on cOrn-fields. Never
throw a smut-ball on the manure pile,
Dairy note from Life: "In the hot
days of fy-time there are the usual
kicks over the milk" and by way of
illustration the COW is depicted kick
ing over the pail and incidentally the
mixer himself
Good intentions are well as far as
they go but they never mended a
fence, pulled a weed or harvested a
crop. Ii takes push and pluck back
of the good intentions to make them
count
Airslacked lime and fine table-salt
will kill cabbage worms. Take bak,
ing-powder can and punch a few holes
in the bottom. then fill it partly full
of the dry lime and salt mixed. Dust
it on the cabbage when the dew is on
and after each rain and watch the
WORMS disappear.
1t docs not pay to let the COWS get
down in their milk because pasturage
is short. If you want them to 90
through The winter with good milk
flow. keep them well fed, for it is al
most impossible to bring the COW up
to full flow when once shrinAge has
taken place.
The Nebraska station after a series
of experiments has demonstrated that
the farmers of that state can produce
pork at $2.43 to s413 per 100
pounds. depending on the price OF
corn. With 30-cent corn and good al.
falfa pasture pork can be produced
at S2.i@ per 100 pounds. With corn
a az hI,C hn1 wlan fpI u.it h
alfalfa, pork can be made at s413 per
100 pounds.
Do you know how much it costs you
to raise your calves? 1t would prove
interesting and profitable for You to
gan did so, and found that the Hol-
stein calf used in the experiment the
first year of its life 3Sl pounds of
whole milk, 2.56S pounds of skim
milk, 1,2G2 pounds of silage, 219
pounds of beet pulp, 1,254 pounds of
of roots IA pounds of alfalfa meal
and 80 pounds of green corn. The
grain ration consisted of three parts
each of corn and oats and one part of
bran and oil meal. AT the end of the
year the calf weighed 500 pounds at
a cost of S2S.55 for feed.
The proper temperature for churn-
in" is the lowest temperature which
can be used and produce proper gran
ules within reasonable time. A rea
sonable time is from thirty to forty
five minutes. and fifty minutes or an
hour is not too long The colder the
temperature, the better the granules
and the less fat lost The real churn
ing temperature is the temperature at
which the butter breaks. This is
from two TO four degrees higher than
the starting temperature. from the
friction of the machine If the gran
ules form in less than 25 minutes.
you may be certain that the tempera-
ture was higher than 1t should have
been. If the butter comes in Is min
u,es or less. a large amount of fat is
lost in the buttermilk and the butter