The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-08-13

Milk twice a day and milk at regu.
lar times II you would obtain the best
results from your herd.
Whether It is sunshine or rain, the
good dairy COW is always busy turning
a profit for her owner.
Chickens in the orchard pick up
thousands of insects. worms, etc.
which would prove injurious to the
trees and fruit.
Starved land cannot grow good
crops. Provide the elements which
the crop needs and harvest day will be
day OF rejoicing.
Don't let the work-day drag out to
IA and l6 hours. Ten hours of field
work is enough and will accomplish as
much In the long run as "a longer day.
Try It and see.
few days of pasturing on the stub
BILE fields after the grain is cut and out
of the way will provide considerable
good feed for the stock and will be a
good thing for the field.
Tile are far to be preferred to the
open ditch. They cost more, but they
do the work Of drainage more perfect.
ly, and do not offer the chance for
al -, 10 ha
with the open ditch.
Don't haul your hogs in tight box
wagons. The loss of one hog by over
heating will more than pay for q
panel rack for the wagon. Money, is
well.invested that provides greater
comfort for the stock.
The fenced farm is the only one on
which livestock can be kept and the
rotation of crops followed, and .as this
method of farming is the only profit
able one in the long run, 1t follows
that the farm must be fenced to be
handled properly.
Twenty per cent: butter fat weighs
SAC pounds to the gallon after all the
air has settled from It, while the
40 per cent. weighs only S.22 pounds.
When fresh from the separator the
weight is less because of the air con.
tanned in the cream,
The Holstein breeders in their re.
cent national meeting appointed n
committee TO secure a federal law
for the inspection of cattle for tuber'
culosis and TO do away with inspection
by the states. There is no question
that such a law would prove advan.
tageous.
Prevent the soil washing on your
farm. Many fine fields in some of the
soil washing. Some are washed so
badly that they can no longer be
worked with modern farm machinery.
Soils that have good supply of hu.
mus are not subject to washing. as
they have greater water-holding ca
pacity.
Unless the stock Is fed an amount
over and above that which is needed
for body maintenance there will be nc
gain. A thousand.pound steer has
been found by experiment to require
daily 10 pounds of timothy hay, IL
pounds OF clover hay and seven
pounds OF corn meal just TO keep on
an even keel. More must be fed II
there is TO be any gain.
An enterprising merchant in west
ern town has fitted up rest room for
the wives of farmers who drive tC
| town and who sometimes have tedious
waits for the husband to finish his
| business and his streetcorner gossip
| Furnished as IL is with rockers anC
tables on which are magazines, fash
ion books, etc, it is growing in popu
larity, and is good advertising for the
merchant. Here is a hint for mer
chants in other towns.
II seems at the present time tina
the graduates OF the state agricultur
al schools Of the country are findinl
no trouble in getting located. Th
young man who knows the science o
good farming and how to apply
commands SIS to 800 month. wit
his board and lodging. and lives eas
lily, comfortably and wholesomely. Tn
farmer, who can do so, should Civ
his sons the education that will thu
lift them to tho heights OF their oC
cupation, Young men trained so tina
they can command such financial +,
turns for their services to others ca
use their scientific training to sti
greater profit for themselves. The sc
entifc farmer. who is worth 500 O
$3.50 d month to another man,
worth 5000 TO $500 to himself IL he al
ply science to his own son.