The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-10-03

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The separator cannot be kept toe
If you are in the chicken business
be alive and progressive.
When cream is not ripe for churn
ing you will lose much of the butter
fat.
To realize the best profit from dairy
cows all the feed should be grown
upon the farm.
Dairy show at Chicago, December
2 to TO- Remember the date and plan
to attend.
Be sure the rungs on the ladder are
safe before trusting yourself on them
at any great height.
Cold fall rains will prove sure
robber of the sheep profits, If the ami
mails are given no shelter.
If the wearing parts of the harness
are kept clean it will last longer, as
the dirt is gritty and hastens the
wear upon the harness, besides max
ing it dry and liable to crack.
A look over the pigstye fence of a
neighboring farmer showed me that
his bunch of half-grown pigs were al
most too busy scratching for lice to
feed properly. That kind of hog rails
ing don't pay.
Do you know the size of your vari-
Gus fields, or do you merely guess at
it? You ought to know exactly, not
only that you may accurately estimate
fertilizer needed for the land, but that
you may know the crop yields.
Not single apple should go to
waste. What cannot be marketed, or
used by the family should be gath
cred and fed to the stock. RottiDg
fruit left on the ground not only is
a dead loss, but it insures a good in
sect pest crop for next season.
Keep the musty hay out of the dairy
barn both as feed and as bedding, as
the mustiness represents the exist
ence of millions of minute spores of
fungous growths. The spores get into
cause bitter and other fiavors. Some
times also they produce growths in
the milk that cause stringiness or
thickening of the milk.
Rhubarb can be transplanted in the
fall, although the best time to do this
work is in the spring Plow the
ground thoroughly, then plow deep
burrows four feet apart, and put ma
nure in the burrows, placing the cut
tings from the old roots upon the ma
nure about 80 inches apart A one
horse plow can be used in filling the
trench and ridging over. Rhubarb
thus planted will be ready for cutting
a year from the following spring.
The matter of short or long period
of milking of COWS is a matter of
habit. For this reason if during her
first period of lactation she is MIXED
regularly to within a few weeks of
dropping her second calf, she accepts
this as her destiny. On the contrary,
if the milking period with first calf
is limited to four months, it will be a
difficult matter to overcome the incli-
nation here as elsewhere, to follow
In the old path. The only remedy is
persistent milking even when but very
little milk can be obtained.
Open sores or cuts upon horses
should be washed regularly with some
good antiseptic wash which can be
made up with water and creolin or
some of the coal tar products. Car
bolic acid is also good, but many
make the mistake of using it too
strong and set up an irritation in
stead of keeping things normal. A
good antiseptic wash kills the germs
which form pus, keeps the flies off
and allows Nature to heal the wound.
A healthy horse will get over a bad
cut in a surprisingly short time if the
wound is merely kept clean and sani.
tary.
The automobile is finding it's way
upon the farm more and more. and
one of the important features of every
state fair is the automobile section.
Here is what western farmer saws
concerning the horseless carriage. He
has one: We have owned and used
an automobile since last November
and find it very useful and satisfactory
In our business. 1t is a great saver in
time, as well as the cheapest way to
get about. The principal use to which
we put the machine is as a runabout.
But it could be used advantageously
for several other purposes in farm
work, and we conscientiously recon-
mend one to any farmer who farms on
large scale.
Dr. B. T. Galloway of the depart
ment of agriculture pronounces the
variety of wheat known as Alaska"
not new variety, but one which has
been known for many years in this
country and Europe, and one which
has been tried at several state expert
ment stations in the western United
States during the past Is years. But
nowhere, he declares, have the yields
been high enough to merit attention.
The wheat has been grown to very