Free press., 1908-04-11

Give the sows kept for breeding
plenty of exercise.
Sows can rear two litters 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 it's efficiency materially cut
down. Be particular on this point
There are three kinds of cows-the
special purpoGe, the dual purpose and
the no-purpose. Which kind do you
keep?
Foil ao
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 I'LL the egg basket as well.
Some farmers like the dual-purpose
COW, some believe in the special or
one 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 to 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 accumu-
late around the barn this winter as
you did last. 1t is worth more on the
field than in the barnyard. Plan to
haul 1t out every day or two.
Did you eat an apple, plant an apple
nor 10 old onn1n fr0 n
National Apple day, October Is? II
not, mark the date on your calendar
for next year and do better next time.
One successful stockraiser says 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 theV will
eat 1t.
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 263 bushels for Mealy to
SO.4 for Rudy. Two lots of varieties
tested in the southern section varied
in yield per acre from 27.3 to S2.1
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 go, it is often cheaper to buy
the COW that costs $40 to SIS more
money, for she n puts that differ
ence in the cream can.
We are going 10 again insist that no
milking should be done except through
a sterilized cheese cloth cover. Just
q strip CT cheese cloth big enough to
cover the top of the pail and sag down
in the middle SO as not 10 make the
milk splash when il strikes the cloth
is all that is necessary. Tie a string
sround the bucket 10 hold the cloth in
lace and there you are. When the
milking is done you will be surprised
20 see how much fine filth you have
prevented from falling into the pail
TO be taken up and absorbed by the
milk. Perhaps you viii say that you
strain the milk through cloth after
milking. but that will not accomplish
what milking through cover will.
nucli OF the filth which gets into milk
cannot be strained out, but is dis
solyed and becomes RsEt of tAs sailk.