The Columbus journal., 1908-09-30

Bad neighbors arc often the prod
uct of bad fences. Mend up and qui,
your fussing.
Cement floors in the hog pen are
good il covered with plenty of goot
bedding.
The horse is made or marred by his
first year. Start him right and keer
him going right if you would make
horse raising Fay.
One acre of tuInips will provide
feed for % 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 no: time and
strength to accomplish.
The reason a woman makes a sue
cess of poultry raising as 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 OF the smut balls from the
corn and burn them. Corn smut
| spreads rapidly II the smut-balls are
thrown on the manure pile and the
| manure spread on corn-fields. Never
throw q smut-ball on the manure pile!
| Dairy note from Life: IN the hot
days of hy-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.
Experiment seems to prove that
chicks grow faster upon soft mashes
than upon dry grains. There seems
10 be least danger from bowel loose
ness when the dry grains only are
fed, and it Is very essential that the
mash be dry enough to crumble In
order to avoid that difficulty. Young
chicks like the moist mash better than
| though 1t was not moistened and will
eat more OF it. There is no danger
from the free use of the properly
made mash twice a day. and being al
ready ground the young birds can eat
and digest more of ii than when the
food is all coarse.
Do you know how much it costs you
to raise your calves? 1t would prove
interesting and profitable for you to
keep a record. Prof. Shaw Of Michi-
gan did SO, and found that the Hol-
stein calf used in the experiment the
first year of its life 3S1 pounds of
whole milk, 2,56S pounds of skim
milk, 1852 pounds Of silage. 219
pounds of beet pulp. 1854 pounds of
hay. 1,247 pounds OF grain, 147 pounds
Of roots. IA pounds OF alfalfa meal
and so 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 $sS.55 for feed.
BY the cid pan process of raising
cream in the summer time much of
the butter fat is lost, as it fails to rise.
The milk is soured by the time little
more than half the cream contained in
the milk has risen to the surface. and
that which has already risen is soured
beyond the point where it makes good
butter. In the summer a hand sep
arator is needed to get all the cream.
In the winter one is needed to get the
cream separated from the milk as
quickly as possible that the milk may
go to the calves or pigs with the ami
NAL heat still there. There is no sea-
son Of the year when the hand sep
arator is not just the machine to have
on the dairy farm.
Bloody milk may be caused by a
variety of conditions DR.. Schroeder
declares that some claim that the COW
fighting flies. kicking and throwing
the body to and fro. will tend to rup-
ture the small blood vessels and thus
cause the trouble. Others hold that
the steady diet of green. succulent
food and perhaps the arrangement OF
the blood caused by certain weeds
bring on this trouble. The latter opin
ion the doctor is inclined to believe
for it has been his observation that
many cases can be cured by changing
the pasture or changing the feed. I'VE
have cured cases of bloody milk" he
goes on to say. by giving sulphur an6
saltpeter mixed-half and half In the
feed. Whether or not this is a sure
cure I can not say, but it might be
worth trying"
The proper temperature for churn-
ing is the lowest temperature which
can be used and produce proper gran
ules within a 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 tho