The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-09
Hg Law. Fertilization and Dairying

to Mir. Abbott's article In your paper san,a time ago. It was both in favor of tne stock law and creamery, .,h;cb we so much need. l read it with great interest, and will say, Mr. Abbott endorsed all you said. This state needs. not only all that rood advice, but more. l have liyed in Iowa, Kansas. Colorado and Irtah. and nothing was so useful to tbe farmer as the creamery and stock law, as one must go with the otber to insure success. MT. Farm sr vou say your land is no good. we'll Why then do you fertilize ,ho forest reserves and wild land ? Why not put it on your own land in- stead of letting your stock run at large, and fail to get them nights to n,;lk regularly? Why not pasture chem? You have more land than YOU can cultivate successfully, and if would build up your land, you could
 raise as much on one acre as you do m two or three and save you a great deal of hard labor. Why not pre- nare part of your land and SOW to suoar beets or stock carrots. turnips, sweet potatoes, anything that is milk. producing and can be raised as easily as corn, and are better yield ers as they will all do well on this anil Corn is too expensive to feed cows. unless well assorted. and then better keep it to finish off yo UT hogs m as there are plenty of cheaper feeds for your cows. At the last cultivation of your corn, why not nlant a cover crop such as velvet beans, ,peggae weed. or oats or peas,
 if vou can afford them? All are oood fertilizers and make fine feed
 for fine cows when the corn is off,
 and protect the land from washing during our heavy rains, and in the spring make good green fertilizer
 when plowed under.
 Now let us figure a little problem.
 Suppose you put on your farm this soring 9 cows-young ones, not the
 old cows you have got into the habit
 of wanting their calves to help you
 milk. for it it ridiculous habit and
 does the calf no good. Get young
 cows with their first calf, then when
 it can stand alone nicely, after nurs-
 ing once or twice, take it from the
 mother and put it where she cannot
 see it. then she will not worry about
 it. and you can.teach the calf to eat,
 in day or two you will have no
 trouble. After a week old give it
 sweet skinned milk warmed nicely. The butter fat is not what 1t wants; it requires bone and muscle food. A little bran or, if eggs are not too dear, an egg once or twice a day broken into the milk, or a handful
 of corn chops put in. After it can
 eat grass you can turn it in with the cows if you wish. you need not be
 afraid of losing the milk. Have a pasture for the calves alone, planted
 to clover, or blue grass, or timothy. Then with all the sweet milk they
 want, you will have calves for the
 Polk County Fair" Now each
 COW should produce at least two
 pounds of butter day; tha. would be 50 cents day; then 30 days in a month is l,500 pounds month Now at an average of 20 cents g pound you will have coming in every month $500. Now you will laugh and say, Just like a woman." We'll suppose we divide it by 2, then $15( a month, that will make fairly good income, to say nothing of ths calves, and hogs you feed on th' butter milk.
 First, you will say, where will VI get the money with which to bu, our COWS? Well some of you hay, the money and some can buy on time and with an income of $100 or $20' amonth it ought not to take yol long to pay for them. Now all O this is going to add to the good wife work, which is all she can do now So here is where the creamery i coming in with such good effect. { good separator is the first thing Then you have all the milk fresh anC sweet and the cream to take to ths creamery, where you get the sam price as your butter. The extri amount of cream you will save h. usng separator will pay for it, o Where farmers live near each other one separator might be used.
 Some of you might have a piec or low, wet ground, just the plac Tor artichockes and the hogs vii smile when you turn them in. an' tell them they can have all they cal get, they will only ask you for goo clear water and what milk you ca spare. Dig some for the small pig
 ana grind them; and above all hay l ashed or some place to shelter ther l in stormy, cold weather. All stoc etn]oy variety of feed, and by feed l hg hrst wha. is hard to keep, yo
 can have changes all winter. TC
 ward spring small feed of cotto seed, just to help shed the old winte coat and make the new one nice an
 slossy, will come in nice Then wit aougn fodder and what grazing the can get, your stock will come out
 lhe spring lookinp .tood