Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-09-02

Every farm an experiment station,
Is good slogan.
System and sense are as useful on
the farm as In the business world.
Reports are that this is the great
est crop year in the history of the
country.
Don't let the days work drag into
the evening hours. Have time for
quitting and them quit.
There Ii never an overcrowding of
the market for choice livestock of any
kind. Make It q point to raise the
best.
II il absolutely necessary during
these hot days to keep every utensil
used In caring for the milk scrupu-
lousy clean. Scald, scour and set in
the sum.
One good brood SOW IL valuable
asset on the farm. She'll make you
more money than any other animal
on the farm in proportion to the mon
ey invested.
It is foolish economy which bor-
ders on the criminal to try and make
the weak and WORKOUT harness serve
a little longer. Many a fatal acct
dent has been caused by failure to
recognize that fact.
The fair season is on. Plan to take
them In. 1t may seem hard to get
away sometimes, but 1t will pay
you. The work will go easier after
you get back and you will find many
new idea sprouting into careers of
usefulness.
A new stallion law has been passed
by the Illinois legislature which goes
into effect January / next. 1t pro-
vides fine of $25 to 500 for failure
to enroll any stallion offered for pub
lie service. or for failure to comply
with any of the other provisions of
the law regarding his examination.
transfer and advertising. No stallion
will be registered unless certified by q
veterinarian to be free from periodic
ophthalmia, bone SPAWN, ring bone,
bog SPAWN, curb accompanied by cur
by shaped hook, or any contagious or
infectious disease. The law requires
that a stallion must be enrolled and
advertised as either pure bred. cross
bred or grade. The stallion registra-
ton board is required by the law to
use funds derived from enrolment
for publishing lists of stations and
other Information pertaining to horse
breeding. Stallioners who comply
with the law will be given a lien on
foals, the same as under the old law.
Prof. William DIETRICH, swine spe-
cialist at the Illinois Experiment sta
ton, declares that nobody knows yet
how to feed hog. He complains that
in pig feeding we have not been work
ing on any fundamental basis. Some
men have obtained good results, but
they are not uniform from year to
year, and these results cannot be sure
~ traced to their causes. It has been
too much like guessing and gambling.
He says that pig feeding will not be
mastered until we get the largest and
most economical gains and get them
every time. We must know what the
hog Is made of, and supply the kind
and amount OF each food material re-
quired and no more than will be prof
itably used. He has been able to
make 40 per cent. greater gain in live
weight and at less cost per pound. by
his method Of feeding than by the
long accepted Wolff-Lehmann feeding
standard. In two lots he made his
pigs weigh $50 pounds at eight
months. More than 400 pigs, all bred
at the University farm, have been
| used In seven feeding experiments
and two digestion experiments since
1904. But the work is incomplete.
some parts uncertain, and he suggests
that some Of the important factors IN
swine feeding may not have been con.
sidered at all yet.
Prof. w. C. Coffey has lust com.
pleted some feeding experiments with
lambs at the Illinois experiment sta
ton, the chief object being to deter
mine the effect Of silage upon the ex.
tent and economy Of gains when SUP
plementing these feeds. Since feel.
ers have at times reported trouble
from the use Of silage. the experiment
was planned to ascertain, II possible.
whether It may be fed in combination
with the above feeds without injury
to the health Of lambs, and. II not.
what may be the cause Of trouble.
Following describes the ration OF each
lot OF Is lambs: Lot /. Shelled corn
clover hay. Lot 3. Shelled corn. all
age small amount through experi.
rlent Glover hay. Lot 3. Shelled
corn. silage medium amount for first
81 days clover hay. Lot /. Shelled
corn, silage- medium amount through
| entire observation-disclosures hav ~ K