Middletown transcript., 1909-04-17
Farm NEWS AND VIEWS

y f0ode. Corn and clover hay are aDou
t the best feeds for these young animals
!. and they will eat them alithe year round
}. Dry clover hay is relished by all cattI,
3 and horses even when on good simmer
pasture, aud it is good thing to givt
! them daily feed olit.
Any timber viii last quite well if sei
inthis way: Dig square hole about {
foot deep, throwing the dirt well back,
Sharpen the post aud drive well into the
bottom, then put a. fiat stone against each
side and chunk against the post. The
boards holding 1t the other way. This
prevents their. rotting off at the surface Of
the ground as they always do.
The milk goat industry is occupying
considerable attention in the East. Sew
ensy-seyeIl goats have been accepted for
registration hg the American Mich Goat
| Association during The year. One hun
dred and eighty seven are now on record
Any goat yielding one quart or more of
| milk day is eligible.
4 Ducklings usually start to mott when
| llweeks old, and it will require about
six weeks for them to finish the process
and get into good condition again. For
that reason ducklings should be market
ed at 10 weeks Of age, for after that they
are more apt TO lose weight than gain it.
Pigs should be at least eight weeks old
before they are weaned, and il it is not
intended that the sow should have Sec
ond litter il is best to allow the pigs to
suckIe until they are 10 to IL weeks Of
age,
The cheapest way to put gains on young
pigs is through the SOW. She has strong
digestion and can turn coarse grains and
pasture into easily -digested milk, Care
ful experiments show that a pound OF
weight taken from tile COW will make
more than one pound of gain on the
pigs, the flesh of the young animals con-
tanning more water. The SOW should be
fed to produce a high milk yield, aud the
pigs should be kept with her until they
get to eating full feed Of grain aud
pasture.
1t requires some expense and trouble
to establish an asparagus bed in the
garden, yet every one who owns bis land |
should put in bed, even il it consist Of |
but 100 roots. A welI.cooked dish Of
asparagus is luxury that must be tried |
to be properly appreciated, and when it
comes the grower will think himself well /
repaid for all that it has cost him.
The Michigan State Agriculture School
has added course Of instruction in the
use of automobiles, and it is said that
Iowa and Kansas will follow suit.
A Seotchman announces "neW method
Of keeping fine fruitsfresh. He purposes
to pick the fruit ''in the height Of the
sun aud pack It IN dry granulated sugar.
The sugar may be reused
The management of the New York
state fair last year offered prize to the
person who would write the best essay
upon the subject Of skim milk upon the
farn. Out of several competitors Eatella
3. Miller, Of New York, won the prize.
Her essay is reproduced below, and those
readers Of the Western Farmer who have
skim milk may gain some saIaable point
ers from reading il. Miss Miller says:
OF all the by.products on farm in the
dairy line, skinned milk should head
the list. II this atticae was properly
the value Of manga so-calied
e'poor cow would bes considerably in
creased. Skinned milk may be safely
to be worth from fifteen cents
to one dollar per one hundred pounds,
according to its quality and the use that :
is made Of it.
i believe hand separator SKINNED milk !
Is Of greater value and Of greater use than
milk obtained by any other
method. 1t will give better satisfaction /
aud produce better results, as the milk is !
uniform from day to day.
Skinned milk as food for young !
animals is hardly.to be surpassed if fed
right. The greatest danger and a decided +
waste is in oSerfeedinR, especially young /
pigs and calves. a
After calf is two weeks old the feed !.
may be gradually changed from the whole .
milk until only skinned milk is given. /
Calves thrive much better on the warm !,
milk from the hand separator q
han on the skinned milk brought home v
rom the creamery where the milk of y
eyeral hundred cows is probably mixed, n n
lrsthe milk is set in pans aud crooks or
Ieep caus, which, when the cream is
aken off is always cold and usually half
our. think skinned milk may be fed =
0 calves with more profit than to any d
tber thing about the farm unless II be m
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Chickens fed almost entirely on it but " y
llo@ed to sfnh at large will grow very &C
ast. Tie skinned milk, If allowed to III
tand until thick and loppefed, will be = =
reater economy and prove as satisfactory. 10
Pigs fed on skinned milk, either sweet III
r sour, give good satisfaction, although til
are shenld be taken not to change from :
ne to tlle,otber. Pigs seem inclined to
be sour rather than to the sweet, and in !,
itter case grain should be fed with it in
rler 10 make balanced ration. q
kimmaled inifk as fo5d fur sIl young
llinlals, is an aid to the digestive organs,
) there is moi paraticle Of il but is
igeetible.
IIs use in increasing tIe iertiiizina
nalisies ufstlle manure must not be over q
loked. Tliisf is considered one Of the y
featest losses when the wh6le milk Is
i'd off from the farnls SKINNED milk
used in akiae outage o. Dutcfl,'
lEeesss sud v ben properly made il lac
roight 81 for every 100 pounds uAed. in
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