The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-08-03
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help eat the mortgage OF the place.
The small fruit drier which can b,
placed on the range is handy on th'
farm.
In putting the corn In the silo b,
sure It is laid down evenly and /,
Well packed. The keeping quality de
pends much on the way the work Il
done.
It is never 100 late to plan for some
kind OF system Of rotation of crops
IL may be too late to do anything fol
this year. but you need to think ahead
at least q year to get such a system
started right.
Fruit and poultry are two of the
greatest industries OF the present age
and require but little capital to start
Begin In a small way and work up.
BE thankful II you have not a big
bunch OF money to put In at the start.
II 10 generally the man who goes slow
but sure who makes success OF the
business.
Pick a name for the farm. have it
neatly painted on sign board and
place It In conspicuous place in the
lane before the house. 1t will Inter
est passersby. Will identity your place,
and will prove wonderful incentive
to you to spruce up bit and make
the place look as good as the name
you have picked for 1t.
Pigs I'd on skinned milk do bet
ter than upon any other diet, whether
fed sweet or sour. Pigs seem to like
the sour rather than the sweet. and in
either case grain foods should be fed
with II In order to make balanced
ration. Skinned milk as a food for
all young animals is an aid to the
digestive organs, as there is not par
ticle Of 1t but is digestible.
In cultivating to preserve moist
ure the work should be done each
time as soon as there is an indication
that crust is being formed II Is
particularly desirable to cultivate aft
er each rain, as the packing by the
raindrops forms hard crust. Some
times a light rain that penetrates the
soil for but the fraction OF an inch
packs the soil so thoroughly that cap
Hilary tubes are formed, through which
the moisture In the soil is sent OF |
into the atmosphere.
Loss OF curd from buttermflk can
be saved by gtraining through a very |
fine meshed cheese cloth, or by add |
ing q small quantity, about one-fourth.
sweet skim milk TO three-fourths but
termilk. Let the mixture stand over
night at temperature OF about so
degrees. Then heat the next morn
Ing to about 100 degrees and let stand
for one hour. The skim milk curd
seems TO collect the fine buttermilk
curd so that there is much less loss
during the straining process than Is
the case when an attempt is made to
separate the buttermilk curd alone by
the cloth strainer.
Lime sulphur spray may be made
as follows: Good lump lime, is
pounds; flowers Of sulphur, 15
pounds; water. SO gallons. TO pre-
pare this mixture. first slake the lime
In a small quantity OF water, using
enough to keep the shaking lime thor
oughly wet. When the lime is pret
ty well slaked. put In the sulphur and
add as much more water as Is nee
essary to keep the whole Of the con
sistency OF thin cream. Put the ket- /,
tie or the receptacle containing the !
mixture over the fire and boil for As !
minutes, or until the liquid is of a. !,
deep reddish brown color. Then, di- !
lutte TO SO gallons. and apply at once !
II the mixture should become cold !
crystals will form and weaken the in i
secticide for the destruction Of the /
Ice and their eggs. \
We repeat: Test your cows and I
Snow what they are doing for YOU 4
0airying pays Only when you have /,
profitable COWS, and the only way you y
AN know this to surety is by use y
II the Babcock tester. The equipment T,
md process Is comparatively simple. I
Iere are all the necessary things for 7.
making the test: !
One Babcock tester Of size to suit the 4,
'erd. One dozen test bottles. One 3
MILK test pipette measuring 17.6 g. Il
y One dairy thermometer. One n
uart bottle standard sulphuric acid. !,
lot water In making the test keep IN
a mind the following rules: n
fA) 17.6 cubic centimeters average y,
lilk. (B) 17.6 sulphuric acid. Add the n,
alter carefully II 1t IL poured \,
trough the milk II will burn It; let Il +,
I'M down the inside of the bottle. (C) n
hake thoroughly. Cd Put into the n,
ester and whirl five minutes. (E) ra
id hot water until the liquid rises "a
ell into the neck OF the bottle. GF) II
lhirl again two minutes ana read ga
10 percentage of fat at once. A pair. fo
fine dividers help greatly in con. Ia
OF reading AZ,