Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-03
OUR FARMERS
ENLARGING THE DAIRY HERD.

-FOUR or HV6 cows on IaEID Cauuos NC
run as economically as larger herd.
which is very evident. 1t takes very
little more time to feed herd of 10 or
IL cows than it does herd of four or
five. I am aware that many people
would keep more cows if it wasn't
for the extra labor, but in my judy
ment the average farmer ought to
keep cows enough so that he can keep
man to help him. says writer in
the Michigan Farmer. Then it would
not be combining for himself. and he
woald make money enough out of the
extra number of cows which he could
keep so that he would not be so much
confined to the dairy work, and could
give more time to reading and
studying.
With a small number of cows the
money received from them Is all used
up for the ordinary expenses OF the
family and the farmer doesn't appre-
ciate it, IL he has a good business
herd of COWS there is money enough
received from them so that it will be
noticeable and can be used in business,
and much more interest is taken in
dairying. l would not try to convey
the idea that man should keep more
cows without regard to their quality.
believe the first thing that should
be done is to try and improve the quail
| oorfosntU
business to keep poor COW, but we
can not only keep good cows, but we
can keep more of them, and if we get
large incomes from our farms we are
consequently better satisfied with
farming and with dairying. A small
investment in anything is liable to be
neglected, while good snug invest
ment in any proposition will be care
fully looked after and with correspond
ing results.
MAKING AN EGG TESTER.
There fare many egg testers on the
market to-day but it is foolish for the
poultryman to buy them when he can
make one at home for nothing. A
round pasteboard box. about three
) inches in diameter, and five inches
long, with cover on it. is good USE
full egg tester. In enc end cut round
hole an inch and half in diameter and
!, in the other end pointed oval the
shape of an egg but only large enough
: to hold the egg IN place. After hen
l has set on the eggs three or four days
: an expert can test them accurately.
r but an inexperienced beginner should
wait a week before looking at them.
} says the Mirror and Farmer. Take
. each egg, separately. in a room WI til
, only one lamp in it, and place the egg
. in the box. against the oval opening.
: and look though the round hole at the
other end, the lamp to be in front OF
The operator "a few feet away. The
) eggs which have begun to incubatt
will show a dark spot at some point
with little thread-like arrangement
:, sprouting from the dark spot. Th'
: infertile ones will appear as they di(
J. the day they were placed in the ma
e chine or under the hen. These ar
s. still good for feeding young chicks
It after they have been boiled: the few
S days in the incubator will not hav'
II affected them in the least regarding
their quality but their conslstenc,
, will be more watery and for serving
- on the table they are not appetizing
. In some cases they cannot be distin
Al guished from newly laid eggs whe
e broken. 1t is economical to t est eggs
is especially when using incubators. TO
lie sometimes after testing there may b
y found only enough fertile eggs to us
in one incubator and thus save tn
Il expense of operating two. 1t is ais
=. economical with hens, for the he
u may be broken of sitting if thereafte
no enough eggs under her to allow her
continue and she may begin to la
again.
THE MILK OR BUTTER QUESTION
To make just comparison one mu
ISt huOW tt6 Audilty VI Vic W.
as such there is usually little different
III made in the price paid. between th'
:ul which is above the standard. say thr'
and one-half per cent fat. and tn
SO which contains five per cent. The
= should be more Discrimination Il
A latter is intrinsicaliy worth NOR
3 hecausa if contains more other solid
OF beside the fat. than does the forme
mo and costs more to produce the hi
er grade, too because cow will not gi
IT'S. as much of it. says the Rural NJ
al "a. Yorker. Milk testing three and OF
of half per cent will require a little on
.es- IL quarts to make a pound Of butte
that testing five per cent not mr
. .h over eight quarts. You can read
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