Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-11-19

A wrong date on an egg does no,
change its contents.
Dry shelters and beds for the hogs
are essential to best results.
Now is the time to Gull your stock
and get the flock in shape for the win
ter run.
Don'ts as well as dos are a conven
tent and proper thing to have around
the farm.
Never be so busy that you cannot
be friendly and lend helping hand
to a neighbor in trouble.
Rotation OF crops gets the fields out
of the rut of deterioration and makes
for enriched soil and greater crops.
Yes, II is too late to build and I'LL
silo Let your disappointment at yom
lack spur you on to better deeds next
season.
II the colt let's its tongue hang out
OF its mouth, you may be sure there
is some reason for II. Find the cause
and remove It.
A little spray on the cows the past
summer would have given you many
pound more of milk in the pail. Spray
is cheaper than milk.
After a days work or a long drive
over the roads sponge out the horses
mouths and noses with cold water.
Also rub down the legs and body we'll.
Boil the small potatoes and feed &C.
casionally to the chickens. That they
enjoy them is only too evident from
the manner In which they go after
them.
II will not hurt the beets to be left
in the ground until freezing weather
comes. Then they should be pulled,
cool cellar.
Watch the hired man when he is
tending to the stock. II he Is rough
and brutal you can well dispense with
his services. for the animals will not
thrive under his care.
held at Milwaukee October IA to "a
b. ii. Rawl, chief of the national
dairy division of the agricultural de-
partment of the government, will CO.
operate with Manager Van Norman
of the Dairy association in making
the show a success.
The bureau of animal industry,
which has been conducting expert
ments for the past three years. has
concluded that better butter can be
made from cream pasteurized and not
ripened, that is, churned sweet, than
by the old processes, and better than
from the new process of pasteurizing
and ripening with pure culture start
err. New butter made in this way,
without the addition of a starter and
unsalted, has too mild a favor to
please most dealers; but it undergoes
fewer changes In storage than when
made in the ordinary manner and
may be sold. after being held in artifi-
cial cold storage, as high-grade butter.
The Ontario experiment station has
been treating winter wheat in differ
emit ways to kill the sinking smut,
and the results have been very salts
factory. Untreated seed produced an
average of 3.6 per cent. of smut in the
crop of last year and 9.3 per cent. of
smut in the crop of this season. Seed
wheat which was immersed for 20
minutes in a solution made by adding
one pint of formaldehyde (formalin)
to AZ gallons of water, produced an
average yield of grain per acre of 50.4
bushels, and that which was untreated
produced only as bushels per acre.
The treatment here mentioned was
easily performed, comparatively cheap.
effectual in killing the smut spores,
and instrumental in furnishing the
largest average yield of wheat per
acre of all the treatments used,
Look out for weevils in the grain.
Thresh as soon as possible. Fresh
grain should not be exposed to attack
by being placed in bins or granaries
with that already infested. Before
storing. the old grain should be re-
moved and the floors. walls and cell
ings of the bins thoroughly cleaned.
II the granary has been badly infest-
ed, II should be fumigated. Cleanli-
ness is very important in preventing
injury by these insects. Dust, dirt.
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