The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-29

veying disease.
Raise colts. but don't try to do 1t
with poor. rundown. over-worked
mares Strong colts cannot he gotten
in this way.
Good grooming. good bedding and
good feed will make the good cow
more profitable. Don't fool your time
away on the poor COW.
Re sure that you get q standard
grade Of cement and that it is mixed
In proper proportions with the other
materials If you want TO get good re-
suits.
AS compared with the old pan meth
ID Of raising cream. the separator Is
rs far ahead of the old method as the
.hreshcr is ahead of the old fail
method of threshlng grain.
Are YOU carelessly letting the liquid
manure 60 to waste? 1t is the most
raluable part of the manure. Save IL
,ither by tight cutters running TO
.istern. or use plenty of absorbents 10
Ioak II up.
Yes il is some trouble and expense
aising dairy COWS. but see what you
rave after Won have raised them. II
rou have saved those from your best
.ows mated to pure-hred bull. That
the way to build up a dairy herd.
If troubled with lumpy or strlngy
milk. try this treatment: First give
thorough purge. say pound OF
slauher's salts. When 1t has ceased
q act. give half an ounce of inter and
n drops Of aconite twice day for two
days. or longer if not cured.
The time 10 wash ont the buttermllk
from butter is when It has reached the
granular stage. Good butter comes not
by any chance. but from good 1eed'
properly separating the cream ana
careful churning. The cream should
always be churned when ready.
Over In Germany they have mech
ansm for catching and destroying but
terfies which damage their fir woods.
The contrivance consists Of n power
light which attracts the pests. and a
large revolving fan which draws them
into n chamber where they are bruised
and killed.
Buying hand separator is quite
different from buying almost any 9th
er piece of machinery used on the
farm. 1t pays to get good one and
give it a thorough trial before accept
ing il. 4 poor machine is not only
short lived, but loses money every day
for the owner.
In Australia all the butter making
Is done on the cooperative system.
Farmers no longer make butter on the
farms. Australian butter ranks with
the best in the world. and the dairy
business has brought prosperity to the
farmers who lost nearly all they had
in the drought OF 1902.
4 Pennsylvania dairyman who has
kept a record says it takes 100 quarts
of milk to produce a calf that will
weigh 100 pounds at four weeks. His
record of feeding so calves showed
$1,000 quarts of milk. and for
which he received $4S1. or four cents
per quart and the calves did the milk
ing. He says the calves must be good
ones-not little. runty Jerseys.
So long as stock and feeding steers
.an be bought ia the large market
places cheaper than they can be picked
up around home, the farmers will raise
| fewer each year As soon as they dc
his they pave the way for small mar
/ vins on feeding cattle. Small margins
have already arrived and that is why
| the she stuff at the farm sales is picked
IN so quickly.
Cows seldom kick unless there Is
some reason for II. 1t may be a sore,
or II may be long finger nails. Pos
sibly some previous injury or pain
| makes the cow so afraid and nervous
! that she cannot resist the inclination
! To kick any more than man could re-
/ sist striking another who he thought
was going to injure him. Kicking can
frequently be cured by finding what
| The cause is and removing Ii.
Up comes another individual who
.laims that he knows of more dis
agreeable Job than hauling wheat
straw over a frozen road on n windy
lay. Here II Is. Yoke up a pair Of
steers on a hot spring day when the
20 into field where the weeds and
orush are about waist deep and try
20 break them so that the weeds and
brush will all burn off clean.
The apple tree needs care like other
rho old idea that once planted II
should be able to care for itself and
bring forth an abundance of fruit can
no longer be maintained. since such a
method is neither economical nor
busiHess-lke. Fruit trees of whatever
kind or nature need as much. or more
care and attention throughout the sea
son as any crop grown.
A good cow sells as high as a FAT
4eer nowadays. 1t seems that every
body wants cows. A good many of the
| farmers have dropped out of the bust
ness OF raising cattle the last few years
and now want TO get back in again
The man who bought good cows q year
or two ago instead of steers is right I'm
the swim. These COWS have been yield.
ing nice income all the time, and now
they are worth practically the same as
a steer, which has been a constant ex.
pense.
( The civ Farmer Who EatIed