The Columbus journal., 1909-07-07


tionable whether it pays to give heavy
grain ration. The difference in gain
is not Offset by the increased expense.
It looks like q waste when thinning
the fruit on the trees, but the harvest
time of larger and better fruit proves
the wisdom of the course.
Radishes need lots of potash. and
for this reason wood ashes sprinkled
on the soil where they are grown will
give them large and rapid growth.
It is a look q long ways ahead. but
just make up your mind now that you
will attend your state and county fair
this year.
This is a good haying year in most
sections. The cool, moist weather
mas encouraged heavy growth, and
there ought to be plenty OF hay
throughout the country.
Oats and field peas make a good
combination crop for hay. The peas
add the protein property to the fodder
and the oats hold the vines up so that
they can be cut with the mower.
In sending eggs to market have
them as near in size and color as pos
sible. Ill-assorted eggs never bring as
good a price as those with even ap-
pearance.
It is the wise farmer who feeds all
he raises and then buys some from
his neighbors to feed. The farmer
who carries such an amount of live
stock will be constantly improving
his land and making it more pro-
ductive.
Do you appreciate the fact that II
the liquid manure is not utilized the
most valuable part of the manure is
lost? Use absorbents in the stable
to take up the liquid manure, or bet
ter still have a cistern into which all
the liquid manure can be drained, and
from which it can be pumped and
used as desired.
Study the character of the soil Of
your pasture land if the grass is not
doing well. and aim to supply the
fertilizer containing the elements
needed The droppings of the ami
mails help, but some concentrated fer
tilizers are also needed. Narrowing
the pasture fields will help to break
up. distribute and work into the soil
the coarse dropping of the pastured
animals. besides improving the tex
ture of the soil.
For the first week after narrowing
until weaving the sow will be little
else than a milk machine. and to be
high-power machine in perfect op-
Grafton she must have proper care.
Nothing else is so well calculated to
make pigs grow as bOuntiful supply
of wholesome sow's milk, and the pigs
that have plenty of other feed with
the milk of a well-slopped SOW for
eight weeks will ordinarily have much
the start of those weaned at five or
six weeks, no matter how much food
and attention the earlier weaned pigs
may have had.
After the first two weeks you can
get the calf onto skim milk. Whole
milk is too expensive to raise calves
on. Calves thrive much better on the
warm skinned milk from the hand
separator than on the skinned milk
brought home from the creamery,
where the milk of several hundred
cows is probably mixed, or the milk
set in pans and crooks or deep cans,
which. when the cream is taken of,
is always cold and usually half sour
1 think skinned milk may be fed to
calves with more profit than to any
other thing about the farm, unless it
be the poultry.
A COW will make use of between
three and four tons of silage a year.
With ten cows and other stock to use
as much ensilage as the cows. one
could use 60 to 80 tons per year.
Where enough stock Is kept to use to
advantage 80 or more tons of ensilage
per year one may be justified in in.
vesting in a silo and the necessary
machinery to fill it. The larger and
better the herd and the better the
dairyman the more profitable ensilage
becomes. One is never justified In
the use of expensive feed like ensilage
unless he gets to be q careful herds
man, furnishes his animals comfort
able quarters, good. regular care and
protection from storms and winds.
Milking under quiet. favorable con-
ditions is quite important for the fol.
lowing reasons plainly set forth by
John Burroughs, the eminent natural.
list, in speaking of the supposed pow
er of cows to "hold-up" their milk
Says Mr.. Burroughs: Most farmers
and country people think that the Civ.
ing down or holding up the milk by
the COW is voluntary act. In fact,
they fancy that the udder is YES
sci filed with milk, and that the COW
releases or withholds it just as she
chooses. But the udder. is q manufac.
tory; it is filed with blood frori which
the milk Is manufactured while you
milk. This process is controlled by
the cows nervous system; when she
ia excited or in any way disturbed. as