The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

| Oil meal is good for the cows. 4
| will prove pay ration.
Think ont your. work and the doins
Of 1t will prove much easier.
From the first Of April to the las
of May is the best time to do your
Matching.
Alfalfa is as good for the hogs as
for the cows. Try for a stand of al
falfa this year.
A mighty three to test out your herd.
Start in this spring. Scales, a tally
sheet and a Babcock tester are what
you need.
Garget or congested udder can be
generally relieved by hot applications
and vigorous rubbing and kneading OF
the affected part.
/ Good grooming, good bedding and
good feed will make the good COW
more profitable. DON: fool your time
away on the poor COW.
Concrete construction on the farm
is receiving more and more attention.
Strength and permanence in anything
built on the farm is q move for econ.
omy.
As compared with the old pan meth.
OF Of raising cream. the separator is
as far ahead Of the old method as the
thresher is ahead of the old fail
method of threshing grain.
Look carefully after the cows that
are to calve this spring. Don't let the
bright warm days that we get occa-
sionally delude you into thinking that
there is no longer need Of shelter and
care.
Yes, 1t is some trouble and expense
raising dairy cows, but see what you
have after you have raised them, If
you have saved those from your best
cows mated to pure-bred bull. That
is the way to build up dairy herd.
II trouble with lumpy or stringy
milk try this treatment: First give
a thorough purge. say pound of
Glauber's salts. When it has ceased
to act, give half an ounce of inter and
30 drops of aconite twice day for two
days. or longer if not cured.
The German proverb that the ma
nure pile is the farmers bank de-
ponds for its truth a good deal upon
the way the banking is done. Such
banks don't pay interest If every rain
Is allowed to wash away the best part
of the manure. The surest way to get
full value for all the manure made
on the farm is to get it out on the land
as soon as possible.
Pin worms in the membrane lining
the rectum of the horse are exceed
fngly annoying and cause irritation
which seriously interferes with
horses working capacity. To remedy
give rectal injection two or three
times week of three quarts of soapy
warm water to which has been added
cupful of decoction of tobacco made
by pouring boiling water on tobacco
stems and allowing to soak for few
hours.
An appropriation for the construc-
ton and equipment of q modern alb
batoir at Ames. Ia. is to be asked of
the legislature by the agricultural col
lege. The proposal is that a
Thoroughly modern slaughtering plant
should be erected at the college in
order that students may be taught the
actual results which follow stated
systems of breeding and feeding COM
mercial cattle, sheep and swine. 1t
is easy enough to show how meat
making animals may be fed profitably,
but unless the student can observe
for himself the actual results achieved
but half of the work has been done.
Prof. c. B. Lane declares his belief |
that the milking machine is one of |
the advance steps in dairying. have |
its workings very closely and |
the results obtained indicate that 1t
Is entirely practical. That it is a Ia. |
device there is no question.
For example: Two men with the ma
chine will milk herd of 60 cows in
ess time than it requires four men by
hand. This makes it possible for the
other two men to go into the fields
With the teams early in the morning
md work until evening, as it is not
necessary for the drivers to take part
n the milking. This is no small item,
IS on many farms it would amount to
10 week in cash and for so weeks a
let saving of $500.
Unclean methods are as inexcusable
n the barn as in the house. The han
ling of the milk and the milking in
he barn has more to do with its Quail
ty than its after handling after it is
'rought to the dairy room. 1t is really
to see how careless and
mclean man, who in other things
5 most particular, will be when it
ONES to milking. If the good woman
las been in hurry when washing
he dishes and left spot on a plate or
fleck Of dried egg on the back of q
ork. the man of the house is likely to
7ipe it of ostentatiously on a napkin
r the table cloth. But il that same
nan does the milking that evening 1t