Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-02-05

ed, is very essential point in the
production of good milk. They should
have large nostrils and a large mouth.
in order to allow plenty of free pure
air into the lungs and thereby purify
| the blood and then follows good pro-
duction. 1t is known that some peo-
| pie breed for the money that there is
| in it and do not pay very much at
tention to the kind of cattle they are
raising, and it is common among them
to have what is known as tubuercu-
losis; this is caused mostly by the an
imals not having large enough nos
trils to keep the blood in good condi-
ton, therefore hot bed for diseases.
| Your sire should have a dished face
in order to have a large eve. The
best breed of cattle in the world are
found in the Holstein; their horns
should be fine at the base. thin shoul-
ders at the point of the back and
just back of the shoulders they should
have roach because it is plainly
shown that in order to have roach
there it is necessary for the internal
organs to weigh heavy and therefore
press the ribs forward and thereby
causing the vertebrae of the spinal
column to raise and form roach.
Have the sires broad across the hips
and have the pelvic arch high and hip
bones prominent and the flank thin
because it is evident that there must
be flesh in the udder and If it were
in the hanks it could not very well
appear in the udder at the same time.
| Mr.. Collins again took up the sub.
| ject of bees in the place of DR.. Fore
mans lecture on Diseases of Farm
Animals. He took up more in detail
the facts given in his. previous lee
lures, offering explanations and illus
trations to any question that might
be asked pertaining to his subject
"It is a prime necessity that all hives
should be put together with cxactness
as it will be a great help when the
honey flow begins. The queen lays
from one to four queen cells or eggs
that will produce new queen, IN
each brood. Descendants of good
queens are generally good and are
worth keeping. Do not make prac-
tice of raising queens for the profit
there is in them or for any CONNER
cial use. When you want to find your
queen in the hive it is very simple
matter to locate her from the direc-
ton which the working bees are fac
ing as they always face their queen.
All comb made after the honey flow
is over is called drone comb. When
looking for the queen she will hide If
the hive is disturbed and in this case
you should blow little smoke into
the hive from the front and from the
back, then lift the frames out and she
can be found in the center of the
comb, as she knows the ground and
will not trample on ground that she
is not used to. Do not be afraid OF
spelling the honey market by too
many being in the honey producing
business, as there will never be
time when honey will not be in de-
mand as there are young people grow
ing up all the time that have never
tasted what we know to be honey.
and until honey is plentiful enough
for every one Of these children to have
all they want there will be steady
demand for honey. When taking u'.
the honey producing business It Is
oughly before you undertake to han
die anv more. Linden and bass-wood
are good honey plants and ii you arc
going to pursue this line il is adj
able to plant some of these trees near
your bees so that they will not have
to carry the honey too far.
| Now comes Prof. House with his
water compliances and he explained
by showing a meter and two or three
wiers that are using for the mcasur-
ing of water how the water is mcasur-
ed in volume His talk is too much
OF a complication for us to try to cx-
plain here. so that it would be under
stood in his way. Velocity is the
measurement of the length Of n vol
time of water. as measured by the
meter or the weir. The meter is not
so accurate as the weir but will serve
the purpose in most any ordinary
measurement. while the meter is the
hest to use in measuring the vcloc-
ity of large streams, Since the vcloc-
'tv OF the water is greater in the CEN
ter of the stream than it is at the
sides We take cight-tcnths OF the CEN
ter velocity as an average of the
whole. The velocity of mountain
streams is very great at the surface
OF the water but at the bottom it is
less than onc-tcnth of one per cent
and the meter will not turn at all
Another method OF measuring water
is to throw a chip into the center OF
the stream and time it in going from
point to another in straight course.
A table is sometimes used in mcasur
ing the water in fumes as the de-
crease in velocity is not so great at
the sides as at the sides of ditch.
| Aftcrnoon-Prof. House gave
short address on energy and then the
field was given to Farmer o. c.
Gregg. who took up his time in show
ing the audience how to judge dairy
cows. He, bad two fine cows there
tn illustrate his points. and in passing
sentiments on the cows said that thcv
were both very fine and possessed
| GOOD qualities. The owners were d.