Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-07

The worst.
Oil meal is good for the COWS. II
will prove u pay ration.
A blind pig gets very little sympa
thy from the other hogs.
Milk is easily contaminated, anc
hence Is a most prolific medium of con
veying disease.
Raise colts, but don't try to do II
with poor, rundown. over-worked
mares. Strong colts cannot be gotten
In this way.
Be sure that you get n standard
grade of cement and that 1t is mixed
in proper proportions with the other
materials if you want TO get good re
suits.
As compared with the old pan meth
cd 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.
Are you carelcssly letting the liquid
manure 60 to waste? 1t is the most
valuable part of the manure. Save 1T
either by tight cutters running to a
c~!stern, or use plenty Of absorhents to
soak 1t up.
If troubled with lumpy or stringy
milk, try this treatment: First give
a thorough purge, say a pound Of
Glauber's salts. When it has ceased
to act, give half an ounce Of inter and
80 drops Of aconite twice a day for two
days, or longer if not cured.
The time to wash out the buttermilk
from butter is when 1t has reached the
granular stage. Good butter comes not
by any chance. but from good feed,
properly separating b cream n
careful churning. The cream should
always be churned when ready.
Over in Germany they have a mech
anism for catching and destroying but
terfics which damage their FIR woods.
The co%ntrivance consists OF a power
light which attracts the pests, and a
large revolving fan which draws them
into a chamber where they are bruised
and killed.
In Australia all the butter making
Is done on the cooperative system.
Farmers no longer make butter on the
farms. Australian butter ranks with
49, A~-& H. xl~ ,o,.1I nr1 fhn dairy
business has brought prosperity to the
farmers who lost nearly all they had
in the drought of 1902.
A Pennsylvania dairyman who has
kept a record says it takes $50 quarts
Of milk to produce a calf that will
weigh 100 pounds at four weeks. His
Of feeding so calves showed
1900 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
little, runty Jerseys.
Cows seldom kick unless there is
some reason for 1t. 1t may be a sore,
or it may be long finger nails. Pos
sibly some previous injury or pain
the COW so afraid and nervou
that she cannot resist the inclination
to kick any more than a mar could re-
sist striking another who he thought
was going to injure him. Kicking can
be cured by finding what
the cause is and removing it,
Up comes another individual who
claims that he knows of q more dis
a~greeable Job than hauling wheat
straw over 4 frozen road on a windy
lay. Here 1t is. Yoke up a pair OF
on a hot spring day when the
are in their liveliest mood and
20 into a field where the weeds and
brush are about waist deep and try
TO break them so that the weeds and
brush will all burn off clean.
The apple tree needs care like other
fruit trees, If it IS going to do well.
The old idea that once planted 1t
be able to care for itself and
BRING forth an abundance of fruit can
40 longer be maintained, since such a
Is neither economical nor
ousiness-llke. Fruit trees Of whatever.l
Kind or nature need as much, or more,
,are and attention throughout the sea-
Jon as any crop grown. 49,.
"A good COW sells as high as a fat
,teer nowadays. 1t seems that every
body wants cows. a good many of the
have dropped out Of the bust
less Of raising cattle the last few years
now want to get back in again.
The man who bought good cows a year
n two ago instead of steers is right In
he swim. These cows have been yield
ng a nice income all the time, and now
hey are worth practically the same as
steer, which has been Il constant ex-
ense.
The City Farmer Who Failed.
A few years ago a successful city
man bought a farm. He had
efficient capital to pay cash for the
arm, to buy all the machinery neces
airy and to stock 1t with thoroughbred
lorses, cattle. sheep and swine.
He was q lover of animals, and he
pent his time amongst his stock. He
'ecame acquainted with each animal
le would talk to them, and thew SEEM