The state herald., 1909-03-19

Think out your work and the doing
OF 1t will prove much easier.
From the first of April to the last
of May is the best time to do your
Matching.
Alfalfa is as good for the hogs as
for the cows. Try for stand of al
falfa this year.
A mighty three to test out your herd.
Start In this spring. Scales, a tally
sheet and 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 move for econ.
Omy.
As compared with the old pan meth.
od 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. II
you have saved those from your best
cows mated to a pure-bred bull. That
is the way to build up a dairy herd.
If trouble with lumpy or stringy
milk try this treatment First give
thorough purge, say pound OF
Glauber's salts. When 1t has ceased
to act. give half an ounce of inter and
30 drops of aconite twice day for two
days, or longer II not cured.
The German proverb that the ma
nure pile is the farmers bank de
pends 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 II out on the land
as soon as possible.
Pin worms In the membrane lining
the rectum OF the horse are exceed
insly annoying and cause irritation
which seriously interferes with n
horses working capacity. To remedy
give rectal injection two or three
times week Of three quarts Of soapy
warm water 10 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.
tion and equipment OF a modern alb
batoir at Ames. Ia. is to be asked Of
the legislature by the agricultural col.
lege. The proposal is that q
thoroughly modern slaughtering plant
should be erected at the college in
oder that students may be taught the
actual results which follow stated
systems of breeding and feeding com.
merciai cattle. sheep and swine. II
Is easy enough to show how meat.
making animals may be fed profitablv.
but unless the student can observe
for himself the actual results achieved
but half OF the work has been done.
Prof. c. II. Lane declares his belief
that the milking.m IL one of
the advance steps In dairying. kave
watched It's workings very closely and
the results obtained indicate that II
In entirely practical. That II is In.
borsaying device there is no question.
For example: Two men with the ma.
chine will milk herd OF 60 cows In
less time than II requires four men by
hand This makes II possible for the
other two men TO 70 Into the fields
With the teams early In the morning
and work until evening. ns II is not
necessary for the drivers to take part
In the milking. This IL no small Item.
ns on many farms II would amount 10
$40 week In cash and for 20 weeks .
net saving Of $500.
unelean methods are as inexcnsabie
In the barn as In the house. The han.
ding OF the milk and the milking IN
the barn has more 10 do with Its qual.
iiy than Its after handling after II liz
brought TO the dairy room. II In really
astonishing TO see how careless and
unclean n man, who In other things