The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-05-18

most farmers dfsinfecting means dip
lping. It meant the same to me al
1.-THE start. / built q huge concrete dis
injecting tank and made the animals
take q fifty foot swim through medi.
lcated waters. Then woke up to the
fact that while this probably was high.
" purifying for the outside Of the
creature, 1t didn't penetrate the inside,
nor did it do it's cleansing and protect
i've work on the quarters which the
animal inhabited. After one year OF
the plunge bath abolished the swim
ming pool and substituted strong
force pump. The animals are driven
into their sheds, from which all the
manure has been carefully removed;
the openings are tightly closed, and
then the creatures are sprayed with
the volatile insect until they are com
pletely drenched inside as well as out
side, for the heat Of the animals acts
upon the spraying preparation and the
building is quickly filed with thick,
penetrating fog, which the creatures
are compelled to breathe. They are
cured internally as well as externally.
know that my animals have been
almost instantly cured Of bad cases OF
worms By this form OF disinfecting. AS
for animal lice they simply can not
stand against this treatment. But the
cleansing does not stop with the out
side and the inside Of the creatures
the floors, walls and ceilings OF the:
quarters are as eftectually disinfected
by the spray and the fog as are the
animals themselves. This form of dis.
ease prevention may be as easily and
effectively practiced by the small
farmer as by the large. have kept
careful records Of my spraying cost,
and they show that, for the labor and
materials, it amounts to precisely one
cent an animal for each spraying. or
IL cents q year each creature. This
one thing alone has saved me thou.
sands of dollars annually. II all the
live stock farmers of the United States
We're to follow this practice it would
result in a saving of many millions
OF dollars q year, besides operating
as practical stay against peril to
human life through diseased meats. Az.
my hog sales have repeatedly amount
led to sixty thousand dollars q year
and have seldom, if ever, marketed
fewer than two thousand fat cattle a
year. it must be granted that. in nine
years of consistent practice OF this
form Of spraying, l have had fair.
chance to prove It's merits
There is scarcely line of activity
on his great farm which Mr.. Cook has
not considered in his corner cutting
campaign at one time or another, with
results which have more than justified
the time and attention given by this.
man who farms with his head and
let's the others "do the work." The
treatment of his pastures and meadow
IS another case in point. Is there a
patchsof ground where the bluegrass
for this is bluegrass farmis not
as thick and velvety as it should he /?
II SO. he goes into that part of the
pasture where the grass is prime and
dead ripe. cuts it with the mower.
rakes it and hauls the grass and scat
tiers It upon the Short pasture, where
It sheds the seed and produces an
abundant crop. He has never known
a failure from this short cut in seed.
ing methods.
Again, he handles his pastures in a
novel way, which saves the necessity
|of changing his cattle from one pasture
to another. He turns this clever trick
by spreading manure on only one-half
the pasture at time. The cattle
feed upon the unfertilized ground UNI.
TIL the grass is high on the other half
and the faint of the manure has dis
appeared from it. Then they switch
over, and the manure spreaders are
put to work on the unfertilized por-
Ton. ms furnishes uninterrupted
pasturage and uninterrupted fertiliza-
ton throughout the season in every
pasture.
The fine point to which Mr.. Cook
applies his economies finds another
Illustration in the matter OF provi.
sioning for oil food. He believes that.
SO far as possible. every farm should
produce what is needed for the feed
ing Of the stock kept on it.
Oil meal. or oil cake. is an expen
|stve commodity in the business Of
Is also necessity. for many well
feeding cattle for the market, but it
known reasons. Then, too, the feed
ing of heavy concentrates is mat
ter requiring great care and good
Judgment. For all these reasons Mr..
Cook each year plants eight or ten
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