Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-02-16

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Give tea roses lots of room.
Seed corn should be properly dried.
The stallion should be made to work
just as any other horse.
The rooster doesn't count as lay
ing hen, but he eats like one.
It don't pay to buy cheap harness;
sometimes bad accidents result.
Possibly the failures in raising poul-
try are not dwelt upon as much as the
successes.
The goose and the guinea fowl
should be found in greater numbers
on the farms.
What is commonly known as the
richness of milk depends upon the
amount Of butterfat it contains.
whole milk are much more nutri-
toes than those prepared with water.
During winter all extracted Tor
more commonly called strained honey
is liable to granulate II in glass pack
ages.
| No vegetable makes better succu-
lent food for the hens in winter than
the beet when boiled or pulped in a
root cutter
Silage can be put up and fed as
cheaply as clover hay, and the steers
receiving silage make better use of
the corn they eat.
Poultry raising is an avocation that
furnishes healthful, pleasing and pro-
fitable employment to the wife and
daughters ON the farm.
One buying a WORKOUT farm has
one advantage over the one who
buys worn-out overcoat; taking care
Tests have shown that butterfat can
not be fed into milk. If more and
better feed is given the milk flow in
creases, but the milk is no richer.
When buying seed be sure you get
what you pay for and that it is clean.
Unclean seeds cause large per cent.
of the weeds which bother the gar
dener.
Keep your fowls away from all
kinds of decayed or spoiled meat, and
feed only fresh green bone and beef
scraps that is sweet enough for your
own table.
To determine the percentage of
cream in the milk Of different cows,
set some of each In glass tumblers.
The thickness of the cream can be
seen through the glass.
Protein, bone and body ash-forming
| nutriments, so essential to successful
and economical cattle feeding, are
supplied cheapest in the form of home
grown leguminous hays.
Some idea of the Importance of
milk as human food may be gained
from the fact that about one-sixth of
the total food of the average family
is furnished by it and its products.
For winter shotes, kept for spring
and summer feeding, as soon as posi-
BILE get a little blue grass or clover
for them. There is no better stock
food blood purifier than our native
grass.
Be sure to drain all water from the
steam or gasoline engine as soon as
you are through with It. New cylin-
ders and pipes are expensive and Jack
Frost was never known to do them
any good.
Corn Is always the best and cheap
est base Of the grain ration for fatten-
ing animals, but with 1t should be COM
bined such other feeds as will give the
ration proper nutritive ratio. and in
crease the palatability of the grain
feed.
An examination of the milk In but
terfat record Of the cow Early Morn.
at the Indiana station for one year
fails to show any connection between
the quantity or quality of her milk
and the condition of the weather. In
fact, her greatest variations occurred
at times when the weather was sta
tionary.
The busy hen is the one that lays
the most eggs and to keep her busy
she must have a scratching place and
some material to scratch in. Millet
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