Middletown transcript., 1910-01-01
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

In l8 years alfalfa has become the lead
ing grass crop OF Kansas. The 19OE
statistics show that the States alfalfs
area is greater than that of the timothy
clover, blue grass, orchard grass and other
tame grasses combined.
Considerable more than 80 per cent. oI
the entire wheat crop OF 1907, estimated
in round numbers at 6S4. OOO, 900 bushels,
was grown iD 10 of the older States east
of the Mississippi, their gross yield being
placed at SS2, 600, 900 bushels. This is
more than three times as much as the
largest wheat crop ever grown in the
Canadian Northwest.
Fresh poultry manure is said to be
worth, compared with the present value
of fertilizers, IS cents per 100 pounds.
Figures from different experiment sta
tions give the product of 25 hens for the
winter season Of six months as 375 pounds
for the roost droppings only.
The fact that Delaware farmers have
produced tWo crops-corn and crimson
clover-each year for many successive
years aud that the land was steadily i'm.
proved under this rotation is strong evil
dence in favor of Professor Whitney's
assertion that our soils are inexhaustible
under intelligent tilIags.
Seventeen Jersey cows under authenti-
Gated fat tests have produced 700 pounds
of butter or over in one year. These cows
represent the herds Of IL different own.
ers in nine States. The average yield OF
butter Of the IL is nearly 8I3 pounds.
1t has been found that fresh air is also
good for the horse. Keeping horses in
filthy, dark, unventiIated stables is the
cause of many a case Of sickness among
horses. Canadian veterinary authorities
claim that the average case of influenza
or distemper will not need much medical
attention if the horse is allowed an abun-
dance OF fresh air. 1t is absolutely cer-
tain that a plentiful supply OF fresh air
is necessary to maintain a horse in good
health.
W. F. SchiIling, president of the Mime.
sota Dairymen's Association, owns Hol.
stein COW, Esther Piebe de KoI, which
produced 1855 pounds of milk in 80 days,
or twice her own weight.
Il. ]. Ludlow, superintendent of the
Mobiles County (Minn.) Department Of
Horticulture, declares that for the past
IL years be has made from $500 to- $500
a gear on a half-scre of apple trees.
The annual feeding stuffs inspection
bulletin of the New York Agricultural
Experiment Station says that of the 1858
brands of feed snalyzsd, 80 more than
lapt year, only %, or Elk less than last
year. we're found below guarantee in |
protein and fat-apparently decided
in the quality of the feeds. |
But when we find that 10 brands of
wheat bY-products contain ground corn
cobe; that some half.dozen other brands |
place grain prices on alfalfa meal; that
more than 80 brands, supposedly mix
ture OF ground farm grains, contain oat |
buIls; that 28 brands Of molasses feeds or
similar mixtures contain considerable |
Of uBground weed seeds, and |
that many OF the compounded feeds are
adultersted or sophisticated, We
realize that no analysis giving merely
chemical percentages can be an efficient
check upon certain fraudulent practices.
For this reason every careful ieeder
should welcome the changed Law, effec-
live January lst, 1910, which requires
OF fibre as we'll as protein and
fat Except when the fibre is lees than
5 per cent. J, and also requires the maker
Of compounded feeds to tell what in.
gradients enter into the mixture.
In.everythinR regularity is good prac-
lice, but in good dairying it is impera-
live. To give large and rich yields Of
milk is the sole function Of the dairy
COWS, and to do this she must be of good
1airy type, fed palatable and nutritious
leeds and MIXED clean at regular periods.
The feed the COW eats is turned into
milk and carried TO her udder with ex-
RENE regularity, the same at all seasons.
But. as rule, she is MIXED at o'clock
If mornings in summer and at Z or 8
o'clock in the morning in winter. The
evening milking is done very late in sum-
ner and very early in winter. The very
unequal periods are made for the COW
oy this sun.to-sun milking, and as con-
sequence the quality Of her milk now and
he length of her annual period are re-
luced. The COW can do her best only
shen MIXED at equal aud regular daily
1eriod OF about l2 hours each the year
lround.
To do the milking at eqnal and regular
each day is better for all con-
for the animals and bet
er for the men. Milk about O'Clock
10Th night and morning, let the sun be
where it viii. In winter it may be dark
q the dairy stable at this hour, but the
yell-arranged dairy stable lie warm and
and can easily and safely
,e lighted by lanterns.
The job Of milking COWS is probably
drudRery TO more mllkers than q pleas
Ire. Conditions in the dairy easily be-
ONE ruch that the work-of milking 10
Ireaded. The man who doesn't try to
njny his work usually allows such con-
Iitions to obtain, and the more he breads
he work the worse the conditions, and
ich versa.
With cleanIy conditions, convenient
ABILITIES for feeding and caring for the
ows. and gentle COWS Indicating kind
the tesk of milking can be !
nade quite as agreeable as any other (
work upon the farm. That is, providing
be milking is not dune when one ought
o be in bed, and providing further, that