The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1910-01-28
Dairy cows do pay.

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Muck soils are generally acid.
Ducks love to stay out all night in
their runs.
Pekin ducks are good breeders even
at four years of age.
Roughage fed In considerable guam.
titles will result in the production of
beef.
Good, unauthorized milk should
contain about 81 per cent. Of water
and 10 per cent. of solids.
Even the hired man now rides where
he once walked and he gets higher
wages than when he walked
Watch the breeding sows. II they
get too thin it is had for them and II
they get too fat 1t is for the unborn
pigs.
The proper feeding of poultry is a
s~ANhNN anu ohc tial HDt OHly
pleasure in its investigation but profit
In its mastery.
Some men don't seem to realize the
Importance of manipulating the I'D.
der with the hand at the same time
they are milking.
The COW with the good appetite is
apt to be the cheapest butter producer.
Cows that are 'finnicky" are not apt
to be profitable.
coop II by IS feet is large enough
for SO hens. Give them light. warmth
and plenty Of air. Let the last filter
through canvas window.
Few COW keepers know anything
about the theory of dairying. but a
good one has got the practice down
fine. and this is what counts.
Glover that is vigorous will put more
plant food into the land than clover
that Is not vigorous forsit has more
power to draw on the nitrogen In the
air.
Skim milk. which is whole milk.
minus part of Its fat. and which costs
only half as much as whole milk. fur.
nishes protein about four times ms
cheaply as beef.
A special bee-cellar in which moth.
Ing else Is kept is certainly desirable,
but many bee-keepers cannot AFFORD
this and yet can well spare room I'm n
good house cellar.
To protect the trees from mice and
rabbits. screen wire. veneer. or tarred
paper may be placed around the
trunks. This is. indeed. u good pre-.
caution for all young fruit trees.
The chickens should be encouraged
to run and scratch In the garden in
the winter after the frosts have de.
stroyed the tomatoes and other vege.
tables the fowls might damage.
Horse manure is very dry and loose
In texture and difficult to mix with
litter. Hence II heats rapidly, fer.
mentation sets In and the ammonia II
contains escapes into the mir and is
lost.
The best way to fatten young stock
10 secure maximum profit is to feed
them well from the start Whether IL
be young cattle or lambs. they should
be literally fed from the beginning
of the feeding period.
MIX requires no preparation, has
no waste. and Ia more thoroughly di.
gested than most vegetable foods. As
. source OF protein. the most cx.
pensive OF the nutritive ingredients, II
IL especially economical.
The manure OF cattle In generally
poorer than that OF any of the farm
animals on account OF II carrying n
greater percentage OF water. Il
decomposcs slowly and In therefore
good 10 mix with other manurcs
that ARE more inclined to heat.
OF course. pigs viii live and mike
some growth ON good clover pasture
without any grain. but this feed IN nj.
together too bulky for profitable re.
salts. hence the desirabiiity of feeding
n liberal grain ration while the pigs
sr. ON pasture for n maximum pront.
IiolHtcin cows nro now In greater
demand In dairy localities than amy
other breed. This In not true In all
noishborboods. but II In true In gen.
eral. There are several reasons,
They are good eaters; they stand OK.
posurc better than Jerseys: they pro
dueo more milk than any other breed;
they have tenta no formed that they
milk easier than other breeds. and
they give down 20 the end with little