Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-02-02
Dairy cows do pay.

Dairy cows do pay.
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, unadulterated milk should
contain about 81 per cent. of water
and 13 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. If they
get too thin it is had for them and if
they get too fat it is for the unborn
pigs.
The proper feeding of poultry is a
science and one that not only affords
pleasure in it's investigation but profit
in its mastery.
Some men don't seem to realize the
Importance of manipulating the I'D
he
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
A coop IA 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.
plant food into the land than clover
that is not vigorous for it has more
power to draw on the nitrogen in the
air.
Skim milk, which is whole milk,
minus part of it's fat, and which costs
only half as much as whole milk, fur
nishes protein about four times as
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 in a
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, a 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 it heats rapidly, fer
mentation sets in and the ammonia it
contains escapes into the air and is
lost.
The best way to fatten young stock
to secure a maximum profit is to feed
them we'll from the start. Whether it
be young cattle or lambs, they should
be literally fed from the beginning
of the feeding period.
Milk requires no preparation, has
no waste, and is more thoroughly di-
gested than most vegetable foods. AS
a source of protein, the most ex-
pensive of the nutritive ingredients, it
is especially economical.
The manure of cattle is generally
poorer than that of any of the farm
animals on account of it carrying a
greater percentage of water. It
decOmposes slowly and is therefore
good to mix with other manures
that are more inclined to heat.
OF course, pigs will live and make
some growth on good clover pasture
without any grain, but this feed is al
together too bulky for profitable re-
suits, hence the desirability of feeding
a liberal grain ration while the pigs
are on pasture for a maximum profit.
Holstein COWS are now in greater
demand in dairy localities than any
other breed. This is not true in all
neighborhoods, but it is true in gen
eral. There are several reasons:
They are good eaters; they stand ex-
posture better than Jerseys; they pro-
duce more milk than any other breed;
they have teats so formed that they