Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-28
Keepino a Cow.

Surely old customs are passing away.
There was a time when almost every
resident of the country town kept
COW. The back end of the lot contain
ed a small barn. and the COW was an
chored out on the commons or led off
to nearby pasture by the small boy
before he went to school and brought in
by this lad after school in the late
afternoon In that way the family was
supplied with milk and perhaps all the
butter used. But the high price OF
feed and the scarcity of pasture. and
the other fact that the town people DO
not care to appear like farmers any
more, has eliminated the COW from the
back lot, and the family now buys its
milk and butter thus adding to the list
of consum ers, and reducing the pro-
ducers Yes. conditions have chang
ed" says G. w. Hervey of the dairy
department of the Iowa Agricultural
college "The milk supply has settled
down to business all over the coun-
try The town and city dairymen have
taken the business that the family cow
formerly was employed to carry on.
Large dairy herds are kept close to the
town and from these and the shipped
product the milk supply for the people
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wagon once a day to the home at so
much per quart This method has
been regarded as a great convenience
though not always as satisfactory IN
quality as that which the family cow
was in the habit of supplying The
milk COW has suffered an abuse and
degeneracy. in her kind. by having any
thing in the line of she cattle added to
the dairy COW stock of the town and
CITY. pickups. culls shipped into the
central stock yards. just to get rid OF
them. In the general dairy business OF
the country. there has recently been
reform in sentiment, which seems 10
have struck the foothills of ascension
in dairy COW quality. There now seems
to be a prevailing opinion among
dairymen. persons familiar with cows,
| that for the class of cows to be used
for milk purposes, there must be more
attention paid to quality and quantity
| of production. It is not enough mat
| cow fr shens once a year and produces
fairly good quality and quantity or
milk. but she must be big producer'
| money maker
| How 10 Use Commercial Fertilizers.
| If fertilizers are used, the following
general rule should govern: On rlch
| lands use mainly fertilizers that viii
stimulate the fruit and not the stalk
growth. On lighter lands use more OF
the elements to force growth, combined
with others which will mature the fruit.
| Higs-grade IA per cent acld phos-
| phate may be considered basis for m
creasing fruit and Fastening maturity
| Of crops. Even on the richest land II
has been demonstrated that small
percentage of nitrogen added to the
acid phosphate gives better results
ALL slaked lime is Of value for use on
stiff or gummy soils to loosen them up,
permit the air to enter and prevent a
sour condition of such soils when too
wet
On thin or impoverished soils equal
quantities of cotton-seed meal and ACID
| phosphate can be used to advantage
| In case the foregoing can not be OBJ
tanned, standard grade commercial fer
tilizer may be used. These should con-
/ tain in the mixture 8 to 10 per cent OF
availa BILE phosphoric acid. to per
cent of nitrogen and 1h to per cent
of potash, or on some lands high
grade acid phosphate, IA per cent may
be used.
Where lands are greatly worn by
years Of cropping, more fertilizer
should be used &c the acre and II