The Arvada enterprise., 1911-07-20

The open-front house is good for
pigs.
breeders
For dressing at all ages the white
color has an advantage.
The CESSATION period OF cows IL
nine months. or ESQ days
Cockerels should be caponized when
they weigh about two pounds each.
Realize tho profit from your capital
invested In beef as soon as possible
A sandy soil Is one of the most
diflcult ones on which to grow blue.
grass.
There seems to be no limit to what
the tractor engine can be made to do
on the farm.
For potatoes only well-drained
ground should be used, where no stag
nant water stands
The best sheep for any state are
those that will bring the producer the
most money for his labor
Be sure to keep drinking vessels in
cool, shady spot; keep them clean
and well filled with clean, fresh water.
All animals produce stronger young
when both sire and dam have a rea-
sonable amount of exercise each day.
Look after the horses teeth. They
require attention when they get along
in years. The ragged teeth should be
filed of.
The mixer should wear clean outer
garments, used only when milking,
and kept in a clean place at other
times.
A good mixture to feed calves Is
whole oats. with plenty of alfalfa or
clover hay.
Young mares sometimes refuse to
allow the colt to nurse because Of
chapped teats, sensitive udder, or
nervousness.
Change your sheep to fresh pastures
as often as possible; even II. after a
rest OF say two weeks. you go back to
the old pastures.
Kind and gentle handling brings It's
reward in the increased docility Of the
quired for milking.
1t is well to have gunnysacks hung
in the doorway; so that, as the COW
forces her way through, the flies will
be brushed off her back.
There is no more use Of allowing
bees to poster with useless swarnlng
than there is of allowing your cows
to pasture on wheat or corn.
Give the setting hen thorough dust.
ing with Insect powder two or three
times during incubation. This may
save your little chicks from lice and
mites.
A baby beef is a cali not more than
eighteen or twenty months old and
weighing not more than 1900 pounds.
1t must have quality and be in prime
condition.
The ideal condition for the mother,
preceding the birth of foal, Is to have
access to pasture where she may
be watched daily during the latter
part of CESSATION.
II Holsteins are selected do not
expect them to thrive on closely
cropped, scanty pastures where they
are compelled to rustic all day to
gather sufficient food.
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Matching 1t will be well to remove the
male from the flock. Don't keep eggs
In too warm n place. Below so de.
grees Is better than above t.
With good milking cows, well fed
and well kept. milk can be produced
at a cost of 65 cents per hundred and
butter fat for 16 cents a pound. This
ia an average for the year round
Those who desire TO establish al
falfa in their poultry yards can sue.
coed In this way by plowing or spading
under alfalfa crowns that have been
freshly plowed out from some field
near by.
The fact that dairymen have de.
voted more attention to other phases
Of their dairying than to the breeding
and development of the COW is one OF
the reasons why so many OF our dairy
herds are not capable OF returning a
profit from their food and cost OF at