Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-03
COUNTY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE DATA
By DIRECTOR MURRAY D. LINCOLN

ed, the farmers are 50 per cent. better off than they were before the system was instituted. 1t is system that pays the farmer for better care of his milk. It puts a premium on good milk so that the farmer that tries to put out good product is paid for it ac- cordingly, and not, as is the usual rule, being obliged to take the same price as the man who Is unclean in handling his cows and utensils, has dirty sta- bles and the like, gets. It is a stumu- Jus to produce as much good milk as possible and not as much milk regard less of whether 1t is fit for conSump- ton or not. It will be well worth any man speak.
 Colds and Roup of Hens.
 Many persons are complaining that their hens have colds and if laying at all have stopped, or at least dropped of. Much of this trouble is due to colds, which will sooner or later de- velop roup. AS a preventive in the flockS that have not already got colds we recommend putting potassium per- manganate in the drinking water. When the flock Is already afflicted it is advised to keep the water away from them till noon each day and then they will dip their heads deeper into way make the treatment much more effective.
 Potassium. permanganate is obtain able at any drug store at a very low In a quart bottle of water. This is of course too strong to give the hens, but this bottle should be kept near the drinking fountain and then as pail of water is drawn enough permangan- ate solution should be added to give the water a good wine color. This should be used as preventive no mat ter how healthy the hens are now, for they are very susceptible to colds at this time of year.
 Poultry Rations.
 Connecticut Agricultural college, de- partment of poultry husbandry, gives the following rations for laying hens: corn, one bushel wheat, one bushel oats.
 Dry Mash, to be kept before the hens all the time: 100 pounds wheat bran, 100 pounds corn meal. 100 pounds ground oats, 100 pounds flour mid
 dlings, 100 pounds beef scrap. Cow Needs Variety. We must consider variety. The COW, like oneself, wants variety. One does not want to live on bacon and eggs for 365 days in the year, and every meal in the day: neither does the COW like
 to eat one or two kinds of grain every day in the year, and at all meals. One l likes variety by, having one kind of
 food one day and another tomorrow. and so on day after day, and then come
 back to the food which one had at the | first meal.
 The COW. however, is different; the COW likes uniformity of ration day af- ter day, but the ration may be of a great variety of materials, and that is a point that the farmer must keep in
 mind. and to provide for when he should grow a variety of crops. It is not enough to grow ensilage and clover or hay or oats He must grow
 number of things or supply them in the form Of a variety of grains. The | roughage should consist of as great a variety as possible.
 4 Ration for One or Two Cow Dairy. A good fation for the city man or ] the country man that has only one to three or four cows is as follows: Four
 parts corn or corn and cob meal, two parts bran. one part cottonseed. A man with such a small herd can
 not bother with such a large variety
 as the man with a herd of eight to 20. The above, fed with all the hay a COW wants, and some form of succulent
 food, is sufficient for all purposes of
 the small dairyn1an.