Evening star., 1916-04-30

| by the addition of grain concentrates,
two or more kinds being preferable and
ranging in quantity from three pounds
to ten or twelve pounds daily. depend
ing upon the quantity Of milk yielded
and the stage of the lactation period.
| You are safe to buy an old sire for
| the hog herd, but don't get him very
| fat.
| Plenty of pure air is a necessity with
| sheep. They do not require quarters
| so warm as other farm animals, but
| there must be no drafts.
A grain mixture of oats, corn, wheat
bran and oilmeal is the best grain ra
tion. with some good bright mixed hay,
| to put flesh on horses.
Care must be taken that the brood
SOW is not overfed. This causes a
| heavy milk flow. and securing is gen
| orally produced in the pigs.
No animal is thrown off it's feed so
quickly by unclean or tainted food as
a sheep.
Two parts oats and one part wheat
bran. with A little oilmeal added is a
good grain ration for growing colts
To make hogs profitable we must pro-
Flde plenty of range that we NAV keen
their yards clean and sanitary To be
successful a man must be particular
with his breeding stock. The breed is
| of less importance than the surround
lngs 1t will pay any hog owner to dip
an or his growing pigs at least once a
month to keep their skin in good con-
dition and free from lice
Farmers will make more money by
separating a reasonably thick cream
tnan thin cream. Skimming high
test cream leaves more skim milk on
the farm to feed to hogs. calves and
chickens. Skim milk utilized in this
way has a feeding value of about 35
cents per hundred, while il the milk is
LETT In the cream nothing is realized.
The buttermaker usually wants a
cream testing around 35 or 40 per cent
butter fat In the winter if the cream
is above 40 per cent it is rather DIM
cult to get the cream all out of one ca n
ing about 35 per cent in the winter and
40 per cent in the summer is right for
butter making
growing animal needs a large
amount of protein, for this substance
and hide. Fat is not so essential in the
llfe OF a young animal. The Wiscon-
sin experiment station has shown that
IN calf feeding two pounds of grain
t.,
and is much cheaper. Calves fed on
skim milk may not be rolling in fat,
but in the production of dairy anima Is
TINS is not necessary for thrift and
.vfgor. The colostrum milk is neces-
sary to cleanse the calfs digestive
tract and to stimulate digestion The
calf may be taken away from it's moth
er as soon as born, provided il is fed
the whole milk from it's mother. or 1t
may be allowed to run with its, dam for
two or three days. AT the end of two
weeks gradually substitute skim milk
until the whole milk is entirely dis
placed. Nine to twelve pounds of whole
milk is sufficient at frst and should
be fed in several feeds during the day
This may be increased gradually until
twenty pounds of skim milk is being
fed daily.
gested only brimming milk pals and
big milk checks. According to Prof
j. L. Tormey of the Wisconsin College
OF Agriculture. silage is nowadays an
important factor in putting on the fin
ishing touches choice sirloin beef
Silage is great contributor to econ
omy of production. 1t cannot be con-
sidered as a substitute for other neces-
! sary materials in the ration. but if fed
| intelligently is a great food saver
Many farmers do not start a flock
| of sheep because they will not stand
is not expensive. and sheep will soon
pay back the coast and a profit The
| improvement of the pasture alone will
justify the fencing outlay.
The evenness with which a horse
| walks is one of the best evidences that
| the legs work in harmony.
| Tankage affords a splendid feed In
! connection with corn. and when fed at
the rate OF one pound of tankage to
| eight to twelve pounds of corn will
produce gains more economically than
4 when corn is fed without the tankage
! II tankage is not available. shorts with
! a little oil meal will be spendid fat
tening ration. Farmers feeding herds
| of forty to fifty shotes should remem-
| ber to feed proportionately A herd of
| fifty pigs will consume ten times as
much as a litter of hve. and feed should
| be given accordingly. Many farmers
fail to realize this fact and do not give
| the hogs a sufficient amount to pro-
\ duce the gains that should be desired
| When hogs attain weight of $50 to
ITS pounds they should be given all
. they will eat. for the faster they gain
at this age the more profitable will be
/ the gains.
| Sheep should have access to medi-
| Gated salt in winter just as methodical-
ly as in summer. for in this way the
i
| stomachs of mature sheep are largely
destroyed. The source of drinking
| water for sheep is under the entire
/ control OF the feeder while the sheen
are in a dry lot, thus making it impossi-
BILE for them to imbibe parasites with
| water. which in summer is very COM
mon. II is supposed that the parasite
known as stomach worm survives the
winter in the open field to some extent.
Therefore the farmer who would keep
his farm as free possible from para :
| sites should by all means use the win
ter season in systematically eradicatinR
the parasites In the flock itself
| Twelve Holstein cows owned by
| Charles A. Smedley of KensinRton.
| Kan, averaged $50 pounds of butter
| fat a COW last year. and made him a
| net profit of $40 COW. The price of
| the COW is not as important as the
| yield. These cows were a better buy
at $500 each than they would have
| been at s25 II they would yield only
| l20 pounds of butter fat year
| ment at the results they have had from
| feeding corn ensilage to milk cows.
| Their disappointment is due to misun-
! derstandirg the properties of the feed.
| They seem TO have begun with the idea
| that corn silage Is a complete feed and
that cows need nothing else. For the
benefit of the dissatisfied a few tested
| and satisfactory formulas are sug-