Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-01-27
The Farmers Short Course
Recently Held in 'Watertown

Mr.. Vile spent considerable time
on hog cholera which he said is the
most costly disease to which farm
animals are subject. He emphasized
the Importance of effective quaran-
tine and the danger of visiting or al
lowing visitors on farms where there
is known TO be hog cholera.
Farm Records.
Wednesday afternoon Mr.. o. P.
Drake spoke on the subject, Farm
Records" telling the farmers how to
keep an account of their gains and
losses each year. He outlined ~
eral methods of keeping accounts
but explained the simplest and cas-
lest as follows: First, take a n in
yentory each year, he said, of land
values, buildings, horses and cattle.
The name of each horse and COW
should be recorded together with its
value, except, Of course, in the case
of beef cattle. Do not forget to in
|clude farm machinery, he said. He
explained that if this is done each
year, gains will be shown in the diff
]ferences of valuations each year. A
record of labor should also be kept.
He explained that this may be done
by making charts for each month on
which a column is provided for each
crop. In these columns under the
proper heading, records of the mum
Der of men and horses employed
each day of the month should be kept.
Dairying.
Mr.. P. R. Crothers, of Badger, fol-
loved with a lecture in "Dairying."
He, himself, is dairyman OF note
and owns one of the finest milk herds
in the state. Mr.. Crothers' first point
was the certainty of a constant in
come from the dairy cattle. He said
this is the one pursuit on the farm
on which one can always count on
definite returns. He said that if a
man has ten good COWS and a flock
of chickens, he canpot be starved
out of any state. The dairy COW is
la certain money maker, said MI
Crothers.
mo country can continue to take
i from the SOL the elements of soil fer
tility and ship them out of the state
he said, sat least not for any length
Of time. Corn, clover and cows are
the solution of this permanent fer
tility problem. You can't beat such
"a combination. Every farmer wants
to leave his farm richer than Wher
he came onto it in early days"
'It is a good plan to keep hogs il
connection with a dairy farm. I
COW, if any good, must be well cared
for. A COW that has to hunt for {
shady place and a corn stalk toda,
won't give much milk tonight or TIC
morrow morning. Ventilate your GOV
barn well. / don't believe you cal
afford to go without a ventilator il
your dairy barn. Feed corn Stag
and you will be well repaid"
. Keep just as good cows as yo'
: can and grade up. In selecting slres
use one of high milk producing ar
oestry."
Beef Cattle.
The program was closed Wednes
. day afternoon with an address o
Beef Cattle" by Mr.. A. r. Wijt
l what we want said Mr.. Vile, i
/ an animal that is well developed i
!; the high priced cuts, and well fiji
ished. The difference between 500
f land poor beef cattle is in breedin
and feeding" Mr.. WIFE said thu
n there is not such a thing as a dus
t purpose animal ahd his contentio
e was supported by Charles Kreger an
Mr.. Kahl. Mr.. Vile named some (
\ the best feeds for beef animals, an
q told what types to select in breedir
and gave some of his personal e
d ~periences.
:. Belated trains, a consequence
o cold weather and snow, seriously j
terfered with the annual farmer
: short course at the court house
Watertown on Thursday mornin
i January 18th. Mr.. S. l.. Sloan, age
of Day county and A. w. Hall, age
of Sphinx county, were to have d
) liyered the addresses on this day, b
did not arrive from Clark in time
carry out their part of the program
+ Mr.. A. w. Palm, agent of Codingtt
f county, gave a valuable lecture
the plans of the county associate
ufor 1916 and gave every n prese
+ a thorough outline of the projects t
n association expects to carry out in 7
or next year.
Six important Branches.
Mr.. Palm took up the six branch
IN of better farming work named in t
q prospectus which he recently fms
g ed. These six branches are boys a
id girls club work, grain and fora
Re crops, live stock Improvement, $
fertility, farmers clubs, and hog Oh
id era control. He told what the AS
er citation proposes to do under each
at these heads. The boys and gil
al clubs, he said, have already been W
in started, but he desired a larger me
CD bership next summer, and urged
#. the farmers to interest he'll SC
ne and daughters in the movement,
ID. One of the most important parts.
Of the livestock improvement work y
II. be the annual sales of h coul
en- live stock breeders association g
i'd the work Of this association it's
he Soil fertility tests, he explained, y
be carried out along the same III
as the phosphorus tests that h;
been conducted in the last two yea
sss In this manner he went into e;
We branch of the associations work, {
ne closed with a request for the co-oI
'es alton OF all Codingtn county farmt