The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-17
Farm Garden
Don't Neglect Home Market.

Small town creamerics which neg.
lect the home market as an outlet FOR
their butter and sell only to outside
towns are missing great opportun'
ity, maintains NJ. MOrtensen, head of
the dairy department at Iowa State
college, who says that several such
Iowa creameries are doing just that
thing.
MIR. Mortensen points out these al.
vantages OF selling to the home mar
ket: The home market is an ecOnom'
ical market. for butter sold at home
will net as good or better returns than
if sold in other markets. Furthermore,
the shrinkage when dealing with al
home market is negligible.
A good product sold at home is al
sign board of quality read by every
tOwnsman and farmer The home
creamery will thus be able to easily
replace any brands of butter of an out
side creamery. AS a rule, it can re-
place the farm dairy butter brought in
by farmers, who then bring their
cream to the creamery. This is OF al.
vantage to both creamery and farmer.
1t will reduce the operating expense Of
the creamery; the farmers will obtain
better price for their cream and n
great deal of hard labor will be re-
duced for the women of the farm.
Swat the Rooster Now.
Keeping mature male birds not
needed for breeding purposes is not
only an unnecessary expense. but a
serious handicap in producing first
class market eggs, says the poultry
husbandry department at Iowa Stale
college. Since eggs will continue fer.
tile for at least week after the male
is taken from the breeding pen, now
is the time to remove them. Males not
considered worth carrying over for an
other breeding season should be sold,
as they will now bring about the high.
est market price.
Reverse the Road Drag.
On roads that have acquired too
high a crown, due to continual drag
ging with the drag set at the same
angle, it is good idea simply to|
change the hitch and reverse the an
gle of the drag, suggest the highway
commissioners at Iowa State college.
A few draggings will then reduce thc|
high crown to level much safer fol
all fast traffic.
Grow Summer Soiiing Crops.
Soiling crops mean increased sum
mer milk production. "No farmer who
pretends to own dairy herd can al
ford not to grow them" says G. a.
Nelson. &Vaverly, Iowa, owner Of herd
OF over IS pure bred Holsteins and
recognized as one of the most success
full dairy men in the country.
Even the farmer with summer
silo needs to plant sailing crops if bel
wants his cows to produce the goods
in the summer time" he says. They
reduce the acreage for pasture; they
provide succulent feed all summerl
which pastures as q rule do not, and
they mean increased production at de.
creased cost"
Cow pease planted with fodder cane
seed yielded MIR. Nelson rs tons per
acre last summer. Twenty-siX to PSI
tons have been grown on an acre ut
the Iowa State college farm. The peas
were planted Y bushel per acre with
35 lbs. fodder cane seed per acre. Both
should be planted with a grain drill,
the pease first and slightly deeper than
the cane.
Sudan grass as soiling crop has
also proven successful at Iowa State
college. PLANTED May 10th. last year,
we got two cuttings of green feed, the
first 3 tons per acre and the second 3
TONS" says Fl. H. Kildee, head of the
dairy nusbandry department there.
Considering labor. including hauling
the green feed to the cows. seed and
rent OF land, the cost was $3.50 per
COW per pasture season. counting lin
tied acreage of pasture and soilin2 |
crop" He limits 2-5 of an acre OF pas
ture and green feed to Il COW.