Show DAIRY i AND 1OUITIIY1 INTEnn TINO CHAPTERS FOB OUR RURAL 111tAOt tlC Itw pnorhot nears ttesIo 111 11epAttment nr the cornA I ew IIInl a t the tat ut Ih brook end assihrr Con < 1enAt < 1 from farmers Itevlew itcnofirnphlc report of Wisconsin Houndup Institute i 0 TYLUIt spoke on how to get good 1 tuns There tire Ir t three things Hut enter into surcees j e fill dilrytiiK 1lnt s the dairy I tendency ti of the rows nec rind the fertility of J the farm and Its ability to provide food for the tot The third thins to bo liken Into on sldcratlon Is the dnlrymai Then U II 1 necessary that there bo tin ability to apply modern dairy methods If he be not n dalrman ho will never aucceel I QBhould a dairyman raise his ilvn const A Yn sir If ho ran and na much as possible QCun you Increase the percentage ef fat In the milk of row A1hnt can bo done only by good breeding Charles Thorp spoke on handy things en the dairy farm He said that everyman every-man should l hare n dairy house on his farm Ills dairy house Is I located near the well where every dairy noose should be located fur the purpose of having tho water handy The house Is I 3o Iv It lilt nest twelve f eC t b In R used for Clio dairy room proper Then Ihrre Is I Iho cream tat which Is I a great sating of labor and should bo u part of every outfit Ply Us use wa have to churn oily onco a week It used to be nccc jury to churn everyday every-day or every other day Now the r > mean m-ean bo held sweet by tho mean of lei for a long time The next six feet of t N u l r l 1 r jnTiiins OF siLVBHDAcnn WANDOTTE9 the building I used for a torago room Tbo rest of the building Is I used for an Ico room which every man should have Mr Thorp then showed his system of making artificial Ico by natural cold lie had on exhibition A model ot a long box In which the Ice Is 1 frozen The box In which he freezes Imps Ice is I 14 feet long 2 feel wldu and 1 foot deep The Inside ot tho box Is I waxed with paratllne wax which makes It easy to remove tho Ico when It Is I frozen The waxing must be dono during n warm day and the wax should be used boilInG boil-InG hot 10 the wax will tlck to the box Iu freezing hu put In only three Inches of water at a limo and let that freeze before pulling In more lie has been using three of these boxes for 1 the last few years With three of these boxes you can flll an Ico house very quickly When you loosen tho Ico from ono of these boxes you have a single cake of lea HxJxl which Is I sawed saw-ed Into cakes time size desired A feed cutter comes very handy en a farm It It bo not In such shape that It has to bo set up every limo it Is I to bo used l u QlIolI do you build an Ico Icons and bow do you pack the leo AI would build It about as I would any common building but I would make tho Wale double with lath and plaster on the Inside and then I would paint tho walls I pack the lea with dry snow and the cracks between Ibo cake I pack with dry snow also I do not put tho Ice against tho outside out-side wall but lento a slx Inch space hlch I nil with sawdust John W Decker spoke on clncic making The cheese industry Is I In better bet-ter shape than It has been before far many year duo largely to tho pass age of laws against filled cheese Now York and Wisconsin are the great cheesemaklng states At the South I end In some part of the North dairying dairy-Ing 1s I not carried on to any great extent ex-tent Bo the states that mako cheese will have to supply pot only themselves them-selves but the otheravCanada has been supplying the English tndo Thai Is I the trade that w 0 nro trying lo supply sup-ply with our product and that trade requires n very firm article lu the way of cheese Standard arletlet of ehlekens The lolden Wyandotto s marked like the Silver excepting that tho color col-or Is I goldenbay and black Instead of white and black Tho White variety Is I perhaps tbe favorite of tho Wyandotte Wyan-dotte Clap from the fact that It is I not so difficult to breed to feather the plumage being pure white throughout through-out They are for tills reason the more practical fowl for tho farmer or those who keep poultry for market The Hurt Wyandotte Is In color a rich deep clenr buff uniform In shade throughout except tho tall which Is of n deeper buff or eopperlshbronso color The Blacks nro of n rich glossy glos-sy black with greenish sheen excepting except-ing breast primaries rwromlnrlM tail nnd Huff which are pure black The standard weight of rocks Is I SVi pounds hens Clio pound cockerels 7Vi pounds rind pullets G Vi pounds Ulnhc sayer Tho early hatched pullela are now largo enough to permit of Intelllg lIt election The culla should bo disposed of and the best reserved for Inylnu and breeding eas Tarm Journal It tho cockerels have become mifllelenlly inn lured lo bo troublesome they should ho separated from Ilia pullet and fattened for mnrket Although tho price maybe may-be low now It seldom pay III keep curly hatched bird for fill anti 1 winter Inllll To develop tho pullet Into good laying hen an exclusive diet ct torn must bo molded l They need bono and muscle but lo get enough of IliU out of corn llmr mini nut an cxcolslve quantity of It and this will produce too much fat Till mutton must bo heed til 1 when the pullelii have only n limited run and 1 but mile pasture In these clr cumslunre with the corn ration greets grass clover green fodder nod some vegetables with milk and rut bone or meat meal must bo supplied to 10 cure n healthy development The farmers farm-ers flock that has the range of the fields and access to a great variety tf food may thrive on n ration of corn because It Is I not their excluMva diet Wo have however often seen farmers premise whero for two or three hundred yard from the Moldings tho poultry bad eaten every green thins except weeds l that was not enclosed en-closed l by chicken proof tenet Such runs become polluted 1 and Iho fowl suffer for Iho lack of Insects nail green food The owner feeds the customary custom-ary earn ration and wonder why hillock hi-llock do not thrive and tho pullet do not lay Tho development uf pullets for laying is very much like that of heifer for giving milk Concentrated grain diet overtaxes the dlcesllte organ or-gan and produce fat llulky succulent succu-lent food that which contain the bone and nuncio making material Is I necessary to secure Iho healthy digestion diges-tion and thrifty growth Wind Power Not nearly enough use Is I made ol wind power Most of the wind mills we sea aro ut wholly u pump water from wells Though this as a steady Job probably save as much labor IIJI any ono thing the wind power could be set to doing time aro many other bach achfng Jobs that are on iany farm done by hand power which might quite as well bo given over to wind power Turning grindstones grind-stones and churning are among thoso When young wu know some farmer boys who put up a light windmill which turned u latho In a shop Hera they spent many hours making all kinds of wooden article All of these boy kept up their love ot farm llfo because their windmill was set to do tasks that on other farms the boys had lo perform per-form by what tailor call main strength and stupldncss In Ilnllnrvt there can bo no uo of water power I for tho land Is I lob level Nowhere In I tbo world l is I wind < power used lo BO much advantage or for ao great a variety va-riety ot uuruusuA Ux II Intelligent Dairying > require re-quire constant study and Intelligent thought It requires year In which to build up a profitable herd of cow and lo learn how to feed ind care for II them an lo handle tho product The man who can successfully breed and feed 1 a dairy cow has a wind above tho average Ho Is a student a keen brlkht business man and you will not find this class of men dissatisfied with their business > It Is I the class ot men who are constantly chanting from ono branch to another mi n who do not do much figuring nnd ennnot tell bow touch their cows earned Individually or collectively who have Intense hatred for the Babcock test and fur nil creamery cream-ery men Kansas 1armer lingering Horses lingering horses at the horse shows especially the saddle sad-dle horse to make them carry their tall high up and to present an unusual amount of animation nnd appear smart Is I a disgusting and deceptive Jockey trick that should < bo prohibited by the rule of horso shows In this country BI It doubtless will In England since the Humane society prosecuted and lined a number of the brooms at thn London show Time veterinarians condemned con-demned the practice ns 1aatul to the animal and u fraud upon the Judge r Ilic Og r uh 0 forleesit Prut J k CrMR says In preparing limbs for the early market the beat CTln to lid knowledge Is I that made by tlirro Units at the Now York Cornell station which made a weekly gain per head of S39 pounds extending over a pedal 1 ut nine weekr Another lot of three made an average weekly gain of cn pound per I head extending over i period of twelve weeks In neither are however Is the composition of tic ration or the amount of grain reported re-ported The best gain In the writers tupcrlenca nt the Wisconsin station bas been made by four lambs that were fd a mixture by weight of four part of bran four parts of corn meal and one part of linseed 1 meal When tho experiment started the lambs were shout three wOk old and they were led for Ion week on this grain ration receiving In addition the milk of their Mothers Tho avcrngo weight of each lamb nt tho beginning of the experiment experi-ment WAIl ISC pounds and at the end 2S pounds l an average weekly gain per head of 448 pounds They each ale 500 pounds of tho grain mixture during the ten weeks coiling eighteen tents per head Tim results that come next IA these In profit were obtained I from feeding a grain mixture consisting of two part of ground heat and ono part of ground corn bl height The lambs were about four and onehalf week old when the experiment started and averaged Cl pounds In weight When tho uxporl mcnt ended fourteen weeks later they averaged seventyseven pounds Iu weight having made an average weekly week-ly gain per head of 363 pounds They each ale 406 pounds ot tho grain mix lure In the fourteen weeks costing 333 rent lluycri do not always snake onethird difference for unwashed Mor Inos One or two parties that had that grade of wool received lit cent per pound last season The standard prlco for washed fine wools wa 13 centsa difference of only 314 cents Poultry Noln We have noticed that no business U without III troubles and that the poultry poul-try business Is no exception to the rule Dlsrnao and disaster hover around this II well as other occupations It I therefore best for the poultry raiser to lake everything philosophically However It Is I Just a Illllo hard for him to look with equanimity on the taking off of bird after bird that has cost him either much work or much money Tho tlmo of the year has come when both road dust and lice are near to us The dust may bo a Rood thing to bring Into close contact with the lice and may result In their Mtormlnatlou It fs I easy now to gel tbe roaddust and hard to exterminate the lira If you attempt at-tempt to do otherwise than by use ef dust Using the dust makes the hen do Iho work She will bs only too glad to take adult bath which Is I her way of celling clean e e Immense quantities of eggs and poultry poul-try are used jbyitho hotel One writer writ-er baa been trying to find out bow many egg the large hotels of Newton use and he put tilt number at IUD per day for an average of the three largest hotels the Urged 1 user taking 175 dozen per day Thus each ot these hotels uses more than half a million the vast number of hotels In the country coun-try It Is I not hard to realize that the number of egg used In those places la 1 enormous 0 There are many concoctions urged for tho various poultry troubles It Is I doubtful any of them are curealls and It is I more than probable that come of them are of no value in reality Good care Is I of more value than anything else Hut diseases will lointtlms creep In despite tho best of care Manipulating IIreed1t b I the hisTory his-Tory of all breed that Improving land make Ilicm mature earlier and this It I accompanied with n lurking propensity pro-pensity lo fallen I am an admirer ot all the breeds each Is I filled for Its pasture unit American pastures vary from tho rich prairie that grow more grass than average acre elsewhere to Ibo scant herbage of the mountainside mountain-side The bed cow at the Royal Agricultural Ag-ricultural Society of England l In 1893 wn nn Angus tho next beat tbreo were Shorthorns The best butter yields at the Chicago fat stock show In 1191 were from the Brown Swiss Tho world great private record of butler Is I from n Holsteln and the next highest Is I from u Jersey These think will leach us that wo can make n breed what wo will lompklim who developed such fine beef cattle In the Heroford said bo could os easily bare developed fine milkers and every student stu-dent of tho cow believed hlmProf Wilson I Relative Profits There have been many way to estimate profits In farmIng farm-Ing So Ions ns tho soil retained Its original fertility tho number of tern that could bo planted or sown was the test of success It Is common even yet In the south to estimate by the team help that the planter can command which range from one mule upward Hut In tho northern and especially lathe I la-the eastern stales success In farming depcndu not on number d acres or Hit I > leam help but on how much manure II can be had to use Many n market 7 hardener a Oil less than ten acres makes greater profits than the farmer of a hundred 1 acre who has not manure to grow anything except the standard farm crops Hut tho market gardener must be near a good market or the cost of marketing will destroy Its profits pro-fits Kx H is I a good thing to have two poultry poul-try yards so that In ono cither oat or some other grain can be sown that will get a tart and furnish the hen a good supply of green food 1 |