Show DAIRY AND pa POULTRY interesting CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS sural mc ful I 1 ir i r tills ill ut t f r tin the I 1 amii ar ill 4 liw illa a tn to the tile lire are of I 1 liu to st k 1 I I 1 dvir n irin in clr men met condensed from front I 1 arniere armera review teno gial hil keport the twenty sixth annual co convention mention of the alun was held lu in manitowoc oc I 1 february lebr uary J to 11 the ad drefs ot of m welcome was delivered lyma by nis or T I 1 1 I 1 I 1 lion ion ehte phen lable re pilet calling at tenton on to the fait faa that the pro buas ut of tin tire dairy are the of crops and may be del deimit t adt I 1 on oil e ever cry i 5 aar ar other ci a aps ops are subject to tin ILL ta prIces of the sea bons u baing totally lestr oyid til by tio to much hiat or too little r biln tin but dairying Is 1 more it d ricely anler the CIlL rol of nian most farm cioli come conic at one heison ot of the ear lear but the I 1 ot of the dair are rebelled led durina the entile coatse of 0 the tear year of 0 a congratulatory kiture were ere b e doveno ill hindi rich ex Go governor hoard 11 C da das 8 and pro lessor fessor Ila haecker ecker 0 0 from the ad iresa tress of president ato oio W burchard we me make the fol following luIng extracts extrac ta during the customary season ot of cheese making the tire association ki kept vt ta two 0 traveling cheese instructors in the tile field and would have hale employed a third instructor tor for a consider considerably ablo portion ot of ibe the time if a man juht just suited for that work could have bien blen found there were men but tor for us they were r other engagements kor for the coming air I 1 recommend that early efforts be put forth to secure at least three competent lompe tient instructors jessra aderhold Ade and baer were nere out aloyed again last far ar and rendered the association and the tile state most excellent strike life I 1 lie instructor instructors have mide reports to me and have hale ruo pub bitted final reports which will mill appear in our printed proceed proceedings inis liny aro are alio expected at thia this meeting ine eting and will stand up to be cross examined ar mr aderhold visited fort one different fact factories orits thirty elx six of hem hern tiko ani ant fifteen of them three times he ile was bild for das days and collected from the factories visited which was applied on bis his salary mr baer visited forty six different factories thirty six of them the becane time the factories he lie visited contributed 50 towards thi pay ment of his salary and expenses he lie was employed emp loed days the total expense of these instructor instructors for the season was as 1322 1 the state trade maill bill which this association has twice approved la is still pending in congress it la Is gaining friend friends and ad herenia slowly as all malton matteri ot of that cLar character acter do arlous Ain mican ex porters and engleh dealers have disapproved of sec N ilson 8 efforts to establish lish a distinct distinctive he reputation for american butter in england and hive lithe as burned to advise him to leave the solution of these commercial problems in their bands hands so that they might continue to enact the tragedy jf it the sel der and the I 1 ly in w lich they take the role of the spider happily the protests of the gentlemen referred refe rete ired to were ig nored the experiences of the past year among the datry mea of Macon wisconsin sin have demonstrated one more that skill fort fortnight sight ard a wise adaptation of means to ends insures a satisfactory measure of success suc ciss whereas in dairying as in all othea occupations the man who trusts to luck in the selection or breeding of his cows an I 1 then through ignorance or covetousness tries to make them believe that marah marsh hay and straw are as good as the best aldige and clover hay for producing milk 13 1 uniformly unsuccessful and complaining N hat N V Iscon wisconsin sin dairymen need most is a realizing sense of the worse than utter worthlessness of a poor cow it Is quite within the truth to that one third ot of all the cows in lit ahli stale state dept by men who profess to be dairymen do not pay for their board and can not be made to pay and are con kept at a loss tint thit another third do no more than pay tor tar their own keeping and make good this loss which means that two tl ards ct rf all tho the cows kept return no profit wh thalmor almor vr and that only the remaining are gent genuine I 1 ine profit makers this into thirds may not be ile literally exact but it at least illustrates illustrate in no exaggerated form the cow end of the dairy problem which confronts us today the cow that does not yield 4 1000 pounds of milk in a year in I 1 not worth orth keeping what is the averie a per cow in these lake shore counties I 1 am sure it Is not 4 pounds there may be a goodly number which yield more than this but this Is only saying raying in another way that there must be many which beld less somebody owns end and feeds these poor worthless yes yea worse orse than A worthless orth less cows who ie Is it I 1 cant tell aou ou hie his name but I 1 can give gise you some of his symptoms he lie Is usually more or lesi less in debt and eel set doin OT or never has a dollar in his pocket that be can rightfully call his own ho he works hard and so do his wife and children rising before it iri 14 light in eummer as well as in winter and continuing his labor long alter after dark at he ile has to do this because be he isai fet no help from hia his cow cows he lie Is to the roan man who complains about the times nd the low prices for milk and butter and cheese forgetful of tho flip fact that mit except wages h hg hs s declined la in price more than milk has kolrs 0 the election 0 of officers I 1 in the thoice of the following president it C taylor secretary geo W iju burch I 1 ch ird rd trea 11 IL loom loomis I 1 la in th the poultry llon itry tra vey little while one hear bears fallt tal of c their fowls dying of the roup new ahn disease Is largely due to draughts in the hen house hoube it a difficult lob job to make a door that will hut shift or to make shutters for the windows then again ve me are nr toll what R hat a 3 I 1 lla labile aie mites ire I 1 ric ri c to say that mites Is a of 0 the matron at my elbow remarks that het her hen bell house Is clear of tho the pst the I 1 cason ehi it i a la Is because u she scald scalds it A with jill soil seisu sit Is ever A ash da then ft hen lien borne conil liln ot of chicken cholera ra she aars I 1 r that it la Is a s amply lice that alls the fai 4 mie nile alith hn houses ehe she sia bred lice in I 1 they u bo weaken the tow fowls is that dl dlin tri hoe hoei i sets in and ill die I 1 tike it the matron knows for it his been ninny a day since I 1 hearl heir I 1 I 1 eints from the lienus ry I 1 mi lin astonished that the lien houses are ire not kept ahe best manure in ili the apri for email small fruits romes from froni them scatter it over tiler the strawberry bed place it around the currant and gooseberry the tire blackb rry and raspberry ris pherry bushes and then vou oil will lire see fruit worthy mortify the flat it discounts alt all the manufactured ever eier badt lly by making use u ut of it you kill to two birds with ith one stone I 1 e preserve the health of 0 the fowls and increase tho the tell lei 1 of the email fruits I 1 am tm fond of a 1 large enough to make a respectable ecsi actable mouthful I 1 I 1 albl 11 ron I 1 re th il il of I 1 ire ice sorn som ears ago the I 1 larinne lar arrn inns ris review edit fent mi all inquiry to many of its it correspondents as is to the tile greatest cause of I 1 am aix adiong filing chicks I 1 the he almost invariable reply was lice some sortie of the poultry falkers put this loss 43 high am 75 per cent of total losses it Is to make believe bellee that the q of lice la ili a killing one it any peron should lose a few chickens from bolents or prowling anlin als ha he would nt at once make a campaign against the destroyers lint but the M r in silently ind begin their n do st ruction so natu naturally rilly that the 0 stief of the fowls often pays little attention bothem to them hut but old youir men know that the first campaign must be waged against lice in looking fir fr lice it la a good plan to examine cire carefully fully all of 0 the chick chicks to look at only a few of the little fellows fellow and ind find no lice la is no proof that they arc are not plentiful it Is a fact that the tile parasites lara sItes bather on the we weakest idest chicks leaving leasing the strong cues acs ics tree free the weak ones siem sern tu to tall fall an easier pre and the first thing the owner of 0 the chicks knows a number nimber of the lit tie ones are fouli I 1 dead doad and the wonder la Is what killed them beware of lice and do not temporize with them ke lif a LICK I I 1 one of the best things that I 1 ever lever fd f d to my chicks jut just hatched Is hard boiled eggs mixed wivi bread crumbs thus writes one of 0 our regular subscriber an old fancier who knows full well just what he Is talking about bays pays the leather illis fact rn minds us of no we bad had seen een quite to the contrad ar ind the opposite pinions prompted us to investigate this matter and find out the true situation we find that many who stand high in the profession teed feed their young chicks at alatas a a for the arst three or four days boiled eggs mixed with bread crumbs the eggs are boiled hard and mashed line fine shell and all and mixed with bread crumbs many save all the clear eggs when testing the sitting hens or incubator eggs as it may be and boll them for the the most delicate bantam and the sturdy brahma relish and prosper on this kind of feeding but at the same time it Is possible to overfeed this rich food it Is not the quality of ahn food but the quantity that injures tte chicks but it if properly fed it Is of the highest order of food for young chicks trio quention I 1 mant ant to say that I 1 have been reading good a alvice ivice about not getting hens too fat tat for over twenty years several stars ago I 1 nearly starved my wife a flock with scientific I feeding I 1 was w as posted ou ell see ace and wanted to show oft off a luttle little but the hens did dill not lay jay sly aly af te runs the poultry now and it gets alenty of fecil feed and anti good feed corn wheat and everything procurable the hens lav and keep at it I 1 have base been watching the ding and condition that so many would be poultry writers call sure failure until I 1 am clear thed of the everlasting nonsense I 1 don t inov a little tl e bit about feeding hens but butay my wife tells me that the theory of keeping hens poor to make mike them lay was rutten up tip by an dude duic with a a trio of fowls shut up in a dry gooda goods box she tays says exercise Is s the thing for fowls w lien it comes to a question of ohio poultry journal place tor for the incubators Incubator sA A cellar collar la Is an excellent place for an incubator lit because cause it lt Is usually of an even acm pera ture especially if it tho the cellar Is one olle that will preserve roots and brulls fru inin but the atmosphere should be pure which will be the case in winter any place will newer answer tor for the incubator that Is ts of an even and regular temperature it the incubator Is in ln a room where the temperature changes no harm barm will result provi led the operator alche he the lamp flame and does not allow too in much uch heat beat to accumulate the hot water incubator no ro lamp be operated in a warm place if possible in order to avoid loss of heat at night exchange som have taken up the cudgel tor for n longer dry time for the cow some of them say ay that six months la is not too long it Is a matter haril hard to control we have cen seen cows that were splendid and that could bo dried up by no one row cow especially ally was a white durham that certainly could not bo accused of weak ne geee |