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Show ' THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Champion Barrow" Has Traveled Far ' Best Plan to Get Good Cows Is to Raise Them Profitable dairy cows may be secured In two ways. First, they may be purchased. This Is, no doubt, the most expensive way, but necessary In many cases in order to get a start. In pur-chasing cows you take chances on getting individuals not as good gs they look, for often the best judges of dairy animals are fooled In the value of cows. Then, also, there is the chance of bringing in diseases such as tuber- culosls, contagious gbortion, and udder troubles, says J. P. LaMaster, chief of the dairy division of Clemson college. The second and' best way to get good profitable cows Is to raise them on your farm. All dairy cows depend for their value on the Inherent tendency to convert feed into milk and on their proper growth and development That is, they must have well-bre- d ancestry. Although the cows you now own may be grades and poor grades at that you can Insure the value of your future herd by breeding these cows to well-bre- d pure bred , 1 , ' , , ' ' Different Ways to Cure Newly Placed Concrete Recent survey of numerous highway construction projects show that contractors employ different methods concrete. This curto cure newly-laiing is said to be one of the very Important processes In building a first-claconcrete pavement On level sections of highway, the preferred method. It was found. Is the building of earth dykes along the edges of the pavement and flooding the Inside area as shown In the Illustration. The water is then kept on the surface of the concrete for ten days ,or two weeks. This method was thought A be cheaper than covering with earth because of the labor necessary to shovel the dirt on' to the pavement and later clean It off. The water required to keep the earth wet was about as much as If the surface of the pavement was flooded. Some contractors reported that the use of 'hay was best They said It would hold more water and could be d ss bulls. A well-brebull Is not only a registered bull, but one having a sire coming from a line of high butterfat and milk producers, and out of a dam with a good butterfat record, nothing less than 400 pounds In one year, she also having come from a line of high d producing ancestry. The tendency of the normal cow Is to revert to the original wild cow which gave only enough milk for her calf; so unless by selection you In crease the ability to produce, you will soon have only boarder cows which will not pay you for the feed they eat or the labor necessary to manage them. The most profitable system of dairy farming Is to have the most of the cows freshen in the fall. In order to do this it is necessary to breed the cows during November, December and January. If you do not have a good bull or do not live near a farmer who owns a good bull to which you can Curing Newly-Lai- d Concrete by Floodbreed your cows, begin now to locate ing. one for your own use. The dairy division of Clemson college will assist used several . times over. Moreover, It was not hard work to distribute the you tn locating a good bull. hay or rake It up after the curing : s . , Plan Outlined to Avoid Grassy Flavor in Milk , When the herd is first placed on pasture or Is turned Into clover or alfalfa, a grassy. taste Is often caused In the milk for a short time,, not only making the milk objectionable to trade, but affecting the butter taste as well. This can usually be eliminated by starting the herd on a change of pasture, or a pasture from confinement, gradually. Do not leave the herd on the new pasture too long the first day a few hours in the morning or afternoon, supplementing this with some grain and a dry roughage such as silage The silage can best be saved during the time of good pasture, after the cows have gradually been allowed more time In the pasture, as it will make a good supplement for poor pastures later In the summer. After a week or ten days, cows producing twenty pounds of milk a day or less will need little If any grain on good pasture. . For heavier producers, feed a pound of grain for each six or eight pounds of milk produced per day. A mixture of 400 pounds of ground corn, 200 pounds ground oats, or bran, and 100 pounds of cotton seed meal Is recommended by the Purdue dairy de-- . partment. Cottonseed meal is especially good at this time, to produce a firm butter with better quality, as well as to tend to check the laxative effects of a fresh pasture. A liberal supply of salt should be available to herds on pasture at all times. Ohio Cow Makes Record - of Five Sets of Twins .The Ohio Station Bulletin 7 makes note of a cow in the station herd that Is reported to have dropped five sets of twins out of seven times calving Twinning has also been rather common In other closely related cows In ' the herd. The possibility of establishing a family of cows which would produce a high percentage of twins Is suggested, but it is pointed out that ' of the nine sets of twins recorded six sets were male and freemartin and three were males. . period. Where water was plentiful, some contractors expressed themselves In favor of using sprinklers. A water pipe was laid down the center of the road, with lawn sprinklers attached at frequent Intervals. These were kept running several hours a day. The advantages of one or another method of curing were not found to be such as to affect the strength or wearing qualities of the concrete. Although concrete begins to harden soon after It is mixed, the full strength Is developed by progressive hardening over a period of time. The hardening process is said te be not a drying process, as the presence of moisture Is necessary to assist the chemical action which causes concrete to harden. Oklahoma King Has Been Exhibited in Different Parts of United States. f Not content with being declared the grand champion barrow of the world at the 1922 International Live' Stock exposition, Oklahoma King has added to his honors the title of the widest traveled and most Inspected hog on earth. Instead of being sent to the block after attaining supreme honors at Chicago last December, he was purchased by two Duroc associations and sent on a tour of exhibition which has carried him to all parts of the country. Among Rotation to Prevent Disorders of Beans Hand Pick Disease-Fre- e Pods to Use for Seeding. Plant beans on the same land not oftener than once In three or four years, particularly If disease has been prevalent. Soils which once become thoroughly Infected as a result of continuous cropping are seldom safe to use for the same or closely related , crops for years to come. Wherever practical, destroy all diseased vines and trash by burning. If the bean straw from diseased vines is to be fed, do not use the manure on a field that Is to be planted to beans. As far as possible avoid cultivating the beans early in the morning when there Is dew on them, or when they are wet with rain. Oklahoma King. the places visited were Nashville, Tenn.; Denver, Colo.; Lincoln, Neb.; Crookston, Minn.; Madison and Janesville, WIs.; Fort Worth, Tex.; Oklahoma City, Stillwater and Guymon, Okla. ; Peoria, Crbana and Aurora, HI. ; Columbus, O.; LaFayette, Ind. ; Lexington, Ky., and Des Moines, la. His journey will continue throughout the fall months when he will be the center of attraction at many of the large fairs. It Is planned to bring him back to Chicago the first week Jn December for the International, this being the first time that the grand champion barrow at this show has ever been returned the following year. Oklahoma King has stood up well and actually gained flesh during his travels. This Is all the more remarkable In view of the fact that he has been shipped as any ordinary hog would be moved about, in a crate by express. At his numerous stops, however, he has been accorded royal receptions and honors have been heaped high upon his porcine head. In one city nothing was considered too good for one of his royal standing and he was given quarters In the lobby of the leading hotel. This noted animal began life in the classical environment of the Oklahoma Agricultural college. Under the constant supervision of a former pig club winner he was grown and fitted for the great competition at Chicago and amply justified this faith by defeating nearly 500 of the finest market hogs In the world for supreme honors. Competent Judges have conceded that Oklahoma King Is one of the most perfect types of market barrows that has ever been produced, and It Is for the purpose of allowing as many people as possible to personally Inspect this Ideal porker that the breed associations have saved him from the butchers block and have sent him on tour of the United his history-makin- g States. . Hand pick disease-fre- e pods, or if plants possible, select disease-fre- e for seed. Use these to plant a seed plot on land which has never raised beans, and which Is removed some distance from the main crop. Remember that hand picking of seed as It comes from the flail or thrasher for the purpose of controlling disease Is of no value, since It is Impossible to detect even a small percentage of diseased seed... Seed treatment of beans Is of no practical value, since any chemical that would penetrate the seed deeply g enough to destroy the organism would likewise be apt to kill the .seed. Spraying with bordeaux mixture, formula, even when done thoroughly by competent persons. Is at disease-producin- best unsatisfactory, unprofitable and Walter G. only partially successful. Sackett, Bacteriologist, Colorado Experiment Station. Find Silage Profitable as Feed for Baby Beeves Recent feeding tests with baby beeves at the Minnesota experiment station show that silage can be profitably used in fattening baby beeves. In the tests, which were conducted by W. H. Peters and N. K. Carnes, calves getting silage, plus a full feed of grain, fed more regularly and required less skillful and careful feeding than calves getting a heavy feed of grain and no silage. calves gained 2.30 The silage-fepounds per head per day as an average of a feeding period, while the calves fed without silage gained at the rate of 2.22 pounds per head per day. Although the calves fed without silage d 196-da- y were valued at 10 cents per hundred pounds above those which had silage, the sllage-fe- d calves showed a net profit of $17.90 per head while those without silage made a profit of $10.15 per head. In another test barley proved practically equal to corn, pound for pound, in making gains on fattening calves. However, because of the greater cost of the barley and the smaller saving of feed made by hogs following, the corn-fe- d calves showed a profit of $16.15 per head, while the profit on those fed barley was but $6.91 per head. e Pure bred beef calves, beef calves and common calves showing some traces of beef breeding made similar gains on similar amounts of feed. The difference In selling price was marked, however, the pure breds bringing $86.78 per head, the grades $83.45 and the common calves only $56.18 per head. . high-grad- Louisiana Parish Saves Vaccinating Cattle to Ore Iron Prevent Shipping Fever Money by Using Iron Ore, found In northwestern Louisiana, has proved of great value In road building in thfft state, and. In some localities where It has been used has effected a saving of $2,000 to $3,000 a mile In the cost of construction. Highway engineers In Louisiana have been using the ore as a binder Instead of sand or day, and have found it far superior to that material In many Instances. During 1922 the Louisiana state highway department completed 350 miles of new roads. Most of this mileage consists of gravel. The remainder consists of roads built of shells, sheet asphalt or bltullthlc. The 1923 program Includes a larger amount of asphaltic construction. Iron ore was first used In De Soto parish, La., In 1917. Then a large was found northwest of Arcadia. Ore from this deposit Is being used as a base course on the new Homer-Mln-de-n highway, the highhighway, the Ruston-Arkansway and the Pershing highway. The state pays about 10 cents a yard In royalties for this material, against $1 a yard In sand clay gravel. The saving effected amounts to about $1.50 a yard. Arcadla-Natchltoch- Federal Funds Spent on Highways in Year 1922 During the calendar year 1922 the Good Cows Will Always amount of federal funds spent on highways by the United States DepartPay Biggest Dividend ment of Agriculture totaled $5,603,100, ' Just because va poor which constructed 2,420 miles of forcow pays you a return, do not con- est roads and 4,190 miles of forest j clude that scrubs pay. This Is an un- trails. An additional $950,000 was seusually productive year for dairy cows, cured for this construction work from and with cheap feed you should make state and county authorities. During money on any sort of animal. Good this same year 4.550 miles of roads cows will pay you a still greater and 19,600 miles of trails were maintained at a cost of $500,000. re-tur- .Watch Cream Separator About Heavy " to Conserve Butterfat Complaint Trucks Injuring Roads Many farmers are losing consider- Although still in the experimental stage, the vaccination method of treating cattle to prevent their contracting hemorrhagic septicemia has reached such a degree of perfection that It is now In use by the United States De' nmm LIVE STOCK FACTS Iowa Testing Law Aids Fight on Tuberculosis One of the most encouraging factors In the fight against cattle tuberculosis, according to those In chgrge of the eradication work for the United States Department of Agriculture, Is the activity of state legislatures in passing laws to facilitate the widespread, testing of cattle In specified areas, a branch of the work which In the last few years has become of greater Importance than the testing of individual herds at random. A state law which contains many points of excellence Is that passed last spritfe by the Iowa legislature. Briefly, this Iowa law provides that on petition of 51 per cent of the owners of breeding cattle In a county, the livestock sanitary authority of the state must proceed to eradicate tuberculosis from the county as provided In the law. Or the same result may be accomplished In another way : Upon petition of 15 per cent of the voters a proposal to eradicate the disease must be at the next general election to tax upon all property to levy a help supply funds for the purpose, these funds, together with those from the state and federal governments, to be used largely for paying for animals slaughtered. When 75 per cent of the owners of breeding cattle petition for county testing, all of the herds In the county must be tested and a fine and jail sentence are provided as penalty for those who refuse to submit their animals to the test' , In case the county levy and the state and federal funds are Insufficient to pay Indemnities, the law provides for a tax of 25 cents a head on all cattle and 5 cents a head on all hogs in the county. packet in your pocket for over-rearefreshment. dy Aids digestion. AXays i , thirst. Soothes the throat. For Qiality, Flavor aid a Jho Suled Packt, S S LA Clear Babys Skin With Cuticura Soap and Talcum Sms 25c, OiaiMrf 2S tad 50c, TIcm 2Sc. EYJS HURT? 'For bandar or eesly Hds, 'aod to relieve tnflamne-,-tlo- o OBdsoroMM.aMMItehoB uuummItv Tart ' SfTVanrlyllaao University Farm Tests Rations for Baby Beef About two hundred Minnesota cattle raisers at University farm recently had an opportunity to see Nsix lots of pure bred Shorthorn steer calves, ten calves to each lot, which had been fed different rations for 217 days. They were also given the records In gains made by the various lots of calves. Farmers everywhere will be Interested In the results of the experiments. The rations fed were as follows: Lot 1 Shelled com, 60 per cent; whole oats, .30 per cent; linseed oil meal, 10 per cent; corn silage and clover hay. Lot 2 Ground shelled com, 60 per cent; ground oats, 30, per cent; linseed oil meal, 10 per cent ; com silage and ' clover hay. Lot 3 Limited grain ration for the first half of the feeding period, corn silage and clover hay. Lot 4 Ground ear com, 90 per cent; linseed oil meal, 10 per cent; com silage and clover hay. Lot 5 Ground shelled com, 66 3 per cent ; ground oats, 33 3 per cent ; com silage and clover hay. (No 2-- 1-- protein supplement.) Lot 6 Ground shelled com, 66 3 per cent ; ground oats, 33 3 per cent ; clover hay. (No silage and no protein supplement) Crediting at $6.30 per hundred the gains on hogs which were kept In the lots with cattle, the profits shown by the feeding experiment were: Lot 1, $18.92 per head; lot 2, $15.97; lot 3, $5.69; lot 4, $18.30; lot 5, $13.61; lot 2-- Ask Me to Show You How to Make me Money, Invest for big profits. If you have $100 to invest in a high-clas- s proposition with large profit possibilities, write for free confidential information regarding legitiC. A. mate money-makin- g opportunities. Campbell, 387 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Are Yon Beading This? Over 100 different things to sell. We connect you with the manu- facturers. Salesmens positions open. Employ. Office, Mfrs Distributing Co., Yonkers, N. Y. I CASHING CHECKS IN GERMANY Customers Hang Up Hats and Sticks and Then Prepare for Close Examination. Bank etiquette in Germany Is unique. In one great Hanover bank I watched the customers. First they walked to the center of the big marble lobby and hung up their hats and sticks Just as you would do here on entering a hotel dining room. You soon understand why they strip for action when you sea what hn exhaustive test of endurance It is to get a check cashed. You pass it In at one window; clerks gather, whisper, study the check, telephone upstairs, make notes on its margin doubtfully. Augenblick I" they finally tell you which means wait an ' eye-win- k. 1-- You wait Others crowd about the window. Finally you, too, hang up your hat and coat and sit down to look at a picture book on the reading table In the lobby. If you glance up suddenly, maybe you catch a bunch of clerks whispering together, looking at . you suspiciously. Finally, if youre lucky, you hear your name shouted, 6, $13.10. of partment Agriculture. and at another window a pile of marks Raising Spurred Sheep Until the method has been more Is pushed out. Advance Prices in the out, tried No Difference Between department thoroughly by Every deposit account here has a In its will furnish valine produced The farmer who has the equipment and this number must show on number, Bacon Lard and Types your check. laboratory and also trained veterinar- and feeds at hand should be encourSome firms even print Little difference between lard and ians who will give the treatment at aged in raising lambs," says Phil A. their official bank account number on In swine a bacon was of cost. noted types actual Anderson of the animal husbandry ditheir letterheads. Saturday Evening Losses from this disease have been vision, University of Minnesota. But test recently conducted at the Mani- Post steadily increasing for several years. farmers entering this field should go toba Agricultural college in Canada During the past fall and winter the slowly at first and study the require- In which Poland Chinas and YorkA man may be brilliant or he may shires were compared as to gains and disease became more prevalent and ments very thoroughly, he adds. be useful, but the brilliant man doesn't virulent than ever before. It Is most production costs. Pigs of each breed have Mr. Anderson makes the foregoing tto work so hard. , were a of ration of Itself show to fed. animals among equal parts likely statement in view of the greatly Inoats and shorts for a period barley, shipped long distances, although It creased interest exhibited In sheep proA dreamy, imaginative nature, even Com was substituted occasionally attacks those that have duction the last few months, which has of 140 days. that of a genius, doesnt care though for of the test never Jeft the home place. barley during part been brought about by advancing a rap for opportunities." 100 The Chinas made Poland pounds prices for wool, a steady lamb market of gain on 415 pounds of feed and the and good profits made In feeding lambs War Is one of the greatest plagues Great Value of Adding Yorkshires made 100 pounds on 428 can afflict humanity; It destroys that Protein to Hog Ration during On feed. the Canadian Stocks of wool, which accumulated pounds 'of Martin Luther. religion. The value of adding protein to a during the war and Immediately after, market, which pays a premium for choice bacon the Yorkshires hogs, ration, even when pigs being fattened have new been converted Into merchanfor market have the run of a good dise. Manufacturers short of mill sup- sold for $9.90 per hundred pounds and alfalfa pasture, was shown in a test plies and eager to keep the mills going the Poland Chinas brought $9. conducted by the Kansas experiment have become anxious to buy, causing oexsxsxsxs station last year. One lot was fed all the price to go up. the com It would eat, in addition to Prices of lambs have been at $12 to LIVE STOCK NOTES alfalfa pasture. The other lot was fed $15 per 100 pounds for a long time, all the com It would eat plus with a variation of $2 to $2.50 for of a pound of tankage per head per day shorn lambs," says Professor Anderson. In addition to alfalfa pasture. The pigs Such Trucking and hauling about of feeds prices should be an Inducement In the lot receiving no tankage made a for many farmers to have flocks of 25 Is not required by a silo. t . gain of .74 pound per day at a cost of to 35 ewes or more which will consume $5.55 per 100 pounds of gain. The pigs green food perhaps otherwise wasted Scrubs can multiply just as fast as In the lot receiving tankage made a and convert It Into a marketable pure breds, blit they never get the . gain of 1.25 pounds per day at a cost product. With wool and market stock right answer. h of $4.99 per 100 pounds of gaim The high In price, because of a decrease In h of a pound of the number L sheep In the United addition of It Is a good plan to place oil in a tankage per head per day on alfalfa States and the action of the new pro- hog oiler so that the animals may pasture reduced the cost of gains 56 tective tariff, our sheep breeders can grease themselves.. cents a hundred. surely compete with the breeders of The first few weeks after weaning other countries. Is a critical time in a pig's life. Proper Dairy Progress Nothing 0. care and management will mean Chickens j . ' 1921-192- 2. - lysiedmll i one-fourt- h Ij&qjlixvariiiv i Oa!igitoilll)ilnfii . one-fourt- ilMllrpp Short of Phenomenal Overcrowding Is Quite Unprofitable progress which the dairy inThe able butterfat because their separatSpeaking about maintaining good ion fall to skim dean, say dairy ex-- - roads, there Is much! complaint about dustry as a whole has made during the ports at Iowa State college. Reports big trucks that make trips over the past three years is nothing short of In culling the flock It Is better to cull severely and save just enough During a period when birds to fill the laying houses to their received from over the state show roads Immediately after every rain, phenomenal. that skim milk often has from cutting them up, making travel diffi- other lines of farming end Industry capacity. Overcrowding never pays, to per cent fat in it cult, and causing a lot of extra work were suffering from stagnation, the as it cuts down egg production and saved be could This by adjusting the to keep the ruts filled and the roadway dairy Industry has been forging ahead Increases the chances of disease. It cream screw on the separator. Cream In traveling condition. Some day we and new records of production and Is very difficult to keep the straw litthat tests high will keep longer and shall have to plan some restrictions on consumption have been established ter clean and dry In a poultry house each year. that ig overcrowded. grade higher than that which con- traveling with big trucks immediately after a rain. tains conaldartSI kiss milk. . h profit. The age at' which to wean depends upon the size and vigor of the pigs, and the feeds and their amounts available. one-sixt- one-fourt- h Km a Hogs have their nps and downs Ilka everything else. Dont be discouraged because hogs happen to be low. They will come back as sure as fate and possibly sooner than yra think. J i J 14 i |