Show A m THE luinis CLOVER GRAZING IS profitable two fields are needed for continuous feeding prepared by the united state department or t agriculture I on bolls 4 that at contain lime the most productive grazing crop known today la Is sweet closer clover according to the ex pert perta S in forage crops in tile united states department of agriculture they point out that a good stand of second season sweet clover can carry two head of cows per acre from early spring until mid summer and cases are known where here four bead did not keep it down get the stock in early they advise when hen the closer clover Is 6 inches high and put entile enough on to keep it from blossoming bloss oming alth with only one cow to an nere the clover cloer gets old too fist for continuous gr grazing izing they point out two fields of sweet clover are necessary essaiy one that has just its first winter minter and one starting its first season 9 growth turn cattle on the older field in the spring and keep them until july 1510 by this tills time the sweet clover will mill bloom and get too woody moody to lie ile palatable and the clover on tl e new field should be a 6 to 8 inches high the new clover mill vi carry only about eilf the stoat the old field carried and allowance must be made for that by bivin dou ble the acreage or by having other posture an excess acreage in the fall Is not a bad thing as its any held field noi not needed for the neit next season can be turned under the next spring for cord corn with great benefit to the flit corn after grazing stops on the older field the clover clo verwill iiii mike m ale considerable growth and this can be plowed under in the fill with mith great benefit to ling crop there Is less dinger from bloat with sweet clover than with other clovers but eases have been known knon and the usual precautions should be taken mature dairy animals are needlessly killed A larger number of mature ant mals nt at the government dairy expert ment merit farm beltsville BelLs vIlIe aid md have aled led from the effects of si swallowing allowing a nails wire or similar material than lom from any other one cause ai at cording cordin 0 to the bureau of dairy industry united states department of agriculture autopsies made at till station showed ow that out of a total of 26 20 deaths or over er a period of years I 1 were due to foreign objects the most common of which was a sharp pointed piece of wire two or three inches long such material collects in thit wit part of the stomach known as the honey comb or some of the 11 liard pointed objects may pass through lIh tile stomach wall and pierce the heart or other vital organ with fital vital results greit care should therefore be exercised in bantling and dispes ing I 1 of such materials as baling wire nails nalls and rusted out fencing electric current used in milking any herd rive cents in the form of electricity will do a great many things it has been figured cut out that a nickel nickels s worth of electric current generated by a farm light plant will milk 10 cows separate 1400 1 pounds of milk churn oo 20 pounds of butter sharpen an axe ap or a scythe on the grindstone sk times pump a two tino days supply of 0 water run nn an electric cewin machine for five bours or do two tivo large family washings according to the latest aval lihle lible in formation nearly a million firms in the united states are electrified elec trifled IN hile many ninny of abe these ae farms ha have e electric 4 high line service a birge num her ber are supplied by individual farm form plants particularly in communities where the high thigh lines have not yet gone maintain fresh water supply for dairy cow plenty of pure fresh water should be accessible to the dairy herd at all times an average sized cow con eumes 50 to pounds of water unter a day when dry she will peed four times this amount or 1 00 to pounds of water a day when in full flow of milk water 87 pit cent of the total content of milk ant and 50 per cent of the total body weight stagnant pools in the pasture should be filled or drained dangerous intes paim parasites sites flourish around pond holes concrete water troughs provided with drain pipes ant and floating valves are practical salt for cows the cravin craving of dairy cattle for common cornmon salt la Is hesed upon a real need of the body the dairy cow uses a lit kit in proportion to the he feed consumed in other words the high producer will need more than the low pro producer the most coi common anion plan of supplying salt Is to leer it before the animals at all times unies either in the form of if rock salt or ordinary stock bill wilt other datry men prefer to mix it with tie graer usually nt at the tile rote rate of one pound po p of I 1 mixture |