Show convenient MILKING stool another type which combine corn fort and utility take a board a 20 inches long and ten inches wide and to this nail two boards b b loab inches to serve as the ends are about four inches below the board a nail on the seat and the board c which forma the front nail on a board e inches under d to serve as a handle round oft the corners of a ex plains farm and home and nail on around the edge a strip of barrel hoop so that it projects about one halt inch to hold the pall from sliding off under a nail a triangular board to serve as a third leg WATERING COWS care in the quality of water provided Is important the best arrangements for the watering of dairy cows I 1 consider to be individual basins between the cowa in the winter time and running water in the summer time in the winter ays the writer in farmer review I 1 water my cows out of doors but that Is because I 1 do as I 1 have to do and not as I 1 want to do most of the farmers about here water their cows out of doors where water Is supplied at all in the barns the force that drives the water comes from tanks of windmill or from hydraulic rams the troughs of cement seen in some barns and which run in front of all the cows I 1 believe to be all right but I 1 prefer the individual basins most of the cows about here get their water at the temperature it happens to be when it comes from the well but in the winter time it would pay to warm it I 1 am satisfied that a cow that Is given water with the chill taken off will drink more of it and will consequently give more milk than she otherwise would DAIRY NOTES the growing stock Is carrying youl pocketbook its intelligence not luck that counts in the dairy the cow with the small udder and the big appetite seldom pays its the happy and contented cow that makes the farmer happy and con tented the more we know about the cow the more probable will be our success in handling her linseed meal and bran are two am elements in the ration they are expensive but they pay the manure pile on the dairy farm may not represent half the profits but it Is too valuable to be ignored beans for green manure we know of one farmer that planted beans too early and the late frost caught them killing the whole crop he planted again but this time so thick that the pods did not form till an early fall frost caught them and so the whole crop was lost but the growth of the beans had been a very rank one and the weeds had been kept from growing the mass of rank herbage was plowed under and the land left to be planted the next year the plowed under beans ed to be great en of the soil for they added to it a very large quantity of nitrogen in addition to the humus this in its decay created adds which set loose more plant food in the soil so the bean crop was not a total loss after all cooling the milk A speaker at a wisconsin institute said the main thing Is to cool the milk quickly to a temperature of 50 degrees or less and it would pay the dairyman to provide ice tor this pur pose in the absence of ice an abundance of well water will enable the patron to quickly cool the milk to a temper of CO degrees or below if the cans are placed in cold water and the milk Is stirred until cooled to the tern pera ture of the water which Is usually about degrees well and good but the average after performing a long day s work in the field and then another halt day s work called tor varie tys sake chores will not stand over the milk long enough to accomplish this the dairy house A good large well or dairy house Is very necessary to the equipment of a farst class dairy but its use should be confined to the uses of the dairy its conversion into a sort of a store room or receptacle for vegetables tools worn out harnesses etc does not tend to produce a fine flavored milk or the dairy appetite of the occasional cas ional visitor kerosene emulsion one half pound soap one gallon wa ter two gallens kerosene dissolve the soap in water over fire remove from fire and add kerosene stir violently use one part of emulsion to 16 parts water burn the rubbish old rubbish la more valuable in the form ol 01 ashes to the gardener than any other way wood ashes make ex cellena garden fertilizer it applied properly MILKING characteristics f how they can be successfully fixed by breeding it Is believed that if two animals of dissimilar characters are bred together the offspring will as sume the qualities principally ot the individual that has a dominant char acter but the fixed characteristics of either animal are more or less dis and in succeeding genera tlona almost any gradation and blending 0 ane cross can be expected As a mat ter of fact when two animals of good milking strain are bred together we generally get an offspring that Is quite superior in milk production to either of the ancestors however this can not be absolutely relied upon but ia the best way to increase the capacity for milk production to perpetuate the character in succeeding genera alons this cross may be bred to a male who has a dominant character for milk production inherited from his ancestors if no such strain of ani mals Is available it Is wise to breed this offspring back to its sire in order to fix this character for instance a bull and a cow are mated both from different strains the dam and the sire s dam have the character to produce 20 pounds of milk per day well established but these strains for many generations back are not related to each other the offspring from this cross may only have a capacity of 15 pounds however it Is more likely to have the capacity to produce 30 pounds to fix this character in succeeding generations it would be wise to breed this offspring back to its sire which has but 20 pounds capacity while there Is a possibility ot slightly reducing the capacity of the offspring yet it fixes the character and makes it more permanent tor future generations but it you desire to run the risk of a still greater in crease in milk production it would be well to breed this cow with a capacity of 30 pounds of milk per day to a sire of another strain which has an average capacity of 30 pounds per day the closer a strain Is related the more permanent and the more reliable will be the fixing of that character for all future generations at 30 pounds capacity prof oscar erf DAIRY COWS are you observing state law and keeping them in a sanitary way there are hundreds of creamery patrons today to day who are violating the pure food laws of the state in which they live to a more or less degree and do not realize it they are ignorant of the provisions of the law on the subject of dairying and carelessly violate these statutes the laws have been published time and again for their benefit but it Is a deplorable fact that in some localities a good farm or dairy paper Is a seldom visitor they will not take the paper and would not read them if the papers were given to them what euch men need declares the northwestern agri Is a vigorous application ot the law it has been said that the most certain way to reach a mans heart Is by way of his stomach it might also be said that the most tain way to reach most men s mind la by the way of their pocketbook they will not give thought to this question of properly caring for their cows and tho milk until they can be made to understand that it will cost them mon ey if they neglect to do so CATTLE STANCHION this one Is easily made and will stay in place when set A cattle stanchion that Is easily operated and will stay in place when set easily operated Is made as shown in the illustration says popular mechanics the post B ie placed in position by turning the small lever A so the square or thin part ot the post B will enter the notch the small lever A Is then turned as shown in the second position C and the pin D inserted name the farm name the stock farm la the advice given by an exchange and we think it la good advice nothing looks better in print or sounds better when mentioned than john smith proprietor ot the maplewood Map lewood farm have your printer print your letter heads with the name of your farm thereon some few back numbers may laugh at you but remember that this Is the twentieth century and people who laugh are always back numbers the kind that pays you have many times seen the man with a pen full of scrub hogs a crib of musty corn and a filthy wallow with tt agnant wondering why hog raising does not pay he la always the first man to arrive at the conclusion that farming does not kiy farming especially hog raising pays but it aried be worked at in the right way strict attention must be paid to every detail copper sulphate solution one pound copper 25 sa ions water |