Show STOCK YARDS ON FARM L convenient sorting pen should be arranged many farmers would handle more live stock it they could do it easily but the laborious and costly way most farmers have of handling sorting and marketing live stock together with the small profit therein outside ot maintaining the fertility of the farm has kept many from following the business every farmer handling live stock needs a stock scale dipping tank loading chute branding marking and de horning chute also a place in which to catch wild colts or cows etc this diagram of the yards plan is good and cheap considering the capacity it gives in weaning calves pigs or colts several small lots are a necessity A farmer ma easily lose the price of the whole system of lota bv not having adequate means of handling and weighing hla stock in buying or selling same I 1 used nine foot posts and native lumber fencing inches writes a farmer in wallaces farmer in circle of chute I 1 used fencing inches fresh sawed elm the dipping tank A Is made of an eight inch brick wall laid in cement and cement plastered with bricks to inches in inclined walk out of tank to make steps D C Is a trap door nailed fast to an axle which turns in recess in wall of cement tank chute to which a wagon Is backed up to load live stock can be set at D when dipping tank is not in use I 1 have a movable platform or floor to place over it so that the chute can be used for loading branding mark ing etc MONEY IN DRAFT HORSES the most profitable horse for the farmer to raise As a rule the profitable horses to grow on a farm are the big draft ers the drovers journal says that draft horses bred now are of greater weight than they were a decade ago as the trend of demand Is for horses of weight to move ponderous loads at a moderate pace A 1400 pound horse Is hardly large enough for an ex presser while the industrial draft horse weighs 1 to upwards of a ton A pair of extreme weight drafters will haul a load of six to eight tons and are more economical of malate nance than two pairs of lighter horses that would be required to per orm the same work the general farmer wants a horse of docile disposition adapted to work on the farm and easily marketed at a good price with so many heavy agricultural machines on the farm the draft horse can be utilized to bet ter advantage in general field work than can any other class draft horses are free sellers at good prices from weanlings wean lings to mature classes their superb qualities have been acquired by centuries of method leal selection and breeding and they have achieved a permanent place in the commercial nations prices may fluctuate with the times but good draft horses will always return the farmer a reasonable profit on the cost of production open sheds in the pasture in some of the pastures that we know of are open sheds that consist of nothing but roofs supported on pow bertul posts these sheds are sometimes eight feet high the wind has i a clear sweep through them both night and day the roofs protect the farm from the rain at night and from the sun in the day time in the hot summer nights the stock sleep under these sheds it it Is rainy and the wind can blow over them it Is a humanity towards the stock turnips for cows turnips can be fed to cows it they e given after each milking this was A the experience of mr hyatt of als consla who preached the turnip tor cow feed also we do not see why the turnip should flavor the milk it fed just before milking for the flavor could certainly not pass through the cow under several hours what Is true 0 the turnip Is true also of the feed S ing of rape and cabbages for sheep in milk the best teed tor sheep in milk Is whole corn and oats of equal weight all the animals will eat up clean yel low swede turnips sliced fine in a machine are also good to add cuccu lence to the feed then alfalfa hay Is given in abundance but not enough for the animals to waste i ya OPEN AIR TREATMENT calves are healthier when kept in the oien for he past 12 years or more hood farm in massachusetts has been rear ing its choice jersey cabes and carrying them through the winter by what is termed the open air methods in describing this plan in a recent Is sue of tho practical dairyman val ency E fuller in speaking of the calves and their treatment says they have a row of low long sheds facing south with the root sloping to the north divided off into about five sections there are windows facing the southern exposure and they are long horizontally admitting the sun light on bright das there Is a booi which Is rarely closed through the winter unless there are unusually bad snow storms from the south or south west each shed or jien has a large yard in which the calves run before win ter sets in all the calves except the very young ones and those not old enough to be sent up to their vermont place are divided off according to ages and sex and each lot has a shed and yard for its winter run they are left there until spring having tree access to the yard every day and it Is won darful to see how they will go out in a snowstorm and scamper and enjoy themselves manure from the horse stables Is put in daily and of course changed every day and the calves find it an aid in warming their bodies at night when they lie down this system has resulted in prodoc ing strong rugged heffers heifers and young bulls and helps to make larger cows when treated in this way they are not pampered and while they are ex posed to the severe weather of massa chu sickness Is very rare it dairy farmers would have their cows calve in the early tall and treat the calves la this way they would get splendid growth in the winter and would be ready to put them out on pas ture in the spring thereby guaranteeing good growth rugged animals and a good sized heifer when calving time came further along in the same row ol 01 sheds are the pens for the service bulls with yards adjacent it Is very rare to see the bulls in the sheds except in very inclement weather and then only or a very short time and as they are never tied up they are usually roaming about the yards and the same may be salo of the heifer and bull calves the coats of the bulls grow very long it seems to me that this is natures way of treating the bulls they re main in these yards and pens suimei and winter this prolongs life makes them vigorous and active docile and is in tact conducive to health in every way DERRICK FOR BULLOCK OR HOG convenient apparatus for lifting and handling heavy carcasses three polea of pieces 14 feet long are required to make a derrick like that shown in the accompanying illustration taken from prairie farm er A rod from a sell dump hay rack derrick for bullock or hog can be utilized with a wheel attached at one end I 1 use one pulley at the top over which arf passed a inch rope with a hook on the end as andl bated THE SOW WITH THE PIGS what one farmer considers the best to feed her the best teed I 1 have found for the brood sow with a litter of pigs Is ground oats and corn mixed with a mill feed writes a correspond ent in the farm and home when soaked ten or twelve hours before feeding it serves better I 1 feed the sow all she will eat up clean the pigs will soon learn to like this slop and I 1 have had them eat at three weeks old As the alga grow older the feed can be varied by add ing fruits and vegetables which they will relish in summer do not omit anything green that Is handy by feeding only a small amount in a well made trough it will be always clean and it will be no difficult task to make pigs weigh pounds 1 seven or eight months THE LIVESTOCK not much worl should ba expected of a horse that Is fed nothing but grass or hay useless work on the part of the horse must be paid tor in feed what Is the objection to rotating the barnyard where the atomic Is kept screen the windows in the cow stables this will keep out both files and mosquitoes |