Show 1 40 I 1 ICA irme I 1 protecting COWS FROM lever attached to stanchions open them all at Once Quite handy at all times just the other day a dairyman here liere lost 17 head of good cows in fire the cows were fastened in stanchions in the barn when the barn burned one of the men risked his life to go in and open the stanchions of two of the cows but the fire was so intense that the others perished writes augustus merrill of 0 tulare county california in the farm and home I 1 have always been afraid ot of fire ever since I 1 built my new barn in which I 1 invested a big sum and I 1 have taken many precautions to save the stock in case something should hap ri lever releasing all stanchions pen one of the things that is very useful Is a lever at the end of each stanchion row that will unfasten all of the cows in that row at once there are 20 cows on one at side d e and 15 on the other and the levers are near the door where one could get at them even though there were quite a blaze inside the drawing shows how these lev ers era aie fastened to the stanchions to open them all at once instead of one timber at the top there are two the uppermost c is a 24 that moves on tor of the other this 24 has slits in it in which the stanchion timbers are moved the lever d at the end Is attached to c and will eithel open or close all of the stanchions at once to prevent accidents the lever Is fastened iti tah li a wooden pin either open or shut as the case may be besides being a good thing in case of fire it Is very handy in everyday use when I 1 am ready to let the cows out I 1 open the stanchions all at once when the cows come in they take their proper places and when they are quietly eating their silage the laver is operated and they are all hastened at one time DRIED GRAINS TO DAIRY COW really more valuable pound for pound than bran animals should have oat straw it is our opinion that the dried grains are really more valuable found round for pound as a feed stuff than the bran and yet for the sake of variety as well as tor for other pur poses we should birdle go to the extent of using grains exclusively says rays a writer in an exchange on the contrary we think it would be bet ter to mix the grains and the bran in equal parts by weight this mix ture would carry about 16 per cent of and when fed in connect tion with good corn silage corn sto ver and oat straw would make a very good ration indeed it if the amount ct cf silage on hand will justify feeding so lib liber evilly illy we suggest the use of 40 pounds of it dally daily and in connection five pounds of alfalfa hay as long as it will last ten pounds of the mix ture of grains and hran bran fed in connee tion be quite sufficient tor for the production of 40 pounds of milk and five pounds mill probably suffice for the production of 25 pounds of milk for amounts between 25 and 40 teed feed in n about the same proportion in addition to the foregoing give the cows all the oat straw or stover they will care to eat JERSEY IS BEST highly developed animal long bred for th s purpose can always be depended upon the jersey cow la Is a highly develop ed d milk making aking machine she has been bred so long tor for this purpose hat that her characteristics have become 14 0 aw Q f excellent type of jersey fixed and the descendants of a well bred dairy cow can be depended upon the amount of milk that she will make depends largely on the amount of t food that you can get hr to use AGE OF BREEDING HEIFERS constantly recurring om tion which dairymen do not agree no danger of stunting the age at which to breed the heifers is a constantly recurring ques tion opinion differs considerably on this point and unfortunately expert ence as related by breeders is not uniform by any means writes E I 1 E kaufman in the town and country journal the writer has always al tried to make his opinions conform to his ex peri ence and observation but in the case of breeding the heifers his view views have always been backed up by both experience and observation when the heifer Is bred to drop the first calf at the age of two years and in nearly all instances this can cat be done the habit of giving milk la to early stimulated besides the young cow is more tractable and thus more readily brought under the environ ment of her new condition with the first calf dropped at the age of two years it Is better to delay the breeding for the second calf for six or eight months but keep milking her tor for a year at least in order to develop th the trait of long and persistent milking after the second calf she can be bred regularly every year if properly fed and handled there Is really no danger of stunting the growth or undermining the cons titu tion by early breeding for the dairy a cow should begin giving mills as early in life as possible and the habit of persistent milking be thor hughly instilled in the animal A heifer bred to calve at two and one halt or three years of age will be more difficult to handle and consequently not give down her milk be readily thus bringing about a ten dency to shorten the milking period when all efforts should be in the line of a long period of lactation breed the heifers young 14 to IS months except possibly in special cases and better results will be ob talked in producing large and per sistena EXCELLENT AS CALF WEANER device invented by iowa man will cause mother cow to take mat in her own hands after a certain age of course calves have to be weaned away from their mothers and made to feed on other things than milk but some calves like some infants object to the change of diet in the case of the calves calve 9 an iowa man has invented a device which will wilt cause the mother cows to take the matter in their own hands or horns A small board is Is fastened to a ring that pierces the calf a nose rising from the board are two spikes and depending from it is a flexible shield of joined rings like AV calf weaner he the ringed dish cloths tor for scrubbing pots ota and pans that some of us have seen in our mother mothers s kitchens when the calf attempts to suck with this apparatus on she prods her mother in the side and gets pushed away for her pains even if it ehe she does get her mouth to the udder she cannot suck it tor for the shield DAI DAIRY rl Y NOTES L I ass whey Is not a good teed feed tor for calves and can be used only in a limited way look out for those cold tall fall rains put the cows up this applies to calves as well lighting ventilation and cleanliness must be practiced before best results can be secured in the dairy danish experiments show that pounds of skim milk equal in feeding value pounds of corn meal no breed of dairy cows can continue as first class dairy animals it the calves are allowed to run with the cows sows calves from tour four to six months old frequently bloat it if allowed to run on young green clover especially it if the clover is wet cows in good condition and run ning sling in a good pasture require no grain teed feed to put them in good condl tion on for the winters work abolish the stanchions they have been i responsible for many injured ud ders i when the cow Is confined in he the stall she needs solid comfort the few files flies that have managed to seep keep their feet warm are very annoy ing they stick like a burr to a dog a tall tail and bite with dying ferocity dur ing the heat of the day stanchions st are all right for the dairy aamir alry calf when it Is being fed the rest est of the time it should bo be given liberty ibea where the ventilation Is good md and sunshine ts Is p |