Show the yearly milk yield professor dean ot the guelph ex station says that no cow that gives less than 6 pounds of milk per year should be retained in the farmer s herd ot cows the standard set by the professor Is one easily in reach of all the farmers now living in dairy sections or in sections where beef production has not been made the main thing in stock raising taking the year as a whole pounds a year means only an average of about 18 pounds of milk per day or about eight quarts an average ol 01 tou quarts at a milking certainly this is a moderate demand on the performance of the cow of course we realize that during a part of the ear the cow Is dry but this period la not often more than a month in dura t on and tor the first six months the milk flow is so large that the average for the year Is not difficult to reach the farmer will find it very easy to ascertain the weight of bis milk and no such experience Is required as in the case of the babcock milk test avery farmer that keeps cows should have scales in his barn for the weighing of the milk the men that follow their milk yields continually ay that it requires less than a min ute per cow per day to do this the farmer can then act intelligently at the end of a year he can tell what his cows are doing in the way of prodoc ing bevenue of course the campara tive richness of the milk should be known but this may be ascertained by periodic tests tor fat even with out this test the scales will do good work in sloping the farmer what his cows are doing an illinois breeder of swine says having selected the breed you should use great care in the choice of breed ing animals let them be the best specimens and not the culls or those that will not sell no breed er does or can sell his best female ani mals they are worth more to him than to anyone else especially if he expects to remain in the business the best and most animate are those you have raised yourself and whose ancestry you know bushel ot corn makes four and one halt gallons or spirits making it cost 13 cents at 60 cents a bushel tor corn at ia cents the spirits cost 10 cents a difference of 3 cents there s no lye will wash out a lie dialect stories were probably invent ed by a country editor to enable him to dispense with the services of a proof reader everything you do is a red flag to those who d you introspection Is a fault chiefly pos eissed by imaginative women IJ |