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Show IRE EAT ALFALFA, LATEST ADVISE FOE MEETS CHICAGO; Feb. I a .Human be- tas? should display Horse sense," and eat Horse food alfalfa... This was the opinio a expressed by many off tie Hundreds off den tists from all over tHe country tHe meetings Here off the American Dental association and American association off Dental ng: ScHooIs. Dr. SHerman L. Lewis, professor chemistry at Indiana university, said tHat alfalfa is tHe richest of all leafy-to- p vegetables in vita-minand iron wHieH are impooff es rtant, both for tHe teeth and marble, and lump time, lime, quick lime, marl, refuse lime, etc. THe beat form to use is tHat material which is finery divided and in which a fanrjer can get the greatest quantity of lime1 carbonate equivalent for a dqllar. Lime improves an acid soil in other ways than by supplying ime to crops. When a soil is poor in lime it is difficult toi grow crops that are heavy feeders on lime, as alfalfa, red clover, and sweet clover. Detailed information relative to liming soils may be obtained from State Agricultural College, County Agricultural agents or the United States Department of AgrisHeD3 MATE UINTAH BASIS FARMER air-slack- ed tHe culture. general Health. Many other dentists admitted the potentialities of alfalfa as a food, and said that it was called purple medic in Eng land. Milk Standards Are Set Right ; t STEEPLES STOT mnT.TT AHD WHET MAKE VALUABLE POULTRY FEET) sour shim mill: Paul try feed now being made in many milk plants wHere there is a surplus off skim rniTlc can be imr prored as a feed for poultry by the addition off whey, thus increascontent, says ing the mjllk-sugConcentrated! ar the Bureau off Dairy Industry, of the United States Department of, Agriculture. in feeding have Experiments clearly established the fact that infntr sugar has a definite function in controlling digestive disturbances due to infections of" the lower intestines. Several investigations have proved the beneficial effects white off milk sugay in combating in coccidiosis and diarrhea bacillary also indichickens. Experiments cate that feeding chicks a dry mash containing 2d parts off milk sugar, or off sftfm-- m ilk powder which is 5d per cent mint sugar, njaterially reduced the I4sses among chickens Heavily infected with eoccidiosis. The concentrated sour skim milk products now being made contains about 9 per cent milk sugar wHen made off skim mfntr only. Whey contains about 5 per cent milk sugar. The Exreau off Dairy Industry has described a method ajf utilizing the whey in conjunction with skiing milk when both are available to make a product that contains more than IS per cent mUk sugar. In this way the feed value off whey may be utilized and the value off .the product as a poultry feed considerably Increased. Promulgated for Guidance of G facials m Enforcing; Pure Food Act. (Pranarad By the United State Department at Agriculture.)) The secretary off agriculture has promulgated, for the guidance off officials n the enforcement off the federal food and drugs act, revised and amended definitions and standards for milk and its products adopted by the food standard committee. This committee Is composed off three representatives each of the Association of American Dairy, Food and Drug Officials, off the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, and off the United State Department off Agriculture. THe revised standards and definitions include mUk, pasteurized milk. Homogenized mOk, skimmed milk, buttermilk, goafs milk, evaporated condensed milk, evaporated skimmed milk, sweetened condensed skimmed milk, dried milk and dried skimmed milk. THe text off tHe standards and definitions recommended by tHe committee Is as follows r milk-sweetene- Text of Standards. t. Milk Milk is tHe whole, fresh, dean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more Healthy cows, properly fed and kept, excluding that obtained wlffhln fifteen days before and five days after calving, or such Longer period as may be necessary to render the milk practically colostrum free. SL Pasteurized Milk. Pasteurized milk Is milk that Has been subjected to a temperature not lower than Fahrenheit for not less than thirty minutes, after which Is Is 40 PEE CEZrr VELVET promptly cooled to 50 degrees FahrenA study of improved livestock heit, or lower. 3. Homogenized Milk Homogenized compared with common animals milk is milk that Has been mechanshows the former to have about 40 per cent greater utility value. ically treated In such a manner as to In studies off meat yields conducted alter Its physical properties with by the United States Departnent of particular reference to the condition cattle; sheep and appearance of the fat globules, Agriculture well-br4. Skimmed Milk. Skimmed milk Is and swine have been found to dress mfik from which substantially all of considerably higher than inferior mUk fat has been removed. animals off the same live weight. the 5. Buttermilk Buttermilk is the The department Has statistics sHow-In- g tHat tHe increase In yield product that remains when faff is reranges from about 5 to 10 per moved from milk or cream, sweet or cent off tHe animals weight. Fur- sour. In the process of churning. It and thermore, the use off better breed- contains not less than eight off mOk solid cent per shortens (35) the production ing stock animal can not fat. process as a well-bre-d 8. Goat's Milk, Ewe's Milk, Etc be made ready for market in less Goafs mUk, ewe's milk, etu, are the time than a scru- bfresh, clean lacteal secretions, free from colostrum, obtained by the comIDLE FOB SOILS plete milking of Healthy animals other Agricultural lime Is used to im- than cows, properly fed and kept, to the species of prove acid soils. It Includes tHe and conforta la ground or pulverized limestone. 143-degree- ed five-tent- hs PAGE THREE animal from which' they are obtained. 7. Evaporated Mlik. Evaporated milk is the product resulting from the evaporating of a considerable portion of the water from milk,, or from. milk with adjustment, iff necessary, of the ratio of fat to nonfat solids by the addition or by the abstraction of cream. It contains not less than sev- mSIDE rarORMATIOH WHen a recipe calls for soft wheat, or pastry flour, and you Have only Hard wheat or bread flour, decrease the amount used. Fill a cup with sifted flour, level it off, and take out two level tablespoou frouf each, cup being used in place of soft wheat flour. en and eight-tentper cent (7.8) less nor than twenty-fiv- e of milk fat, cent and per (25.5) of If canned beans in glass Have total solids; provided,, however, that the sum. off the percentages of milk been frozen they may be used profat and total milk solids be not less vided freezing did not break the jars or Loosen the seal in any way and seven-tentthan thirty-thre- e so as to cause the product to spoil. (33.7). All canned vegetables should be Condensed Milk. bailed for five minutes after the 8. Sweetened Condensed Milk. are opened, before jars being Sweetened condensed milk Is the served in way.. any product resulting from the evaporation off a considerable portion A blackboard hung in the kitoff the water from the whole, fresh, chen is helpful for noting down clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more supplies needed, the - menu when to- prepare part healthy cows, properly fed and kept, different ones are excluding that obtained within fifteen of it, errands to be done, of interdays before and ten day3 after esting family events to be anIt makes some oIt the calving, to which sugar (sucrose) has nounced. been added. It contains not less than routine work more fun and Less twenty-eigper cent (28) of total drudgery to assign it to different milk solids, and not Ies3 than eight ons by means of a bulletin board. of milk fat. per cent To make Hard sauce that is dif9. Evaporated Skimmed Milk.. Evaporated skimmed milk is the ferent, use brown sugar, and grate product resulting from the1 evapora- into a little orange rind for tion of a considerable portion of the flavor. water from skimmed milk, and conHeres an easily made winter tains not less than twenty per cent jam: Coofcc 1 pound of dried apri (20 I off milk solids. cots overniht in. 1 pint of water 10. Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Milk. Sweetened condensed skimmed In the morning, chop them and add 1 cup of sugar. Drain the slices miTTr la the product resulting from the evaporation of a considerable portion of pineapple from two No. 3 cans, of the water from skimmed milk to and cocfk with 2 3 cups of sugar Add the apricots whicH sugar (sucrose) has been added. for 20 minutes. and cook r 25 minlutes. twenty-fouWatch for It contains not less than while cooking as the mixture per cent (24) of milk solids. If. Dried Milk Dried milk is the scorches easily. Seal while hot in product resulting from the removal sterilized jare. of water from milk, and contains not If you have an electric washing less than twenty-si- x per cent (26) five more not machine, be sure to pull out the than of mfik fat, and electric off moisture. plug whea leaving the maper cent chine between wash days and coil Milk. Dried T.2. Dried Skimmed skim milk is the product resulting the connecting cord where it will from the removal of water from nojt collect moisture and dirt. Do skimmed milk, and contains not more not lubricate or adjust any part of of moisture. the washer while the cord is conthan, five per cent nected to the current source. Proper Insula tio a of all wiring, cards Leave Foal in Bam and electrical devices is especially It Is a better plan to leave the foal Important in the laundry, where at the bam when the mare goes to the worker often touches them work In the field; rather than allowing wet with Hands and where the the foal to follow the mare. Both will floors and walls are to danp. soon become accustomed the separation and less trouble results from SAVUTG SHOULDERS this method. If possible, the mare should be brought back to allow the THe secret of sore preventing foal to suckle once during the foreshoulders Horses of is fitcorrect the afternoon noon, and again during weeks. the two or three By leaving frr ting collars and Harness adjustfoal at the barn there Is less tntvr ments. THe Horse's shoiuiders, ference wttk field work, less risk of which are to become soft belikely Injury, and the foal usually grows cause off idleness in winter, should fester. be giveu special attention during the spring fitting season and up SCARIFIED SEED until the muscles Harden. At the of the spring work clean Scarafled sweet clover seed is beginning the Horse's shoulders carefully afthat which Has been run thrcfeigh ter each day's work before Harnessa scratching machine to break the ing the next morning. After reHard seed coat so that the seed can moving the Harness, wash shoulders absorbe moisture and geminate with warm water and castile soap, then rinse with cold water with mare readily, according to the a little salt dissolved in it. This United States Department of Agri- treatment be discontinued at culture. Use scarified seed for the end of may 2 or 3' weeks, but careplanting between March 15 and ful daily and cleaning off April 15, but unscarified seed for the collarsgrooming are always necessary earlier planting. The use of sweat pads ou the colTHe mast important things to lars is not advisable, as they seem remember about the curing of Hides to do more harm than good. Perare promptness afid thoroughness. sons who use the curry comb and A piece of raw Hide will spoil as brush every morning and evening quickly a3 a piece of raw neat. usually Have least trouble with sore work Also, like meat, if it Is not thoro- shoulders when the spring starts. ughly cured it will slowly rot. hs five-tent- hs hs ht (8) 2-- (5) (5) i X |