Show TO PREVENT WASTING OF HAY run a round stick through one S de of the manger about alx or eight inches from the end of the manger bore two holes op each other one on each side of manger procure a round stick long w bar to hold hay in manger enough to slip through the holes and project one or two inches at each end A nail may be driven through the end of the stick suggests prairie farmer to present it from slipping through the hole in filling the manger with hay the stick can be slipped out THE CLEAN BARNYARD it Is absolutely essential to the production of pure milk the barnyard Is a considerable tac tor in the maintaining of good dairy conditions it is impossible with a dirty barnyard to maintain good dairy conditions this is because the barn yard Is used every day and it it Is contaminated the cows also will be contaminated and the air also in the vicinity of the barn will be centam the necessity tor keeping the barn yard clean is now so well recognized that no one thinks of trying to produce the best of milk without having a barnyard that Is also clean even has been resorted to to give the necessary conditions of cleanliness the clean barnyard does not have dirty water standing la it it Is so well drained that the water Is drawn off as fast as it comes down in the form of ao 10 the shorter the period during which water Is in the barn yard the less plant food will it carry off because the less time will it have in which to dissolve the fertilizing materials it has been found that in barn yards on quite heavy clay the drains should be laid under the fences along the side of the barnyard otherwise the animals tramp the clay hard over the tile and make it impossible tor the water to get down to it some farmers are going to the ex tent of paving their barnyards with different materials that will not be come muddy when the rain falls some use cinders and some coarse gravel in some experimental barnyards cement has been used as a basis HOW TO PAY FOR GOOD ROADS H H gross secretary of good roads league makes suggestions the one great thing needed in road building Is to prevent a waste ol 01 and make every dollar count for all it will the general plan that prevails in the middle west except in two or three states is to each year levy a tax sufficient to build say half a mile of road and do this from year to year to get good roads upon the main highways would require 25 to 40 years it costs 20 per cent at least more to build short stretches of roads than it does to build ten to twenty miles at a time it this is done the people have the use of the roads at once and pay for them in in stall ments instead of building them piecemeal pip cemeal roads are permanent improvements and should be built by a bond issue and thus put the paying over a i e of ten to twenty years that means interest has to be paid but it also means the people have the roads use if the use of the roads is not worth more than the interest on the bonds it would not pay to build the oads at all to get good roads cheaply for the amers get a state aid law so every body will have to pay road taxes hen issue bonds and build the largest mileage possible under state aid an engineer watches the con st ruction of the road and with a big job to be doone competition Is very sharp and prices are usually low in such cases with this plan of build ing and with state aid the tax on farms la about halt what it other wise would be BAN ON BOX MANGERS dairy barns now being built with out them there are many farmers who do not approve of the use of box mangers the best dairy barns are now built without them it has been realized that they are not only an unnecessary encumbrance but often they are ex remely cangero is the box manger an not be kept clean it hinders and it prevents the cow rom feeding fe edina in her natural position with small corners and tall sides he box can not be satisfactorily swept nor ed of the odd scraps af feed wl ich rolled this lating dut and dust becomes moldy and rolten and attracts flies and rats tt is further harmful in that it becomes gradually eaten by the cow and s harmful to her the box manger affords a roosting place for chickens whose droppings become mixed with the cow s feed with injurious effects sweeping or shoveling the wase ma aerial aror the manger acres not thor hughly clean the box bit removes only the very largest pieces of dirt the small particles and dust remain ing being able to do as much harm as ha larger ones |