| Show SILOING OF There Are Various Be Preserved Corn la FEED Feeds That But Indian Best WITHOUT The siloing of feed compares favorwith the canning ot fruits and There are various feeds vegetables that can be siloed but it has been definitely determined that Indian corn is best adapted to the purpose However alfalfa and cowpeas or soy beans are being siloed at the present time with great success says a writer in the Northwest Pacific Farmer A mixture of alfalfa and corn or soy beans and corn is preferable to either of the balanced nutriments which these feeds contain The advantages of silos are numerous The silo enables the farmer to preserve a large quantity of the food material of the original fodder for the feeding of farm animals than is possible by any other system of preservation now known Pasture grass Is the ideal feed for live Btock but is not available more than a few months in the year The same is true of all When made into hay siloing crops the grasses and all other green crops lose some of the food material contained in them on account of the loss of leaves and other tender parts and on account of fermentation that takes place while the plant is drying out or being cured In the case of Indian corn the loss from the latter source Is considerable owing to the coarse stock of the plant and the large number of air cells In the pith Under the best conditions cured fodder corn would lose at least ten per cent of Its food value when cured In shocks Such a low percentage of loss can only be obtained when the shocks are cared for on the cutter and put in the field under ideal weather conditions In ordinary farm practice the loss in nutritive value will approach 25 per cent and will even exceed this figure unless special precautions are taken in handling the fodder Comparing these large losses In food material In Indian corn there Is a comparatively small loss In the silo caused by fermentation ’or decomposition of the living plant cells as they are dying off It has been frequently determined that the average loss of dry matter In the fodder corn during the silo season does not exceed four per cent ably PLAN A instructions SILO FOR Given to Construct Piece for a Small Herd Feed-In- plan for the erection of silo for the accommodation of a small tierd of cows is given in the Rural New Yorker Nine feet is sufficient for the diameter It would hardly bq practical to build it much smaller snd one that size would cost' proportionately more than of greater diameter The frame in which to run the concrete would cost at least as much ss the material While iron could be used as suggested it would be still A good Plan for Circular Silo more expensive The frame must be well braced to prevent sagging and It the walls getting out of plumb would be cheaper to use the cement blocks One foot is thick enough for the walls If reinforced with wire A wire should be run spirally a foot apart around silo Where doors are to be fasten wire to irons 'set in door GATE NEVER SAGS frame with a head set in the side of door space Use one part cement to 1 broken stone Farm Essential That Can Be Cheapsand and 2 If you rMix thoroughly before wetting ly Constructed and Keeps in are unfamiliar with the use of ‘ceRepair' ment it will be unwise to attempt a of such a structure without the help In order to build a gate that will skilled mason never sag and requires very little repairing countersink' two pieces and Notes for the Farmer " Then set up two pin them together Good grooming is as essential to 2x4 pieces two feet higher than the the health of horses as judicious feedgate so It can be raised in winter ing and watering All animals require a variety of food and this should be considered in the ration of working horses Experiments at the Kansas and Indiana stations Bhow that the continued horses feeding of moldy corn to causes nervous and intestinal troubles of a serious nature If you want to discovei the weak points of a horse take him and examine him while at rest They show up better than while the animal is in action Never give young pigs more at one feed than will be eaten up clean but Gate That Balances The enough to give contentment pigs should come to feed with a rush Mortise and set In between the crosspieces which are 12 inches apart the Pasturing Alfalfa When alfalfa is used as a pasture board a and fasten a cap to the top The gate is 16 feet for cattle and sheep care must be ex- of the frame ercised as it may cause bloat in both long 12 feet being for the gateway for the weights to balwet and is feet four it when pastured especially Never allow cattle or sheep to be ance it The frame is of 2x4's Cover end with boards and fill with turned in on the alfalfa until the dew the has thoroughly dried off and then enough stones to balance it when never allow them to remain In' the hung Cover the gate with wire fencfield more than two or three hours ing and hang by a chain Put a bolt each day Alfalfa is also a good pou- through the lower part of the frame Into the crosspiece a ltry feed making somewhat should be of adHe vantage to the employer also have some guarantee that the Managers of Factories and Cream- man he engages to manage his busieries in Ontario Must Be ness is qualified for the work This Licensed should be worth something and he should be willing to pay a little for will no 1910 of At the end person the sense of security which the cerToe allowed to act as manager of a tificate system will give him There is cheese factory or creamery in Ontario this to be said however No maker of a certificate he unless possess however well qualified he may be qualification from a dairy school or should be expected to make a secures a special permit from the dearticle of cheese or butter out A bill cov- of partment of agriculture bad milk or cream or in a building ering this will become law at the ses- that is unsanitary or has not the propThe sion of the Ontario legislature er equipment Given good milk or effect of such legislation if properly cream and proper sanitary conditions worked out and enforced should be and equipment an employer has the greatly to enhance the value of the right to expect that a maker who can cheese and butter makers’ profession qualify for a certificate under this and raise the standard of wages says new legislation will be able to turn the Rural New Yorker The man who out a finished product at all can qualify will be all right and will times If this new legislation will The other not do this then it would welcome this legislation better not man who manages by underbidding be put in force competent men to get a job as manso ager will be down and out And A department store is a place where he should be if he cannot turn out the kind of goods the critical market prices are butchered to make a woman’s This certificate holiday— From “Pippins and demands of plan though It may increase the cost Peaches” CHEESE AND BUTTER of will DIPPING PLANT Can EXPECT SPIRITS BREEDER FACES FAILURE 10 REVEAL GOLD NORTH CAROLINA FOR One of Essentials of Sheep Raising Is to Keep Sheep Free from All Kinds of Vermin to Secure Immunity from Scab FARMERS SWEAT HOLES IN AND DIG IN VAIN HIDDEN TREASURE MARK FRUITLESS TOIL Profane Ejaculation of Watchec and Broken Branch’ Are Accepted at Ghostly Message by Ig- norant Native High Shoals N C — They’ve been hearing strange noises In the thin woods on the right bank of the Catawba northwest of here and if you drive out that way you will see a lot of fresh holes In the ground They were made by searchers for hidden gold for men live hereabouts who think there are spirits that tell where money bushels ot It has been burled Two college boys who had stopped here while tramping across the state from Chapel Hill decided that they’d like to see the workings of a spirit so powerful as to make the very Indolent farm folk work hard at The Chapel Hill boys saw digging what they wanted "Larry and I had the luck to strike the scene of one of those gold We climbed a hunting operations tree so as to he out of sight and waited "We thought they’d never show up It must have been ten o'clock before they did There were three men It w:as dark and we couldn’t see we The trap is a them for 'they had no lights but Plan showing chute approach and receiving end of dipping tank could hear ’em talking It should be about of the floor of the chute but slants into the tank They made continuation In the drawing or may be five or six feet long and may be exposed as shown we so that much first noise at II A and end between A and hanging the closed by erecting an upright at slanting couldn’t make out what they said A splash curtain made of ducking should be provided a curtain between A and C In order to prevent waste of dip when ttie sheep falls into the tank Then we caught: “ 'You-albettah set down there Remember that preprevention Dipping plants vary greatly in size of and style according to the conditions vention is better than cure In this now and stay still’ I guess "We didn’t dare move they have to satisfy however we pre- case as well as in any otber The loss sent herewith illustrations embodying of mutton and wool through the in- It must have been half an hour ideas now commonly found in the roads of vermin and parasites such as without a stir from those fellows The farmer ticks lice scab etc It may safely be under the tree then Larry reached most approved plants I who has but a small number of sheep said Is a hundredfold greater than over to feel If I was still there Just as long as wasn’t expecting It and my nerves to dip can use a portable vat for dip- the cost of dipping I started and ping turning a part of the shed into sheep breeders look upon dipping as were so taut that a catching pen and holding the sheep an unnecessary trouble just so long came near losing my balance “A small branch broke and tumafter dipping for a moment at the top will' our flocks be infested with such Abled down Larry said ‘Damn!’ In of the incline to allow draining thus troubles as are mentioned above a lthough our laws are somewhat strinof the with necessity away doing disdraining pen says the Homestead gent on the dipping question the The dip in the tank may be kept appearance of parasitic troubles from If every and our flock Is not yet In sight cools a5 out it by dipping wariq Unitfed States would replenishing with hot dtp 'from a large slr'eepman In the Where a large dip his sheep thoroughly at proper Inkettle or caldron flock Is to be dipped it Is economical tervals In some good proprietary dip we should be soon free from such terIn the long run to build a permanent plant Such a plant consists of col- rible scourges as scab ticks etc Aulecting pens and draining yards Heat- stralia whose flocks are the largest In ing tanks and boilers will have to be the world and which at one time were provided and for this purpose some so badly affected with scab Is now a use boilers made especially for the scabless country and with the same purpose others obtain portable en- persistent effort shown by our Augines A thermometer is very essen- stralian friends our country could liketial as the dip is most effective when wise be a scabless country for if it It is ‘warm as the sheep can stand it can be reduced with care with a litThe floating dairy thermometer is very tle extra care it can be eradicated satisfactory and several should be this has been proven beyond all doubt bought at the same time so that brok- Directly after shearing lc is a good Dipping en ones can be replaced plan to dip the lambs as at this time ewes and crutches or forks are also necessary ticks leave the They C Is chute CP CP are collecting pens closed or opened to the chute bv a gate which leads to T the trap where the sheep are plunged into the dipping tank Sometimes a pen D is used where several sheep are kept as a decoy to those In the DP DP are On the chute side of this pen wire netting should be used chute When one is full the gate Is used to close It opening at the same dripping pens time the other pen In order to guide the sheep through the tank and help others which may Two types of these be overcome The handles forks are illustrated should be long and as strong as an ordinary fork handle "Modern Sheep” has this to say on the subject of dipping: “The sheep breeder that expec to run his flock successfully without the somewhat boresome work of dipping Is doomed to failure It Is profitable to dip once a year and in most cases twice even if there is no sign of vermin in the flock it should be dipped as a matter make their home on them While no doubt a great deal of good has been accomplished by the enforcement by the department of agriculture of the use of lime and sulphur as a dip there is no doubt at all but what a great deal more good could be accompropriplished by the use of etary dips In lieu of the lime and suAbout six weeks or lphur Concoction two months after shearing the whole flock both ewes and lambs should be dipped as such a course will Insure immunity from scab and other para-- I sitic troubles for a considerable time Where Our Corn Crop Goes— Last Protecting Wheels of Oil Sprinklers was A large number of California roads year 1908 the nation’s corn crop vast are made by Of this 5666000000 bushels sprinkling crude oil on amount there were used In meal and the surface and either letting It sink In making into the flour bushels 241000000 dusty top layers of earth of malt liquor starch 8000000 Its own accord or working it In by the gludistilled liquor 17000000 aid of cultivators and harrows Circose 40000000 exported 19000000 cular sheets of galvanized iron are for seed 13000000 bolted on each side of the wheels of A total of 518000000 bushels or 193 rethe wagons to protect per cent of the entire crop The the spokes from the sticky earth maining 807 per cent or 2148000000 bushels seems to have been used al- which would otherwise load the wheels with hundreds of pounds’ weight most entirely for feeding purposes Dug and Dug a sort of whisper and I thought suro we were In for trouble for the men under the tree jumped up and one of them shouted: ‘Did you heah?’ “ ‘Yes’ another said in a low tone ‘It said "damn” just as plain as could be’ “ ’Well’ said the first speaker ‘that means toward the dam I reckon and Light the lanterns Sales we’ll see If there’s some other thing around here to go by’ "The lantern was lighted and the the three men began scrutinizing ground one of them on his knees “’Here’s the pointer!’ shouted the kueeling man and they gathered around with the lantern tilted so the light shone on the ground ‘This was sent to show us the way I heard it fall — didn’t “Sales placed his heel carefully at the tip of the branch I had down and marched ofT knocked counting his steps: ’ and stopped “You never saw a North Carolina farmer work so fast In your life as those fellows did then They dug and dug and dug “Daylight was just beginning to show when they gave up the job climbed out of the deep hole and concealed the shovels near our tree “When they were out of sight we got down and looked Into the holes Larry jumped down Into the second one dug “No there wasn’t anything In it but dirt and some stones — just like any other hole like all the six or seven in that neighborhood ” |
